I have a Oneplus phone which has a beta version of Android installed. I side-loaded it a couple of years ago from the official source (Oneplus website). I don’t remember if it received any further updates, I think it didn’t. I don’t know how to revert back to a stable release. It has been working without any problems. I now want to give the phone away, so I need to factory reset it. Are there any risks to resetting a phone that runs a beta version of Android? Can resetting brick it?

Thanks for any and all advice!

    • 0xd34d@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Keep in mind that a factory reset won’t put the device back on a stable release, it’s just clearing out the data for the currently installed firmware.

      • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz
        OPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yup, I know a factory reset won’t revert it to stable. I’m happy with the beta because everything seems to be working okay. I can’t seem to get it to install security updates, but the app updates work. But it’s an older phone so I doubt I’d be getting security updates either way. Anyway, the person I’m giving it to will be using it like a dumb phone with a good camera, basically. Thanks for your input!