This reads like Google is ready to kill AOSP any day now. The future of android is looking bleak
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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They haven't released Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP yet, even though it came out on Pixels at the beginning of September. Normally the gap is ~1-2 days.
So yeah, a lot of custom rom devs are pretty bleak right now and honestly their concerns are pretty warranted given that it's Google we're talking about.
Seems like they adopted Microsoft EEE policy
don't every us tech company at this point
Bleak, maybe, or maybe it will finally be the tipping point that starts pushing people away from the "Big Two" phone OS/platforms in pursuit of something truly open and free that isn't completely controlled by a privacy-invading tech giant.
Windows 11 has apparently finally triggered the seemingly never-to-be "Year of Linux on the Desktop" as people refuse to submit to Windows 11's telemetry and other misfeatures and repurpose old (and new) machines with Linux instead of letting Microsoft decide they're obsolete.
Maybe soon we'll have the year of the Linux phone too. Or at least be able to promote AOSP into a first-class citizen with its own phone support and designs and features and future, instead of simply being relegated to the role of a stagnant fork of de-Googled Android. It's time to go from soft fork to hard fork. Fuck Google, stop playing their games, and leave them behind.
The problem is though an OS is only as good as its apps, unless it has some killer feature that can make up for the lack of it. Linux worked because Wine and Proton made the huge back catalogue of windows games work on it, but that's a different use case from a mobile phone. Bank apps I particular are a bit pain point with how they keep using Google's features to only work on non modified official android versions. I'm sure you could get browsers and such to work otherwise, and some banks you might be able to use via a browser, but that's already a big hurdle to get over and sell to people as worth doing for all the other benefits.
They've been working towards killing it for 10+ years.
It does seem like we're nearing the completion of their goals
It seems I'll get this update, nice!
Thanks a lot to the team and everyone involved.
Also, fuck google.
Unfortunately still no support for my phone.
I buy the phone for the os these days. It does mean getting a used phone from back a few years.
I think newer phones seem to make it harder maybe even impossible to unlock the bootloader. I use a sony xa2 (2018) and it's only possible because sony still has a service to issue unlock codes for it. I think if sony turns that service off, then no more lineage os unless you already unlocked it.
I got a pixel for GrapheneOS
Have the same XA2 and just keep it running because it has a license for SailfishOS. My daily driver is an pixel 7 with graphene
Yapp... I keep my blackberry key2....
And maybe unihertz will come with a titan slim 2, but still no lineageos
Oh my phone is on the list of devices now. Maybe I'll give Lineage a try if I feel like hopping ROMs again
Would love to put this on my S24 Ultra and I keep checking support regularly but nothing yet.
Can you even unlock the bootloader on s24 series devices?
Probably not. I just check whenever the link appears here just in case.
First time pocophone f1 isn't on the list. Hopefully kernel devs make it the king once again.
Looks like my Oneplus 6T is also about to lose support :(
Unfortunately md3e isn't there yet, fuck google