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For some phones, proper hardware support is iffy at best, and things constantly crash at worst. The stability of LineageOS seems to correlate roughly with how p

For some phones, proper hardware support is iffy at best, and things constantly crash at worst. The stability of LineageOS seems to correlate roughly with how popular that phone is with LineageOS devs, so if you have a phone with only one maintainer, chances are that some things might not work super well. (It also depends on how committed to open source the manufacturer is, but these days, the answer is "not at all" for the vast majority, so it doesn't really matter.) Source: I've been using Cyanogen/LineageOS for years on various phones, and even tried getting it working on an officially unsupported phone (without luck).

geekgonecrazy 6y ago
Yes this! I probably picked some bad phones to give this a go. I had a Samsung Captiva for a while and I flashed hundreds of times on that. Lots of different roms and it took a while for the Cyanogen Rom become stable. Then the whole Drama with Cyanogen the company also was weird.. kept me from messing with cyanogen specifically for a while. Over all felt like playing the lottery. I'd do tons and tons of reading through xda forums and had to do things exactly right if misunderstood even a single step some of these phones were bricked. Kinda like anything at some point you just need a break and it just needs to work :)
Semaphor 6y ago
Ah, my last 3 phones were all OnePlus and I think those are pretty popular ;)
- RussianCow 6y ago
  Yes, and I believe OnePlus is one of the few manufacturers that is fairly welcoming to open source and third-party ROMs (which makes sense since their original phone was based on Cyanogenmod). My current phone, the Sony Xperia XA2, is similarly very stable, even with microG, because Sony provides open device configurations for most (all?) of their phones. But almost all of my past phones (mostly Motorola and HTC) have had various stability issues that didn't exist on the built-in ROMs. It's still worth it for me, but I would definitely not recommend it to anyone that isn't willing to roll the dice and potentially put up with some pain.

geekgonecrazy 6y ago

Yes this! I probably picked some bad phones to give this a go. I had a Samsung Captiva for a while and I flashed hundreds of times on that. Lots of different roms and it took a while for the Cyanogen Rom become stable. Then the whole Drama with Cyanogen the company also was weird.. kept me from messing with cyanogen specifically for a while. Over all felt like playing the lottery. I'd do tons and tons of reading through xda forums and had to do things exactly right if misunderstood even a single step some of these phones were bricked. Kinda like anything at some point you just need a break and it just needs to work :)

Semaphor 6y ago

Ah, my last 3 phones were all OnePlus and I think those are pretty popular ;)

RussianCow 6y ago
Yes, and I believe OnePlus is one of the few manufacturers that is fairly welcoming to open source and third-party ROMs (which makes sense since their original phone was based on Cyanogenmod). My current phone, the Sony Xperia XA2, is similarly very stable, even with microG, because Sony provides open device configurations for most (all?) of their phones. But almost all of my past phones (mostly Motorola and HTC) have had various stability issues that didn't exist on the built-in ROMs. It's still worth it for me, but I would definitely not recommend it to anyone that isn't willing to roll the dice and potentially put up with some pain.