Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by nobodywasishere on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:41PM (#40957442)

I used LineageOS on a number of devices for a number of years, and had to upgrade to a new device every year due to either performance, bugs, or official support being dropped. Can't tell you the number of various bugs I ran into that completely made it unusable, until the point I just started getting two of every device to be able to have a backup, and be able to do clean version updates.

Being able to just get one device and use it for 5+ years is such a relief, and gives me a lot less to worry about day to day. Custom roms are best left to tinkerers who are okay with their device randomly breaking with no rhyme or reason, and spending hours either trying to fix it or reflash/restore to stock and set everything back up again.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by flawn on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:53PM (#40957497)

You got unlucky with your devices (having unfortunate hardware compatibility) or the ROM maintainers (being inexperienced or just not good). LOS is really great and rarely has any issues coming from the pure source of the OS.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by mitchell209 on Saturday July 13, 2024 @07:58PM (#40957800)

I can’t even imagine what brands they’re buying where support is dropped that quickly.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by paulmd on Sunday July 14, 2024 @04:53PM (#40963146)

Motorola dropped support for the moto g within 6 months of me buying it. I got either one or zero android version updates iirc.

“A year and a half of OS updates” rapidly becomes 6 months of OS updates if you don’t buy on launch day, wait for prices to drop a little bit and inventory to normalize, etc.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by glenstein on Saturday July 13, 2024 @07:20PM (#40957629)

My experience mirrors yours. I have it on two tablets and they're the most stable and lightweight in terms of a software experience of anything I've ever used.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by chasil on Saturday July 13, 2024 @08:08PM (#40957849)

I run Lineage on a Pixel 3a xl (no google), and a OnePlus 5 (mind the gapps).

I have found both to be completely stable.

My first Cyanogen phone was an HTC Incredible, and I don't remember any stability problems.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by andrepd on Sunday July 14, 2024 @07:37AM (#40960312)

Same. LineageOS is what allowed me to use devices I liked for as long as the hardware lasted, instead of being forced to buy the new crap.

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