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As developpement on some devices has been dropped,
the /e/ management decided to qualify those dropped devices as “legacy devices”.
But since the latest builds released by the /e/foundation for “legacy devices” are currently unavailables,
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these LEGACY builds are not Updates nor Upgrades but a rebuild of the last version missing on official website…
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my intentions here are :
- collecting available dev builds from users personnal archives, contact me if you still have some old builds from /e/ stored
*. on your PC ! in your Download folder, or into the snap easy-installer folder
*. on your phone ! in your Dowload folder, or in the /data/lineageos_updates location, (to find them, boot to TWRP even temporary :fastboot boot twrp.img
or use a file manager with root permission, or use adb shell root through recovery with adb pull command) - initiate a collection here !
(one can post it using https://upload.disroot.org/, and i will upload it to the /e/OS Legacy Builds server thanks to the sourceforge project. - make LEGACY builds for missing devices where UNOFFICIAL builds don’t already exist or are outdated… (help is welcome as it take hours…)
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What is a ‘discontinued’ or ‘Legacy’ device ?
Discontinued or Legacy
- R or Android 11
- Q or Android 10
- Pie or Android 9
- Oreo or Android 8.x
- Nougat or Android 7.x
What does a ‘discontinued’ or ‘Legacy’ device mean
- Newly released applications like App Lounge and Advanced privacy are not customized for these OS versions.
- Lack of dedicated ROM Maintainers
- No support upstream on Lineage
- Device trees will continue to exist in the Gitlab
- Ysers with build skills can create unofficial or custom ROMs on these versions
- Security patches and vendor patches for the Pie, Oreo and Nougat code will be updated based on availability.
- Google stops security patches for OS after some time. Similarly, Vendors drop support for older models when they release newer models in the market. Then it depends on developers from various communities to backport the patches.
- OS versions which will not receive support are marked as ‘Legacy’ in our Supported Devices list.
- Devices marked as ‘Legacy’ will no longer receive any updates from the /e/OS team.
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What are these `Legacy` builds ?
these LEGACY builds are not Updates nor Upgrades but a rebuild of thé last missing version
They are based on Pure /e/ and lineage source code, they don’t rely to any unofficial device tree or kernel repo, no updates, no upgrades, just latest official available…
only difference is they are not compiled on /e/ servers, but on my poor 30€ computer ( an i5(2500) 4-core 3,300 Ghz, with 16 Gb RAM DDR3 1333 Mhz and SATA 3 Gbit/s BUS ) it took 4h00 to 5h30 from the first build of a serie of devices sharing the same kernel, then 1h00 to 2h00 for the others builds of the serie…
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how to find informations about your device, and install instructions
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clic here to find informations and install instructions for your from the /e/ documentation
legacy devices are a bit hiden on the /e/ supported list :
- to make them visisible, you need to enable “legacy devices visibility”
→ open Smartphone Selector - then look here :



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clic here to find informations from the device himself
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equivalent to :
A.O.S.P. version | version CodeName | Last /e/ version | abandon Date |
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android 7.1.2 | Nougat | e-0.21-n | ? |
android 8.0.1 | Oreo | e-0.21-o | ? |
android 9 | Pie | e-0.23-p | ? |
android 10 | Quince Tart | e-1.17-q | 2023 november |
android 11 | Red Velvet Cake | e-2.3-r | 2024 july |
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if you dont find a build for your device in our list,
First, search if exist an Unofficial Upgrade Build for your device : click on this link :
and simply replace “your_device_codename” by the product codename of your device
if you still dont find your device, or need a specific version,
feel free to ask here !
given informations about your device as exemple :
Retail Branding | Marketing Name | Device Name | Model Number | Latest /e/OS Version Released | Custom Build Product Name if differs |
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Fairphone | FP2 | FP2 | FP2 | e-2.2-r | |
Samsung | Galaxy S4 | jflte | GT-I9505 | e-2.2-r | jfltexx |
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if you dont find a build for your device in our list,
First, search if exist an Unofficial Upgrade Build for your device : click on this link :
and simply replace “your_device_codename” by the product codename of your device
if you still dont find your device, or need a specific version,
feel free to ask here !
given informations about your device as exemple :
Retail Branding | Marketing Name | Device codename | Model Number | latest /e/version | Custom Build codename if differs |
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Fairphone | FP2 | FP2 | FP2 | e-2.2-r | |
Samsung | Galaxy S4 | jflte | GT-I9505 | e-2.2-r | jfltexx |
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Also please confirm us that the builds are working
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you can find the collected builds here : /e/OS legacy builds - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
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…work in progress…
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Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/OS the deGoogled mobile OS and online services