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I can buy Android phones that do nothing to stop me from rooting them or unlocking the boot loader (OnePlus). I have to fight Apple for root access, and frequen

I can buy Android phones that do nothing to stop me from rooting them or unlocking the boot loader (OnePlus). I have to fight Apple for root access, and frequently I will lose. You can do anything on an Android phone that requires root access. None of that is possible on iPhone unless it's been out for quite awhile.

taneq 7y ago
"Install a ROM that respects my privacy" is right up there at the top.
- Arbalest 7y ago
  I'm attempting to do that, but I've bumped up against an issue in which I have no radio access from the custom rom. Need to be picky with the hardware, and the stuff most likely to be supported is the most expensive.
  - taneq 7y ago
    Sucks. :/ I assume you've installed the vendor.img and flashed the radio-[phone model].img from the stock package for your phone model?
    - Arbalest 7y ago
      Possibly not. I was reading somewhere that I should actually get an older stock rom image and flash that first, but no I just flashed the rom zip and that was it.
      - taneq 7y ago
        That might be your issue then. It varies from phone to phone, but for my old one (Nexus 5X) I had to get the stock ROM from https://developers.google.com/android/images#bullhead https://developers.google.com/android/images#bullhead and extract vendor.img, bootloader-bullhead-bhz31b.img, and radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.41.5.01.img (or whatever the matching versions are for your Android version). Then after installing the ROM archive, reboot into the bootloader and install them: (install TWRP and custom ROM package) > adb push vendor.img /sdcard/ (Go to 'install' in TWRP and install vendor.img) > fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-bullhead-bhz31b.img > fastboot flash radio radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.41.5.01.img That's the quick version of how I set mine up and it works. :)