Developer gets Android 12 running on Samsung Galaxy S III from 2012

A developer has gotten Android 12 working on a 2012 Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. The developer has published an unofficial port of LineageOS 19.0 for the smartphone. The OS does suffer from some bugs on the device.

Developer html6405 shows off its Android 12 port for the Galaxy S III in a forum post on XDA Developers, which also features an early alpha build of the ROM. The developer writes that the OS is not yet fully stable and that he or she is not liable for problems such as bricked devices, broken SD cards, or “fired because the alarm clock app did not work.”

Various features of LineageOS are also missing, the developer reports. In the forum post, the developer writes that many ‘normal’ functions already work with the Android 12 port. The audio, bluetooth, cameras, WiFi, GPS and video playback, among other things, work. The phone can also receive ota updates.

Html6405 also lists several bugs, including “random reboots.” Furthermore, micro SD cards cannot be formatted as internal storage; that causes a bootloop. Sim cards cannot currently be unlocked either; PIN codes of SIM cards must therefore be disabled with another device before they are used in a Galaxy S III with Android 12. The nfc module of the Galaxy S III does not yet work via this rom. These issues may be resolved by the developer in due course.