We would like our paid and volunteer developers to be able to focus as much of their time as possible on development and as little time as possible on sourcing and refurbishing devices that they need to do their development work. To this end, we very much welcome device donations. Since we spend a lot of time researching which devices would be good for our project to port to, the types of devices we are interested in obtaining is somewhat limited. If you have any of the devices below, please contact us
As the Replicant project evolve and developers comes and leave, it is hard to precisely predict in advance which device model we will need and how many we need at a given point in time, but we still have some idea of which devices are needed or might be useful.
To make a Replicant release, it's a very good idea to make sure that at least one developer that is actively working on the release has at least every supported devices.
Without that we would need to wait (potentially indefinitely) for someone to test the release before it's released, or hope that the other devices are similar enough and that everything will work fine.
A list of maintained devices is available on the supported-devices page
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli still lacks the following devices:However this is not crucial as he already has a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P3100) which is similar enough. He will also get a Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-N5100) soon.
h3 Device variants for porting or testing Replicant
Replicant has been tested on very few variant of a given device. For instance for the Galaxy Note II, we only support the GT-N7100 variant. Having more variants would enable us to test Replicant on them, and if some more work is needed and that we can find the time to do it, to also port Replicant to them.
Some Replicant developers also probably lack the Galaxy SIII 4G (GT-I9305).