We put Android 11 on the best Android phone from ten years ago, the Samsung Galaxy S2. Here’s what happened!
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This is insane! Reminds of the the Windows Mobile HTC HD2 getting ports of Android years after it was discontinued.
Nostalgia aside, Android phones back in the day were a laggy mess through and through every single one of them.
HTC made some of the laggiest frustrating mess of phones and Sony made phones with mediocre cameras and crappiest displays.
Fast forward today, even midrange phones offer excellent hardware are lag free and can play games on high settings.
The SGII was THE phone, when it came out. I loved it.
So that means galaxy s9 will be reborn with this osðŸâ€Â¥ðŸ˜„
Install go edition of android os
It's amazingly interesting old phone running modern stuff. What's really sad is there still some current phones that can't even keep up. If Android was optimized more correctly and updated correctly more phones might actually be usable longer.
I’m about to install some clean rom on my gs9… I can’t comprehend how rubbish the experience is on such a modern device… soooo laggy 🤦â€ÂÂ♀ï¸ÂÂ.
It’s flash.. i think it’s official android 11.. just flash 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe they could make android Go more accessible.
Allowing it to be flashed on older devices
you say it looks slow but tbh that's quite usable
Nice info ðŸ‘ÂÂðŸÂ»
I miss replaceable batteries, expandable storage and Audio Jacks…
Also: Compact and affordable phones.
Can we do this to the Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 plus let me know please
I just bought a GS2 on eBay. I'm getting ready to update it to Oreo.
Are there Android GO Roms avilable for this phone? It would be interesting to see how they would run on the s2.
tbh id rather go back to android 9, ever since android 10 and 11 wifi turns off when my screen goes off for a few mins, meaning i get delayed messages and whatsapp doesn't even work when someone tries to phone me, most sites say turn off battery optimizing features, i couldnt turn off anymore if i tried lol, both my Galaxy A70 phone and Galaxy S5e tablet have the same issues
I flashed android 11 to my Xperia z5 premium. Runs good.
They should make some custom android version what is very light for older phones
amazingly it turned on, but interesting to test in maybe forgotten devices that might run it better
Hahaaaaa thats pretty amazing. Am nostalgic of old phones. And a month ago i got an S2 Plus and an S3 Neo.
Am wondering if anyhow andoid 10 or 11 is available for S3 Neo.
Woww! What was Android 2.3 called? "Gingerbread", or something? I didn't even HAVE Android, nor iOS touchscreen technology ANYTHING back then! I think I was using Android ICS when I had my first smartphone, and that was a cheapie Motorola something… Great big 4 GB storage, 1 whole GB RAM!
Well its not that bad it is rather good for a device this old.
everything gets banned in the name of sustainabilty, but megacorps forcing you to buy new stuff to even get security updates is just fine
I just flashed Lineage OS 18.1 in my Lenovo P2 and upgraded successfully for the 5th time.. It is my current device and I am stoked, 5 years of usage can be extracted from android smartphones.. In my case, P2 was supported with 1 OS upgrade by Lenovo and rest 4 by Lineage OS.. The Custom ROM community has been crucial, in helping me having the best use of my phone…
I just flashed Lineage OS 18.1 in my Lenovo P2 and upgraded successfully for the 5th time.. It is my current device and I am stoked, 5 years of usage can be extracted from android smartphones.. In my case, P2 was supported with 1 OS upgrade by Lenovo and rest 4 by Lineage OS.. The Custom ROM community has been crucial, in helping me having the best use of my phone…
I just flashed Lineage OS 18.1 in my Lenovo P2 and upgraded successfully for the 5th time.. It is my current device and I am stoked, 5 years of usage can be extracted from android smartphones.. In my case, P2 was supported with 1 OS upsgrade by Lenovo and rest 4 by Lineage OS.. The Custom ROM community has been crucial, in helping me having the best use of my phone…
Amazing. ETA on CyanogenMod 32?
That's means phone companies wants those old phone to die, if keep updating the system, may can update for about 10 years, without the problem of hardware.
However as you know Windows 11 can run apk files soon, and I also wish Android can run .exe, looooooool.
That's amazing 😀😀
Very informative, Coach