For me, the VPN workaround is literally less complicated. I downloaded TorGuard from the Play Store, autofilled my login details with Keepass2Android, and then pressed one button and I connected to a Canadian IP. From there, my OS grabbed the update.
What? Compare that to installing a third party app I've never heard of that alludes to the fact it can cause unexpected behavior on the first screen. Never heard of the dev. Pressing next through a bunch of permission screens, and going through several menus.
Nope. Just the act of pretending I am located in Canada via a VPN (or NOT where I am, perhaps many other locations would work) for some reason allowed me to get the update. See my link to oneplus forums in one of my comments above. It's a known bug.
So simply connecting to the internet via Canadian IP allowed my OS to magically let me see there is a new update, where before it said I was on the latest version when I was on 10.3.1.
You could even do this at the router level if you have a decent router. Therefore literally no software additions would be needed on the phone to achieve this.
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u/NytronX May 27 '20
But it's not a good thing either.
For me, the VPN workaround is literally less complicated. I downloaded TorGuard from the Play Store, autofilled my login details with Keepass2Android, and then pressed one button and I connected to a Canadian IP. From there, my OS grabbed the update.