Flashing an older release

mendokse

So I have a pixel 5 running android 11 due to some app compatibilities and I want to flash the matching android 11 grapheneos release but I can only find the latest one, which is android 14.

treequell

mendokse GrapheneOS is currently running Android 13 for all supported devices. Android 11 releases are two years old and are no longer available.

GrapheneOS tries to provide reasonably private and secure devices, and it can't do that for old Android versions. App developers are given plenty of warning about new SDK requirements. Our recommendation is that you ask the app developers to increase their target SDK, or that you find an alternative app.

mendokse

I see, thank you for the reply!

csis01

Are you certain that the application won't work on Android 13? I've got tons of software written waaaaaaay long ago that continues to work quite fine.

The only substantial compatibility problem I've seen with older software recently is with Pixel 7, which disabled support for 32bit native binaries, which obviously won't apply for your pixel 5.