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Except you cannot. The graphics driver of my Nexus 5 no longer receives updates. It is not compatible with newer Android versions.

And… that's it. Just like that, no more updates. Less than two years after I bought it.



There are numerous open source builds of AOSP forks for the Nexus 5, including LineageOS.

Yeah, you're not gonna get baseband / blob / firmware updates or security patches outside of platform, but the damn thing is 8 years old.


The Nexus 5 issue was just an example. Even phone makers are totally dependent on Qualcomm etc. providing drivers and maybe updates to those drivers.

It's not like you can just hack updates together yourself. Not always anyway.




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