OS Upgrade - Volunteer Testers Required - Next Set of Devices for OS Upgrade

:dark_sunglasses: Please clean your sunglasses and take a close look again. The Xiaomi Poco F1 (beryllium) leads the list of Xiaomi devices. By the way, not an XDA thread is authoritative but the given official LineageOS download source.

It leads the list of Xiaomi devices under Lineage OS 17.1: List Of Unofficial Supported Devices for months with "M"onthly OTA updates

beryllium is officially supported and has nightly (not weekly as I previously said) builds, here is the list of LineageOS 17.1 beryllium nightly builds link.

Do you recognize the two horizontal lines between which the Samsung Galaxy S6 to S8+ are placed? The indication "M "onthly OTA Updates refers to this.

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S9 and following, the first-mentioned indication "N"ightly and "W"eekly OTA updates applies again.

Now I notice them but you can admit that a bolded line is way more noticeable than a


small separator

:eyeglasses: You see! It helps to clean glasses.

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Do I read this correctly, the Nexus 5 is therefore not supported by Lineage anymore ?

Does that mean that it might not get (re)-supported by /e/ os ?

Great news @manoj!!!

I think there hasn’t been updates for that nexus5 for over two months by now.

If the decision would be made not to migrate the Nexus 5 up I would like to ask for one final update that includes the new App store 2.0.

The old is really not very reliable e.g. crashes in the moment for me if I want to see the Firefox details, not install, mind you, just to see.

So the new Apps store would be great if that is possible.

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I tested that on an old Nexus5 device and can confirm that the app crashes.

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We have a test Samsung S8+ pie dream2lte build. Any volunteers willing to test it ?

Those interested in testing can send in these details to testing@e.email

/e/ email ID (optional)
Tester Name (optional)
/e/ Gitlab username ( required)
Telegram username (required)

[ Need the gitlab username to add your name to the testing project , telegram username in @name format is need to add your name to the telegram /e/ testing channel ]

Please note: Only users who have experience of flashing their devices with stock and /e/OS ROM’s need to volunteer for the testing.

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Hello. Is there any update, of which devices will be supported and the ones that will not be? I thank you.

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Yes there is an update. Was just discussing this with the team. Will be publishing the details on this forum hopefully this week.
My plan is to release the test builds on this forum - say 5 devices at a time and have users with the devices test it. We also have a team of testers but here I guess the number of users will be more who can try and test.
Based on the number of downloads we can decide which devices to drop and which to continue support for, The popular ones - which work perfectly on Pie and also the most downloaded get to stay on the list.

Android Q may be coming in by end of this year hopefully. Work has just started on the code updates. So for the time being we will talk about Pie.

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May I suggest /e/ creates some kind of test plan to define what should be tested. We could make a topic on the forum, what user think should be tested, and when a device is considered “stable”. For example, the Leeco S2, which I used from the beginning of /e/, always had this annoying camera crashing issue. Although I enjoyed /e/ even with this camera error, I would not consider the Leeco S2 “stable”. I think the path /e/ should take is to pick devices that have few to no issues, and make those official.

Do you also consider unofficial builds download ?

Here is what I used to test my unofficial build :

Basic elements :

  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • GPS
  • Calls
  • SMS
  • LTE
  • Hotspot WiFi
  • Microphone
  • Call speaker
  • Speaker
  • Gyroscope (orientation)
  • Proximity sensor (during a call)
  • Vibration
  • Front camera (and flash)
  • Rear camera (and flash)
  • Buttons (all)
  • NFC
  • Fingerprint sensor

Advanced elements :

  • Encryption
  • Google Cloud Messaging (working by default or not ?)
  • DRM (check with the “DRM Info” app for instance)
  • SELinux (enforcing or not ?)
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Thanks. That is a fair criteria. :+1:

Hi Manoj,
Concerning you dropping C category.

Please do keep in your mind that we have set up all the things all the way our mobile with /e/ after trying hard. (it is noted that you worked very hard for us for availing /e/ for our model).
But it took enough efforts to be on /e/, so please i request you dont drop our model. (I use Mido - Redmi Note 4).
Thanks

Hi,

your device is officially supported by LineageOS on Pie and will still be officially supported by /e/ and upgraded to Pie.

For devices dropped, if a working unofficial Lineage OS 15.1, 16.0 or 17.1 exists (and that sources are shared by the developper), an unofficial build of /e/ will likely be built.

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@Zeno if you want, a Pie test version is available for mido :

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