neither of them do updates for the same reason. Yeah, you might get a few updates for a few phones, but that is because the OEM did the work too. Every off-bra

neither of them do updates for the same reason. Yeah, you might get a few updates for a few phones, but that is because the OEM did the work too. Every off-brand android distro does the same thing: they get the kernel+drivers from the OEM image, and repackage the rest (the rest being AOSP). besides the android libraries, nothing is visible. It is all a binary blob picked from the OEM image. So if the android version X is release by OEM, the off-brand android distros will pick up version X for that phone by just building AOSP on top of that kernel+drivers. When a new version for android comes up and it depends on a newer kernel version, that phone won't be updated no matter what! ...exception is if the phone's kernel+drivers are shared with another model that did received the update, but you guess how rare that is. bottom line, no matter how may hours an off-brand android distro use, it will NEVER support anything newer than what is supported by the OEM. In some cases, even if they claim they are releasing android security patch X for your phone, if that patch bundle included kernel fixes, you can be guaranteed that they will not be included.