[Certified] Android 14.0.1 for Teracube 2e 1st Batch (SN: 2020)

Teracube 2e
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#3

Tried this over the weekend. Good and bad.
Good, it updated my phone from 13 (maybe 13.1.1, not sure, it had gotten a few versions behind) to 14.0.1 without any direct data loss and it does seem snappier and new security updates are always nice.
Mixed (bad, then better) is that it wasn’t able to mount my internally-formatted sdcard after the update. Rebooted three or four times and it was never able to mount. Finally booted with it unplugged, forgot the sdcard, shut down, reinserted, and then reformatted as internal again, while losing all its prior contents. The better news is that unlike with Android 12 and 13, the reformatted sdcard has consistently mounted on all the reboots since.
Bad (for me personally) is that the Teracube Android 14 had issues with rooting. As soon as I unlock the phone screen after booting up with a rooted boot.img, it crashes and reboots. Eventually I’ll care enough to get a logcat, but for now it just means I can’t plan on using the phone at night courtesy of CF.lumen anymore.

Besides that, I’ve managed to get an angry “why did you lock me up trying to do too much” reboot several times but that’s not new and all in all, it’s seemed to update and behave itself for the most part.

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#4

After a successful update/install from 13.1.1, the first attempt to open the Teracube app failed. Seems to not be updateable in the play store. After killing it and clearing data, seems to open fine again and now I can post my results here.

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#5

1 week since I updated from 13.1.1.
Nice to find NFC payment working, on Google wallet, only change I saw was the background image.
One thing that showed up but after few days went away is the Android control buttons/icons were overlaping those of Chrome (i.e.: when showing the controls for a tabs group), but as I mentioned the issue is no longer present.
The only caveat for now is that when I go into a low coverage area, It doesn’t automatically reconnect the mobile data: I haver to turn the airplane mode on and off for it to work again, acting on the mobile data switch doesn’t do the trick.
Besides that, which is not really annoying for me (as long as it’s not present in the final release :stuck_out_tongue: ), I’m quite happy with this beta quality. Congrats !

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#6

I downloaded the installed the update. It installed fairly quickly on a phone running not quite the latest Android 13. The phone was recently reset so there wasn’t much to carry over, but it does appear to have carried everything forward.

Disabling animations under Settings->Accessibility->Color and motion makes the phone a little less sluggish and responsive.

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#7

I hate Android’s animation speed. Way too slow. If you want to still hide loading/switching delays but not over-wait, try the 0.5x length option. That feels like a nice compromise on my device, and I even use it on my wife’s Pixel.

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#8

Installed this update a few days ago.

The first boot after updating got stuck on the spinning cube: after a couple hours, I put it into recovery mode (which worked, at least) and ended up doing a factory reset. (Wiping cache didn’t help.)

Every time I reboot, it forgets my app battery-optimisation settings and my default-app (browser, SMS) settings.

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#9

Do you have a sdcard inserted in your device? Is it loading properly? The only issue I had was regarding the sdcard failing to load until it was reformatted, which (until completed) led to settings and apps being in a frozen state. After reformatting the sdcard, things began working as expected and the sdcard actually stopped having a false unloaded state triggering after reboots, as happened with Android 12 and 13.

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#10

I do have one, formatted for internal use. Because the pre-factory-reset phone never successfully booted after upgrading to 14, I don’t know whether it would have been able to load the SD card if it had. (Of course, the post-factory-reset phone couldn’t access its old self’s internal-use card, and I had to reformat it.)

I still have the false unloaded state after most reboots as I did before: most of the time it goes away if you wait a minute, and the rest of the time it goes away if you reboot again. The only difference I’ve experienced between 13 and 14 on that front is that frozen apps on the home screen now appear greyed out, instead of not-being-there-at-all and reappearing when the SD card kicks in.

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#11

Yes, it’s a security feature (your choice whether that gets quotes or if you take it straight) that the sdcard won’t load until after the phone is unlocked. Since going to 14, it’s consistently loaded for me shortly after the first security unlock, and though I haven’t timed it I believe it’s generally done in 15-30 seconds after the home screen is displayed.
Since you’re still having settings issues persisting though, might be worth trying to purge some of the Google settings and see if that helps. I think the standard set is Google Play Services, which generally requires showing system apps, and maybe the Google Play Store settings as well.

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#12

The update from 13.x worked flawlessly. I did lose my phone’s wallpaper, but that was the only issue. I had two SIM cards and an SD card (Transcend) inserted, and the update was seamless. The entire process took about 15 minutes. Great work! Thumbs up and thanks to the team! :+1: :slightly_smiling_face:

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#13

I didn’t notice at first because I rarely use mobile data, but my data seems to have stopped working after this update. I made sure my Freedom Mobile APN settings matched their instructions, but it hasn’t helped.

(Also, sometimes the SD card loads initially, but then unloads itself again hours or days later, claiming the card is missing.)

#14

Are you able to attempt a Network Reset in Settings as a first troubleshooting step?

As for the microSD card, I experienced that on a card during the run up to it eventually failing. If it were me, I would backup what is on there and move to another card from a trusted brand/vendor.

#15

Data is working now!

After performing the network reset, I noticed that data roaming was turned off. I’m not sure whether the network reset turned it off (and the network reset was the vital step) or whether it was already off (and turning it on was the vital step), but the end result is good.

(Because of the way Freedom Mobile’s infrastructure is set up, my phone is often under the impression that I’m roaming.)

Good point on the microSD. I went and checked my purchase records, and I see that this microSD is three years old and that my previous microSD failed at three years.

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#16

Glad you are up and running!

Yeah, using the microSD heavily can really wear them down quickly, unfortunately. An “oversize” drive gives the storage controller more empty blocks to shuffle around, extending lifetime.

#17

Update: I bought a brand-new microSD directly from SanDisk, but it’s still intermittently vanishing.

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#18

Every time I reboot, it forgets my app battery-optimisation settings and my default-app (browser, SMS) settings.

(It looks like this only applies to apps stored on the microSD, not apps on the built-in storage. Presumably it’s just part of the problems with getting adopted microSDs to load and to stay loaded, not a separate issue in its own right.)

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#19

Are you positive it is sat in the slot firmly and fully?

If so, and the issue is persisting with a known-good card from a trusted vendor, your phone might need either a firmware reset again, or a warranty replacement.

#20

Are you positive it is sat in the slot firmly and fully?

I just tried to remove the card and put it back in again…and the card won’t come out. I can get it out a couple of millimetres, but no further.

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After several minutes, I managed to get the card out. While my previous card is completely flat on the back, this card has a rectangular area that is very slightly raised. (Perhaps this is related to its higher storage capacity?)

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#21

Are we positive there are not major risks of corruption like with the last patch? That traumatized me lol and I’m not exactly eager to tempt fate again

#22

It has not been reported nor seen in testing so as far as we can be aware, it looks smooth.

Impossible to promise it absolutely cant happen, but the risk should be basically zero this upgrade cycle.

We know the zirconia A11 upgrade was not smooth, so I understand you being cautious.