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

  • person
    7·
    8 months ago

    Sources vary, and admittedly I didn’t research this thoroughly, but even old articles say that flash memory (which is what almost all smartphones use, I think) is expected to work for 10,000 or 100,000 complete writes. That is just sooo much data, even if your phone only has 16GB or something

    You should research more on this, and decide if it will be fine for you for the next X years you wish to use this phone.

    https://superuser.com/questions/17350/whats-the-life-expectancy-of-an-sd-card#17377

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Agreed. This is not a concern worthy of modifying your behavior over. Update or don’t, but don’t worry about the max writes of your phone storage unless you happen to be serving Wikipedia or running a public DNS server out of your pocket.