[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] BasilSkrnk:
Auto-updates Issue

Hello guys,

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 device, which I updated to Lineage 14.1 in September.

Ever since I couldn’t update the system via the notifier:

- it notifies there is an update,

- I can download it,

- it reboots, after I press the installation button,

- and it even reboots into TWRP,

- but then… nothing happens.

The root access has been given to the TWRP app.

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How can I update the system, and how can I make it update itself automatically?

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Details:

During the installation I had some problems with identifying the model of the phone. It has a sticker behind its battery, which says the phone is GT-i9500, which I found being SPH-L720, or jfltespr.

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But I couldn’t install that version of OS! I’ve tried to install unofficial Lineage OS 14.1 regarding to that jfltespr, but couldn’t install even TWRP, as it told me I have a different model — GT-i9505. Which is acceptable for the official version, so I installed this version, easily, being happy I’ll get weekly updates. Which is the issue.

According to the system information:

- my model is GT-i9505

- Android Version is 7.1.2

- LineageOS Version is 14.1-20170920-NIGHTLY-jfltexx

I’ve bought the smartphone in Vietnam, and it was manufactured also there.

I don’t know if that is relevant to the auto-update issue, mentioning it just in case it is.

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Also, to be correct, I gave the phone to my cousin, which he set into Russian language as the primary, as he speaks one and doesn’t know English well. I know some cases when the different language could cause the problems. Say, in Hackintosh world, I remember it was an issue the setting the language to a different, since it renames the system folders to being localized.

The smartphone works pretty fine, with some “camera” exceptions and some turn offs in cold weather (I believe the problem is with the battery, which is few years old and needs to be replaced, but not as bad to care about it, just mention in case someone experienced shut downs: they also happened with some demanding tasks, but more often with capturing photos). Coming from the original Samsung bloatwared Android L, it works as a new and different phone, the cousin is happy with it.

I have the other Samsung — SGS3 — which I also updated to Lineage OS 14.1 and it works very well for me (slow, but I use it for just two apps, as my secondary — fourth, to be correct — device). It updates pretty smoothly once a week. The last update I’ve installed was just recently today, and it works very well. (I don’t use it as a real phone, and never open a camera though, as it’s also damaged with a lot of scratches, due to Samsung doing silly job with protecting it.) The primary language is set to UK English and has no issues with auto-updates. It was set to Swedish before and also had no issues with auto-updating, so I think the Russian isn’t a problem, but maybe the cyrillic letters instead of latin may do the bad job for him.

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Could the auto-update problem of SGS-4 be with me forgetting to install TWRP and what can I do to make the auto-update working fine?

And thank you guys for all your incredible community and the obsolete phone feeling ahead of SGS-8 Samsung originally provides.