Qualcomm will offer OEMs the “ability to provide support for up to eight consecutive years of Android software and security updates.”
Qualcomm will offer OEMs the “ability to provide support for up to eight consecutive years of Android software and security updates.”
GrapheneOS kills support when Google kills security updates, I believe. Source: my Pixel 4a came out in 2020, and Graphene already strongly recommends against using it and dropped updates entirely a few months ago.
Lineage and Pixel Experience ROMs are better at long-term support. But any custom ROM on older non-officially-supported phones is vulnerable to firmware exploits, since those fixes are typically distributed as binaries by the hardware manufacturer (Qualcomm etc). So I understand why Graphene drops support so quick, since they want all Graphene users to benefit from strong security practices.
That explains why when I looked at Graphene later it didn’t support the Pixel 2
That was a great explanation, much appreciated thank you!