I put Android 11 on a Samsung Galaxy S2

We put Android 11 on the best Android phone from ten years ago, the Samsung Galaxy S2. Here's what happened!

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[haziqsembilanlima]

I still remember "can you run Temple Run" was a benchmark 10 years ago as some early android phone is weak or not supporting 3D graphics at all

[theRaika]

Imagine how fast and less resource intensive KitKat would be on modern phones xd

[平和-vz]

I miss replaceable batteries, expandable storage and Audio Jacks...
Also: Compact and affordable phones.

[leo-ubnb]

The Galaxy S2, the phone that started my whole Android experience in custom ROMs and mods 🙌 It will ALWAYS hold a place in my heart! Loved that thing! I flashed different ROMs monthly, sometimes weekly if the ROMs were bad.

[MobileTechPoint]

Back in those days when you drop your phone:
pick up the back panel - then the battery - reassemble - Voila! Not a damn scratch on the phone 😀😀

[Haritsa-N]

It just gives goosebumps to imagine S21 Ultra, a decade from now, getting a new life over Android 22, from XDA

[seeitsayitdoggo]

Tip, turn off animations in developer options. It will make it a lot smoother to use

[ossilong]

everything gets banned in the name of sustainabilty, but megacorps forcing you to buy new stuff to even get security updates is just fine

[paris]

Literally found my old galaxy S3 a few days ago and installed lineage 17.1, was quite a nostalgic experience, and actually works pretty well.

[wht-rabt-obj]

The SGII was THE phone, when it came out. I loved it.

[themainguy]

It's amazingly interesting old phone running modern stuff. What's really sad is there still some current phones that can't even keep up. If Android was optimized more correctly and updated correctly more phones might actually be usable longer.

[lustechsource]

This is insane! Reminds of the the Windows Mobile HTC HD2 getting ports of Android years after it was discontinued.

[Jimmyfly]

So many memories with custom mods on Android.

[adultmoshifan]

I still have bad memories of being stuck with an iPhone 3GS when iOS 7 came out. I couldn’t update my phone to the new version of iOS! Still, I consider myself lucky to have been able to update it to iOS 6, which even the first iPad, which came out a year after my iPhone at the time, couldn’t be updated to! Luckily, a few months after the iPhone 5S and 5C came out, I was able to get an iPhone 5! It was from the clearence stock which the store had in the back room.

[LSnium]

Its funny how android phones, even 10 years ago are more customizable and tweakable than iPhones.

I was an all out iPhone user for 12 years, and my last iPhone was the iPhone X, now my current is the Samsung Galaxy note 10 plus. And I gotta say Android is 100% better than ios.

[anjanaperera]

Oh man I still have my S2 in the locker. This phone came with a super amoled plus display. That was the best at the time in the industry!!!

[someguy]

beautiful, i used to own one of those a couple years ago and rooted it so much,

Good old times.
Even more impressive that Android 11 is running on there and my Oneplus 6T still doesn't have Android 11

[Garrettdx]

I just bought a GS2 on eBay. I'm getting ready to update it to Oreo.

[Chemy.]

amazingly it turned on, but interesting to test in maybe forgotten devices that might run it better

[SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

for an s2 there's a good middle ground for performance and compatibility if you install roms based on android 5 or 6