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/e/OS is a complete mobile ecosystem which includes a mobile operating system (ROM) and online-services. The /e/OS project was launched at the end of 2017. It has historically been the first mobile OS to focus on deGoogling.

/e/OS is:

Open source

Pro-privacy

Compatible with existing Android applications

Cares about usability

running on more than 200 different smartphone models

/e/OS is an alternative to the Apple/Google duopoly for smartphone users.

/e/OS consists of:

an installable mobile operating system for smartphones, which is forked from LineageOS/AOSP, and completely “deGoogled”

a default set of open source applications that have been improved and optimized for the user

various online services that are linked to the mobile operating system, such as: a meta search engine for the web, a cloud drive with data synchronization, mail, calendar, notes, tasks.

Description of the /e/OS ROM​

The /e/OS ROM is a fork of Android and in particular the LineageOS flavor of Android.

At present we have builds on six Android versions:

Officially Supported

S

R

Q

Discontinued:

Pie

Oreo

Nougat

What ‘discontinued’ means

newly released applications like App Lounge and Advanced privacy are not customized for these OS versions.

lack of dedicated ROM Maintainers

no support upstream (Lineage dropped support for Pie sometime back)

device trees will continue to exist in the Gitlab

users with build skills can create custom ROMs on these versions

Security patches and vendor patches for the Pie, Oreo and Nougat code will be updated based on availability.

Google stops security patches for OS after some time. Similarly, Vendors drop support for older models when they release newer models in the market. Then it depends on developers from various communities to backport the patches.

DeGoogling / UnGoogling in /e/OS​

The goal of “deGoogling” is

To remove or disable any feature or code that is sending data to Google servers, or at least to anonymize those accesses

To offer non-Google default online services, including for search.

the Google default search engine is removed and replaced by other services (see below in default apps and services)

Google Services are replaced by microG and alternative services (see below for more details)

All Google apps are removed and replaced by equivalent Open Source applications. The one exception is the Maps Application

No use of Google servers to check connectivity

NTP servers are not Google NTP servers anymore

DNS default servers are not Google anymore, and their settings can be enforced by the user to a specific server

Geolocation is using Mozilla Location Services in addition to GPS

CalDAV/CardDAV management and synchronization application (DAVDroid) is fully integrated with the user account and calendar/contact application

/e/OS default applications​

All pre-installed applications are open source applications except for the Maps app (read details about this in the Maps FAQ).

Web-browser: an deGgoogled fork of Chromium, built from Bromite patch-sets, with specific /e/OS settings. It features an ad-blocker by default.

Mail: a fork of K9-mail for better user experience, some bugfixes and support for oauth, with OpenKeyChain for PGP encryption support

Message: a fork of QKSMS

Camera: a fork of OpenCamera

Dialer: default Android dialer application

Calendar: a fork of Etar calendar, that fixes crashes with calendar invitations

Contact: default Android contact application

Clock: a fork of Android deskclock application

Gallery: default Android gallery3d application

Filemanager: Android documentsui application

Sound recorder: default LineageOS sound recorder

Calculator: default Android calculator2 application

Keyboard: default Android keyboard

App Lounge is the /e/OS application installer, that offers millions applications. Applications are accessed from Google Play Store (commercial apps), F-Droid (open source apps) and also Progressive Web Apps, all at a single place. App Lounge features a “Privacy Score” for each application, computed from the number of trackers found by Exodus Privacy in each application, and from the number of permissions.

Other preinstalled applications:

Maps: MagicEarth (read the Maps FAQ for details about its license)

PDF reader: PdfViewer Plus

Notes: a fork of NextCloud Notes to support Murena online accounts

Tasks: OpenTasks

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Models Supported

SM-J500F

SM-J500G

SM-J500M

SM-J500NO

SM-J500Y

SM-J500H

SM-J5008

SM-J500FN