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Can I skip updates? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml to c/lineageos@lemmy.ml

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I have LineageOS installed on my phone and it has almost weekly updates. Since the device is quite budget, I believe its memory can be damaged by such often updates so I'm not updating it for 2 months already. But there are security fixes and patches in newer versions so I do want to update. My question is: do I have to install every update one by one (there are like 8 of them lol) or can I just install the newest version? All of the updates are minor of course. There are no Android version jumps

EDIT: I installed the latest version as everyone suggested and everything seems to be working fine. Thank you all for help

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[–] person@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

AFAIK LineageOS updates supply the whole system every time, that's why it's always so large. You should be fine skipping a couple. (fine in this way anyway)

That being said, I really doubt you could ever write enough data to harm the mass storage or RAM of your device before you have to switch phones because it stops being supported, or you drop it on concrete, etc.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am almost forced to use my phone for as long as possible because of financial reasons. This one was bought used and it's 3 years old already but I'm planning to use it for at least 2 more years. That means keeping the memory in good condition is important for me. Same goes for its overall condition and structural integrity (lol) too

[–] person@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sources vary, and admittedly I didn't research this thoroughly, but even old articles say that flash memory (which is what almost all smartphones use, I think) is expected to work for 10,000 or 100,000 complete writes. That is just sooo much data, even if your phone only has 16GB or something

You should research more on this, and decide if it will be fine for you for the next X years you wish to use this phone.

https://superuser.com/questions/17350/whats-the-life-expectancy-of-an-sd-card#17377

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed. This is not a concern worthy of modifying your behavior over. Update or don't, but don't worry about the max writes of your phone storage unless you happen to be serving Wikipedia or running a public DNS server out of your pocket.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

My phone is over 5 years old and I don't have any reason to change devices.