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Can I skip updates? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think your storage can be worn out or at least it can't be worn out easily.

As far as updates go there is no reason to update right away. There are sometimes security fixes but most of them are not anything you need to stress about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a type of memory called eMMC. It's used in the absolute cheapest phones and it can wear out in like 30 formats afaik

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I could be wrong but I've never heard of a phones internal storage wearing out. Also eMMC can take a beating and certainly can take 30 formats. If it wore out so quickly downloading apps and using files would be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's not about read/write cycles but about formatting partitions smh. Idk how it works. Tbh I don't really believe in such quick wear either