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> Serious question, do any phones exist that can fully owned by the user? Many (HTC, Google, ASUS, etc. - NOT Samsung) unlocked android phone can be loaded wit
by snark42 9y ago
> Serious question, do any phones exist that can fully owned by the user?
Many (HTC, Google, ASUS, etc. - NOT Samsung) unlocked android phone can be loaded with a variety of bootloaders and then flashed with the ROM of your choice where you have full root access. Of course without google apps (Google Play Store) your phone isn't all that useful, but you can install google apps ( maybe from a questionable legal/copyright stand point, I don't remember) and have more control over the device.
Not sure if this matches what you mean by fully owned though. Checkout XDA Forums (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/) to see what interesting things are out there you can do. There's also LineageOS (https://www.lineageos.org/ https://www.lineageos.org/) formerly CyanogenMod.
- summm 9y agoYes, but by unlocking you lose every bit of physical security that device had. Anybody having physical access to your phone can then dump the phone's content to a usb drive in kinutes and without any other tool than a otg cable. The makers of the alternative recovery don't bother (who can blame them, they are volunteers) and the manufacurers don't care to implement a proper bootloader that would support reliable re-locking after installing a modified recovery. Besides that, all this alternative software is distributed binary on shady sharehosters by more or less random people on forums. Not exactly a good basis if you wanted to re-gain trust in your phone.
- silverdrake11 9y agoYou can install LineageOS without root / usb debugging enabled
- nullgraph 9y agoAs a user of a recently unlocked Android phone, I just found out that the Netflix app don't even appear on the Google Play store for me anymore.