Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by BossHamster on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:22PM
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Even LineageOS can only help so far. I've got a Galaxy S7 Edge, bought it dec. 2016. It's not even supported by Lineage OS any more.
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by emteycz on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:22PM
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You should switch to the official OS then - it just got an update. As it also did 3, 6 and 12 months ago.
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by BossHamster on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:03PM
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What are you talking about? The last update for the "official" OS was for Android 8.0. That was two years ago.
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by emteycz on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:13PM
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Mine got OS update just this week. Not sure what the Android version is though, it's now my girlfriend's phone. It did the OS reinstall screen.
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by fuzxi on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:08PM
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Are you talking about quarterly security patches...?
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
by kuzko_topia on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:23PM
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Xiaomi's phones are locked like this, requiring a mi account to unlock the device to allow flashing thé device...
But there are Android phones that come with bootloader/OS lock, which often means old device is stuck with some ancient OS version (and some bundled bloatware), instead of being able to be reflashed to a recent LineageOS.