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Wow LineageOS really is a bazaar, and not a cathedral. * 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS. * 2/3 of US installs are on non-phones (waydroid, nintendo switch, rpi, etc) * Most of the installs on actual phones are in China, Brazil and Vietnam * Less than 21% of installs are on versions that receive security updates, and less than 9% of installs are on the latest version (mostly beca…
Notice the most LineageOS installs is Waydroid... I miss the free era from 10 years ago. Back then it was probably still called CM. Now manufacturers are extremely closed: Xiaomi started by making Android ROMs, but today the most practical way to unlock its BL is through exploits...
- dual boot [2]
- Ubuntu touch [3]
- different kernels with various optimizations, overclocking, etc
- an absurd amount of ROMs, aside from CyanogenMod and LineagesOS there was ParanoidAndroid, Carbon, JellyBean, AICP, plus all the ROMs made specifically by users for this phone
- the latest linux kernel, somebody just compiled it for AOSP, I think it was version 3 or 4 against 2, which was the standard for every other phone, it ended up on some tech news website
I think It was a really great modding scene and a lot of people learnt stuff from that. Mainly by bricking their phones and having to fix them.
[1] https://xdaforums.com/f/galaxy-s-plus-i9001-android-developm...
[2] https://xdaforums.com/t/app-kernel-dual-boot-s-plus.2462783
[3] https://xdaforums.com/t/new-test-porting-ubuntu-touch.238260...
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> NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back Not to suggest GrapheneOS has become the new "standard" given it currently only supports Pixels, but I hear a lot more about GrapheneOS as the custom Android build than LineageOS, so I wonder if a lot of people have moved there from LineageOS. The other reason for a decline in custom ROMs may just be that apps are becoming more and more locked down. Banking apps…
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I often see them being on point and highlighting important details. Majority of custom roms aren't taking security seriously, so I don't think there's anything wrong with calling them out on that.
It's quite sad to see these stats. It used to be the defacto standard for custom ROMs. These dwindling numbers make me think either people aren't as interested in custom ROMs anymore and using the (bloated/Google) factory ROMs or maybe there's some new standard. Didn't these numbers used to be much, much higher in the past? NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back
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> NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back Not to suggest GrapheneOS has become the new "standard" given it currently only supports Pixels, but I hear a lot more about GrapheneOS as the custom Android build than LineageOS, so I wonder if a lot of people have moved there from LineageOS. The other reason for a decline in custom ROMs may just be that apps are becoming more and more locked down. Banking apps…
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I haven't seen GrapheneOS folks going out of their way to attack anyone.
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> NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back Not to suggest GrapheneOS has become the new "standard" given it currently only supports Pixels, but I hear a lot more about GrapheneOS as the custom Android build than LineageOS, so I wonder if a lot of people have moved there from LineageOS. The other reason for a decline in custom ROMs may just be that apps are becoming more and more locked down. Banking apps…
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What are those names?
Code names for phones, all android builds (including official ones) have them. https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices...
It's quite sad to see these stats. It used to be the defacto standard for custom ROMs. These dwindling numbers make me think either people aren't as interested in custom ROMs anymore and using the (bloated/Google) factory ROMs or maybe there's some new standard. Didn't these numbers used to be much, much higher in the past? NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back
> NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back Not to suggest GrapheneOS has become the new "standard" given it currently only supports Pixels, but I hear a lot more about GrapheneOS as the custom Android build than LineageOS, so I wonder if a lot of people have moved there from LineageOS. The other reason for a decline in custom ROMs may just be that apps are becoming more and more locked down. Banking apps…
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Code names for phones, all android builds (including official ones) have them. https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices...
For a slightly more manageable list, the 590 of those that are or were supported officially are also listed on the LineageOS wiki [1]. [1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/