Member cyanogenmod?

I do wish they would switch to a non profit or sell a product.

I get why they don’t though

The frustrating thing is all the information and materials to support Samsung devices is out there, but the custom ROM development community is so ridiculously toxic and unhelpful to newcomers that few people are willing and able to mainline new devices (and supporting a new device is complicated enough that you pretty much can’t get started without someone more experienced to point out the decades of cruft, pitfalls, and vendor-specific workarounds that the build processes have accumulated). More of the old guard leaves every year without enough new blood to replace them.

I buy my device only based on if I can load a differenti os

This is the mandatory prerequisite for me.

So i bought a refurbished s20u (same spec of s24u except for camera and CPU basically)

No clue, my phone is not exactly recent.

I like what GrapheneOS is doing, but it’s focused on having the absolute best security rather than supporting a lot of phones. If you aren’t wanted by three letter agencies then LineageOS is good enough

And I can immediately say goodbye to important apps I need.

I’m so fracking tired of not being able to just use the OS 😞 want on my phone because apparently my phone isn’t mine.

Canta + Shizuku is what I use as well.

Shizuku is a way to temporarily get semi-root privileges without needing a computer, via wireless debugging to your own phone.

• Canta
• Shizuku

Thanks for the Canta recommendation!

Of course not! But it doesn’t go away even in 2026 and I wouldn’t write that in the article.