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What's the point of Goggle's security support when you're buying the phone for GrapheneOS?
Graphene only supports devices for as long as the manufacturer does, maybe slightly longer.
Doesn't seem like the old CyanogenMod days where you could slap that shit on there forever.
That's disappointing...
Yeah kinda! My pixel is still going strong, but I kind of feel forced to get rid of it now. I would much prefer to just flash a new ROM and get a few more years out of it. The hardware is (still) really good for the performance I expect out of my phone.
Eh. Maybe I'll get a new phone, wipe this one and use it for traveling.
You expect them to backport security updates to pixel 3 or whatever for free when even the manufacturer doesn't?
Isn't that what Lineage does?
They only backport (some) OS patches, the firmware doesn't get updated after the vendor classifies a device as EOL.
To get Android into a fully patched state, you need both firmware updates that come from your phone's vendor, as well as OS patches that come from your OS developer (in this case GrapheneOS). GrapheneOS usually only provides OS updates as long as Google provides firmware updates, because they don't want people to run outdated and potentially insecure devices with old, unpatched firmware. But they have extended update cycles for some EOL devices like the Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5.