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Last I used Lineage (a couple years ago), device support was entirely community-driven. Basically someone has to come forward and say "I want to be the champion
by _bxg1 7y ago
Last I used Lineage (a couple years ago), device support was entirely community-driven. Basically someone has to come forward and say "I want to be the champion for device X", and then that person or Lineage had to have one of that device physically on-hand for testing, and then that person and any others who volunteer are responsible for porting each new version to that device and maintaining compatibility.
So the spread of devices tends to be based on how popular/beloved that device is by the community. This can partly have to do with price/specs, but it also has to do with how easy it is to maintain (does it have a locked bootloader? is it available internationally? does it have weird, proprietary drivers that are hard/impossible to get working?).
For example: the Samsung Galaxy S 3-5 are still supported. The S3 came out in 2012 (it was a great phone with an unlocked bootloader; I had one). On the other hand, I don't see any mainline Galaxies newer than the S5 on the device list.
OnePlus tends to be well-supported.
Nexus devices were well-supported, but perhaps the Pixels have gotten more locked-down? I haven't been keeping up with that sort of thing.
- tryptophan 7y ago>On the other hand, I don't see any mainline Galaxies newer than the S5 on the device list. They started locking their bootloaders, and nobody has been able to bypass the lock.
- gnufx 7y agoThat can't be right, as e.foundation sell S7 and S9 preloaded. I haven't done it, but flashing instructions are at https://doc.e.foundation/devices/starlte/install https://doc.e.foundation/devices/starlte/install for example.
- tryptophan 7y agoThe international Exynos version is crackable. The one that matters, the Snapdragon version that will work with US networks is not cracked.
- edjrage 7y agoYou mean "the one that matters" to you? You realize most people don't live in the US, right?
- mindslight 7y agoAlso, people that live in the US and don't want Qualcomm's insecure-by-design integrated baseband/application processors.
- listic 7y agoShouldn't Exynos version work with US networks, too? It's all GSM, after all.
- bluGill 7y agoKind of. The US has some different frequency allocations so it won't work in all areas.
- jdofaz 7y agoPixel boot-loader is locked if you buy it from a carrier rather than direct from google. The Nexus 6 I got from Verizon did not have a locked boot-loader.
- mikepurvis 7y agoI experienced this as well with my Moto G ("falcon"), an ultra popular budget phone from 2013 that was also supported by Cy/Lineage for years after it was abandoned by the manufacturer and carrier. My own unit finally got itself stuck in a crash loop after two battery and one screen replacements that kept it tottering along.