I wouldn’t dream to use any stock android at this point. Been on LOS forever and each new phone I buy either check if Los is available or, in one case (my current phone) I ported Los for it myself.
How hard is it to port LOS? I’ve been wanting to do it for a couple obscure devices I have but I’ve read the documentation and felt overwhelmed.
Its hard but rewarding, and perfectly doable given you want to do it.
Note that there are a few mandatory requirements for a port to be feasible, like unlocked bootloader and vendor sources available for kernel.
As newby, you also want already existing ports to start from.
Also, some powerful hardware to build on (32+gb ram, 10+ cores, 100+GB storage).
Also older (up to A11) can be real bitches, after A12 things are improving a bit.
How do you port it? Don’t you need access to the device tree files iirc?
You need to copy or grab or create the device tree files. Usually by cloning a similar device. Vendor files are extracted from stock rom. Kernels, you need an official release from vendor to start width.
You mean, *LineageOS devices.
What are the stats for Graphene and Calyx?
If we could fix the issue with non working Google Wallet/Google Pay, that would be great.
But it is also worrying that there there seems to be only Apple and Google Pay in Europe - no alternative solution for wireless paying.
Other than that, Lineage OS on my 9T feels great. Battery life got almost doubled and it feels great to use a device with all current security patched installed. Next step would be to use a completely degoogled version with only FOSS software installed - just for some app there are no real alternatives available: Banking app, Fitness watch app, Carsharing app etc
There isn’t a version of LineageOS available for my phone : (
Which phone? If there’s a will, there’s a way, if you want then find “manifest” file for your phone and compile recovery then compile lineage os and flash it, there’s instructions how to compile step by step and how to flash
