[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
@Devolix

beeing honest, I really cannot understand your critics. Let me explain that:

Yes, the quality of photos became a little lower with LOS, but the pictures are still usable.

Copying the (very fine working) original camera drivers from StockROM into LOS is not so much a technical problem, but its a huge problem of copyrights in the most countries of the world. Additionally, these drivers are the intellectual property of the hardware manufacturer, and when he does not allow their usage f.e. in LOS, than they cannot be used in LOS. Thats the law...

Telling the truth, it absolutely would not be a problem f.e. for Samsung company or other smartphone manufacturers, to offer updates to actual Android for all elder f.e. Samsung smartphones - LOS shows, that f.e. Android 12 or 13 are running good with Samsung Galaxy S7 or other elder smartphones. But Samsung or other manufacturers dont do that, because they all (!) want the customers to buy always new hardware, because the companies live about this business. Yes, its damn f...ing business, money rules the world.

Its a job for the lawgivers in the countries of the world to stop the manucaturers, f.e. to force them producing longer OS updates, or for allowing full usage of all StockROM features inside f.e. LOS... as long as the lawgivers do not change the practics of these manufacturers, things will not change.

And yes: there are customized stockROMs out there. In these the original camera drivers can be used nearly legally, because these roms a nearly original StockROMs, so mostly no big problem for the manufacturer (and owner of rights). But as far as I know, the most of these customized StockROMS are not very popular, and this has a reason...

I do not understand your denial of Google. Myself I use my LOS-upgraded Smartphones always with Google (NikGApps), because only in Google Play Store I get all those apps I really need for my daily usage. Thats a fact.

Do you worry about beeing spyed out by Google? Believe me: thats a tale of conspiracy theorists, because there are billions of billions of smartphones out there - no company, including Google, is technically able to spy this mass of smartphones. Yes, they collect informations for making money with that f.e. in advertising. But these are anonymous, and you can trust in one thing: Google and others do not care a damn **** for me or for you, or what we do with our smartphones...

I understood, that you like to make good photos. Do it like I do: I have a good and small digital camera, with wich I do the real good fotos I want to keep or want to print. Yes, some I did during StockROM with the S7, but that works also with that Digicam.

Because for me it is very and more important, to have an actual Android on my smartphone. Doing photos with it is a nice bonus, but in fact I use smartphones mainly as communication device, because I am severly handicapped and so I need an always working mobile communication equipment.

The Samsung A13 makes very good photos, and is also fast enough for doing Internet and all communication matters. Buy it. Few friends of mine have that, and they all are satisfied. A better one would be the Samsung Galaxy A53 5G, that is the actual technical equivalent to the Samsung Galaxy S7. Maybe this one would be the best for you. Both are available also in Germany.

I guess, this would be the best solution for you.

And forget Google...

Or: buy a better elder iPhone, f.e. the 11 with about 128 or 256 GB memory. iPhones do excellent photos, have very fine apps for photography and video, and are nice to use, and get updates much more years longer, than all Android smartphones. If I would have the money to spend, I really would buy such an elder iPhone (but the larger ones with much memory) and would have a lot of fun with it for much years. My cousin owns an iPhone 14 with 512 GB memory, and he loves it, and I had and iPhone 10 as a loan for a few months, it was not bad.

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