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All the time. I'm an Apple guy, but I also have an Android phone. It's a Galaxy S10 and despite being 7 years old, I still like it. I kinda want to replace it (the Fairphone 6+ is freakin' awesome in green!) but it still gets the job done. I do miss my old Galaxy S3 sometimes, the custom firmware I ran on it. My favourite was called LiquidSmooth and it was based on Android 2.1 or 2.2 (Jellybean). It was a different world back then. I never woulda considered an iPhone back then. Now all phones are kinda samey. I use an iPhone because it's boring (it's consistent). I miss when being an Android user meant you were on an adventure. Now they're just iPhones with spyware. (They were before too, but you could do more about it. And yes, I know GrapheneOS exists and so does LineageOS — I remember when LineageOS was called CyanogenMod.)
Jellybean was Android 4.3. I think Android phones weren't really usable before that. But I didn't get one til much later. The Galaxy S3 originally came with 4.0 and later with 4.3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III
No idea about your custom firmware ofc.
I have an old Android 2.1 music player (Archos 43) still kicking around. It's slow and the Android software is not very good.