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  • My Samsung Galaxy A32 5G is still being updated even though it came out

    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 3 08:56:50 2024
    Bearing in mind that Android updates in discrete layers; not as a monolith.
    <https://source.android.com/static/docs/core/architecture/images/modular_system_components_arch.png>

    Today I received yet another update which updated my Galaxy A32-5G to
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    <https://i.postimg.cc/dtjXVrTY/update.jpg>

    History:
    The US Samsung Galaxy A32-5G debuted in January of 2021.

    I received a handful for free in April of 2021 one of which is the one I
    use most, which was twice replaced for free as I mess with phones a lot.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/YC1B906F/tmopromo01.jpg>

    It came with Android 11 but it was updated to 12 and then to Android 13.
    I'm not sure if it's updatable to Android 14 though (how would I know?).

    As with all Androids on version 10+ on the net, it's also updated monthly
    over the Google Play system update feature (previously called Project Mainline); but that only updates the ~25 core modules in Android 13 that
    are updated in Project Mainline. <https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system>

    What kills most of my older phones was the battery, but this five amp hour battery is going so strongly that I don't bother to charge it except when
    it's needed (as it goes a couple of days easily without needing charging).

    The phone only came with 64GB but with the SD card, it's basically
    unlimited (where I store anything I add to the phone on the sd card).

    If you received a phone around 3 years ago, how well is it doing for you?

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Andrew on Mon Jun 3 10:30:57 2024
    Andrew wrote:

    What kills most of my older phones was the battery, but this five amp hour battery is going so strongly that I don't bother to charge it except when it's needed (as it goes a couple of days easily without needing charging).

    If you received a phone around 3 years ago, how well is it doing for you?

    I "received" my Pixel5a after google "received" my money :-)

    Its battery generally has done well, sometimes lasting over 3 days, see screenshots

    <https://photos.app.goo.gl/jdcRuKEETzFZ1tkV6>

    There was a month where an android firmware upgrade made it very
    thirsty, so I had to enable maximum power savings and that would barely
    last 1 day, but it was fixed.

    Now it's not particularly good, I'm not sure if that's battery age,
    because it started rather suddenly, which seemed to coincide with all
    mobile networks turning off 3G here, perhaps it's wasting a lot of power listening for signals that are no longer there?

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