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Pick a phone next time that is from a manufacturer who has a reputation for staying up to date with Android. But, the sad reality is that no manufacturers anyw

Pick a phone next time that is from a manufacturer who has a reputation for staying up to date with Android. But, the sad reality is that no manufacturers anywhere will provide OS updates for more than 2 years, and many are MUCH less than that. They expect you to throw them away and buy new ones. Or, they expect you to not notice since they don't want to 'burn cash' on porting new updates. Nevermind that the 'android device support model' is a dumpster fire. Android (specifically AOSP, but google's spin too) needs to be a rolling distro to make it easier for manufacturers to support older devices (but no guarrantee they will care..). Shitting a monolithic update on them once a year doesn't work. The 'smartphone industry' is an incredibly wasteful industry.

mastax 9y ago
Project Treble[0] is a good 80% solution which makes it much easier to run mainline AOSP on new devices [1]. Ports still need to fix device-specific bugs, and camera image processing optimizations won't work unless they're implemented beneath the HAL (or hacked into a custom ROM). You'll also need a modern (8.0) unlocked device. Besides those caveats, it's a big improvement. [0]: https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble [1]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development/experimental-phh-treble-t3709659 https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenable...