You know the feeling - you're really excited about the new version of Sailfish, but the official tool to update fails. Probably multiple times. It happened to me with the latest update. So here are steps to update to latest version anyway.
Make sure you have developer mode enabled, it won't work without it.
If you never had developer mode enabled before, here are the steps, if you are familiar with developer mode, proceed to step 2.
Go to Settings -> Developer tools and enable first two options (Developer mode and Remote connection). Then you need to input some password and click save. Don't forget the password.
version --dup - this will start the process of updating and will take several minutes to complete. You should never close the terminal when you're running this command. You will see some output and percents, it has three parts - refreshing repositories, downloading updates, installing updates, after these three parts are done, you will see message that advices you to reboot your phone, which you should do.
After rebooting your phone just check in Settings -> About product that you have the newest version.
Congratulations, you have the newest version.
The reason this works when the normal way of updating fails is because it doesn't do the exact same things. That's also why you should only use this method when absolutely necessary.
I am in early access, I clicked the Start optimizing (or something like that, I use localized version), when optimizing was done, nothing changed and I could only click Start optimizing again. Tried at least ten timed.
Then your btrfs in a bad state, and it's amazing luck you did update without problems.
My btrfs is in perfect state, checked it myself ;) the problem is somewhere else.
Check for updates in "Settings/Sailfish OS Updates"
You don't have to. It works only one time, then updates work normal.
Thank you for your reply. But after doing manual update(i have updated to 2.1.1.12) automatic update check is not happening properly.
What you mean "automatic update check is not happening properly"? Is it trying to downgrade OS to the last official OS version?
Yes Atlochowski. A Sailfish update notification is showing for v2.1.0.11. If i try to check for new os version, its start downloading it and in the updates screen it shows 2.1.0.11.
Official jolla update failed for me with 2.1.2.23 for no obvious reasons. Then decided to apply them manually as instructed here. Update worked but update notification to 2.1.2.23 remained and settings insisted that I need to update to 2.1.2.23. Also all new updates were no longer detected.
I installed 2.1.3.7 again manually and worked. Setting was insisting to update to 2.1.2.23 but a new update check worked, it tried to update to 2.1.3.7, rebooted and things look ok. Settings version matches the real version.
So this manual update does break settings app update checks!
does this manual update also work with gemini?
Don't know, don't use Jolla anymore.