Hi everyone,

I have an old galaxy note 8 that I would like to flash and get a Linux based OS on it. I recently put lineage OS on my galaxy tab s6 and it’s working great, but it looks like lineage doesn’t support the note 8. I heard about cyanogenMod but it seems like thats discontinued. I just have some games I want to play from the Google play store, so my needs are basic, so just having a simple OS for games that the devs are keeping up to date would be great. Thanks!

  • WeebLife@lemmy.worldOP
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    20 days ago

    Sorry for the late response. I went back to researching this after a break, and unfortunately, it looks like that rom only works for exynos chipsets and the US model uses a snap dragon… So I guess I’m stuck with the outdated OS…

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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      20 days ago

      damn that really sucks. afaik it’s because they can’t even be bootloader unlocked, you should try checking that