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The device drivers can be a problem on many devices, even when running AOSP-derived distributions many of these are lifted from a stock distribution and used as
by Yetanfou 7y ago
The device drivers can be a problem on many devices, even when running AOSP-derived distributions many of these are lifted from a stock distribution and used as blobs. The bit about Android needing Play Store/Youtube/Pay apps is not true though, I do not have any of these on any of my devices which continue to work just fine - I'd go so far as to say that they work better without these parts: battery consumption goes down markedly, privacy invasion goes down tremendously. I might not be getting the 'Android experience' as Google intends but seeing as I do not want that anyway I don't see this as a negative.
- paulcarroty 7y ago> can be a problem on many devices Can you provide a one 100% working Android device with open drivers?
- Yetanfou 7y agoReplicant [1, 2] supports 13 (older) devices. As to whether they are 100% working depends on what you intend to use the device for given that some functions (e.g. GPS) are not supported. If you're genuinely interested in this subject a search for blob-free android will give more results, also pointing out alternatives like PostmarketOS and Librem which are not Android-based but (in the case of PostmarketOS) can run on Android hardware [3]. [1] https://www.replicant.us/ https://www.replicant.us/ [2] https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php [3] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices