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Been using lineageOS 16 on my OnePlus phone for years. LineageOS has allowed me to use my perfectly fine phone much much longer than the normal upgrade cycle.
by Jemm 7y ago
Been using lineageOS 16 on my OnePlus phone for years.
LineageOS has allowed me to use my perfectly fine phone much much longer than the normal upgrade cycle. And this has saved me money.
More importantly my phone remains in use rather than being thrown away and a new one purchased saving about 4 phones from landfill (my guess based on a 2 year upgrade cycle).
Apple with all their environmental goodness claims locks their phones down from both custom rooms and from re-use after donation. Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock,
- zozbot234 7y ago> LineageOS has allowed me to use my perfectly fine phone much much longer than the normal upgrade cycle. And this has saved me money. OnePlus actually does a pretty fine job of supporting even their "older" models. The OP3 and OP3T were running up-to-date "stock" OS's not too long ago.
- OJFord 7y agoThe third OnePlus model is an old one now? I remember the first one coming out (and haven't kept track of how many there have been) but I honestly don't think I do anything that needs more than what the first one would give me. (I actually have a Motorola One, which is on the 'Android One' mostly-stock long-term upgrade committment, and was about £150 new 18mo ago? £100 phone or less would be plenty powerful enpugh, I just paid a bit more to know I'd get the upgrades, and thought the fingerprint reader might be useful. (It is.))
- wazoox 7y agoI still have my OnePlus One as a spare phone. I can confirm the only missing feature is a fingerprint reader. Photo and video quality are fine, power is more than necessary, battery lasts long enough...
- anotherevan 7y agoI'm still using my OnePlus One as my phone. A fingerprint reader is really the only thing that tempts me to move.
- TeddyDD 7y agoWell, I'm running Android 9 on OnePlus One thanks to Lineage. That's five years old phone still rocking. Official support ended in 2016 IIRC.
- kees99 7y ago> Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock To be fair, newer Android phones have Factory Reset Protection[1], which is pretty much 1-to-1 clone of iCloud lock. [1] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6172890 https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6172890
- zozbot234 7y agoIt's easy to disable FRP by de-associating any Google accounts from the phone before factory reset. Can iCloud locks be removed with comparable ease by the original owner before they "donate" the device?
- Assadi 7y agoSame deal with iOS. Just fully sign out before you give it away
- inapis 7y agoYou just sign out and say Yes when the phone asks to disable “Find My iPhone” during the process. It’s not a convoluted process at all.
- woahhow 7y agoI guess you earned my truck, if you're so inclined. It's all about the rhyming. One love or one truck my trigger. <3
- souterrain 7y ago> Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock If someone donates a phone, isn’t clearing the phone and releasing the “iCloud lock” typical practice? Otherwise the phone has negative value, in that it is simply toxic waste.
- oghqc 7y agoYou can still sell it for parts which is what usually happens in those cases. That's what they do with stolen phones for example.
- garaetjjte 7y agoLineageOS is nice, but with every major Android update it seems to work slower and slower on my OnePlus One :(
- underdown 7y agoI wish I could buy another new OnePlus one. Phone lasted me three and a half years before I broke the screen and decided to upgrade. All while never having a case. Phone has a metal bezel that extends out past the edges of the glass and a sandpaper textured back that actually allows you to grip it. Eventually I dropped it one too many times flat on its face. I should have just figured out how to fix the screen. Its amazing how much longer a phone lasts when it's not entirely wrapped in glass. Sure you can buy an OtterBox, but then you're carrying around a brick in your pocket.
- majewsky 7y agoThere's a middle ground between nothing and Otterbox. I also have a One, and put it in a simple plastic case. It doesn't add that much to the size, but no matter how the phone falls, the elastic parts of the case always make contact with the ground first. I've dropped that phone numerous times and it still looks pristine. If only the battery wasn't slowly dying on me.
- EamonnMR 7y agoThe Six comes with a very thin rubber case with great grip and enough shock absorption that I haven't totally smashed it yet.