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Google officially admits that it's given up on tablets (m.gsmarena.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Samsung is kinda okay as long as you get something like shizuku and use that to enable root management of all of their utter bullshit. That lets you disable a whole heap of intrusive garbage and makes the device actually usable instead of constantly annoying. Rooting gives you even more options but then you have to deal with updating the fucking thing by hand using Odin and a laptop, and God help you if you don't do it perfectly because it'll end up needing to be entirely wiped.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I will have to look but im pretty sure Lineage updates it self just fine on mine.

    Edit: so I was still on L20 which does seem to require wiping to go up a version. Let's see how 22.2 does.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Ah, yeah, it's a rare Samsung tablet that has real lineage support these days. The last one I used was the tab S5e and performance vs the S6 was so bad that I pawned it off on a relative within six weeks. I'm using stock OneUI with magisk on my S6 and S9 which means downloading the entire OneUI image from Samsungs update server, decrypting and splitting it, then patching with magisk and kicking it back over to the laptop to flash parts to the device with Odin. It's a lot more work than updating an AB phone.

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