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

/e/OS Smartphone Operating System Testing
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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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@Anonyme
is there any chance for Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T?
It is officially supported on LineageOS 17.1
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ginkgo

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You can ask for it in this category.

Sadly I donā€™t know which devices will be supported or not in the future. But LineageOS supported devices have much more chances to be officially supported by /e/. This device is newly supported by LineageOS, thatā€™s why it doesnā€™t appear in our roadmap yet.

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@Anonyme
here my ask:

I added my ask to the Redmi Note 8 model, which shares the same twrp & LineageOS image

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Xiaomi Redmi 8 / 8T (ginko) Q-build for testing.

Device info : https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ginkgo

Download : https://ecloud.global/s/ZWJddRZ4JXZgPo9

Make a backup first and please share your experience

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@itsclarence
Iā€™m waiting for my phone to arrive :smiley:

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@Anonyme Iā€™m using the official build (Q beta) for Oneplus 7pro (Guacamole) now, and I encountered a bunch of problems. I would like to report and help but am I too late?

By the way it seems that thereā€™s a newer Q build for guacamole presents on my computer, but the ZIP image provided on /e/ official server is not that new. I seldom rename ROM files, so this file must be once available then disappeared now. Can you tell me what happened?

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You can report your experience on the original topic:

https://community.e.foundation/t/e-os-q-alpha-builds-are-coming/20273

Honestly I have no idea. You can ask on the original topic too.

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Iā€™like to test the new official Motorola G7 plus lake. Iā€™m currently running a /e/ unofficial build based on android 9. How can I backup and restore al my data?

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Use TWRP recovery if you have installed one

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I mean: how can I backup my data and have them restored on the newly installed system?
Is TWRP the right way? Isnā€™t that meant to restore the complete ROM? Is there a way to use it to backup/restore ONLY data and ALL the data?

What does it mean ā€˜if you have TWRP installedā€™? Isnā€™t te TWRP installation mandatory to install /e/??

More generally, in order to have people testing new version a clear tutorial to do such a backup is mandatory!

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Yes there is. When you do a backup in TWRP, you choose which partitions to backup (system, data, etc.). When you restore from a backup you can choose which of the backed up partitions to restore .

When I am updating to a new ROM, I usually backup system, data and boot partitions, so that, if anything goes wrong I can restore back to where I started.

I then usually ā€˜dirty flashā€™ (i.e. without wiping system and data partitions), If all is well I still have my installed apps and data with the new system.

If the dirty flash doesnā€™t work, I wipe system and data and flash again. If that works, then I restore my data partition.

I hope that helps

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