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  • Unfortunately none anymore because I got a Zenfone 10 thinking they would release the bootloader unlock tool but they lied and never did.

    Next phone will either be a fairphone or Pixel phone.

    If I could I would run Graphene OS.

    • Sorry to hear about that, I had the Zenfone on my radar too, but not anymore due to this whole affair.

      • Never buying another ZF. I love my ZF10 and all, but I won't buy another ZF.

  • Calyxos pixel 4a 5g. Works pretty well phones old but does what I need of a phone, replaced the screen last year and actually down graded from my pixel 6a as I like how wide the 4a is.

  • LineageOS 20 on the Nokia 4.2. The only option for this phone besides LineageOS 19 and it's one of these cases where the dev just stopped updating anything and deleted their XDA profile. Might go back to vanilla but the problem is that's a downgrade in Android version too.

    This whole phone is a regret. My previous phone had just died unexpectedly and it was a spur of the moment purchase with a low budget, based on nostalgia for a 'Nokia' that doesn't actually exist anymore. Should've just gone for a cheap Samsung and I probably would've at least had more choice in custom firmwares.

  • GrapheneOS on Pixel 9 Pro XL. it's a very refreshing experience having nearly no preinstalled apps, and having to install anything you want yourself, not the other way around. I don't need Play Services/FCM notifications either, I use Molly to talk with people, a fork of Signal that allows for UnifiedPush support, which I self host ntfy for.

  • Lineage OS 22 on Moto G7 power

    However I wish the UI would stop becoming circular...

    Also it would be nice if the Lineage OS team added some sort of support for relocking the boot loader. It wouldn't be that hard to sign a build.

    • It works on some devices; they do sign the builds as far as I can tell. But the bootloader itself needs to be convinceable to trust the LOS signatures, and needs to understand the secure boot implementation used in the Android that the current LOS is built from (since Android has re-done it all a few times). Nobody knows anything about bootloaders to figure out which of them can do this or how they would be induced to do it.

      • This is not true at all. We know plenty of things about Android boot loaders since they are all mostly the same. The thing about relocking is that you need a boot loader that will allow adding custom keys. The common wisdom is that this is only possible on Pixel.

        However, I think that wisdom is wrong. The reason I say that is that Calyx OS supports boot loader relocking on devices such as the G52. I think Motorola devices in particular are good candidates since Motorola generally one of the better ones for boot loader unlocking. Locked Moto devices don't restrict the able to flash via fast boot but they do check signatures. If you could add a custom signature it would work.

        Lineage OS is build in debug mode with no signing keys. I think the main reason for this is user freedom but I find it annoying. To do boot loader locking with Lineage OS you need to build from source with custom keys that are used for signing.

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