[LIST] Devices which will be getting upgraded to /e/OS T - Part I

[joe009]

Thank yoi so much E Team! What is new in T build? Any peek screenshots?

[joe009]

Is it fp4 that requires a flash to fairphone os first? To android 12 or 13? Im just paranoid about bricking due to a security patch dates

[hm8krvg1b]

What if, my device is not in the list?
Do you plan to release /e/os T to xiomi poco f3 - alioth?

Thanks

[AnotherElk]

@hm8krvg1b

What if, my device is not in the list?

@Manoj

We will add more devices from the supported list besides adding new ones.

[MRTN]

@hm8krvg1b

Do you plan to release /e/os T to xiomi poco f3 - alioth?

Poco F3 is currently in transition to LineageOS 20 (Android 13) so chances are it will eventually be released for /e/OS T as well.

[fBSMT]

PLEASE remember to not blindly follow the official documentation and not update to eOS T after the foundation released a dev build if you have a POCO F3.

The S version required quite a lot of manual preparation to properly upgrade from R to S, all of which were not included in the official eOS documentation for months. I wrote the guide for properly upgrading to S here and it took quite some time to get it incorporated into the official documentation. I will be writing a guide for eOS T as well, since it will likely require the same amount of manual prep work. If you don’t want to lose your data and are not very experienced I recommend to be patient and wait until either I or someone else wrote a guide.

[kynn]

Hi,

I’m an Alioth owner on 1.8.1R (02/2023) and saw your active contribution here.
My version didn’t get any OTA update since february, thus am I wondering if I should update to S.

Can you confirm to me that it is now okay to completely follow the official documentation for this ? Or is it still better to follow your post on the topic I linked ?

Thank you in advance for you answer, have a good day.

[fBSMT]

They have incorporated some of my steps and have a link to my forum post. However I still recommend to just follow my guide from top to bottom if you want to make sure that everything works out. If you don’t like TWRP you can use their steps for the eOS Recovery though. Good luck!

[Erim]

Do user of /e/OS S need to flash /e/OS T manually or will it be delivered via OTA?

If therr is the need to flash it manually, is there a possibility to retain apps, settings, messages, and other personal data?

[mihi]

Almost only Murena sold devices get upgrade OTA’s, all others need to do it manually

@Manoj

OS OTA upgrades

What OS OTA upgrade means

Usually for /e/OS ROMs to upgrade the OS you have to do the following

• If available download the correct OS build from the supported device list
• For some devices you also need to download the stock ROM from the vendor site.
• Take a back up of your data
• First install the Stock ROM
• Next install the /e/OS ROM. Here you can take help of the install guides available on our documentation site.
• If required apply the backups you downloaded before starting the whole process

An alternate to this tedious process is where we offer the user the option to upgrade the OS OTA. This option is available for stable device builds only.
This process is easy for the user but requires a lot of development and testing effort.

Different /e/OS build types

Completed - GS290 >> Q (A10)→ Android 11 (R) - Oneplus nord aviccii >> A12(stable) - FP4 >> R ( A11) to S (A12)stable - FP3 >> R (A11) to S (A12) stable - FP3 >> Q (A10) to R (A11) stable - OnePlus Nord >> Q ( A10) to R (A11) (stable build) - Samsung s7 / s7+ >> Nougat (A7) to Q (A10) - Samsung s9 / s9+ >> Oreo (A8) to Q (A10) - Samsung s8 /s8+ >> Pie (A9) to R (A11) OTA upgrade Under development

• Teracube 2e zirconia Q (A10) to R (A11) - To be released ASAP
• Galaxy S9/S9+ Q (A10)→ Android 11 (R) - No ETA as yet

[piero]

@Erim

Do user of /e/OS S need to flash /e/OS T manually

Only stock firmware upgrade must (for now) be installed manualy.
All /e/OS updates and upgrades can simply be achieved by the recovery manager when upgrading the stock firmware is not necessary.

@Manoj

We have postponed the release of /e/OS T to August.
The reason behind this decision is the team is working on adding firmware along with the T builds. This will make it easier for users to flash the builds without having to flash the stock ROM first.

[AnotherElk]

@Manoj

|Fairphone|FP3/3+|FP3

Please make sure this important LineageOS bit makes it into /e/OS T for FP3 …

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/official-lineageos-20-for-fp3-fp3/94640/91?u=anotherelk

… else a number of Apps will refuse to work with the fingerprint reader because of Google tightening the requirements and deeming the FP3 sensor’s security “weak” from Android 13 on, see also for reference …

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-3-and-3-a13-fingerprint-sensor-update/97654
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/list-of-apps-and-their-status-of-fingerprint-support-on-fp3-with-android-13/97658

[marmotte32]

Hello team,

Great work !
Do you plan to release /e/OS A13 for Samsung S10 (SM-G973F/DS - beyond1lte) ?

I can see that Lineage 20.0 / A13 is available on LOS repo : https://download.lineageos.org/devices/beyond1lte/builds

[petefoth]

There is an unofficial /e/OS T build for Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (lilac) - see this post

[UNOFFICIAL BUILD] (Updated) Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (lilac) e-1.5.1-s-20221110

Here are the latest / last builds from me for this device. I have made both S and T builds v1.13-t e-1.13-t-20230727-UNOFFICIAL-lilac.zip https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=10620683726822067781: I have clean flashed this build after formatting data with no problems. I also dirty flashed it as an upgrade over the 1.12.3-r build I didn’t see any obvious problems, but I haven’t tested extensively. Some problems have been known to happen with dirty upgrades like this, with e.g. app permissio…

[kynn]

Just did it, your guide was peerless and really simple. Thanks a lot !

I see there is no new version available of /e/OS S since may ; do you know if the previous maintainer left ? Or are they working on /e/OS T ?

Since you seem quite knowledgeable, I’m currently wondering if compiling the image using the official guide would do the trick, I’m quite familiar with docker, so it shouldn’t be too hard. But I’m wondering if there is any perticular modification to do, which would be specific to this device, and that I would not be aware of. Seems risky, doesn’t it ?

Thanks in advance for you answer.

[mursradio]

Where might one locate the Android T builds? I’'m on Redfin and the S builds have been incredibly problematic for me. So, I’m more than willing to load a newer DEV build and see what happens.

[AnotherElk]

@mursradio

Where might one locate the Android T builds?

Not released yet. You can follow announcements about the progress here … https://community.e.foundation/tag/development-updates. Currently:

@Manoj

ETA : Mid Sep

[mursradio]

Many thanks! Sure appreciate the answer. I’ve marked the announcement post.

[AnotherElk]

@mursradio

I’ve marked the announcement post.

Better mark the category. Next week there will be a new topic for the new week and the old week’s post will not be updated .

[fBSMT]

I think you found your answer further down this thread. For what it’s worth, I’m currently not using eOS on any device because the home screen regularly reset itself and messed up my icon order. Also since eOS uses parts of Trebuchet (LineageOS UI) for app switching but didn’t change the package name, it’s impossible to install Trebuchet on an eOS device. But I should complain to eOS about that. Not to you.