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Can I skip updates? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 7 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 7 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