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I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 running LineageOS. It has a replacable battery and I have replacements (and have replaced it once so far). I will be keeping it until
by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 running LineageOS. It has a replacable battery and I have replacements (and have replaced it once so far). I will be keeping it until it breaks, because it's more than fast enough to do everything I demand from my phone and I have no reason to spend hundreds of dollars to buy the latest and greatest in planned obsolescence.
- tluyben2 10y agoMy mother (in her late 60s) has my S5 and she complains it is too slow; does Lineage make a difference?
- fapjacks 10y agoIt all depends on what you've got on your phone now, but it made a huge difference for me. My battery life also went from something like 6 or 8 hours of use to twice that easily without changing my habits.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoThe stock ROM is full of garbage. This is true of any phone. For a while I kept an image of my phone with the stock ROM in case I needed to restore it, which I had stripped down of most of the crap by rooting it and removing a bunch of stuff. There are well over 200 unnecessary packages installed that include spyware, bloatware, adware, and uselessware. The only explanation I have is planned obsolecense. LineageOS is as fast for me today as it was when I first installed it (back when it was still CM).
- tluyben2 10y agoOkido. Will that exactly that then. I thought Samsung would be Ok and did not want to risk my mother having to do anything tech :)
- catdog 10y agoSame here, I own a Galaxy S3 LTE which I also keep up to date using custom roms (though official CM/LineageOS support is lacking lately making it a bit less straightforward) and even that is basically already fast enough for everything.