Not that much different. You are running 3 generations older Samsung Exynos. Not much of other hardware have much of influence of how OS is running apart of speed. I have Samsung Galaxy S8+, which is nearly 3 years dead. I suspect capacitor developed short on power rail, but it is not worth repairing, as I bought 2x Samsung Galaxy S10+ in September 2023 and Sony Xperia 1 III in September 2024 (different reasons). Your phone is dying. Take it from somebody who have been through process or suffer loss of data.
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Actual /e/OS is free to use. Do you want to make sure it will work great on your phone? Nothing simpler! Just pay developers to fix issues or fix them yourself. This is how it is working in FOSS world. Either somebody pays for privilege or do it themselves for a fun and challenge of it.
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are you sure this is the right device? thereās herolte and hero2lte.
you can also retest with a lineageOs version on the xda site.
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Thanks for your answer. In my opinion, it is one of the most objective!
Thanks for the table, it does not include one of the best distros in my opinion, but unfortunately this year it ceased to exist, this is DivestOS News - DivestOS Mobile
As for GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, I want to go towards DeGoogle phone and not Google phone. Therefore, these operating systems are not suitable.
What do you think is the best option to ensure that the operating system works stably?
Interesting opinion)
Letās think about this topic. For example, I bought the latest model Samsung or Xiaomi, for example, I paid 300-400 euros or more for it. I had such phones in the past, but I donāt remember getting so many errors, I paid once and inside it is the same Android-Google as /e/OS, but the operating system is less stable.
If I buy a Murena phone to support the developer, can I be sure that I will not get the same errors that I am trying to get away from if the operating system is the same?
Could you clarify what you mean?
I downloaded the image Samsung Galaxy S7 āherolteā (stable) /e/OS official herolte download
As for checking, can you give a link to the image you are talking about, I will try to check
Graphene is provably the most secure and google-free OS, but all of those have freedom from google and from proprietary software as main goal.
DivestOS is not an option I would recommend, it has been critically mentioned that it is more or less a one man project, so the response time to problems and security vulnerabilities is longer. The guy(s) behind Divest also maintain Fennec and Mull, two privacy focused Firefox forks. Last autumn there was a zero day vulnerab. in Firefox and took months and a lot of quarreling on Gitlab until it was fixed in Fennec/Mull.
So I would recommend to look for an OS with enough people maintaining it like for example e/OS. I would also choose an OS that officially supports my smartphone model, like you did with e/OS. And in the end I am afraid you have to simply try several OS until you find one that works on your phone in a way that leaves you to simply use it and not to maintain it. I, for one, want a phone that works for me and not the other way around.
yes you are right, now there are very few companies left that work to remove everything related to google and not vice versa. There are many companies that declare that they are DeGoogle but in reality, with a serious audit, this is a fakeā¦
If we are talking about Android phones, then now it is very difficult, I would say that Google won!
Perhaps Linux phones are better, for example PinePhone or Librem5 or PostmarketOSā¦
I installed but at that time there were few applications and phones and there were problems with hardware and compatibility, but I see the project is very activeā¦
Found a build of LineageOS 21.0 (Android 14) for S7 Exynos https://xdaforums.com/t/lineageos-21-0-android-14-signature-spoofing-ota-updates-for-s7-exynos.4655853/ perhaps the developers of /e/OS will be able to look at this version and fix the errors
They wonāt from this Forum here. You need to add it to Gitlab
DivestOS has also ended
do you mean the developers?
I donāt have a Gitlab account to report this.
If someone can, please do so. Too many errorsā¦
Yeah, developers. Chances are higher if it is on Gitlab
Right, sorry, I did not read thoroughly. It does not surprise me, they just seemed so frustrated with everything. Closing that up after 10 years must have been really hard, thoughā¦
The forum is just the āeach one teach oneā-part (one might simply replace teach by helpā¦) whereas the devs depend on gitlab for their work.
You can just create your account: Report an issue and describe each issue in detail so the devs have some reliable source and someone to come back to for questions.
In general (not only in gitlab but also here in the forum) it is helpful to provide specifics about the installed software [HOWTO] Give complete /e/OS version info easily for support, answers, comparison etc.
Also the specific phone model should be named, especially as you seem to have issues with Dual SIM. I already assumed (see a few posts above) You are talking about 930FD (and I further assumed it might be a Dual-SIM-specific issue) but You never confirmed your S7-model so far.
Hello. Thank you for your answer.
As for the errors I wrote about, it is not only the problem with displaying 4 SIM cards instead of 2, I also described others. The main error is my choice of this phone model Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930F )) The fact that it does not have encryption by default, this was already the first call, etc.
I will simply change the phone model and I think the problems will disappear, there are phone models on which you can install several different custom operating systems, this will be a reasonable solution.
As it seems to me, a good article on this topic and a good site where you can see which models you can install a custom operating system on.
Best Phones for Custom ROMs at a Glance 8 Best Phones for Custom ROMs in 2024 - Consumer Gear Guide
A place to find all custom ROMs available for your device. https://customrombay.org/
Who right this article of best phones ? No Fairphone ??? Itās one of devices who works with a lot of different OS like /e/OS/, CalyxOS, DivestOS, iodeOS, LineageOS, Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, Android of courseā¦
I use an S7 for years with /e/ os without problems.
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Hi, I agree with you that Fairphone could have been included in this list and it was a good list for those who are looking for phones for custom operating systems, but if you look at the OnuPlus 6 or 6T model and compare how many custom operating systems you can install, it will look like a football match 15:4 where 15 is OnePlus 6!
Fairphone 5 => CustomRomBay.org - FP5
OnePlus 6 (enchilada) CustomRomBay.org - enchilada