Updating maps

[P Wat]

Please advise.  With one of my devices I have no trouble updating maps.

With the other, it is not happening.

Symptoms:-

I open OsmAnd

Click the hamburger menu.

Select "Download maps".

Am offered "All downloads", "Local", and "Updates".

"Local" shows a list of numerous maps.

"All downloads" Shows only "Voice prompts ..."

"Updates" shows only "OsmAnd Pro".

I'm using Osmand+

Version is shown as 4.0.8 2021,09,22.

Android is shown as 4.4.4

Device is SM 1560.

Please advise how to solve.  (BTW, "Buy a new tablet" is not the correct answer!)

Thanks

Paul W

[Greg Troxel]

P Wat <pwat...@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using Osmand+
> Version is shown as 4.0.8 2021,09,22.
> Android is shown as 4.4.4

Wow: 4.4 was released in Octobe 2013 and EOL in October 2017.

> Please advise how to solve. (BTW, "*Buy a new tablet*" is not the
> correct answer!)

It sure looks like a good answer to me!

The usual advice would be "please ensure you are running the most recent
version of OsmAnd".

I don't know what a "SM 1560" is, but another answer is to put Lineage
on it, to get a newer Android version. If of course that is possible.

[Harry van der Wolf]

Op ma 8 jun 2026 om 14:41 schreef P Wat <pwat...@gmail.com>:

Version is shown as 4.0.8 2021,09,22.

Android is shown as 4.4.4

Device is SM 1560.

Please advise how to solve.  (BTW, "Buy a new tablet" is not the correct answer!)

You might want to keep your tablet, so I will not advise you to buy a new tablet. But you must upgrade your Android to a higher version as 4.4 is completely not supported anymore. Security, including internet access, has changed a lot over the Android versions and OsmAnd adapted.

What's more, OsmAnd's minimum supported Android version is 7.0 (SDK 24).  You were extremely lucky it still worked.

So you simply need a higher Android version. If that's not possible, you need to buy ..... Oh no. That was not the correct answer :)

Best,

Harry

[P Wat]

Hi Greg T.  Your suggestion "put Lineage on it, to get a newer Android version" looks like a sane way forward.  Thank you.

(I'll have to get my very hi-tec son to do it for me!)

Thank you.

PaulW

[P Wat]

Hi Harry.  Good to know you're still supporting me!  Thank you.

Your "unwanted" answer will doubtless come into play one day, but meanwhile I follow Greg's suggestion "put Lineage on it ...."

[Harry van der Wolf]

Hi,

You mentioned SM 1560, but I assume you mean SM-T560, a Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6 (SM‑T560)

There are unofficial LineageOS builds (e.g. LineageOS 14.1 / Android 7.1, sometimes newer community ports) .These are made by developers on XDA / community forums.

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• Your Android version is too old. That is why you also run such an old OsmAnd version.The Osmand version doesn't get updated either anymore. Maps have changed some 6 months ago, and your old Osmand can't handle these anymore.
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• Harry

Op di 9 jun 2026 om 10:29 schreef P Wat <pwat...@gmail.com>:

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[P Wat]

> Harry - Thanks for that.  Sorry for slow reply.  (Catching up after expedition.)   I'll get my techie son to install Lineage which should enable updating OsmAnd.  PW