/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
Discontinued:

• 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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/e/OS SAMSUNG SM-J5 2015 (j5lte)
/e/OS SAMSUNG SM-J5 2015 (j5ltechn)
/e/OS SAMSUNG SM-J5 2015 (j5nlte)
/e/OS SAMSUNG SM-J5 2015 (j53gxx)

Models Supported

• SM-J500F
• SM-J500G
• SM-J500M
• SM-J500NO
• SM-J500Y
• SM-J500H
• SM-J5008
• SM-J500FN

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