afaik you can do a nandroid backup on twrp or just dump the raw partitions, but my android knowledge is dated and even before treble and a/b stuff so it might not work now.

The rom probably comes with the kernel btw. afaik samsung stock roms are trivial to get.

tbh I’d say using Nova as long as possible is also not a bad choice. I still use ADW Launcher 1. Works perfectly under Android 11.

unless someone gets physical access to your device there isn’t much to worry.

damn that really sucks. afaik it’s because they can’t even be bootloader unlocked, you should try checking that

Great idea

I haven’t tried. As my script isn’t downloading to WARCs and not compatible with their tracker I believe someone would have to create a new script to run with their infrastructure… Though, maybe even if it can’t be an AT project someone might help, so I guess I’ll try asking.

Depends. But for your device it seems like they are pretty well maintained.

https://xdaforums.com/t/lineageos-21-0-android-14-signature-spoofing-ota-updates-for-s8-s8-note8.4655373/

Try searching on XDA, there most likely is an unofficial build of LineageOS for your model.

I absolutely hate it as well. Hated icons being all forced to circles on Android 8 (was it 7?) and now this.

I was thinking of doing the same. The LOS17 build on XDA seems to be maintained and used by its dev and has working VoLTE + stock camera, so it seems pretty good software wise. My only concern is the battery which seems pretty hard to replace or buy… thus I haven’t yet done it.

it’s probably violation of their ToS, but there are multiple downloaders like deemix or orpheusdl

download flacs from deezer and use a local player

…i just want my icecream sandwich back…

Termux X11’s been a thing for some time, it’s a full X server for android and can even use gpu accel if your hardware’s lucky (usually snapdragon).

This feels pretty useless for running linux, especially when i can root my device for chroot and have gpu accel working with termux x11.

Would be pretty cool if I can run BSD or Windows ARM on a tablet though

I see. Seems to be a pretty good piece of software, though being proprietary. Just tried installing and it seems to require Android 13+ and I’m on 11 sadly :/

Is this good? I never considered anything other than FreeDcam/OpenCamera/GCam/stock.

afaik only closed source ones for now unfortunately. (yandex, etc)

I’ve always wanted this phone but it was too expensive lol. Congrats!

Not parent poster but my LG G2 just works™, been going for 12 years now.

unfortunate, but i haven’t yet found a viable alternative… though tbh i just noticed before i wasn’t even running the latest mull build, so lol.

Titanium Backup does this for me but it’s ancient. I have heard of Swift Backup though.

yeah ik, i meant simple and fossify both have similar features as quickpic but is just slower for me.

I’m still using QuickPic but would appreciate something better. Simple/Fossify seems to have similar features but is slower on my phone.

this is a fenix softfork named “Fennec F-Droid”, not the pre-fenix firefox <=68 based fennec browser you’re thinking of.

cromite, kiwi

i think hackers keyboard had a semi full layout option for enabling ctrl keys and such on portrait, though you need a decently large phone for that.

Isn’t this just rebranded K-9? What even needs testing?

looks a bit more saner… imo they’re making such huge rounded+padding ui to sell bigger display panels lol. doesn’t help ux at all when the text isn’t any bigger.

Does Neo backup work well? Kinda reminds me of Titanium Backup.

how is this even related to the question? this isn’t about any embedded linux, op stated it’s an android unit. and said it’s faster “than” other android phones and zygote applies to all so it’s unrelated also.