LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was

Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by realstuff on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:44PM (#13255165)

So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by g_p on Sunday December 25, 2016 @05:32PM (#13255734)

Beware of this if you are on a OPO running a Cyngn firmware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/5k8ppv/former_cyan...

Not really a brilliant source, but I'd be inclined to believe it in this case. It fits with my understanding of the situation.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by cookiecaper on Sunday December 25, 2016 @03:39PM (#13255344)

You're probably better off using a stock Android derivative built for OPO. There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers.

I used to use CM on everything but over the last few years I've been plenty happy with pure stock Android (+ root). Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by dispose13432 on Monday December 26, 2016 @02:55AM (#13257422)

>There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers.

I personally stay away from there.

For root level access, I'd prefer relying on a project with actual reputation on the line, and has periodic spot checks.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by cookiecaper on Monday December 26, 2016 @07:48PM (#13260593)

If you have a popular device, that idea is fine. If you don't, I'm not sure if you're going to have much of an option moving forward. Less common devices frequently have phone-specific builds of popular distributions like CM published by a developer-user on xda as their only non-default option.

Even CM's support for a wide range of hardware was mostly bankrolled by Cyanogen Inc, which will now no longer be funding them as they rebrand under LineageOS. It's unclear whether any but the most popular phones will continue to see support from a group that has "actual reputation" on the line or not.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by dispose13432 on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:35PM (#13261127)

They had a lot of phones before Cyanogen Inc.

They were the base Mod behind others (like Open Kang)

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by dispose13432 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @03:49PM (#13255374)

>Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.

Privacy guard still beats whatever stock rom has.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by realstuff on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:12PM (#13255454)

Do you have one in mind that you recommend?

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by dogma1138 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:46PM (#13255172)

OnePlus (One) hasn't been really updated well at all, Both Cyanogen and Oxygen OS builds were late and filled with problems. That was true pretty much out of the gate.

The newer phones come with Oxygen OS or w/e they call it now and at least get some sort of periodic update.

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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was by 0x0001111 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:01PM (#13255424)

The AOSP fork for bacon is still quite well supported. I'm sure the community support would be enough for security patches and updates given how massive it still is.

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