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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…
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.
Having the second device just opens up more chances that you have something that works.
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.
The practice makes ewaste of otherwise perfectly usable devices, and should be illegal.
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
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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 o…
I've bricked several Samsung devices trying to flash Lineage on them. It is important to follow the Lineage installation instructions very closely.
What do folks use for backups that's actually useful (full app data + secondary stuff like KeyStore entries) nowadays?
[1]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ#why-do-s...
Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…
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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).
Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…
Started with Android 4 KitKat, stuck with Linux kernel 3.4 :)
5.4mm thickness, 3GB RAM (enough for 32-bit), 2TB SD card works, watching movies/shows with the AMOLED look as good as a recent OLED TV. Truly ahead of their time.
SDR content with mDNIe dynamic enabled comes surprisingly close to HDR content on an HDR display, colors can be a bit too staturated though.
After a decade, the battery lasts a week for daily hour e-book with black background. 3 hours of video playback. However, it restarts at 30% battery when running at full brightness with a white background. Disabling Wi-Fi significantly extends standby time compared to modern hardware.
Caveats: Slow web browsing and no H.265 hardware decoder. 1440p H.264 60Mbit is the max (Display is 1600p). Most content providers and streaming services are slowly moving away from AVC, so it's stuck at 720p H.265 on CPU.
Back in 2014, I couldn't have imagined using hardware that was over a decade old.
Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…