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A community about the /e/ Operating System developed by e Foundation.

/e/OS is a degoogled version of Android. It aims to be a good balance between privacy and usability. Forked from Lineage OS.

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/e/OS on Samsung A52s (doc.e.foundation)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there, would like to try eOS on my device, but I think the documentation is out of time. I did flash Lineage a couple of times before, but already struggling with the pre-install requirements as the referred vbmeta.img is not in any of the downloadable .zip

Download the /e/OS build zip file from the section marked ‘Downloads for a52sxq’. Extract the contents of the /e/OS build zip file. You will find a vbmeta.img in the extracted files.

Also I am wondering if it really needs to be a special Odin version as mentioned in the doc. I am running Linux and found Odin v4 1.2.1 ad wondering if it would work plus how it works as this is a CLI Tool.

Anyone with experience around?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Odin is only available for Windows. With Linux it runs with Heimdall. This is also described in other instructions for Samsung devices, e.g. here for S10. But in this guide the part is apparently missing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, its missing. It only talks about Odin. As mentioned in by someone in the forum https://community.e.foundation/t/samsung-galaxy-a52s-5g-a52sxq-documentation-suggestions/63349/9 you need heimdall 2.1 from gimler which is crashing while building AUR package with error code "an error occured - cancel process"

I just wanted to give it a try to see how it works for me, but I think I stick to the original and give it a try someday again