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by 40four 20 days ago
Recently installed LineageOS on an old Samsung tablet I had laying around. The thing was barely usable with whatever the highest Android version was it was comparable with. Now it works wonderfully! Really happy with it. Privacy features aside, Lineage can do wonders to revive old hardware
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My Nokia T20 is getting to this point and I wish Lineage was an option. Sadly, I don't think it has enough of a footprint for anyone to bother with writing the firmware/drivers -- I wish I had the time to give it a serious try. Seeing this class of devices reduced to e-waste really bums me out. :(
Yeah, I was lucky. My Samsung device is officially supported. As you said, since no one else has had the interest to do it for your Nokia, it’s basically up to you to make it work, since they rely on volunteers.

I wouldn’t begin to know how to take the base ROM and adapt it to a specific device, but I’d imagine any of the frontier LLMs could probably make quick work of it. It might be worth taking a weekend, and spending some tokens on coaching a model through the task?