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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I moved from samsung's trash-filled bloat os to lineageos, and my only regret is not doing it sooner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Use it Google free

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You mean recent Samsung devices are compatible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I buy my device only based on if I can load a differenti os

This is the mandatory prerequisite for me.

So i bought a refurbished s20u (same spec of s24u except for camera and CPU basically)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Search for lineage os your phone model if you're lucky someone will have ported the project to your device, the more popular it was the more likely

There are reasonable instructions

Your phone will need an unlocked bootloader, and it will not be able to be locked again while running lineage. This will prevent the use of any secure software which includes most bank apps, login authenticators. Local security is entirely bypassed by the unlocked bootloader

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The problem with Samsungs is thar once unlocked, you permanently burn the knox security fuse. So, even if you re-lock it, it's not going to play nice with banking apps. It's a one-way install only. Also I'm not so sure how LOS plays with banking apps... The only one that allows full re-lock AFAIK is the Pixel (which is what I have now, after nearly a decade on Samsung).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The frustrating thing is all the information and materials to support Samsung devices is out there, but the custom ROM development community is so ridiculously toxic and unhelpful to newcomers that few people are willing and able to mainline new devices (and supporting a new device is complicated enough that you pretty much can't get started without someone more experienced to point out the decades of cruft, pitfalls, and vendor-specific workarounds that the build processes have accumulated). More of the old guard leaves every year without enough new blood to replace them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No clue, my phone is not exactly recent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Welcome to the club. I've been a member since 2019 and am definitely not giving up my membership anytime in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I do wish they would switch to a non profit or sell a product.

I get why they don't though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Back then it was easy. We could even run our bank apps on rooted unlocked phones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wasn't a member quite that far back, but I kept up with the scene enough to know that it had changed to lineage OS when that occurred.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I did, but back then it felt more like a novelty. I lost interest in messing with my phone since, but now I actually needed it.