Hi,
A few days ago I did my first official build of /e/OS compiled from source for my battered Samsung SM-A520F (a5y17lte
). A huge leap for myself, a small step for mankind.
I followed the advice of user rust
in this forum (a huge “thank you” note for his precious help) and built the v2.3-r
branch of /e/OS.
What does this mean for the future of my unofficial build ? Let’s say I decided to relaunch a build in a couple months. Will the v2.3-r
branch have integrated some improvements like bug fixes ? And if so, for how long ?
Cheers,
Niki
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piero
January 24, 2025, 11:15am
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thre will be no change in /e/ R branch anymore…
i think you can help there :
As developpement on some devices has been dropped,
the /e/ management decided to qualify those dropped devices as “legacy devices”.
But since the latest builds released by the /e/foundation for “legacy devices” are currently unavailables,
.
my intentions here are :
collecting available dev builds from users personnal archives, contact me if you still have have some old builds from /e/ stored
*. on your PC ! in your Download folder, or into the snap easy-installer folder
*. on your phone ! in your Dowload folder, or in the /data/lineageos_updates location, (boot to TWRP to find them even temporary : fastboot boot twrp.img
or use a file manager with root permission, or use adb shell root through recovery with adb pull command)
initiate a collection here !
(one can post it using https://upload.disroot.org/ , and i will upload it to the /e/OS Legacy Builds server thanks to the sourceforge project.
make LEGACY builds for missing devices where UNOFFICIAL builds don’t already exist or are outdated… (help is welcome as it take hours…)
with your powerfull machine :
on my poor 30€ computer ( an i5(2500) 4-core 3,300 Ghz, with 16 Gb RAM DDR3 1333 Mhz and SATA 3 Gbit/s BUS ) it took 4h00 to 5h30 from the first build of a serie of devices sharing the same kernel, then 1h00 to 2h00 for the others builds of the serie…
it can be wrong if you use Docker as i believe it clean builds intermediate elements after each utilisation,
you may have to build straight for multiple device
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aibd
January 24, 2025, 11:21am
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microlinux:
Will the v2.3-r
Not v2.3-r that is the last of the line. Android 11 (R) is no longer supported by /e/OS.
When considering what one can build next consult the Release | tags page Tags · e / os / 🚀 Releases · GitLab .
If I search for v1-r it does not appear till page 3 as
v2.3-r
584ffa80 · Update v1-r manifest · 5 months ago
For s, t, u a search of v1-x will show where this tag points when you are planning what tag / branch to use.
But I now see the device tree for a5y17lte
does run to Lineage-19 GitHub - LineageOS/android_device_samsung_a5y17lte so you may well be able to try v1-s.
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