A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.
I wrote a script to scrape pages of some popular alternative OS projects (such as postmarketOS and LineageOS), and put them into a single list. I’ll try to automate and keep this up-to-date. Any additional OS suggestions and comments are welcome!
Haha, I knew my device would show up there (Poco F2 Pro) but I still can’t believe this is an old phone, even with its 5 years old battery it still gives me more than 6 hrs of SOT.
Also my phone is very much resurrected with the Pixel OS ROM and the latest security update and passing strong integrity even while it is rooted… (with a bunch of KSU modules) Long live custom ROMs!
So a good example of an issue here is multi region releases and community maintained.
The Samsung Galaxy S9+ has many ROMs on XDA, but isn’t supported at the links. It also has two variants (different CPUs for different regions) which aren’t reflected in the list.
Love this idea, but because of those types of things it can be misleading, making a person think their device is useless when it’s not.
I recommend you look on xda too
That would be great and I might add a scraper for xdaforums, but even XDA has a lot of dead links for old devices now.
What about newer phones I just want to decouple from google? Is there anytjing for newer samsungs?
The problem with newer Samsung (post 2021 is update) is they don’t allow you to unlock the bootloader (at least for US phones). This pretty much squashes your ability to put a new OS on it.
I’m guessing Pixel is a nonstarter then 😁
Ironically Pixels are actually the best/easiest because you can easily unlock the bootloader and they have good custom ROM support
Actually, GrapheneOS works on new pixels!
Like everyone else said, pixels are the best phones for non stock OS. You can unlock them easy and they are quick to release security updates so the open source security nerds who made graphene OS (the best open source OS) love pixel phones.
That’s good to know!
All my old devices become un-chargeable due to USB-C plug wearout. Even with wireless charging I cannot avoid sometimes needing a wired full charge.
I have not heard of USB-C wearing out yet. What devices are those? Have to be new enough to have USB-C.
My Pixel 3a had to be retired when it could no longer “hold” with plugged in cable (and had to be chargeda day).
Did you abuse it heavily? I have an old 3a and the USB-C works fine
Don’t think so. Just normal usage. I wasn’t trying to assert that the 3a had some design issue or systemic manufacturing flaw. The port just eventually got kinda loose and any perturbance of the phone or cable would wiggle enough to lose connection.
Thank you @yaky@slrpnk.net
Thanks for reposting, I subscribed to this community too.
Nice! It is a bit more active than the Lemmy.world one.
