It's FOSSA surprise collab just happened.
slamrI have a Fairphone and the biggest gripe I have with it is Android. I still can't believe Fairphone haven't read the room and provided and alternative privacy based option out of the box without having to flash firmware and risk bricking your phone. this is interesting
Nazo@slamr @itsfoss Flashing your phone won't brick it unless you really really REALLY screw up in ways that I just don't even know how you could actually do on accident. In fact, it's kind of hard to do on purpose...
I mean, ok, you could "soft brick" in flashing something that doesn't boot, but you just flash again the right way and it's fine.
I guess it's possible to lock the bootloader on a phone that doesn't allow unlocking via the recovery but with a bad bootloader installed, but even then you can flash a stock OS with the correct keys and it should boot so you can unlock it again. (Also just don't lock it until you know what you're doing. 𤡠)
Yeah, short version is you can't really brick it.
BTW Graphene likes locking. They'll come pre-locked.
ok the documentation gives another impression but haven't tried it. tbh sitting down and fiddling with my phone for hours to get it working is not enticing and that's exactly my point...many people want privacy out of the box
maybe I'll look at this again. thanks
I do agree that it would be nice if things gave us some actual options. We shouldn't have to install third party stuff to get basics. There should be a selection on purchase as to what comes stock. (And no bloatware crap that forces us to have to reinstall anyway.)
But sadly that doesn't exist and Graphene phones won't come with a selection either. If you decide you want, say, Calyx when it comes back (soon?) you'll need to unlock it and flash. If they let you. We'll have to see... (The dev behind Graphene is kind of stubborn about this stuff and I can absolutely see them declaring that unlocking being allowed at all is a security hazard and thus it should not be allowed.)
yeh that! âšī¸