Here’s a final batch of unofficial builds for some Sony Xperia and Galaxy Tab nougat devices. They are built from the v1-nougat tag, so should include the latest code in the nougat branch. Unfortunately I have no idea what code changes have been made, as /e/ won’t make a v1.0-rc tag with release notes. It is possible that the code has not changed very much since the last builds for these device.
I won’t be building any more nougat builds for these devices as /e/ have now abandoned the nougat code. I am planning how to support these devices in future. My current thinking is to make unofficial, custom builds of LineageOS for microG which is what /eOS is built on, and which still receives fairly regular updates to the nougat branches. I may also include the upstreams of /e/'s forked apps (Mail, Message, Calendar, Notes etc.). When this is done I will post in a new thread.
I made a build for suzuran for testing, and it seems to work OK, but I can’t test for any other devices. (I won’t be publishing the suzuran build as it is an officially supported device, with R and Q official builds).
As always, use at your own risk, and make a TWRP backup of your current setup before installing. Have fun!
It turns out that none of those ROMs are currently downloadable from AndroidFileHost, and I didn’t have a local copy, so I’ve done another build run. I have added a couple more Sony devices:
Xperia V tsubasa
Xperia ZR dogo
As before, I made a build for suzuran for testing, and it seems to mostly work OK, but I can’t test for any other devices. The Mail app seems a bit flakey. If it keeps crashing,clear the app storage - which will get rid of all your account settings - and re-enter. If you’re dirty-flashing, it might be work exporting the settings before you flash.
(I won’t be publishing the suzuran build as it is an officially supported device, with R and Q official builds).
As always, use at your own risk, and make a TWRP backup of your current setup before installing. Have fun!
They have all been uploaded to AndroidFileHost. Please let me know if there are any download problems. Thanks
Regarding the Xperia Z3 compact: I am aware that this device is officially supported. These builds based on Android 10 and 11 also run really well! Nevertheless, I would be interested in a Nougat build for this device, since some of my apps and modules are not fully supported by Android 10+. Are there possibly such builds or can something be done - completely unofficially?
Just a question
It would definitely be possible, but after making the most recent set of builds, I have deleted the /e/OS source tree on my local build machine (to make room for the IodéOS source tree ) so I’m not going to be able to do it, at least not any time soon.
Two possibilities:
The build script I used to make the last lot of builds is attached to this post in my personal issue tracker, and the manifest used to pick up the proprietary blobs from 'TheMuppets` github repos us attached to the following post. If you have access to a linux computer - either locally or in the cloud - you could try building it yourself
If I remember, I could try to make a build the next time I fire up a cloud server to make an unofficial build for 'lilac`, which will probably be when /e/ 1.9 is released. But no promises!
) so I’m not going to be able to do it, at least not any time soon.