Devices
yaky.dev

A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.

I wrote a script to scrape pages of some popular alternative OS projects (such as postmarketOS and LineageOS), and put them into a single list. I’ll try to automate and keep this up-to-date. Any additional OS suggestions and comments are welcome!

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    Haha, I knew my device would show up there (Poco F2 Pro) but I still can’t believe this is an old phone, even with its 5 years old battery it still gives me more than 6 hrs of SOT.

    Also my phone is very much resurrected with the Pixel OS ROM and the latest security update and passing strong integrity even while it is rooted… (with a bunch of KSU modules) Long live custom ROMs!

  • Ilandar@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    I can see you’re missing options for the Sony Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact. I own both of those phones and they are currently being maintained for both iodéOS and LineageOS for microG. Here are some links:

    Check which regional variant you have first, as I believe some models (such as the Japanese ones) are not supported.

    • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Thanks for pointing this out. The list is made by a scraper (and I haven’t updated it in a few months), so it probably missed some models depending on the model code.

    • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      That would be great and I might add a scraper for xdaforums, but even XDA has a lot of dead links for old devices now.

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      13 days ago

      The problem with newer Samsung (post 2021 is update) is they don’t allow you to unlock the bootloader (at least for US phones). This pretty much squashes your ability to put a new OS on it.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          Ironically Pixels are actually the best/easiest because you can easily unlock the bootloader and they have good custom ROM support

        • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          Like everyone else said, pixels are the best phones for non stock OS. You can unlock them easy and they are quick to release security updates so the open source security nerds who made graphene OS (the best open source OS) love pixel phones.

  • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    14 days ago

    All my old devices became unusable due to the flash memory chip degrading. Unless they can run off SD card?

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      what its like when that happens? does it just not power on anymore? fails to boot? boots but works erratically?

      • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Starts getting slower and slower over months, then yeah starts failing to boot, sometimes works if you pull the battery and retry, and eventually doesn’t work at all anymore.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Alas, no. You could hypothetically replace the board though, which would allow you to continue using the rest of the hardware. But you have to source the part, and switch it out, which isn’t always possible

  • rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    Nothing for the Nokia 7.2, and yet the 4.2 sits there with more than a half-dozen options. WTF??

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    So a good example of an issue here is multi region releases and community maintained.

    The Samsung Galaxy S9+ has many ROMs on XDA, but isn’t supported at the links. It also has two variants (different CPUs for different regions) which aren’t reflected in the list.

    Love this idea, but because of those types of things it can be misleading, making a person think their device is useless when it’s not.

  • Giddy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    0·
    14 days ago

    Dang I thought this would resurrect my old Galaxy Tab S2 but, according to PostMarketOS, wifi is broken :-(

    • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Couldn’t you use a USB hub with a USB wifi adapter attached? I already have both things, and if the device will be in one place, it works. Of course, if you don’t have any of the components, it gets tricky.

  • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
    0·
    14 days ago

    Is it just user preference to choose between postmarket, cachyos, and lineage? Or is one preferable

    • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      postmarketOS is fully Linux (based on Alpine Linux) Choose this for more technical projects or if you want your phone to be like Raspberry Pi++.

      LineageOS is a clean Android. Choose this for Android experience.