[ale] Slightly OT: LineageOs is like discovering Santa Claus is real!!

[Neal Rhodes]

To be accurate, I have the HTC ADR6425LVW.    One of many nice things
about LineageOS is they list actual model numbers.   Which doesn't
include that model.   

Yes I can search with model number, and XDA, and we're back down the
rabbit hole, looking at pages that haven't been updated in 6 years,
which reference ROMS and component file links that aren't there anymore,
and include long trails of discussion about how the directions are
wrong.  

So one can imagine my lack of enthusiasm. 

The kinda funny thing is now my wife has a new Moto Android 7 phone on
Ting, but she doesn't use data, and doesn't have any apps except Any.do
on it.   And thus far she won't let me put anything on it. ;-)

My phone is the travel workhorse which has all our email imap
connections, the mobile hotspot, the burglar alarm control the house
thermostat control, and I'm stuck on Android 4.0.3. 

Yeah, I could get a new phone, but I really don't like big honkin'
phones. 

regards, 

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 08:09 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> I have a 1+ 5. Very happy to see it in the supported list. Weekend
> work just included a phone upgrade.
> 
> Very happy to see LineageOS picking up from the ashes.
> 
> 
> On March 28, 2018 10:17:36 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>         I have the original HTC Incredible 2, aka "Rezound".   (I also
>         have the original HTC incredible.) 
>         
>         
>                 -------- Original Message --------
>                 Subject: Re: [ale] Slightly OT: LineageOs is like
>                 discovering Santa
>                 Claus is real!!
>                 From: "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>                 Date: Wed, March 28, 2018 11:35 am
>                 To: <ale at ale.org>,"Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com>
>                 
>                 What model HTC?
>                 You may be surprised.
>                 -jt
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 James Taylor
>                 678-697-9420
>                 james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 >>> Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> 3/28/2018 10:16
>                 AM >>> 
>                 Ok, there is some linux and android in here. 
>                 
>                 We have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, P5113. Yes,
>                 release 2012.
>                 Which Samsung has declined to update since Android
>                 4.3, and which has
>                 been running slower and slower. 
>                 
>                 Even after a wipe and factory reset. It spends about
>                 50% of its CPU
>                 running around in circles, often in kswapd0, even when
>                 nothing is
>                 running, all apps have been removed, or a fresh
>                 reboot. 
>                 
>                 In the past, digging around on replacing Android
>                 seemed to lead through
>                 this swamp of competing custom ROMs, endless threads
>                 of discussions,
>                 conflicting instructions, eg - nothing that made one
>                 want to enter that
>                 dark forest. 
>                 
>                 This last weekend, after another wipe and reset, I
>                 figured we had
>                 nothing to lose. Poking around I find LineageOS;
>                 apparently organized
>                 by adults, ROMS organized by device, and complete
>                 instructions. 
>                 
>                 So, several hours later, I now have Android 6. It's
>                 been running great
>                 for 72 hours now. Idling CPU usage is 4-8%. Everything
>                 is much,
>                 much faster. GPS Apps like Maps.ME, Tom-Tom GO, or
>                 Waze that were
>                 hopeless before now are plausible. Wall Street Journal
>                 still dies on a
>                 regular basis, but runs waaaaaay faster. 
>                 
>                 It's like we got a brand new notebook for almost
>                 free. 
>                 
>                 Granted, there were a few glitches in the
>                 instructions: Volume Up/Down
>                 might be backwards, The Heimdall Suite wouldn't
>                 install on Centos 6,
>                 and wouldn't run on Windows 10, but did work on
>                 Windows 7, and the
>                 "standard" GApps package won't fit; got to use the
>                 Nano package. But
>                 all surmountable. 
>                 
>                 But overall, a great result. Now, if they only had
>                 ROMS for my 10
>                 year old HTC phone...
>                 
>                 Neal 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb
> related and reflect authenticity.


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