@Manoj
Is there a known delay of the release of 0.18q for Galaxy S9/S9+ (dev channel)? It’s not available so far. Any information on that?
Thanks.
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Typo? You mean stock 10 (Q) to stock Android 11 (R), right?
Will check and update
I meant the Android 11 …if available flash it before going to /e/ R . Where available use the latest stock ROM for your device. The /e/ builds do not include the firmware . The flash of stock will update your device internals and prepare it to receive the /e/ R.
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Is there a /e/ R OS update planned for GS290?
Will be a OTA update?
At the moment, it is not possible to upgrade from Android 10 / Q to Android 11 / R using the Updater app. So if an /e/ R Build does appear, it will have to be installed manually
I guess this recommendation (/e/OS Android 10 → Stock ROM Android 11 → /e/OS Android 11) applies to all devices, right?
It won’t apply to devices for which no stock Android 11 ROM is available. Many devices supported by /e/ have had no updates to their stock firmware beyond Android Pie, Oreo or even earlier
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Speaking of fw updates. Some Xiaomi devices which won’t have Android 11, surprisingly does have Android 11 fw file available. When those devices will get LineageOS 18.1 => finally /e/ OS R update, does /e/ recovery let user update that fw like TWRP does?
OTA OS upgrades are not possible for now. We are working on getting it for the S9 / S9 + . Will share some positive updates in the coming weeks.
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I am still awaiting an update from the team as to why some devices have not received a v0.18 update. Sorry for the delay. Will update all once I get an input.
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I’ve shopped my gs290 on /e/ site.
If /e/ R available without OTA, will be a specific procedure to install the OS?
This is something that really should be clearly stated in the install instructions, and it may differ per phone model;
I guess that at least for Fairphone 3 and on, stock ROM upgrade is not required, as long as /e/ have the relevant version of firmware;
“/e/ gets the relevant firmware parts from Fairphone and includes them.”
from Failed update, why (q0.17, FP3) - #4 by AnotherElk
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Edit: speaking only for the FP3 - at the moment, for both the Q and R images, you can skip stock and go directly. As fairphone.com didn’t publish an official A11 image - they, /e/ 0.18 itself (since #3670) and lineage (17+18) all flash the same firmware partitions to A.0107 currently.
Only difference is - if you use the FP3_flashall script, it writes to A and B slot, while the OTA way, you flash (in principle) the inactive slot (should confirm this some time 
). But this is easy to overcome, you can flash to parity (dd src dst) between a/b slots in fastboot at any time (given an unlocked bootloader).
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Well, we’ll see when Fairphone OS Android 11 comes – it was vaguely scheduled for “second half of 2021”. As @molej said, /e/ should include Fairphone’s firmware parts in their upgrade, but then again, I will have to do a clean install for /e/OS Android 11 anyway, so turning to Fairphone OS Android 11 before /e/OS Android 11 won’t be so much extra effort (if the time window in between the release dates of both isn’t too big).
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The entire information provision regarding /e/ is rather gnarly and cluttered.
Take for example the releases of R , which roms are already released , I can’t figure it out .
It seems like /e/ is in all ranks , like walking in a maze.
No /R/ ROMs have been released by /e/ yet, except test builds, targeted at the groups who maintain and/or test specific device ROMs. @Manoj has included a link to the release plan in the first post
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Still no OTA update 0.17 → 0.18 nougat for my One Plus One visible. Is that correct for now or should i do “things”? 
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