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I don't understand the device support - what makes the Galaxy S5 eligible for an upgrade where the S6 is stuck on 14.1?

• commoner 8y ago
  Most devices have different maintainers, and all of them work on device support at their own pace. At the moment, it looks like the Samsung Galaxy S6 lacks a maintainer: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/zerofltexx/ https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/zerofltexx/ Maintainers are volunteers, so there's little you can do besides volunteer yourself if you're able to help.
  • _bxg1 8y ago
    It also depends on what devices people have donated for them to test with. If they don't have an S6 on hand, it's harder to target.
• blihp 8y ago
  It could be as simple as one of the maintainers still using the S5 as their primary device (or is being sponsored to support it) but none of them are using an S6. Or there could be a driver issue with the S6. Or something else entirely. The major brands don't really care all that much about unofficial builds like LineageOS and really wish they'd just go away which often makes life more difficult for maintainers. (they should be careful of what they wish for: the momentum to support many of these devices seems to be waning as people move the the up and coming manufacturers) If the S6 is still on 14.1, it's not likely it's going to get 16.0 support... I'm in the same boat with my older Nexus devices.