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Raise awareness for custom ROMs to support older android devices #281

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There might be unofficial ROMs for very old devices (or ROMs that was official but not supported any-more), more info will be in the device category in xda-developers forum.

for example:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/ for samsung s2 device, which if not running Custom ROM is probably still on android 4.x version (the latest supported by vendor), which is not supported by magen app #280, but the OS can be upgraded using LineageOS to unofficial Android 10:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/development-derivatives/rom-lineageos-17-0-t4022733
The device itself has WIFI/GPS/Bluetooth3.0 and probably the app will work on it.

List of some Custom ROMs OS: (can be used instead of old stock os for newer android version usage)

LineageOS https://lineageos.org/
Replicant https://www.replicant.us/
/e/ EELO OS https://e.foundation/
CalyxOS https://calyxos.org/

as I heard some complaints (in news) that the app won't work on older devices, it's possible to raise awareness such as:
in google-play / magen-website, point minimum requirements for the app, but also that if it's android device it might be possible to upgrade it using custom ROMs, in which case a tech-shop, or tech-person might help, etc...

it's also might be helpful in case the app is supported, but newer android version will be able to make it work better (usage of newer api, more performance, fixes for android bugs, etc...)

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