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Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by Scene_Cast2 »

climb_stealth wrote: post #9
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…

Oh interesting. I was planning to get a Xiaomi as my next phone; I recently heard that they limited the number of unlocks to one per person per year.

I got a OnePlus and a Pixel. Before that it was a ZTE, but they aren't unlock-friendly these days.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by rd07 »

climb_stealth wrote: post #9
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…

Not TS, but I have similar thought to him. Just recently, I bought a used Samsung A52 4G phone, which is supported by LineageOS.

I am not a LineageOS user, but I own a 5 year old Xiaomi phone. The latest Android version for that phone from Xiaomi is stuck at Android 9. It now runs Android 13 on /e/OS, a fork of LineageOS, and I have a good experience with it.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by Ologn »

climb_stealth wrote: post #9
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…

Samsung has its own bootloader. Some people get it to work with AOSP/LineageOS, but it is an extra pain. So I avoid Samsung for LineageOS.

This is a list of support devices

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

I installed LineageOS on a Motorola Edge a bit back.

One problem is it takes a bit of time for a device to get officially supported by LineageOS. By the time it is, stores are often selling the next generation of devices.

That was not the case when I bought an Edge and put LineageOS on it in 2021.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

For a long time I was far too scared of being excluded from technological society to install this on my only phone, as much as I'd love to. It sickens me that banking apps, and others, depend on proprietary operating systems.

What I do instead is have a separate device that I customize to my liking with Lineage, than an iPhone that I keep normal; I have the phone that I actually like to use, then a "normie phone" that's identical to everyone else's so I don't get arbitrarily excluded from things.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by asveikau »

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

I find any time I've put lineage on a device, the support lifetime is lower than I expect.

In a perfect world, you would be able to bring your old device forward to multiple new major android releases beyond the support lifetime of the manufacturer, like you can with a Linux distro on a PC. But I guess android doesn't work that way, even with third parties willing to make new builds.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by andrekandre »

9cb14c1ec0 wrote: post #6

Note that it can take several days or weeks for all the supported devices to get initial public builds made. You can track all the pending build jobs here: https://buildkite.com/lineageos/android/builds?branch=lineag...

thanks for that, i kept running in circles look for a build of 22 wondering if i was doing something wrong

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by kube-system »

climb_stealth wrote: post #9
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…

I used to spend so much time flashing different ROMs, and even cooking a few modifications of my own. These days I find it much easier just to buy first-party devices like a Pixel and just move on with my day. They seem to have the least 'gotchas' in my experience. Stuff is unlocked, it gets updates, and doesn't have bloat/malware baked in.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by lreeves »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #14

For a long time I was far too scared of being excluded from technological society to install this on my only phone, as much as I'd love to. It sickens me that banking apps, and others, depend on proprietary operating systems. What I do instead is have a separate device that I customize to my liking with Lineage, than an iPhone that I keep normal; I have the phone that I actually like to use, then a "normie phone" tha…

I don't have an Android device but surely anything that excludes can just be accessed via web browser? I use my banks mobile website in a mobile browser all the time.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by chasil »

rd07 wrote: post #12
climb_stealth wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times, read through all the complaints and the community forums, and Xiaomi can very kindly just fuck off. It used to be really good value for money as the hardware is great. But without…

Not TS, but I have similar thought to him. Just recently, I bought a used Samsung A52 4G phone, which is supported by LineageOS. I am not a LineageOS user, but I own a 5 year old Xiaomi phone. The latest Android version for that phone from Xiaomi is stuck at Android 9. It now runs Android 13 on /e/OS, a fork of LineageOS, and I have a good experience with it.

The biggest problem with /e/OS is the launcher (Bliss).

The launcher does not seem to be able to do app shortcuts, particularly to make a shortcut to an incognito browser tab. Widgets are also confined to a separate page. [Please correct me if I'm wrong.] It's really trying to be an iPhone in some constraining ways (stressed by the Settings icon).

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by TwoNineFive »

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #4

I still buy devices based on the likelihood that they will be supported by LineageOS. Good to see them continuing along.

I have been running custom Android, mostly Cyanogen and Lineage, since the G1. I went G1 > Nexus 1 > Samsung S4 > S5 > OnePlus 5 > Pixel 8. I won't buy a phone if it's not community supported.
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