Question about A-only devices

smileyhead commented 2 months ago

Hey, I would like to upgrade my Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite to a newer version (it's currently running stock EMUI 8.0.0). My Treble Info results are:

Required image: system-arm64-aonly.img.xz
Project Treble: Supported
VNDK version: 26.0
Linker namespace isolation: VNDK is not in lite mode
Manifest location: Legacy
System as Root: Disabled
Seamless Upgrades: Unsupported
Dynamic Partitions: Unsupported
CPU architecture: ARM64
Binder architecture: 64-bit

This leads me to believe that I would need an A-only GSI to upgrade, but the last release with an A-only image was AOSP 11.0 v313. I would assume the latest A/B images in this repo are incompatible. Does this mean release 313 is the final version of Android my tablet is capable of running?

Thanks in advance.

phhusson commented 2 months ago

This is correct. You'll do your own experimentations, but it's possible that the best version for you is rather the even older AOSP 10 v222

phhusson commented 2 months ago

FWIW, it might be possible for you to somehow find a way to upgrade to EMUI9, which would give you AB, and would allow you to get Android 14. I think you should be able to find such community upgrades on the internet

smileyhead commented 2 months ago

Thank you very much.

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