We actually have Samsung GS2 laying around. Was it hard to put Cyanogen on it? I have never done it before because I barely care about smartphones.
Also are there any Android apps in existence that don't try to spy on you, because every single app I wanted to install so far wanted access to my private shit. That doesn't fly with me. My friend made some game for Android and wanted me to try it out. Then I noticed it wanted access to my pictures/contacts/location/pin code ..........everything. Then I was like WTF is this and my friend said he didn't put any of that into the game but he used some google plug-ins. Furthermore he said the game would not work without those plug-ins and so I discovered that Google is forcing all app developers to implement spying shit into their apps.
Only issue i sometimes have is finding the right Recovery. You have to start with that. That is these days only thing you need to flash. Then you can just copy past CM and install it from the recovery. If CM13 doesnt work start with CM11 and update it to 13.
Some ROMs allow you to disable permissions for the apps. I think CyanogenMod has this feature. Sadly as long as you use Google Play Services you'll never be safe from the prying eyes of Google.
I ended up buying the Wileyfox Swift because it comes with Cyanogen. However when I started disabling google apps and taking away their permissions the whole phone suddenly restarted. And after like 2 min it restarted again and again.
Old thread, many replies and no one thought to mention this:
Somewhere in my closet I have Google Galaxy Nexus (GSM). I bought the phone in 2012, I think at the time it was running ICS (icecream sandwich). I remeber flashing the rom/recovery/bootloader/kernel many times (cyanogen mod and AOKP where my favorite roms) AND ITS STILL SUPPORTED. Lineage 13.0 whew, takes my breath away.
Well my LS970 is 4 or 5 years old and with a Nitrogen rom I can install 7.1.2 and even get features that were in 4 to work that aren’t in android anymore.
I accidentally necro’ed a thread too shortly after the Texit and didn’t get a prompt either.
That was using Firefox, not sure if I was on my Win7 or on my Linux Mint machine at that time.