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Yeah... Maybe that's why another person in this thread had such an easy time flashing a 3rd party OS using the WebUSB installer and not even opening the termin

Yeah... Maybe that's why another person in this thread had such an easy time flashing a 3rd party OS using the WebUSB installer and not even opening the terminal. +1 points for Google for cool stuff like Project Treble (gotta keep techies on board) -99 points for Google for abandoning Flagship devices for 99% of users that techies might have sold to family and friends.

AndrewDucker 5y ago
If it's so easy, then I don't understand why they don't just have a high level OS version that they can make available across all of their devices? How much overhead can there really be? (I really would like to understand better.)
- phh 5y ago
  I actually do just that: https://twitter.com/phhusson/status/1447824974396497924 https://twitter.com/phhusson/status/1447824974396497924 My oldest supported device is Pixel 1 (released in 2016): https://twitter.com/phhusson/status/1454155975515152387 https://twitter.com/phhusson/status/1454155975515152387 I'm pretty much alone, and do it in my spare time. So, it's fairly easy to do. Actually, Google do provide some GSIs: https://developer.android.com/topic/generic-system-image/releases https://developer.android.com/topic/generic-system-image/rel... But they are unusable as daily driver on the majority of devices. Many (I'd say most) devices simply won't boot, most devices would have no in-call audio, there wouldn't be VoLTE on any device, backlight control would be broken on many devices, etc. etc. Google doesn't do it because they have no incentive in doing that.