Had a couple of hours to kill yesterday so decided to install iode on the silver XA2. Not often you get an installer for a custom rom so couldn’t resist using it and have to report that the process was without glitches or any kind of interuption whatsoever! This is the kind of thing you need to do if you want to attract non techie’s to your user base, so well done to the team for that. Been playing around with all the apps I often use and some of the one’s I don’t, and so far everything just works. Very happy iode user right now!
Daily driver for me is currently an XA2 with Sailfish OS on it. The sailfish with its silky smooth gestured action and access to much of the same software is good and I like it, but iode’s security monitoring app adds an extra dimension for me. The fact that I have both SF and iode on the same spec’ phone will allow me to compare both of them impartially over the next month or two I’m hoping.
One downside of SF for OSS enthusiasts is that it isn’t OSS as the licence fee confirms which kind of niggles me a little even though it’s just a one time thing. So the Sailfish is already disadvantaged even though I’ve already paid for it. Anyway, given that I sold the black XA2 (G android), on ebay because I never used it, I will most likely keep the SF XA2 as I only have two of them now. Still got an XZ2 and an XZ Premium (LOS/MicroG), along with a pink XZ1c (stored out of sight), and that XA2 Ultra I bought last week so no shortage of phones to go at. :o) Come to think of it I’ve still got the old Oneplus 3T (Was Oxygen but ended up as HavocOS after a million billion flashes), that got me into custom romming in the first place.
Thanks to the iode team for giving me the chance to load up what is an exceptionally good OS by any standards.
Maybe, but I’m not sure if it’s not too old, you can get the iode GSI to work on it 
You probably could get it to run @AlphaElwedritsch as IIRC it was a 6/64gb phone. It was top spec’ when it first arrived on the market here in Britain in 2016. I bought one to replace my Moto G X1032 which was a 1/8 phone back in 2013 which lost its support status with android lollipop. Massive ROM/RAM spec’s and only half the price of the then current IOS phones made for a big seller for Oneplus that they have never managed to repeat. It was a WOW moment for me when I opened the box I admit. A couple of years later I got hung up on the Sony range of ‘art deco’ phones and the rest is history. Metal frames with square corners, it’s machine art at its very best. There’s just something about an XA2 when you hold it in your hand that you just don’t get from creeky plastik phones.
The Snapdragon 821 was ideal for custom romming as it was back in the day with CR’s appearing from almost every basement in Mumbai. I was a big fan of XDA in those days and probably loaded most all of them at some time or another. The problem back then was that they used to disappear from the scene as fast as they arrived. You would get regular monthly updates for the first three months and then the developer would have discovered women or some such occurence and that was it. Dead and gone. Thing was when I look back it was all fairly trivial stuff like changing themes, wallpapers, screen layouts etc,etc Nothing like the level of coding we are seeing these days.
I kept having to go back to Hydrogen OS because despite its unexciting appeal I could at least be assured that the updates would keep coming. HavocOS seems to have survived although they no longer support the 1 + 3. The 1 + 6 at the time I last looked on their site was the oldest model still on the list of supported devices.