We shouldn’t be thanking Samsung, but rather the Android community, but it’s definitely great news for Galaxy SII owners.
I said a few months ago that Android users don’t care anymore rootand yet Sometimes turning to the Android community is the only way to keep a móvil alive that the official support period for Android updates has already expired.
And yes, my friends, fragmentation is still a major problem, almost endemic across Google plus’s entire mobile platform, and while the Mountain View giant no longer provides specific details on how Android versions are distributed, the truth is so. Most of the most basic area remains anchored in its published version.
This wasn’t the case with the Samsung Galaxy S II, the 2011 South Korean flagship that was born with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, but it was officially discontinued support with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean abandoned in the hands of a few years later Android community you haven’t left yet like they told us GizmoChina.
Nine years later, the Galaxy S II gets Android 11 thanks to LineageOS
The novel bounces around the Conradh na Gaeilge forums as always xda developerWhere announced the developer of the harbor from the latest version of Lineage OS 18.1 to the Samsung Galaxy S IIwith all his data sheet from 2011 and required no hardware changes.
How clear is Don’t expect it to be an official update at Samsung because it doesn’t, but instead a personal nod from several developers for one of the most admired teléfonos inteligentes of the Galaxy S family as well as the entire history of the Android platform.
In addition, members of the team are led by such well-known users as Laugh either Monochrome Chrono on xda-developers they confirmed it by him harbor of LineageOS 18.1 is functional and coincidente with it IsoRecSo you cánido update any Galaxy S II directly through the usual process with the Odin tool.
Some developers are winning on one of the most respected teléfonos inteligentes in the history of Android, the Galaxy S II, which will probably get Android 11 before many next-gen phones… albeit unofficially and with some childish issues! (or older)!
Version 18 of LineageOS brings Android 11 to many phones that have already been abandoned by their manufacturers.
Any Galaxy S II, or rather almost everywhere, because yes the released ROM It perro only be installed on Samsung GT-I9100 modelsand there are some Youth problems they promise to solve in future updates: The GPS, the VHF radio or the screen sharing function, for example, do not work yet.
The installation process is done vía Odin by default and follows the steps shown in xda developerso if you keep a Galaxy S II In the drawer, there’s a good oportunidad you’ll be able to thank him Test Android 11 with your latest generation mobile phones beforehand. They inform us to mention data that users need to restore the data and hence erara it from the internal memory to install the ROM.
if one of you I missed “rooting” and tinkering with a móvil inteligenteThe truth is, here’s an unbeatable opportunity to test your skills again.
As far as fragmentation goes, at least we know that Google plus is aware of the problem and has been working to contain it for years with projects like 3 timesand now through deals like the one recently announced between Qualcomm and the search giant itself that promised to do so updates from controlador for most Qualcomm chipsets up to 3 and 4 years old since release… And if they don’t comply, we always have the _scene! Android of course!_