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LineageOS FAQ
Why did Cyanogenmod end?
This statement from the CyanogenMod team explains where the company is headed from here. As far as why they has to discontinue Cyanogenmod:
The company is downsizing and will focus on a new project (the “Cyanogen Modular OS” program), and they are merely cutting off services that they believe they can no longer maintain. As a part of their consolidation, the company announced that many of their employees, including Cyanogen (Steve Kondik) himself, would part ways with the company.
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-Mishaal Rahman
What about nightlies?
As of 12.13.16 all cyanogen nightlies will no longer be supported.
As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally.
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What is LineageOS?
LineageOS is the successor to the popular CyanogenMod ROM. With an emphasis on openness, community development, and improvement of the stock Android experience, CyanogenMod supported dozens of devices officially with nightly updates, and unofficially, by the efforts of developers in the community, dozens more devices. LineageOS intends to pick up where CyanogenMod left off, but with a redoubled focus on being a grassroots community-focused development effort.
Where can I find LineageOS Builds?
We have not started doing official builds yet. One of the benefits of this being an open source project is that anyone can build it, but please be careful flashing builds you’ve downloaded from other sources. We will have some more information on when weeklies (or possibly nightlies) will be starting soon.
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When builds of LineageOS start to show up, you can expect them to pick up right where Cyanogenmod left off and be nearly identical to the latest CM builds.
How can I participate?
LineageOS is looking for people to build slaves and build mirrors. If you have hosting resources that meet these requirements, then you can contact them here.
I will be updating this FAQ as more information comes out about LineageOS.
I loved cyanogenmod, i hope lineageOS keeps up cheers ! waiting for a build for Oneplus 3
So this may sound terrible dumb but I didn't find a clear answer around here, is Lineage based on 7.0?
toy203 said:
So this may sound terrible dumb but I didn't find a clear answer around here, is Lineage based on 7.0?
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There is one based on 6.0.1 and one based on 7.1.1
What Lineage Os could do for CAF roms? Without cyanogen inc, CAF support will die, isn't?
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Is lineageOs OFFICIAL rom released?
zeitdroid said:
What Lineage Os could do for CAF roms? Without cyanogen inc, CAF support will die, isn't?
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CAF ROMs have nothing to do with Cyanogen Inc. Anyone can build their own ROM using CAF (Code Aurora Forum) which is led by Qualcomm.
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Akila.Kuku said:
Is lineageOs OFFICIAL rom released?
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Not yet, but it will be sooner or later. Mostly waiting for proper infrastructure for build servers.
toy203 said:
So this may sound terrible dumb but I didn't find a clear answer around here, is Lineage based on 7.0?
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It's based on 7.1.1 actually.
not released at time.
1. Did anyone offer servers for Lineage? (XDA)
2.With devices will have official support?
dj_chapz said:
CAF ROMs have nothing to do with Cyanogen Inc. Anyone can build their own ROM using CAF (Code Aurora Forum) which is led by Qualcomm.
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Not yet, but it will be sooner or later. Mostly waiting for proper infrastructure for build servers.
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Well :good:
there are so many unofficial lineageOS and cm, so which UNOFFICIAL lineageOS can we use among them as official rom?
i'm disappointed because the redmi 2 and the redmi 1 have roms before de mi3 i mean.... come on..
also still the same ui as cm14 the only new is the logo. well like shibba quote me in the lineage page.
I understand this disappointment which is because of too much of expectation from LineageOS. You need to understand that hundreds and thousands of developers are working on LineageOS to make it up and running even compromising their Christmas and New year celebration for this year just to make all of us happy.
Rebranding CyanogenMod to LineageOS is important. At this point of time it is necessary to make the infrastructure stable and hence most of them will be concentrating on that part while other individual developers contributing to the device tree they support which is eventually slowing the overall development process of LineageOS as a whole.
For now yes it will be no different to CyanogenMod but eventually you will get new features added to it. I hope you understand the complete picture.
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What are the special different between cm13 official and lineageOs 14.1 unofficial?
Akila.Kuku said:
What are the special different between cm13 official and lineageOs 14.1 unofficial?
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You have to read more I guess.
CyanogenMod 13 Official = Android 6 rom supported by cyanogenmod (Lineage now) and receiving nightly via ota,directly from them.
LineageOS 14.1 Unofficial= Android 7.1.1. supporting by developers here in XDA merget by the code same as official versions.
Theres two different versions of android.It's unofficial when its not realised by lineageOS team.Anyway a lot of devs here making unofficial builds which are very stable as daily drive.When come official builds again u will be able to recive them over OTA.
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You have to read more I guess.
CyanogenMod 13 Official = Android 6 rom supported by cyanogenmod (Lineage now) and receiving nightly via ota,directly from them.
LineageOS 14.1 Unofficial= Android 7.1.1. supporting by developers here in XDA merget by the code same as official versions.
Theres two different versions of android.It's unofficial when its not realised by lineageOS team.Anyway a lot of devs here making unofficial builds which are very stable as daily drive.When come official builds again u will be able to recive them over OTA.
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got it.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767124569 is this one be better than cm13 official one?
Akila.Kuku said:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767124569 is this one be better than cm13 official one?
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I can't try as preformance, battery drive because is probably for not my device BUT. I would say yes, for me personally CM/LineageOS official or unofficial is much better than cm 13. Better battery life and preformance. Yeah, well Facebook is little bit buggy but I guess need time to be optimized for Android 7.
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I can't try as preformance, battery drive because is probably for not my device BUT. I would say yes, for me personally CM/LineageOS official or unofficial is much better than cm 13. Better battery life and preformance. Yeah, well Facebook is little bit buggy but I guess need time to be optimized for Android 7.
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Well :good: understood. I am testing it properly. I think so it will be better.
Thanks for helping
Cyanogenmod14 vs lineageOS14 (both of them are UNOFFICIAL builds)
Wich one is better than other one between those?
Or are both of them 100% similar?
Bugs are normal in testing roms
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Here is CyanogenMod 12.1 for XiaoMi MiPad.
Whats working:
Sound
3d graphics
Hardware accelerated video decoding
WiFi
Sensors (screen autorotation)
Camera
Not working:
Camera lags in Photo mode
Sometimes main camera is not detected to fix try to power off/power on tablet.
WiFi sometimes forget saved passwords
Stock MIUI 6.12.12 kernel 3.10.24 used in ROM for now.
Device tree source: https://github.com/HighwayStar/android_device_xiaomi_mocha
Vendor tree: https://github.com/HighwayStar/android_vendor_xiaomi_mocha
Unfortunately CM12.1 tree still need some patches that cant be integrated in device tree, check issues page if you want to try build it https://github.com/HighwayStar/android_device_xiaomi_mocha/issues
Help with issues left are welcome.
Downloads:
Beta 1: cm-12.1-20170110-UNOFFICIAL-mocha.zip
Changelog:
First release
Beta 2: cm-12.1-20170117-UNOFFICIAL-mocha.zip
Changelog:
Camera HAL hex-patched from API19 to API21
buid.prop tags fixed, tablet now correctly detected as MI PAD by Play Market
XDA:DevDB Information
CyanogenMod 12.1 for MiPad (mocha) , ROM for the Xiaomi Mi Pad
Contributors
highwaystar_ru
Source Code: https://github.com/HighwayStar/android_device_xiaomi_mocha
ROM OS Version: 5.1.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Based On: CyanogenMod
Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 2
Beta Release Date: 2017-01-17
Created 2017-01-10
Last Updated 2017-01-18
reserved
For a review.
Thank you for keeping the Mi Pad alive ?
IMO, this is the best MiPad ROM! Thank you so much, Sir!
Smoothest ROM for MiPad
Flashed smoke kernel on top of it. I know it can mess things up.
Will keep updating if that helps or not.
Thanks for developing for Mipad.. Hopefully we can have some other developers who can chip in to help to write wrappers for the camera... (I know not priority)
Thanks a lot!
So, we booted cm12.1 and ported shields kernel. Is it possible to move further? Cm 13 for example? Or cm12.1 based customs.
Star_king12 said:
So, we booted cm12.1 and ported shields kernel. Is it possible to move further? Cm 13 for example? Or cm12.1 based customs.
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cm13 would be better but, at this time we should focus on stablizing cm 12.1
OoSTARTERoO said:
cm13 would be better but, at this time we should focus on stablizing cm 12.1
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Absolutely agree with you. Once cm12 is stabilized we can hope for a marshmallow or even a nougat ROM.
Regarding the graphics, will we get vulkan support?
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Absolutely agree with you. Once cm12 is stabilized we can hope for a marshmallow or even a nougat ROM.
Regarding the graphics, will we get vulkan support?
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On nougat, yes we may.
Edit: no nougat for k1 but marshmallow has vulkan so we can get blobs from it once we get marshmallow.
Awesome... Can't wait to reach home and flash this.... Have waited so long to get away from MiUi
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Sudeep Duhoon said:
On nougat, yes we may.
Edit: no nougat for k1 but marshmallow has vulkan so we can get blobs from it once we get marshmallow.
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Why? Shield tablet has k1 and nougat.
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Why? Shield tablet has k1 and nougat.
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I didn't knew about custom roms. The point was, we can get vulkan if we get marshmallow and as you told, on nougat too.
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Absolutely agree with you. Once cm12 is stabilized we can hope for a marshmallow or even a nougat ROM.
Regarding the graphics, will we get vulkan support?
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I think it will be hard work.
We've never got blob sources from xiaomi it can be impossible.
But still, just having marshmallow or nougot would be awsome...
Antutu score can be up to 80000++
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Can we have marshmallow which "at least" boots up?
I think it would be quite hard to boot it up with old blobs
Hi, I request the OP to add flash instructions along with which recovery to use. I know it's obvious but still.
I would personally wait for this LP ROM to get stabilized fully with all working features first. Once we have enough dev support and expertise then move to working on MM or Nougat.
I read somewhere here that if LP gets stabilized it's not very tough to get to MM?
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Hi, I request the OP to add flash instructions along with which recovery to use. I know it's obvious but still.
I would personally wait for this LP ROM to get stabilized fully with all working features first. Once we have enough dev support and expertise then move to working on MM or Nougat.
I read somewhere here that if LP gets stabilized it's not very tough to get to MM?
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If rom is completely source built, not very tough to bump the android version. If we use prebuilt blobs (like in this case) it may be difficult.
Bug : The in-built microphone does not seem to work.
Wow the performance is so promising. Thanks for the effort and keep it up!
11h idle, 1% battery drained. Wow I'm impressed.
Hello,
I wanted to choose a phone for LOS but I hesitate between:
Mi 8
One Plus 6
I see that for the moment both have no official support, do you think it will happen for both?
What do you think ?
After I wondered, if I have an older version of stock android and I install a recent version of custom ROM, will it upgrade the kernel version and android?
Thank you
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Hello, I wanted to choose a phone for LOS but I hesitate........
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I don't have either devices and your correct with no existing Official LineageOS builds for either device at this point in time but, your best bet is to go with one of the Unofficial builds. Don't be afraid to ask for some member guidance within one of them as well.
Here's a list of threads that reflects the Unofficial LineageOS for them...
1 Unofficial LineageOS 16.0 build for the OnePlus 6 (enchilada):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3839750
1 Unofficial LineageOS 15.1 build for the OnePlus 6 (enchilada):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3814832
2 Unofficial LineageOS 15.1 builds for the Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3840238
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3838389
The following area of the forum is specific to the OnePlus 6 (enchilada):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6
The following area of the forum is specific to the Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8
Good Luck!
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Thank you for your help, I see that the official version of LOS is 15.1, how is it that the non-official is in version 16?
If I flash an unofficial rom and the official goes out, I'll have to go into stock-rom and flash the custom rom again?
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Thank you for your help, I see that the official version of LOS is 15.1, how is it that the non-official is in version 16? If I flash an unofficial rom and the official goes out, I'll have to go into stock-rom and flash the custom rom again?
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I don't see any Official LineageOS released yet but, to cross to and from Official to Unofficial would require starting over again.
Device/Firmware specific questions for them should be asked within those threads to receive a more accurate answer.
Good Luck!
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The latest version is 15.1. I thought N7 would get 15.1 eventually, but now I get the feeling that 14.1 would be the last official LOS for it. Am I right?
If so, I would like to move to another custom OS.
What's 14.1 based on?
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Oreo 8.1
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Oreo 8.1
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Interesting. Do you know if it works well on the Nexus 7 2013. Mines become slow now, maybe flash this to give it new life. Do you also know if Netflix works ok?
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What ? LOS 14.1 is based od Nougat 7.1.2
LOS 15.1 is 8.1 Oreo based
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yourrealking said:
The latest version is 15.1. I thought N7 would get 15.1 eventually, but now I get the feeling that 14.1 would be the last official LOS for it. Am I right?
If so, I would like to move to another custom OS.
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Its difficult to meet the charter of lineage which they began after 15.1 (oreo) for such old device.
But then, never say never. Two separate teams are working on it, lets hope we get official this time.
I can confirm without a shadow of a doubt that LOS 15.1 with Oreo 8.1 is, in fact, running and working fine on my Nexus 7 2013 (flo), can't comment though on the LTE version as there may be other demons to trample on that one. I am amazed at how fast and beautiful the OS actually is.
Hi!
If I understand things correctly, my Moto G5 phone is born with an Android OS version that only accepts 32bit code, although the hardware is 64bit?
Why did Moto do that? It sounds like selling a car with a 6 or 8 cylinders engine, and only use 4 of them...?!
And on top of that, I discovered they stopped updating that (primitive 32bit) Android 8.1.0 OS in February 2019...
Should I switch to a custom 64bit ROM? NB!: Stability and robustness is more important to me than fancy new features...!
I found 2 lists of 'Best ROMs for Moto G5'. The shortest recommends 8 here:
https://romsx.com/best-custom-roms-for-moto-g5/
So which should I choose?
NB: Moto G5 only has 16 GB.
Hero002 said:
Hi!
If I understand things correctly, my Moto G5 phone is born with an Android OS version that only accepts 32bit code, although the hardware is 64bit?
Why did Moto do that? It sounds like selling a car with a 6 or 8 cylinders engine, and only use 4 of them...?!
And on top of that, I discovered they stopped updating that (primitive 32bit) Android 8.1.0 OS in February 2019...
Should I switch to a custom 64bit ROM? NB!: Stability and robustness is more important to me than fancy new features...!
I found 2 lists of 'Best ROMs for Moto G5'. The shortest recommends 8 here:
https://romsx.com/best-custom-roms-for-moto-g5/
So which should I choose?
NB: Moto G5 only has 16 GB.
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You will have to ask Motorola for the answer to the first part
As for custom 64bit roms:
Lineage 17.1
Lineage mint (based on lineage 17.1)
ASOP android 10
Are the latest custom roms for this device (see dev section)
All will have the same issue with regards to camera/video recording not working fully
TheFixItMan said:
You will have to ask Motorola for the answer to the first part
As for custom 64bit roms:
Lineage 17.1
Lineage mint (based on lineage 17.1)
ASOP android 10
Are the latest custom roms for this device (see dev section)
All will have the same issue with regards to camera/video recording not working fully
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Thank you for your reply!
But what about ROMs that have been more tested in real life, where camera and video etc. work?
Yes - it is Motorola that should answer my first questions. I don't expect any answer from them... But others might have a comment...
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Thank you for your reply!
But what about ROMs that have been more tested in real life, where camera and video etc. work?
Yes - it is Motorola that should answer my first questions. I don't expect any answer from them... But others might have a comment...
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All 64bit roms will have the camera issue as Motorola have not released updated camera libs
The roms I listed above are the latest roms which will have the camera bug minimised but you will still experience issues in some apps like only being able to take a certain amount of photos before the app freezes, camera not working in low light, green tint, video not recording/saving and so on. You can use various other apps but nothing is perfect and you may still experience issues
The only fully functioning custom rom with no bugs will be the 32bit lineage 14.1
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All 64bit roms will have the camera issue as Motorola have not released updated camera libs
The roms I listed above are the latest roms which will have the camera bug minimised but you will still experience issues in some apps like only being able to take a certain amount of photos before the app freezes, camera not working in low light, green tint, video not recording/saving and so on. You can use various other apps but nothing is perfect and you may still experience issues
The only fully functioning custom rom with no bugs will be the 32bit lineage 14.1
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That is the most useful information I have yet seen about custom ROMs - thank you!
But according to https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5/development/7-1-x-lineageos-14-1-moto-g5-t3611973 LineageOS 14.1 for Moto G5 is:
ROM OS Version: 7.1.x Nougat
Last Updated 2018-03-18
And the 'stock' OS on my Moto G5 is Android 8.1.0 updated in February 2019.
My intention was to UPgrade my OS, not DOWNgrade it... !
So THAT LineageOS 14.1 doesn't really seem relevant.
And on https://download.lineageos.org/ there doesn't seem to be a version for Moto G5(?) There are versions for G4 and G6, but not G5. (Neither under Lenovo - the actual producer.)
But thanks anyway!
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That is the most useful information I have yet seen about custom ROMs - thank you!
But according to https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5/development/7-1-x-lineageos-14-1-moto-g5-t3611973 LineageOS 14.1 for Moto G5 is:
ROM OS Version: 7.1.x Nougat
Last Updated 2018-03-18
And the 'stock' OS on my Moto G5 is Android 8.1.0 updated in February 2019.
My intention was to UPgrade my OS, not DOWNgrade it... !
So THAT LineageOS 14.1 doesn't really seem relevant.
And on https://download.lineageos.org/ there doesn't seem to be a version for Moto G5(?) There are versions for G4 and G6, but not G5. (Neither under Lenovo - the actual producer.)
But thanks anyway!
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Only official versions will be on the lineageos website
There is no difference between an official and unofficial version except the official versions are built on the lineage servers every week with any lineage side changes (not device side unless merged by maintainer)
However official versions have to meet certain criteria in terms of everything that works in stock rom must work in the unofficial lineage build submitted to become official.
As the camera doesn't work as it does in stock in lineage 17.1 it will never become official in its current state
They are listed under Motorola because that is the company that makes the phones
Lenovo is the parent company that owns Motorola
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Only official versions will be on the lineageos website
There is no difference between an official and unofficial version except the official versions are built on the lineage servers every week with any lineage side changes (not device side unless merged by maintainer)
However official versions have to meet certain criteria in terms of everything that works in stock rom must work in the unofficial lineage build submitted to become official.
As the camera doesn't work as it does in stock in lineage 17.1 it will never become official in its current state
They are listed under Motorola because that is the company that makes the phones
Lenovo is the parent company that owns Motorola
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Thank you.
But I am not 100% sure about whether you are confirming that the stock ROM on Moto G5 is the newest available Android OS version where everything works?
Hero002 said:
Thank you.
But I am not 100% sure about whether you are confirming that the stock ROM on Moto G5 is the newest available Android OS version where everything works?
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Stock rom will be the latest os version where everything works 100%
All 64bit custom roms have camera issues due to no updated propriety sources
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Stock rom will be the latest os version where everything works 100%
All 64bit custom roms have camera issues due to no updated proprietary sources
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That's sad.
So when I want to buy a phone in the future:
Which other smart phone brands will probably not leave their customers with 'a choice between plague or cholera'...?
Hero002 said:
That's sad.
So when I want to buy a phone in the future:
Which other smart phone brands will probably not leave their customers with 'a choice between plague or cholera'...?
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Samsung will have the most community support as they are the most popular phones
Google pixel will obviously have longevity
Xiaomi might be the best budget choice other than later Motorola models