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I went to the site and failed to understand what’s different from other Android distros to make the general claim of “support for EOL Android devices”. Isn’t it the same as LineageOS or whatever other distros you can find for each device at XDA?

I thought I was going to find a site that found a way of running newer Android over the old one to not have to worry about drivers and such, but I found yet another distro with support for SOME devices. I also thought I’d find support for an oldish Kindle HD8 I’ve been wanting to repurpose.

This is not to say that it might be great and all, I just felt a bit mislead by the title and I would like to find out if I’m just not seeing something.

This is a massive difference from any other project like this with wide device support, assuming it works correctly:

> Bootloader relocking is restored and has been tested working on 23 devices and is available for 26 more. Verified boot is also restored on 36 of those devices and is enforcing once locked.

Edit: looks like almost all the devices with relocking support are Google / OnePlus / Fairphone, so it might not add anything in this regard to GrapheneOS. No workaround for the signing key issue, I guess.

They also seem to be doing some security hardening and blob removal, although I'm not sure how that would affect driver / device support.

Yeah I was checking what support they advertised for my old nexus 5 and the recently retired oneplus X of my girlfriend. The nexus 5 is on 9.0, mostly working, the oneplus X isn't supported at all. That's not long-term support.

hammerhead died on 15.1 because no one could get Bluetooth to reliably work on later versions.

The support is in the form of all the added security features, the (system) updates, and kernel patches like this: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/blob/mas...

>The nexus 5 is on 9.0

Here it works ~perfectly...with one problem, i could not connect to a hidden wlan, but absolutely great job from DivestOS, thanks!!

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