Apple teaches that a device if built in a workmanlike manner and properly optimized at the software level, can easily support even the most recent firmware updates. Suffice it to say that iPhone 6S has quietly received the update to iOS 14.3 and runs beautifully. Well in the Android landscape things are different as the various smartphone OEMs cannot keep up with the many devices they launch over the years, ending sooner or later to abandon them.
But, fortunately, the Android world boasts the largest modding community in the world, often resurrecting old glories of the past from the ashes, such as OnePlus One that since 2014 manages to run Android 11. The miracle happens thanks to the latest release of the Custom LineageOS ROM 18.1. A twist of fate perhaps, because we remember that OnePlus One was born from the collaboration with CyanogenMod which then was the starting point of the LineageOS 18.1 project.
Android 11 peeps out on OnePlus One thanks to the world of custom ROMs
A phone defined in this modern era that is decidedly obsolete, yet thanks to modding, it is more up-to-date than many other top of the range in circulation, abandoned to themselves, such as Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3 5G to name one. New life then to OnePlus One that perhaps over time has ended up inside some drawer and which can now return to shine like the first days you bought it.
A real leap into the future, considering that OnePlus One arrived on the market with a firmware based on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat.
But let's not turn around too much and so if you want to experience the thrill of Android 11 on a jewel of the past like OnePlus One, the link indicated in the Source refers you to the dedicated thread on XDA, with its download link. We only specify that this is not an official port, so some bugs may be present within the code.
