R Betas for 6T/9P as Daily Drivers?

[petefoth]

@HellsBells

however I see the build is in beta, and that the betas can often have major bugs with them that aren’t yet corrected

All /e/OS ROMs are currently described as ‘beta’. Many people - including me - are using /e/OS in our Daily Drivers, on a wide variety of devices. I suggest that you give it a try, and I suspect you will be pleasantly surprised

@HellsBells

I’ve been wanting to test if a Lineage Seedvault backup can be restored on an /e/ device, so I may install on at least the 6T regardless, but if I could get a sense of other people’s feeling’s on it that would be grea

SeedVault is currently present in the /e/OS ROMs, but it is not enabled in the UI. The post linked below explains how SeedVault can be started using adb (It describes how to make and restore backups). Certainly worth giving it a try with your LOS backup.

[HOWTO] use Seedvault early to understand Android backup

Integration of Seedvault is an ongoing task and as of 0.18 not yet ready, see the epic Backup app settings (&31) · Epics · e · GitLab to the /e/ teams plans. It is present though on releases since 0.14 maybe. The main advantage of using Seedvault now is quickly reinstalling packages on restore, as all apks are backed up, even if Apps opt-out to userdata backup. Some userdata is restored, see bottom section for limitations. You’ll use the backup- and activity-manager to configure and start on-s…