[cookieperson]

Are there other trust worthy distros for older not Google android devices? I remember checking out the space half a decade ago and it was dismal. IE, may brick your device, may be malware, may have worse security issues, etc.

[yencabulator]

The problem with older hardware is that all the phone kernels are such piles of kludges, and once the manufacturer stops maintaining the kernel fork and/or binary driver blobs, you get no security updates for wifi/bluetooth/baseband bugs.