I have installed /e/os many times for friends and family on their phones.
It’s really a very reliable distribution for mainstream. And it is a very good introduction to speak with non-techies relatives about privacy and FOSS philosophy.
Thanks a lot for this.
So I was confident about installing /e/os3 (android 15) on this tablet. I’ve planned 40 minutes of work (thinking it would probably only take 20 as always).
I’ve read users reports for bug before, and double check informations by also reading lineage install guide to compare.
…
It has been a real nightmare !
Link to download the Odin version in the e/OS guide is dead by the way.
So I’ve downloaded the version listed on the lineageos guide.
No problem to tar and flash the vbmeta file.
But it was impossible(!) to flash the recovery, as Odin always crashed when I started to push the file to the phone.
Every versions on Odin, same result : crash.
I tried on another PC. Same result.
I tried with other cables, different USB port. Same result.
I tried to compress into .tar by other way. Same result.
I tried with cli odin 4 on Linux (my main system). Error.
I tried with Heimdall. Error.
I tried anything I was capable of thinking of and two hours and a half passed.
At the end I was a bit disapointed.
Just in case, for my last chance, I tried to flash Lineage recovery (standard procedure with Odin 3.13.x).
And…it went so well smooth and easily. No crash this time. Just a reboot into the recovery, flash the ROM and less than 10 minutes after everything was working as it should.
So sorry e/os but you were impossible to install on my Samsung Tab S5Wifi device.
But for those who are looking for an Android tablet, it’s working very well on LineageOS22.2. System is very snappy of course. I mainly use it for cartography with OSMAND and it do the job (6GO RAM version).
Apart that this guide is not reliable because you (or just I?) can’t install the system at the end, I’ve spotted two problems/error :
- link to download Odin version mentioned is dead ( searching for mirror → OOPS! no mirror found.)
- There is a Tip in the guide :
“If this device’s install instructions already had you download Odin/Enable OEM Unlocking earlier in the installation process, you can skip steps 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7 below.”
But if you skip step 3, you will never convert the recovery into .tar.
The step you want to skip is the 2nd one but not the third.
(Just hasn’t tried the TWRP method by the way)