This is the second release with this custom location integration... And yet my phone hasn't downloaded even the previous one. I tap on the check for updates button, and it insists it's up to date?
Pixel 7, 2025021100.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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Are you on the stable branch? Graphene does roll outs slowly (alpha->beta->stable), once the changes have been proven stable they get pushed out to everyone. Judging by the fact the devs have been pushing releases, the changes aren't stable enough for prime time. It happens.
Thanks! So these announcements are for the alpha channel?
Yes and no, its an official release, but basically these are "We think this issue is resolved or this new feature is ready". The GrapheneOS team does a gradual rollout to prevent causing people issues (since people literally can live out of their phones).
Alpha channel users get it, if they don't notice any issues roll it out to beta channel users, if no issues found in the wider beta users, roll out to stable.
Basically it prevents a bug from being pushed out to everyone and causing headaches for the devs. You can't know everyone's use case so by having a smaller number of users who are expecting breakage you can find bugs or showstoppers early before it lands on a more nontechnical users device.
Thanks! I find this unified/separated release announcements a bit...confusing. Usually any other software they'd say which release branch the updates go to.
I guess it's my main qualm with GrapheneOS, it's a mess to figure what your update is going to actually do. It just tells you it got updated with no previous warnings and no info about what it just did, and just ask you to reboot. You might find some logs about the latest releases in the info app, but again, just take a guess about whatever just went into your phone right now. And not separating the updates by branch channel seems...messier.
Coming from Samsung from back in the day, you'd get a notification when there's an OS update, and it tells you what it's going to update...and you can click to update now or just ignore it if's not the right time or you have concerns.
Many of these had not been released to stable release channel yet