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Aptivi

Google Play System Update (July 2025) rolls out for Samsung devices

Google Play System Update was a feature that was introduced for devices that ship with Android 10 or newer. It’s mandatory for device manufacturers that plan to release their devices with Android 10 to support Google Play System Updates. As a result, non-Google devices, such as Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets released with Android 10 (One UI 2.1), can receive such updates, too.

These updates don’t require security updates from the manufacturer to work, as Project Mainline modules work independently to give you better experience with Android phones and tablets.

On July 23rd, a new Google Play System Update has been pushed to Samsung devices. This update upgrades your Project Mainline modules to the July 1st, 2025 version. This update weighs around 87 MB.

To be able to get this version, follow these steps:

  1. Go to your device’s settings
  2. Open the security settings
  3. Find “Google Play System Update” and tap on it
  4. If everything goes OK, you should see the below update dialog:

Click on Download and Install, wait for it to download, then reboot your device by clicking on the blue Restart button. The next time your device boots up, the revised update gets installed, so it’s going to take about 3 minutes maximum to install all the updates.

There is no progress bar, so don’t panic if it looks stuck. Your device will eventually boot up. Now, open your settings app and check your Google Play System Update. If everything is well, you should see July 1st, 2025 below the appropriate button.

In case your device didn’t receive the update, wait for a few days, and it will be available shortly.

Stay tuned for the August patch of 2025!

Google play icons created by Pixel perfect – Flaticon

#Android#Android12#Android12L
Aptivi

Google Play System Update (June 2025) rolls out for Samsung devices

Google Play System Update was a feature that was introduced for devices that ship with Android 10 or newer. It’s mandatory for device manufacturers that plan to release their devices with Android 10 to support Google Play System Updates. As a result, non-Google devices, such as Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets released with Android 10 (One UI 2.1), can receive such updates, too.

These updates don’t require security updates from the manufacturer to work, as Project Mainline modules work independently to give you better experience with Android phones and tablets.

On July 1st, a new Google Play System Update has been pushed to Samsung devices. This update upgrades your Project Mainline modules to the June 1st, 2025 version. This update weighs around 75 MB.

To be able to get this version, follow these steps:

  1. Go to your device’s settings
  2. Open the security settings
  3. Find “Google Play System Update” and tap on it
  4. If everything goes OK, you should see the below update dialog:

Click on Download and Install, wait for it to download, then reboot your device by clicking on the blue Restart button. The next time your device boots up, the revised update gets installed, so it’s going to take about 3 minutes maximum to install all the updates.

There is no progress bar, so don’t panic if it looks stuck. Your device will eventually boot up. Now, open your settings app and check your Google Play System Update. If everything is well, you should see June 1st, 2025 below the appropriate button.

In case your device didn’t receive the update, wait for a few days, and it will be available shortly.

Stay tuned for the July patch of 2025!

#Android#Android12#Android12L
Kevin Karhan :verified:

Thanks to @geerlingguy for addressing the elephant in the room.

@RaspberryPi dominates the #SBC market because they know how to write #documentation and build #drivers that get accepted into #mainline #Linux kernel.

  • The best specs and hardware is useless if it needs intimate knowledge on how to roll one's own kernel. And oftentimes one doesn't even get proper drivers and reproduceable build instructions but just some "vomited" out bootable images to dd onto a microSD!

That's why my #BananPi Zero M2 is still unused to this day: It's way too inconvenient and whilst I do want to support it someday, it's just not a good start when the 1st #RasperryPi's documentation to this day is still the bare minimum and vendors can't be assed to do that.

  • The only reason #amd64-based #SBC|s don't have the same issues as #arm64 is because #BIOS & #UEFI-boot alongside the way #hardware is initialized make it trivial to make it "go brrrr..."
YouTubeThis is how you destroy Raspberry PiBy Jeff Geerling
#amd64#arm64#Bios
Aptivi

Google Play System Update (May 2025) rolls out for Samsung devices

Google Play System Update was a feature that was introduced for devices that ship with Android 10 or newer. It’s mandatory for device manufacturers that plan to release their devices with Android 10 to support Google Play System Updates. As a result, non-Google devices, such as Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets released with Android 10 (One UI 2.1), can receive such updates, too.

These updates don’t require security updates from the manufacturer to work, as Project Mainline modules work independently to give you better experience with Android phones and tablets.

On June 10th, a new Google Play System Update has been pushed to Samsung devices. This update upgrades your Project Mainline modules to the May 1st, 2025 version. This update weighs around 87 MB.

To be able to get this version, follow these steps:

  1. Go to your device’s settings
  2. Open the security settings
  3. Find “Google Play System Update” and tap on it
  4. If everything goes OK, you should see the below update dialog:

Click on Download and Install, wait for it to download, then reboot your device by clicking on the blue Restart button. The next time your device boots up, the revised update gets installed, so it’s going to take about 3 minutes maximum to install all the updates.

There is no progress bar, so don’t panic if it looks stuck. Your device will eventually boot up. Now, open your settings app and check your Google Play System Update. If everything is well, you should see May 1st, 2025 below the appropriate button.

In case your device didn’t receive the update, wait for a few days, and it will be available shortly.

Stay tuned for the June patch of 2025!

#Android#Android12#Android12L
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M. Grégoire

Looks as if #Linux 6.16 will have some more necessary components to boot on the #RPi5.

#Debian Trixie will be released with Linux 6.12 it seems; but once that's out 6.16 will probably be in Unstable soon.

[PATCH v9 -next 00/12] Add support for RaspberryPi RP1 PCI device using a DT overlay — Linux PCI
spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/ms

www.spinics.net[PATCH v9 -next 00/12] Add support for RaspberryPi RP1 PCI device using a DT overlay — Linux PCILinux PCI Bus: [PATCH v9 -next 00/12] Add support for RaspberryPi RP1 PCI device using a DT overlay
#RaspberryPi5#mainline#kernel
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly I don't think it's much of a "#freedom" on #iOS but rather that the few devices and OS versions in circulation, alongside everyone from #jailbreaker to #malware (espechally #govware #developers) want to crack it open result in way more personnel and money behind it.

  • OFC the fact that the #Android experience is worse from that POV is the lack of #regulation re: #repairability and #openness that would make shit work. Most cheap #phones are done with even cheaper #SoC's by manufacturers who can't be assed (or frankly don't give a shit at all!) when it comes to #Linux #mainline support. (I mean, you've seen the video where @SexyCyborg demanded a vendor to give her the sourcecode as per #GPLv2 for her device?)

Granted @GrapheneOS does limit their support to devices that can comply with their #security standards.

  • The issues are mostly caused by hostile app developers that specifically decided to knee-jerk their users / customers for no good reason.

I do wish for both vendors like #Fairphone to up their game and regulators like @EUCommission to actually push for more #transparency, #openness and #LongTermSupport of #Smartphones, because #ManufacturedEwaste like #SOYES, #WiKo, #Unihertz and others that ship #outdated #AndroidDevices and never even a single update are a major problem!

  • I don't blame projects like @LineageOS that they can't cover every device & SoC even tho they propably have the widest compatibility, I just think that there needs to be pressure that manufacturers don't just vomit stuff on the market and let customers frustratingly figure out the rest.

I do have to give #Apple credit where it is due, and that is that #iOS does have consistency and accessibility nailed down very well. Something that they obviously are able being the "#BenevolentDictator" of a #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider - platform.

  • Obviously since they are the #vendor for #hardware and the sole ["legitimate" / official] #distributor for any #Apps they do OFC cross-finance their relatively long #support with their 15-30% cut from #App #sales & #InAppPurchase|s they charge, which is why #AndroidPhones suffer the "#3DO syndrome": Needing to charge more since they only get to make money once with hardware sales and not after that, so there's no incentive for them to give a shit beyond "brand value" to care. #Google, #Samsing, #Fairphone and very few others do, but most don't as they close the books on the product once launched and sold out (angrily stares at Unihertz)...

Maybe one day the folks at @frameworkcomputer acquire Fairphone and decide to bring the same modularity to #Smartphones and get something done that makes it easy to maintain long-term and that even #GrapheneOS are willing to support.

#enshittification
Farooq | فاروق

Waiting for the time to come. Departure is in ~1h.

The travel would have the following benefits:

  • I learn to travel by myself to another city
  • I get to know some #FOSS fans and they get to know me
  • I buy a Redmi Note 9S which supports #Linux #mainline(#pmOS) cheaper than my city. I even might find a brand new one!
  • I do a #hackathon for #MinetestCTF. Maybe this could recruit some contributors for this #luanti game. And if course the more players on the server, the more fun :)))
#libreplanet#shiraz#shirazlinux
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Daniele Verducci 🧉
Nice to see the #esphome test card on an #eink display!
The way the colors are mapped is not in my code, but I can see how they make sense: the left part of the R box is a scale of reds clearer of 50% red, the right part are the darker ones. So it is posterized to white and red respectively.
It's interesting how the other colors are mapped to white. I imagine it makes sense, #epaper displays are a completely different beasts from a classic RGB display like an LCD...
Now to the pull request! I'd like my code to go in #mainline esphome!
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