Updates for e/OS Android 12

I have a Samsung Galaxy 9 with preinstalled e/OS and am very pleased with it.

I just tried to install an application provided by my health insurer and after working on it for a long time a message came “not supported on Android 12 from 19th December”, so I would only get 10 days to use the application. This is a lifetime of less than 5 years - very short, for example Windows systems generally get updates for 10 years

Question: do updates come from e/Os or from Android?

Does Android 12 expire like e.g. Windows 7?

Does e/OS still support Android 12 and until when?

If I buy a phone with Android 15, how long will that be supported

Apart from not being able to install applications, what are the disadvantages of continuing to use my Android 12 phone?ur privacy! Adopt /e/OS the deGoogled mobile OS and online services

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Android 12 does not receive android security updates since March 2025.

/e/ will release an upgrade to android 15, but we don’t know the date.

you already can upgrade to a15 Unofficial if needed.

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Stock android 12 don’t receive android security updates but for the devices sold by murena, the OTA updates, still on A12 for samsung devices, do have the security patches.

Upraging to an unofficial e/OS will make you lose the advantage of OTA updates

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can you use their website instead ?

Thank you for the replies.

So I understand that Murena is still providing updates and I can continue using the phone and there may be an update to Android 15 at some time. This is good.

The application I was trying to install is to access the German digital patient file and there are heavy security measures and it only works through the application plus proof of identity

You might have difficulty having it working on a non-google phone … if it is the same security scheme as french identity app

@David5 there are topics here, where users succeed tweaking the installer identity in proprieties to make it work though…
but it is another subject.
(some App coming from Gogol Play Store but installed by AppLounge or Aurora could not work)

If Android is no longer providing updates but Murena still is, does this affect the GPS receiver?

I use the phone to navigate the bicycle and have noticed the location is sometimes inaccurate. I also have previous experience of trying to use an old phone without SIM-card to navigate but it wasn’t usable, it often had a delay of about 10 seconds until it located.

Hi thank you for giving solution to install update 3.3 on Samsung SM G960F with Android 12.do I have to install fisrt Android 13 or 15? Sorry but the laste/os 3.3 update does not work. Gratitude à vous!

Hello @Clovis, Welcome to the /e/ users forum.

https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G960F (samsungOS a10)

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here i don’t understand your question.

can you precise what build are you talking about.

Ok, I make precision :

I have an update 3.3 available on my SM G960F :

https://ota.ecloud.global/official/starlte/e-3.3-s-20251210556410-official-starlte.zip

But when the download is finished, it does not update and it shows again to download.

So I would like to know if I need to update to Android 13 to install the e/os 3.3 update ?

the servers are overwhelmed at the moment, that generate slow speed and errors.
have a try from PC…
also,
https://image.ecloud.global/official/starlte/e-3.3-s-20251210556410-official-starlte.zip
is the same file. Maybe less asked ? but probably same servers..

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Thank you @piero , so problems come from the fact that we need to wait until servers will work again ?

they works, but there are too many clients at the moment

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