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csteury
Contributor II
May 24, 2025

Safe to Update Yet (Reprise) ? - A reversilble process?

  • May 24, 2025
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I reverted to Android 16.1 after the May 2024 update disaster and have been quite content to stay there until recently when I purchased a Sonos Roam 2, when it recently went on sale.   However ttempting to add it to my system appeared to require a system upgrade (i’m assuming this means firmware *and* app)!

I have 2 S1’s, a S3, a S5, a Port and a Beam.  I also have a Sonos Roam (version 1) which bricked due to battery issues. (I bought a replacement battery and may attempt to replace myself)  I also have a turntable, a CD player and a vintage Kenwood Ka-8300 amp hooked to some vintage FMI speakers.  I use Sono’s music library feature (stored on a NAS) alot, and also stream Spotify and mostly local radio stations.

So here are my questions:

  1. What is the latest state of the app?   I see that the latest update was about 2 weeks ago (5/6/2025)  and it mentioned fixes to Music Library folders - which I use as my primary Music Library interface
  2. If I do update and don’t like the results, can I still revert to version 16.1 or will firmware updates make that impossible?

Thanks in advance for your opinions and insights.

cs

 

 

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JohnG666
Enthusiast II
May 30, 2025

Subscribing to this thread as I’m in the same position of reverting back to the old version of the software last year and have turned all updates off.

I listen to internet radio stations and my FLAC files on my NAS drive so I suspect I would also be advised to keep the old version for now?

I do find it a worry that it seems I won’t be able to listen to my local music via Sonos if the internet connection was down. Had it always been like this I would never have purchased any Sonos products.

 

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