[ale] Slightly OT: LineageOs is like discovering Santa Claus is real!!

[Charles Shapiro]

Buwahahah!!!   Yes, LineageOS R00lz. It broke my heart when CyanogenMod
went over the High Side, but the LineageOS community seems to have taken up
the torch quite handily.

I run Lineage on my Daily Driver LG V20.  I bought the phone specifically
because I could run LOS on it. First thing I do with any Android device is
remove the Provider's build and install something that I can trust.

BTW  swappa.com ( http://swappa.com ) is good for Android gear.  I've
gotten three phones through them and haven't had a Dog yet.

-- CHS


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Ok, there is some linux and android in here.
>
> We have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1,  P5113.  Yes, release 2012.    Which
> Samsung has declined to update since Android 4.3, and which has been
> running slower and slower.
>
> Even after a wipe and factory reset.    It spends about 50% of its CPU
> running around in circles, often in kswapd0, even when nothing is running,
> all apps have been removed, or a fresh reboot.
>
> In the past, digging around on replacing Android seemed to lead through
> this swamp of competing custom ROMs, endless threads of discussions,
> conflicting instructions, eg - nothing that made one want to enter that
> dark forest.
>
> This last weekend, after another wipe and reset, I figured we had nothing
> to lose.  Poking around I find LineageOS; apparently organized by adults,
> ROMS organized by device, and complete instructions.
>
> So, several hours later, I now have Android 6.   It's been running great
> for 72 hours now.   Idling CPU usage is 4-8%.    Everything is much, much
> faster.    GPS Apps like Maps.ME, Tom-Tom GO, or Waze that were hopeless
> before now are plausible.   Wall Street Journal still dies on a regular
> basis, but runs waaaaaay faster.
>
> It's like we got a brand new notebook for almost free.
>
> Granted, there were a few glitches in the instructions: Volume Up/Down
> might be backwards,  The Heimdall Suite wouldn't install on Centos 6, and
> wouldn't run on Windows 10, but did work on Windows 7,   and the "standard"
> GApps package won't fit; got to use the Nano package.   But all
> surmountable.
>
> But overall, a great result.    Now, if they only had ROMS for my 10 year
> old HTC phone...
>
> Neal
>
>
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