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Yeah, I bought a Pocophone F1 when it came out, expecting to instantly install LineageOS, but then I found out that I have to wait a full week and set up a Wind
by preisschild 3y ago
Yeah, I bought a Pocophone F1 when it came out, expecting to instantly install LineageOS, but then I found out that I have to wait a full week and set up a Windows VM.
The phone per-se wasn't bad, but that was my last purchase from Xiaomi.
Replaced the Pocophone with a Google Pixel 5A and I will stick to Google Pixel because GrapheneOS is great.
- phatfish 3y agoXiaomi have required this for a while now, not sure exactly when but at least since 2016. The other big Chinese brands that have cheaper high end handsets don't offically support unlocked bootloaders as far as i know. They subsidize their handsets with all the junk that their custom Android UIs push, so don't want owners to flash a custom ROM. The top 3 phones in the LineageOS install stats page are Xiaomi for this reason. https://stats.lineageos.org/ https://stats.lineageos.org/ Often phones that do support unlocking (without the hoop jumping) you have to pay a premium for, like the Pixel.
- knewter 3y agoThe pocophone f1 was for a while the fastest mainline Linux phone. Throw postmarketos on that bad boy.