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So is there an F-Droid like service to update the OS? Can it be done manually?
by irq-1 3y ago
So is there an F-Droid like service to update the OS? Can it be done manually?
- mdaniel 3y agoI'm guessing the answer is mostly no, since GrapheneOS was the most Pixel-friendly AOSP project I knew of, and they're also "buy a new phone, n00b" https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices https://doc.e.foundation/devices https://doc.e.foundation/devices and https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#google https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#google both list quite a few of them, but unknown if it's that they are currently available but once the blobs get locked it'll be the same story: unsupported And, of course, going with "community" distros also nuke Play services and thus almost certainly will not allow Google Pay or other niceties
- msm_ 3y ago>and they're also "buy a new phone, n00b" That's uncharitable wording. They're more like "Our main goal is providing a secure OS for your device. We can't promise that, if your device no longer receives firmware updates." GrapheneOS is quite principled in not compromising the device security, and I think it should be respected (maybe it's not the OS for you, but it's OK, because there are alternatives).
- realusername 3y agoDue to the goal of the project, GrapheneOS can only support relatively new devices. That's not the same thing for eos or lineageos.