Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
by vbernat on Monday December 26, 2016 @02:51AM
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Starting from Android 6, it's easy to check if the device is up-to-date from an Android point of view: in "About phone", you have an "Android security patch level" section which should be match the current month.
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Re:LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
by g_p on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:39AM
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Yes indeed - the downside of this is that it's hard to gather this information together in a way that lets you show people "which devices" are still maintained.
It is much better for users to know if they are on the latest build. Sadly though for (most/many?) devices, the answer is "it's not", and there's nothing they can really do about it, either due to OEM latency in releasing updates, or the OEM having abandoned their phone.
Samsung [1] and LG [2] pretty much say on their own websites that only certain phones will get updates promptly (or at all) - consider their full product ranges and the cheaper devices not even listed!
[1] http://security.samsungmobile.com/introsm.html
[2] https://lgsecurity.lge.com/security_updates.html > Depending on regions and carriers, updates may be released monthly, quarterly or irregularly.