First release of /e/ OS Pie

And for the phone, who doesn’t have any current official LOS support at all since? Like the S7 which is proposed on the store.

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@ Manoj Don’t you think /e/ shoud give the real (!) priority for Essential, as it was the phone given to super hero supporter (€2,048) of the initial Kickstarter eelo campaign (Jan 20 2018)

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A big Thank You to the team for rolling these out. I am very happy to have an official /e/ build for my Pixel. Downloaded it last night and installed this morning. Not much run time yet but looking good so far!

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completely off topic, how have you found battery life?

Nice, a lot of devices there, also my FP2
https://download.lineageos.org/FP2
Anything known about a planning or a timeline, and won’t we have to update to Oreo (LOS15, Android8) first to make an OTA upgrade possible? For now we are still on Nougat (LOS14. Android7).

Hi Peter, we do not have a timeline for pie release - ideally we should have and will discuss with @rhunault once he is back from his vacation this week. For FP2 we had released a test build some time back. The consensus was that unlike most devices which needed return to stock Pie ROM before flashing /e/ Pie on the FP2 it worked directly on top of the /e/ builds…you can check the details in the thread. In general I thought the Pie builds worked better than the Oreo builds on most devices we tested.

Will there be /e/ OS Pie on LG G5 devices ?

Hi @jonath08 please put in a request here for an OS update. The more the requests from users the better the chances of an upgrade.

There is an unofficial /e/ pie Version that works perfectly!! Just search the forum for the link…

Looks like the deployment of eOS Pie on all LOS16 supporting devices is dragging on. Is it possible to tell when this migration will be completed?

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The reason for the delay as mentioned previously as well is that an OS upgrade does not happen through OTA builds. Even Lineage does not provide this ability in fact the stock updater prevents such upgrades. Since /e/ is a fork of Lineage we have the same issue. A good number of our users would not be comfortable with manually flashing the ROM to upgrade. This has been the reason why we have dragged the OTA upgrade for such a long time.
Having said that the build team is working on this issue to find a resolution.

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Have I understood you correctly that many devices with LineageOS Pie (like Poco F1) still cannot be manually upgraded to eOS Pie because you want to automatically deliver eOS Pie over the air? But why not provide eOS Pie right now to those who who can handle it on their own? After all, most of eOS users are still experienced beta-testers.

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Right - The devices can be manually upgraded to Pie…for e.g. there is a unofficial Pie build for the Poco F1. It is the OTA update process that is not possible and the team is trying to achieve that.
Personally I am all for sharing the official Pie builds to the users so that they can flash it manually. Subsequent builds can be OTA.
I have been running a /e/ Pie build on my MiA1 since June of this year. Had shared the build on the forum as well.
Hope to get this issue - manual or OTA resolved soon - may be in a week or two.

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Yes if it doesn’t require more efforts, it would be better on 2 points :

  • People would be able to have /e/ on Pie right now instead of waiting months,
  • And those people would be able to fully test the phone (like beta testers) and report potential critical bugs. It would prevent an OTA upgrade of a buggy Pie version to non technical users for instance.
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If so, it would be a nice New Year’s present. Thanks for the info (as always).

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Yes, me too, because the effort required to upgrade to e-9-pie is minimal. This also works without any data loss. A HOW TO can be written quickly, if desired.

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I’m interested in a How-To :slight_smile:

Yes, and we are beta testers… so, a manual flash is not a problem in my opinion. Especially because those who don’t want to “risk” themselves can stay under nougat…

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See → [HOWTO] Upgrade manually from e-Nougat | e-Oero to official e-Pie builds without data loss.

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