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

Teracube 2e
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Note 1: These builds ONLY WORK for the Teracube 2e 1st batch (SN: 2020), and not 2nd batch (SN:2021). Please read the differences here carefully and install accordingly.
If you are looking for SN:2021 T2e (Emerald), then click here.

NOTE 2: We strongly advise installing the Android 13 update first, to ensure a smoother Android 14 upgrade process.

NOTE 3 : After upgrade device may respond slow for some time, apps are optimising in background.

We are thrilled to share our 1st stable (14.0.1+67c8fbc) (Google) certified Android 14 for Teracube 2e. This fixes all upgrade issues from previous Android versions.

:sparkles: What’s New? :sparkles:

:lock: Security

  • This update includes security patches to 2025-05-05
  • Improvements to CPU perfomance
  • Improvements to GPU perfomance
  • Improved memory allocation algorithm

Before you begin, if you have Android 10/11. It is strongly advised to upgrade to Android 13 before proceeding!

Steps to Upgrade:

  1. Download the upgrade zip file directly on the phone (or transfer the zip to the phone).
  1. Goto Settings > System > Updater (or Teracube Updater)
  2. Click top-right 3 dots > Local update
  3. Tap “Internal storage” and browse to Downloads or wherever you transferred/downloaded the update zip file.
    Note 1 : If Internal storage does not show anything, then reboot the phone.
    Note 2 : Do not download the update to SD card.
    Note 3 : Before you update, make sure you have at least 6GB of free storage and your battery is at least 50% charged. This will help ensure a smooth update process.
    Note 4 : Please post your upgrade experience on this thread.
  4. Select the file and continue the update process.
    Note: If the Updater closes or crashes, then try again.
  5. Upgrade process will take a while.
  6. Reboot the phone after the updater says “Update installed”.
  7. First boot after upgrade can take several minutes.

Note 5: If you are facing any network related issues then please reset your APNs Settings by going through Settings -> Network and Internet -> SIMs -> Access Point Names -> Three dots -> Reset to defaults.

Do note, after the update, some users have reported that they lose their launcher - icon and widget arrangement. We’d suggest you take a screenshot of your homescreen before performing the update!

Let us know how it went and post your questions/feedback here. Please keep the comments related to this update itself.

If you experience any errors/issues, you can install the original factory software using the automated installer or SP Flash.

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Go directly to Android 15, do pass Android 14, do not collect $200
[Beta] Android 13 for Teracube 2e
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[Certified] Android 13.2.1 for Teracube 2e Zirconia (SN:2020)
Tell me of your teracube 2e zirconia upgrade in 2025
[Alpha] Android 12 for Teracube 2e
[Certified] Android 11.0.2 for Teracube 2e 1st batch (SN: 2020 / zirconia)
[Final Beta] Android 12.1 for Teracube 2e (both batches)
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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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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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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.