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[−]deng · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:50 UTC · link

I was secretly hoping they'd stop supporting the Pixel 4a so I would have a reason to get a new phone, but no, still there in the list of supported devices. So I guess I'll just keep using that thing another year... Anyway: big thanks to the Lineage maintainers, keeping so many phones from landfill!

[−]shayan01 · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:53 UTC · link

I wish I could still use my Pixel 4a but the battery is pretty much dead and it's too much money to replace it

[−]Klaster_1 · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:57 UTC · link

I replaced battery in mine for like 90 EUR and several months in dropped it and broke the screen. Would still use it instead of 9a, love how light and compact the phone was. At least now I have a spare phone to root and do stuff with that I couldn't on my main one.

[−]mistyvales · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:49 UTC · link

I recently pulled out my Pixel 3 and forgot how much I liked the form factor.

[−]riedel · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:08 UTC · link

Prices here are 13EUR including tools from what I can see.

The only reason I have been switching phones is banking apps: so much for Europe's right to repair..

[−]deng · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:13 UTC · link

I have yet to find a banking app that refuses to work on LineageOS. The only problem is if you root your phone, in which case you'll have to use Magisk to hide root from those apps, which also works fine so far.

[−]platinum95 · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:35 UTC · link

Revolut is notrious in this regard. If memory serves, they explicitly check the build string for LineageOS and block the app if it matches. The workaround at the time was to build the ROM yourself with a new build name string.

[−]pimeys · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:59 UTC · link

Good to know. I'm using N26 and they work just fine in Graphene OS. What I do is I create a private space for the apps needing play services, which I keep locked most of the time. This acts as a separate profile and when locked, the apps including play services are completely off. My main profile uses only open source apps and no play services.

I actually called N26 (I'm a Metal customer with my own phone support) and asked will they support Graphene OS or no, and they said to me they will and gave me instructions what to keep in mind when installing the app.

[−]riedel · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:00 UTC · link

This is the problem: it was a cat and mouse game always. I managed even strong integrity with keybox stuff and so on. Yes it is possible. But if you really need to do send money or e. g. want to pay with NFC, it gets rather stressful. Yes, I got everything working (Note 10 pro on LOS 23), but never longer than a few month.

[−]shayan01 · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:15 UTC · link

Too lazy to do it myself tbh

[−]toredash · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:16 UTC · link

Where can one get one for that price range?

[−]riedel · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:56 UTC · link

In Germany that would be market places like eBay or Amazon (i.e. non-originally replacement parts). Original ones go for around 45 EUR (iFixit). But I guess you wouldn't care too much about original parts at that age.

[−]dopedopedope · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:00 UTC · link

+ screen because you WILL break it

[−]riedel · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:16 UTC · link

My wife replaced batteries herself with pixel 3a and 6a without any problems (I guess I wouldn't test if they are still waterproof).

[−]this_user · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:09 UTC · link

If you need a reason, the modem and the baseband firmware have several unpatched vulnerabilities on that model, which is not something that an Android update can resolve.

[−]pavinjoseph · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:22 UTC · link

Does LOS provide kernel backports or is it limited to userspace?

[−]khkjlhgkl · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:13 UTC · link

I love LineageOS. I have been using Lineage and previously Cyanogen for many years. This is how Android is meant to be.

[−]villgax · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:19 UTC · link

Absolutely love this project for keeping my OnePlus 6T alive.

Such sad state of affairs for Android. They dropped the ball on making any working edge deep learning inference framework. iOS is way better at this of all things. For being an OSS platform the amount of rigidity in not letting users customize to the fullest without rooting is just tragic.

[−]jokowueu · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:32 UTC · link

But there arnt any official new builds for OnePlus 6t same with my OnePlus 6 due to the Strict eBPF & Kernel Requirements

Are you running unofficial builds right now ?

[−]satvikpendem · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:45 UTC · link

AICore? Not sure what you mean if not this.

[−]haunter · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:33 UTC · link

>Recently, Contributor 0xCAFEBABE introduced a very different kind of generic target that can be run on various types of bare-metal hardware devices.

>While it’s still in experimental state, it has successfully booted on:

>Common x86_64 PCs

>Apple Silicon Macs

>NVIDIA DGX Spark

>Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series Laptops

That actually sounds awesome! Refurbishing old laptops with Android would be a nice choice alongside with Desktop Linux.

[−]silisili · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:45 UTC · link

That sounds suspiciously like jart...

[−]phh · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:18 UTC · link

I'd say quite the opposite. jart has been very focused on specific things. While the contribution mentioned looks more butterflying amongst target.

(@0xcafebabe: ADHD high-five, I've got almost the same target list, except I'm playing with their NPUs)

[−]chronogram · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:58 UTC · link

Looks really promising. Once hardware codecs and camera support arrives it might be useful for old laptops. https://github.com/LineageOS/android_device_mainline_generic...

[−]zx8080 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:18 UTC · link

Why would someone want android with crappy apps comparing to linux on the old laptop?

[−]ggm · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:24 UTC · link

Familiarity

App consistency

Upstream app availability and release cycle

Security.

[−]ale42 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:29 UTC · link

Running apps that require a phone and are not available for Linux, without putting them on your actual smartphone (if any)

[−]satvikpendem · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:45 UTC · link

There are ways to run Android on Linux much more easily than running Linux on Android.

[−]marshymarsh · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:13 UTC · link

the only thing keeping me from jumping from GrapheneOS is contact and storage scopes. :(

[−]imkac · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:46 UTC · link

GrapheneOS actually feels just like LineageOS, except that it has faster upstream updates, better security, and greater usability...

I don't understand why it took LineageOS so long to update to AOSP 17, while GrapheneOS managed to update to 17 in just 3 days. LineageOS really should be based directly on GrapheneOS.

[−]user2722 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:49 UTC · link

GOS => security, usability

LOS => most security, most usability, breadth of support

[−]imkac · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:10 UTC · link

Actually LineageOS has less usability due to AOSP bugs, no GMS, unlocked boot loader, etc. The weak security is cost of wide support.

[−]user2722 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:48 UTC · link

Don't forget proprietary security patches are only open sourced 3 months after -- GOS has them due to their partnership with Motorola.

A sufficiently motivated threat actor will have them (the exploits) too.

[−]imkac · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:08 UTC · link

It's optional.

[−]hobo123 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:49 UTC · link

When I had kids I noticed that the camera quality was quite bad (e.g. on Samsung Galaxy S5 or S7), so I basically switched back to stock.

Is this still the case? My guess is that Lineage doesn't get the drivers necessary for better quality maybe.

[−]user2722 · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:51 UTC · link

Cool; See if this is the time I try using a cuttlefish target + webrtc remoting to drive all those cute privacy intruding apps.

[−]dankobgd · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:24 UTC · link

I am happy with my Poco F3 with lineageos. Also converted my moms phone, and works better for sure than that chinese crap bloat