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[YT] Less Than Half of Android Users Have Upgraded to Android 13 or 14! 🤯

Funny, the comment types here are the same as on Youtube:

  1. “I still run Android and it is totally fine, will never switch Android just got worse!”
  2. “Well, money”
  3. “Companies need to support phones longer”
  4. "I just use LineageOS on that device"
  5. Misinformation
Diabolo96 ,

My 4GB phone was perfectly usable on Android 11. It upgrade itself to android 12 and it’s basically can’t keep a second app in background anymore.

limerod ,

Borked update by manufacturer. What device if I may ask?

Diabolo96 ,

Xiaomi Redmi note 10.

limerod ,

Ah, xiaomi. I don’t know if it’s the same with Mi branded smartphones. But, that was my experience with Redmi smartphones.

Ilandar ,

Try a lighter custom ROM if you can. LineageOS’s implementation of Android 14 is still usable with a 4 GB device.

Diabolo96 ,

Changing ROMs is a huge pain. Not only it can brick the phone, full backups were basically made impossible long ago. It’s best to do it as soon as you purchase the phone and that’s what I am gonna do.

Ilandar ,

Nah, it’s pretty easy. I’ve done it many times myself. You have to be pretty unlucky or stupid to brick a phone.

Diabolo96 ,

did it many times too and never bricked a phone. The fact that there’s a chance that it can brick a phone is the problem. Were I live, even the cheapest phones cost a month worth of salary, so if you brick s phone, you’re basically without a phone for months as you slowly gather the funds to buy a new one.

possiblylinux127 ,

It is normally soft bricked. You just need to wipe it and start over

Diabolo96 ,

To flash a custom rom you usually use a custom Bootloader like TWRP, and if the bootloader is fucked, the phone is pretty much dead.

possiblylinux127 ,

It isn’t needed with Lineage OS as it has its own recovery tools

possiblylinux127 ,

Agreed. Now if only I could find a good device. I am very picky with hardware. I want a Motorola phone with a headphone jack and Lineage OS that works in the US.

I will note that you need to do a complete wipe when changing Roms. It breaks random things in the OS

Diabolo96 ,

High-tier Xiaomi phones usually have headphones jacks and really good hardware . I don’t know about lineage OS, but there’s a EU roms for Xiaomi phones that get rid of all their useless shit. The weirdest thing is that it’s actually a kinda-official custom ROM.

nowadays, all the phones are pretty similar in terms of perf, unless you’re into mobile gaming/video editing/AI, it doesn’t matter. A 12GB Ram, 512GB phone is completely future proof. Heck, if there’s ever a desktop mode added on Android, it’s more than enough for 99% of regular computer usage.

possiblylinux127 ,

I have found that 3gb and 32gb storage are enough

Diabolo96 ,

3GB RAM, maybe. 32 GB ROM ? No…

possiblylinux127 ,

It works for me. Also if I ever need it I do have a micro SD

possiblylinux127 ,

It works well with a 3gb device. I honestly was expecting it to croak but it works better than new phones with Google junk.

Ilandar ,

Yeah I have a Redmi Note 4X running Android 13 LineageOS. It still runs okay.

jimmy90 ,

i’m running 14 on an S4 mini, i think they made some great changes

possiblylinux127 ,

It looks like 13

If feels more like a feature release

possiblylinux127 ,

Google bloat.

My 3gb of ram works fine with background apps and Lineage OS 21. (Android 14)

echo ,

It’s not like the end users typically get any choice… either the service provider makes an update available or they don’t.

limerod ,

Your choice is making sure to buy a well supported, timely updated device. If you can’t is a different issue. But, if you don’t is on you. Vote with your wallet.

n2burns ,

Your choice is making sure to buy a well supported, timely updated device.

Sure, that choice is currently available, but it wasn’t when many of those devices were purchased. For example, I’m currently using a Galaxy S10e which had just about the best support of any Android phone. Now I’m stuck on Android 12. I actually planned on using it with Lineage, but somewhere between my S7 and the S10e, Samsung stopped using Exynos in their Canadian phones, and I didn’t realize it. The hardware is still more than good, and as others have pointed out, with Play Service updates, the software isn’t really obsolete either, it’s just a concern I’m not getting security updates.

limerod ,

S10e. I was talking more about current devices. The next device you upgrade too should be better. Be it samsung, pixel, fairohone, oneplus, etc.

downpunxx ,

same with my S10, at some point though app vendors will stop allowing their apps to run on our o/s and security versions, i think we still have a couple years before that happens, but eventually it's going to happen, and on that day i will curse the gods

boredsquirrel OP ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

Samsung is especially bad as they lock out security features for custom Android versions. (It is not a ROM, it is an OS).

GrapheneOS would support Samsung, maybe. But they allow many critical security features like measured boot (I think) only for their own OS.

echo ,

As long as my provider is selling me service for the device then they have a responsibility to support it and provide upgrades. I do vote with my wallet by not being on the upgrade treadmill.

j4yt33 ,

Vote with your wallet

Buy new device if old one isn’t supported anymore

Hmm

limerod ,

Newer smartphones are supported anywhere from 6-7. Fairphone being supported even higher. Unless, you are saying that’s not enough in that case custom roms are your 2nd option after official support.

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