Root Android 9 update for S41?

[Team WorldTour]

So, I've recently purchased an S41 for my wife (second hand, rebuilt), and it is running Oreo.
I have found, as I search for answers regarding my other phones (S60, S61), that 'CAT' is NEVER listed as a manufacturer. (Bullit is also never listed!) So, aside from rolling the dice on Nexus or Pixel OS, is there something else I should be looking for?
Please, if you have any links, post them as well!
Thanks!

 

[ocnbrze]

So, I've recently purchased an S41 for my wife (second hand, rebuilt), and it is running Oreo.
I have found, as I search for answers regarding my other phones (S60, S61), that 'CAT' is NEVER listed as a manufacturer. (Bullit is also never listed!) So, aside from rolling the dice on Nexus or Pixel OS, is there something else I should be looking for?
Please, if you have any links, post them as well!
Thanks!

if your phone says its up to date, then it is up to date, exactly what are you trying to do? update the phone? root it? you mention the nexus and pixel OS and not the phone. are you trying to install their os onto your phone? or do you mean that your looking into getting one of those phones?

 

[Team WorldTour]

Ok, sorry. Lemmie downshift here...
I have an old, unused Cat 60. It is a Marshmello. I want to change the version in it.
I have an S41, running Oreo. I want to make it run Pie.
When I look for the new versions, I find for 5-6 different makes, but not mine.
I realise then, maybe my devices use the internals and programming of other brands instead of their own.
Now, my question is: which OS do I look for in order to accomplish my goals?

 

[ocnbrze]

Ok, sorry. Lemmie downshift here...
I have an old, unused Cat 60. It is a Marshmello. I want to change the version in it.
I have an S41, running Oreo. I want to make it run Pie.
When I look for the new versions, I find for 5-6 different makes, but not mine.
I realise then, maybe my devices use the internals and programming of other brands instead of their own.
Now, my question is: which OS do I look for in order to accomplish my goals?

android os are very device specific so you can only "flash" a firmware update that is specifically made for your device. if you flash something from a different device, you could potentially brick your phone.

you only other route is to root it, but it looks like there was no development community for your phone......so sorry i think you are sol.

 

[Team WorldTour]

I'm not exactly sure what rooting is, but I think it's a psychological gimmick to keep people from messing with the phones. Like a shell.
You know, like Windows was for DOS, way back in the Stone Age...

 

[ocnbrze]

I'm not exactly sure what rooting is, but I think it's a psychological gimmick to keep people from messing with the phones. Like a shell.
You know, like Windows was for DOS, way back in the Stone Age...

rooting is like bypassing security allowing you access to the system files where you can read and write from. its kind of like being a windows administrator.....its no gimmick and quite a few people do it.

developers if they back your phone, can make custom os based off of different android os depending on the phone. but you picked a phone where no such community exists.....so you are pretty much stuck with the os you have and can't upgrade...unless you have one officially available to you.

 

[Team WorldTour]

Well, shit.
That's about me in a nutshell.
Out here, on my own.
Thanks!

 

[ocnbrze]

Well, shit.
That's about me in a nutshell.
Out here, on my own.
Thanks!

i'm sure you are not the only one.....some of these off brand phones (or at least smaller manufacturers) just do not support their devices for very long. even the major ones tend to only support them for like 3 years or so before they become "end of life".

 

[Hadron]

i'm sure you are not the only one.....some of these off brand phones (or at least smaller manufacturers) just do not support their devices for very long. even the major ones tend to only support them for like 3 years or so before they become "end of life".

Even then only a few of the major brands support for 3 years, and only for a subset of their devices. Basically Pixels, recent Samsung flagships and, er, not sure I can think of any others (at least not that have publicly promised this).

It's quite common for lower-end devices from major brands to get 1 year's software support (and that's from release date, not from when you buy it). Off-brand phones usually get none at all. I'm afraid I've never seen a Cat phone in real life, and don't know their support lifetimes.

 

[Team WorldTour]

Yeah, I only buy them because they are 'military grade', and honestly, that is the minimum I require to own something and expect it to survive me....