Trembling a bit this week. Dropped phone. What should I replace it with if I want to run a custom OS? It was a Samsung M10 and I'm fed up with Samsung's OSs and design goals. They make everything from phones to dishwashers difficult for me. I'm happy that it broke!

I was happy with LineageOS on a Samsung S3 for many years.

What are options should I look at? Easy visual interface is very important for me – I need to be able to tell icons apart easily, and the most important buttons must be mechanical, not hidden virtual things that must be revealed by a secret swipe. Camera needs to be silent. Needs to run smoothly (the M10 delays for so long that I repeat actions thinking that it didn't register them, only to find that it has queued them all).

GrapheneOS, perhaps? Switch to iOS (I use a Mac)?

Samsung phones are shite.

I installed #lineageos on an old A21s only to discover that I can use the SIM - because IMS.

I'm intrigued to know this.
Does people lurking here actually use Linux itself on their phones, or simply Android as usual?

#FediHelp I want to install #lineageos on my #nokia7plus but I can't start the installation because OEM unlocking is greyed out on my device even after being a developer. Is there any way for me to unlock OEM? Thank you.

Which of these smartphone OSes do you think is more secure currently? For whatever definition of "secure" feels right to you.

Some options have multiple variants, please vote based on the most secure variant you know of.

Still looking for a suitable new phone from time to time. On the #LineageOS website there's a very helpful list of officially supported phones. But on the phone details list I see that some/many of them still only run a deprecated #Linux kernel...
Even the #Fairphone 4 is listed with a deprecated 4.19 kernel, while their websites is boasting about "software longevity" and "software support until at least 2026".
Is none of these manufacturers able to upstream their shit into the Linux kernel?

has anyone here installed #LineageOS on an old LG phone??? it's been a minute since i've had to flash and ROM and i'm trying to determine the difficulty level #nerds

Wie bringt man die Mitmenschen nur dazu, den Mailverkehr zu verschlüsseln? Stöhn...

C'est #lundiRetape : je remplace la batterie de mon téléphone qui a fêté son septième anniversaire récemment. Il marche parfaitement et est à jour avec #LineageOS, par contre l'autonomie de la batterie, ça commençait à devenir pénible (surtout en itinérance). Ça devrait normalement aller mieux ! J'espère qu'il durera encore 7 ans

Quelqu'un·e pour m'expliquer qui est cette app system #Android ?

Private Compute Services

Mon smartphone est sous #LineageOS v22.1 (android 15) sans microG, et Aurora me propose cette mise à jour.
Je trouve ça étrange parce-que le store ne s'occupe que des apps utilisateur d'habitude.

@fanta Eu non teño Fairphone. Merquei un motorola de segunda man por 40€. Fixate si estaba como novo que inda tiña o plastiquito orixinal da pantalla (aparte de caixa e cargador orixinal). Soamente tivem que cambiar o sistema operativo a #LineageOS con #MicroG (e dicir, sin ningunha das apps de google) para ter un movil actuliazado e con bateria para dous dias mirando series. #consumoResponsable

We need a free/libre fork of #Android for the public commons. Google cannot be trusted.

Maybe that could be #lineageos or #Graphene, but given that they build on top of Android rather than driving the core development, I'm not certain they would be enough as it stands.

https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/

Calling using #LineageOS be like:

1. You take the phone. Unlock it. Start Fossify dialer (because AOSP dialer is too broken to be used). The phone reboots.
2. You wait till it asks for PIN. You type the PIN in.
3. You wait till it starts. Then you turn the screen off, since you need to wait for SIM card to reboot too.
4. You take the phone. It turns out it turned itself off.
5. You start it again. Wait for PIN input. Input PIN.
6. You wait for it to boot. Turn the screen off.
7. You take the phone again. Turns out SIM card didn't reboot yet.
8. You wait some more. Finally, you can call!

If you run a custom OS like #lineageos, #calyxos or #grapheneos on your #Android phone, you might risk loosing it and being unable to track it due to the lack of Google Services.

FMD is an OSS app + server that helps you track your lost device without the use of Google's Find My Device.

https://gitlab.com/Nulide/findmydevice