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by Neil44 1907 days ago
Love these guys work. Turning devices too old and slow into useful devices again.
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dmos62 1907 days ago
Seconded. Thanks to these guys I'm still using an 8 year old phone as my daily driver. Galaxy S4. Only thing that went so far is the battery.
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vanderZwan 1907 days ago
Proving once again that it's not the devices that are slow but the stuff running on it
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danielg0 1907 days ago
Yeah, it's great. I'm using a Moto G3 from 2015 that continues to get weekly updates (although still on 17.1 at the moment) and I have no complaints. Only app with any issues is Firefox for Mobile - sometimes a single webpage will use up all the RAM and crash repeatedly - so I've changed to the stock browser.
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Semaphor 1907 days ago
Turning current devices into useful devices as well ;)

Since my first Android (HTC Desire Z) I have always installed Cyanogenmod/LineageOS (or whatever came before) right after getting the device.

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jeffchien 1907 days ago
Seconding the "turning _current_ devices into useful devices" sentiment too. My Samsung T720 (Tablet S5e) had 15-20GB main storage capacity with the stock ROM's partition scheme, but 50GB with LineageOS. Absolutely ridiculous. I'd never buy a tablet without LineageOS support.
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