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LineageOS Statistics
- dvh 2mo agoWhat are those names?
- zekica 2mo agoCode names for phones, all android builds (including official ones) have them. https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices.html https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices...
- timschumi 2mo agoFor a slightly more manageable list, the 590 of those that are or were supported officially are also listed on the LineageOS wiki [1]. [1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
- nunobrito 2mo agoMy device is not even listed there, so I suppose many others also run Lineage on plenty of unvendored devices.
- firebot 2mo agoHerolte is the galaxy s7(number 4).
- pizzaiolo 2mo ago12 installs in North Korea
- jeroenhd 2mo agoNote that these are the statistics coming from people who are willing to share statistics. Quite a few privacy-minded individuals use these ROMs but don't want to send telemetry, which means those installs don't make it into the statistics. The large amount of Waydroid and Switch installs surprised me a little, but overall this is about what I expected in terms of distribution.
- NoboruWataya 2mo agoWhy so many Waydroid installs?
- virajk_31 2mo agoI doubt whether those US numbers are real, lot of custom rom development/user base has been asian & european market in last decade even though the numbers have been decreasing over the decade (I don't have proof)...
- yorwba 2mo agoUsing a custom ROM is not the same as using LineageOS in particular. Also, the numbers imply just 23% of LineageOS installs are in the US.
- virajk_31 2mo agoPartially agree, as LOS is no where used as OEM and people familar with custom rom eventually would have used LOS (not mendatory but the numbers would relate)
- linzhangrun 2mo agoNotice the most LineageOS installs is Waydroid... I miss the free era from 10 years ago. Back then it was probably still called CM. Now manufacturers are extremely closed: Xiaomi started by making Android ROMs, but today the most practical way to unlock its BL is through exploits...
- DuncanCoffee 2mo agoI remember on xda with my Galaxy S Plus i9001 [1], we had: - dual boot [2] - Ubuntu touch [3] - different kernels with various optimizations, overclocking, etc - an absurd amount of ROMs, aside from CyanogenMod and LineagesOS there was ParanoidAndroid, Carbon, JellyBean, AICP, plus all the ROMs made specifically by users for this phone - the latest linux kernel, somebody just compiled it for AOSP, I think it was version 3 or 4 against 2, which was the standard for every other phone, it ended up on some tech news website I think It was a really great modding scene and a lot of people learnt stuff from that. Mainly by bricking their phones and having to fix them. [1] https://xdaforums.com/f/galaxy-s-plus-i9001-android-development.1270 https://xdaforums.com/f/galaxy-s-plus-i9001-android-developm... [2] https://xdaforums.com/t/app-kernel-dual-boot-s-plus.2462783 https://xdaforums.com/t/app-kernel-dual-boot-s-plus.2462783 [3] https://xdaforums.com/t/new-test-porting-ubuntu-touch.2382600/ https://xdaforums.com/t/new-test-porting-ubuntu-touch.238260...
- trashb 2mo agoWould something like E/OS be considered a Official or Unofficial builds? I suppose Unofficial since it is a fork?
- 306bobby 2mo agoMany forks change the telemetry to their own servers so they won't show at all
- nicman23 2mo agothey need to make a official GSI. until they do not they ll continue to decline.
- zb3 2mo agoExactly. Of course not everything will work on every device, but they're not even going in that direction (like by incorporating/extending PHH patches) despite acknowledging that most devices won't be officially supported.
- renjieliu 2mo agoSurprised to see there're only one million devices with lineage OS installed. I personally installed it on a few amazon fire tablets. I thought it would be more than 10m devices at least.
- MYEUHD 2mo agoThe stats collection is opt-in
- firebot 2mo agoNumber 4 is still the Samsung Galaxy S7... I kind of miss that phone.
- NooneAtAll3 2mo ago> San Marino: 1 install I feel like there's a problem in privacy in this dataset...
- rupx 2mo agoNo S22 Ultra support is wild.
- 40four 2mo agoRecently installed LineageOS on an old Samsung tablet I had laying around. The thing was barely usable with whatever the highest Android version was it was comparable with. Now it works wonderfully! Really happy with it. Privacy features aside, Lineage can do wonders to revive old hardware
- ethagnawl 2mo agoMy Nokia T20 is getting to this point and I wish Lineage was an option. Sadly, I don't think it has enough of a footprint for anyone to bother with writing the firmware/drivers -- I wish I had the time to give it a serious try. Seeing this class of devices reduced to e-waste really bums me out. :(
- 40four 2mo agoYeah, I was lucky. My Samsung device is officially supported. As you said, since no one else has had the interest to do it for your Nokia, it’s basically up to you to make it work, since they rely on volunteers. I wouldn’t begin to know how to take the base ROM and adapt it to a specific device, but I’d imagine any of the frontier LLMs could probably make quick work of it. It might be worth taking a weekend, and spending some tokens on coaching a model through the task?
- varispeed 2mo agoInteresting why there is no legal challenge for regulator to fine phone manufacturers for not allowing other operating systems. Any groups working on that?
- throwawayk7h 2mo agoWhy so few in Canada compared to the U.S?
- timbit42 2mo agoMaybe they're using GrapheneOS, which is based in Canada. Could also be they opt out of the count.
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- x______________ 2mo agoInteresting to see 1 os install per country of millions of people (EG: last entry, 161 installs: 160 in Argentina, 1 in the UK)
- Dwedit 2mo agoWeirdly enough, my phone (Ocean) happens to be number 3 on the list, didn't expect that. But all the users are from Brazil for some reason? Is the phone really that popular?
- m1keil 2mo agoTIL waydroid...
- pavon 2mo agoWow LineageOS really is a bazaar, and not a cathedral. * 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS. * 2/3 of US installs are on non-phones (waydroid, nintendo switch, rpi, etc) * Most of the installs on actual phones are in China, Brazil and Vietnam * Less than 21% of installs are on versions that receive security updates, and less than 9% of installs are on the latest version (mostly because device's binary blobs don't support newer android versions?)
- deeddy 2mo agoAre theysaying that most installs are done on PC emulators and Linux STBs?
- notesinthefield 2mo agoThese remind me of the cyanogenmod days where youre rom was AOSP or CM based and nearly every variant was CM based.
- fer 2mo ago> * 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS. Every time I want to install LineageOS on a device because it's been abandoned by the manufacturer, it's also been abandoned by LineageOS, leaving me with some random custom rom as only option.
- economistbob 2mo agoIt is a great OS. It needs to be available on newer Motorolas, say 2024 and onward. People want SD card slots, and even 3.5mm headphone jacks. It is the memory card slot that matters most. It is great to have a degoogled phone. Then the lack of a card slot annoys you and the desire to just plug in an aux cable and have sound anywhere without a dongle comes to the fore. I wish they would just commit to also support the Motorola G Stylus line. The G Stylus 2024 was a great phone.
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- yjftsjthsd-h 2mo agoWow, that's not the distribution I expected; waydroid beats any other version... Though I guess that's not apples-apples since it aggregates any physical device running waydroid... And also I didn't expect unofficial builds to be so popular.
- poisonborz 2mo agoWonder how much of those Waydroid installs are from scam farms. I can imagine some legit uses, but not this amount.
- Cider9986 2mo agoI'd be impressed if emulators are winning against big-tech in the spam wars. But perhaps there's spam uses that don't require the best antidetection. If emulators worked, what's the point of those giant phone farms? I don't know anything about this, so take it with a grain of salt. I am just under the impression that a cheap real android is the fastest cheapest way to get a trustworthy-looking device for spamming purposes.
- goodpoint 2mo agoThat's really depressing.
- RajT88 2mo agoPSA: LineageOS has some unofficial builds which works on earlier gen Amazon devices. I turned an Echo Show from an annoying ad machine into the device a Chumby always could have been.
- 28304283409234 2mo agoNote that these stats are based on opt-in data gathering.
- Cider9986 2mo agoDipper is the Xiaomi Mi 8
- XiS 2mo agoIt's quite sad to see these stats. It used to be the defacto standard for custom ROMs. These dwindling numbers make me think either people aren't as interested in custom ROMs anymore and using the (bloated/Google) factory ROMs or maybe there's some new standard. Didn't these numbers used to be much, much higher in the past? NB: Since I'm on GrapheneOS now I haven't looked back
- reorder9695 2mo agoI'm trying to use lineage at the minute, but xiaomi has made it next to impossible to even unlock the bootloader on my phone, and even then I'd likely need to move at least one of my banks as I seem to remember it not working on lineage, and I'm the target audience for a custom rom. For mass appeal it needs to be much easier, and without any compatibility issues with stock android. I cannot believe it's somehow standard to not allow bootloader unlocking on a device owned by the user, I am fully aware of the risks of it but phone companies insist on treating me like a complete idiot.
- jeroenhd 2mo agoNow that manufacturers support their devices for 5+ years and ROMs are actually quite usable out of the box, the need for custom ROMs is much lower. Plus, some convenience apps require things like remote attestation, getting in the way of users. I suspect a significant chunk of the serious ROM user base is also lost to GrapheneOS these days. Even Samsung is fine with a quick debloating session you can do through WebUSB these days. The only phones I'd really need a custom ROM on these days are those certain Chinese brands that stuff their phone with absolute garbage. Compared to the days where a custom ROM would be faster and updates would end after half a year, if they happened at all, I barely have a reason to use a custom ROM these days.
- realusername 2mo agoIt's a combination of anti-competitive practices from Google (Play Integrity, more and more features locked behind closed source binaries instead of AOSP) and manufacturer locking the bootloaders much more than in the past.
- NoboruWataya 2mo ago