Thank you for looking it up. On SFOS porters channel, we had one porter trying on Pixel 7 Pro, but I haven’t heard about it for some time.
As for older devices - there is no use if the closest we can get to them would be to visit a museum. Port should be possible while devices are still on sale.
Certainly. I had been on the ubports site a couple of weeks ago and had it in the back of my head.
I’d put some time into @piggz ports if I had any since you can still get the volla22/gs5 and volla23/gs6 new. But I don’t have time to finish typ…
So what about using graphene as base, skip their kernel configs to enhance security, just get their base image as lineage image of google-free aosp base, at least that’s what they claim? Would that be unusable as base image for porting? (at laest my understanding is graphene is just AOSP with a bunch of hardening kernel config tweaks that are mostly useless anyway and marked as experimental by googol for a reason, but not sure really)
@vlagged : chipset could be a problem. hard to comment regarding it without trying or, better option, learning from someone who did try.
@throwaway69: good aspect regarding pixels is that, if I understand correctly, we get clean AOSP from Google as well. so, no need to take such extra layer as lineage or graphene. in this respect, it should be similar to Sony AOSP supported devices. except that we don’t have to wait for a year after device release to get AOSP, as it is for Sony.
Exactly, you can just download and build AOSP straight from the AOSP homepage for all Google devices. Usually even days before the official Android release is out and/or the device is released
Not sure if tensor is the problem (regarding similarities with exynos), since we’ve seen ports to older exynos devices.
I think the main problem is that “alternative OS community” usually doesn’t spend money on new flagships. Or maybe they buy at some point and lose their mind when they realize how great flagships work and forget about sfos and everything else.
I’ve seen both scenarios so far in the community.
But anyway, I’d fancy a pixel 9 sfos port for all the aforementioned benefits. Tensor is still 5 years behind competition but for sfos I think it would be more than enough.