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

[Neal Rhodes]

Well, um, considering HTC pretty much abandoned me, how much worse could
Lineage OS be? 

I mean, they stopped all updates at 4.0.3, and stopped selling batteries
for it.  ;-)


On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 21:18 +0000, Jonathan Meek wrote:

> I have a Nexus 5X and it will be getting the EOF for security updates
> around September. I am thinking to switch to LineageOS before hand but
> my concern is security updates. Does LineageOS do a decent job on
> security updates?
> 
> 
> 
> Also can anyone explain the EOF of security updates that Google is
> doing to the Nexus line. Is it both software and baseband security
> updates? 
> 
> 
> I know it's a long shot that LineageOS would be able to do
> baseband/firmware updates but if they are still pushing Android OS
> security patches.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 11:35 AM James Taylor via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>         
>         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
>         
>         
>         
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