Every app crashes constantly, but the most affected was the clock app I used for alarms. I had to buy a shitty little alarm clock because of this.
Anyways I have a galaxy s8+ and I was going to install LineageOS, but the S8 line is the single only galaxy that has no official support for that OS. Any other distros I should look into, or should I just do a default installation?
Yeah there are a few unofficial versions, but I like to do banking stuff on my phone and I'm a bit worried about unsupported versions that don't offer a full diff of source changes and let you compile them yourself
Yeah, I wouldn't trust an unofficial version if you do anything important with your phone.
Was the s8+ previously supported by LineageOS? They might still have the code available for you to compile yourself.
No it was never supported. They gave two reasons lack of interest and no developers that know 'eyewiz' or something special about this specific version wanted to do it. Not sure if it's because of the curved screen bs or the iris scanner or what. The S9 has total support as does the S3-S7, so it's annoying
What, you don't trust some random xda forum post that gives you a blob image in a .rar? Sounds legit to me!
I really hate mobile right now. Obviously it's impossible to get a fully free open source cell phone + os. I'd settle for two separate devices: one dumb phone and one "portable computer". But I don't think there are even good portables that can run without any blobs.
I use NoRootFirewall specifically for that reason because it tells me every IP that every App tries to communicate with. I was using ES File Explorer before for general file management and then one day it started trying to ping multiple different servers in China. Uninstalled that shit ASAP
Have you checked out the xda forums for your device? There might be an unofficial version of LineageOS.