First Use of an Android Phone - Whats The Correct Way to Apply Updates?

tunzafun001 on 20/05/2023 - 00:40

Bought an Oppo A72 last year.. Time to pull it out the box.

Im a bit nervous as I'm coming from a Nokia 3 .The Nokia ran great on Android 7, but was buggy after a mid life updating to Android 9. Did a hard reset and started with a fresh 9. Had heaps more space, even with all my stuff brought back across.

This Oppo came with Android 10 and ColourOS 7. I turned it on, and checked for updates. It did a 600mb update, but still 10.

Restart and checked again. Its now showing an Android 11 update. Feel like im doing this the long way and just clogging it up. Apparently this thing has Android 12 and ColourOS12..

Should i keep doing sequential updates or should I do the hold power+ vol down method.

If so, what is the correct way to do this method? Wipe, reset, then OTA update, then wipe again (or will that wipe the OTA)?
Says there is a 3gb update unavailable here.

Just want to know what is the best way to start this fresh?

Also, my old phone has Nova launcher. Is this still a thing? Love the quick launch gestures.

Thanks all

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Comments

  • elgrande on 20/05/2023 - 00:54
    +2

    Upright

  • scrimshaw on 20/05/2023 - 01:00
    +2

    For updates within a series, updates are usually incremental and must be installed in series (sequentially).

    https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/tools

    An incremental update is an OTA package that contains binary patches to data already on the device. Packages with incremental updates are typically smaller as they don't need to include unchanged files. In addition, as changed files are often very similar to their previous versions, the package only needs to include an encoding of the differences between the two files.

    You can install an incremental update package only on devices that have the source build used in constructing the package.

    A full OTA update is typically much larger in size.

    A full update is an OTA package that contains the entire final state of the device (system, boot, and recovery partitions). As long as the device is capable of receiving and applying the package, the package can install the build regardless of the current state of the device

    System updates are installed to read-only partitions (/oem, /system, /vendor, /boot, etc.) and, as such, are not affected by a factory data reset, which wipes only your /userdata and /cache partitions.

    You typically do not need to wipe your device unless you're experiencing some bugs or some kind of performance issue.

    • tunzafun001 on 20/05/2023 - 01:04
      -1

      Cheers, so it basically doesn't matter? Both methods now seem to have about the same update size (around 3gb).

      I might wipe it after anyway. In case there is any conflicting app cache lurking from the pre installed apps.

      • xuqi on 20/05/2023 - 09:30
        +1

        You don't need to wipe it afterwards, no point in doing so on a newly used device anyway.

        Update to Android 12 will be the final major update for the A72. After that you'll only receive periodic security updates for it.

        https://communityin.oppo.com/thread/1153905296327573506

        • tunzafun001 on 20/05/2023 - 10:06

          It has a heap of apps pre-installed based on Android 10. Thought they might cause issues when updated to Android 12 if I don't wipe/ start clean?

          I had heaps of issues with apps getting massive when going from Android 7 to 9 on old phone. Had to restart phone twice a day which freed up 2gb space!

          Just want to avoid that.

    • tunzafun001 on 21/05/2023 - 00:34

      I did a full OTA update. Was a full 3.8gb …and reverted my phone back to the original Android 10 (lost the normal OTA update I did earlier). So back to the normal updates it is to get back to Android 11 or higher.

    • tunzafun001 on 29/05/2023 - 22:40

      Now 5 updates in. Each update is 3.3g..and now have another one… Very thankful to boost for the 45gb free sim.

      Seems crazy needing to do each one at a time. Definitely no way to go straight to the major And12 update?

  • CrispyChrispy on 20/05/2023 - 02:00

    <Also, my old phone has Nova launcher. Is this still a thing? Love the quick launch gestures.

    Yeah, still on the Play Store. Haven't had to use it personally over the past 2 years with my current Poco X3 Pro but it was a lifesaver when I had my old LG G6 and my Sony Xperia Z before that.

    • tunzafun001 on 20/05/2023 - 10:08
      +1

      Cheers.
      This Oppo has ColourOS in the background (whatever that means..I think it's their custom Android?). Might have gestures built in. Not sure.

      • CrispyChrispy on 20/05/2023 - 10:12

        Yeah, just their skin on top of Android. I'd recommend giving it a trial run first though, see how you use it and you might just end up sticking with it over Nova. I was pleasantly surprised with my stock Poco launcher and haven't felt the need to use Nova even after ~5 years of using it on previous phones.

  • Muzeeb on 20/05/2023 - 02:44
    +1

    I still use nova launcher. It's bloody awesome to make a minimalist but high functional home screen.

  • mbck on 20/05/2023 - 07:56

    Well if you bought an older phone, ofc it'll have heaps of backlog in updates.

    In regards to weather you should, well you should. These feature updates also include security updates.

    Then again, companies have made mistakes and new updates will fix old bugs and introduce new bugs lol. Some small and some big.

    I find phones these days have good/great ui. If you get bored, feel free to use nova, which is still a thing.

    • tunzafun001 on 20/05/2023 - 10:11

      I thought it would be possible to just go 'wipe' ..then install the latest and greatest. Seems odd going step by step, which I thought would keep old OS fragments along the way and potentially slow the phone down/ use up cache space.

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