We now see the number of supported devices on this counter drop to 209.
This reflects dropping the “legacy” devices supported generally before /e/ version 1.0 at Android versions Nougat, Oreo and Pie. A large portion of these devices were no longer officially supported by LineageOS [1] or might have had other build issues.
At first sight the legacy devices are not found by visually scanning the list or on a PC by clicking twice CTRL + F to Find. I required expert help to discover that legacy devices are found:
legacy devices do show up in the Smartphone Selector. You can search for it by typing bacon in the box or click the ‘Searching for …’ and it will display a list of options to filter. One of them is show Legacy devices.
Perhaps it could be considered to add this to the weekly update “End of official support for Nougat, Oreo and Pie” ?
Other useful filters include Removable battery, SIM slots and Device Type, Smartphone / Tablet.
Thanks @Manoj and other members of the Documentation team.
- Reference: https://community.e.foundation/search?expanded=true&q=minimal%20build and, more recently, Minimal /e/ OS build
[1] Unofficial Lineage support may still exist in some cases.