My daily driver is a mere youngster from 2017, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact, running IodéOS 4.9 (LOS 20, Android 13 / T) - and looking forward to Android 14 / U sometime soon
Very nice, that one! Unfortunately, I have had too many broken screens, as in parts of the screen become unresponsive to the touch.
So, if one can find a good one, well worth – but R is end of the road at LOS.
At the moment yes. But someone is working on an unofficial LOS 20 ROM for Z3, which has the same kernel & chipset at the Z3 Compact. If they can get LOS 20 going on Z3, then Z3 Compact may not be far behind
I’d like to think, we are all winners, being able to use great FOSS at the little cost of our time, helping others if, when and where we can.
On a side note, as the Galaxy S2 is still up and running for some…
And for those who may read this and feel like they wanna have a go at flashing with such old devices — HAVE A GO, it’s fun and rewarding. Personally I’d say anything starting with the Galaxy S3 neo, can be daily drivers, within the limits of calling in 4/5G mobile networks and camera limitations.
Also, a bit of encouragement if you have Samsung devices in a drawer somewhere – they are resilient and very hard to brick. This is the one and only out of ~240 I have flashed:
Thats an encouraging and fun thread, thanks for that!
Is there a webpage where one could look up the statistics how many devices of each kind are running with version of e OS? I guess at least internally there should be, would be interesting to see as well.
Or even in comparison with other custom ROMs, or at least a comparison which custom ROMs are used how often.
I didnt find any, but doesnt have to mean much…
Thanks for this comment. I very much enjoy the users’ comments here. Didn´t expect it. About your question: I wouldn´t know of a source for that. What I know is that LineageOS is the most popular custom OS, and that Samsung devices are one of the most popular devices to use it on.
