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What other options for good phones are out there? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 month ago by ZeDoTelhado to c/[email protected]

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I have now a pixel 8, which was working OK from the past 8 months and using grapheneos. Unfortunately, today out of nowhere got the green screen bug (searched around, this seems to be really a thing with pixel 8 and some pixel 7). This really stroke me a nerve. Previously I had a pixel 5 which at some point also got screen problems and later the speaker piece just straight up did not work properly. And now this with the pixel 8.

So my question is: what other phones could potentially be used with a custom ROM that allow bootloader relocking? Other Roms can be something like divest or calyx (I used calyx before, so I am fairly familiar with it).

It really pisses me off the only option until now are pixel phones for proper relocking (from what I know from a while back), and then they have these annoying issues. It makes my skin crawl, but if required I would change to an iPhone (and throwaway a lot of things that android is actually superior, such as proper tor browser, VPN split tunneling, work/user profiles, no bloody account to use a phone).

Thanks for the responses in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Custom roms with relocked bootloader only work on pixels by design. You'll have to live with an unlocked bootloader.

As for easy installs, Murena's e/os exists with support. But I can't vouch for their cloud ecosystem. Other than that, maybe an officially supported lineage device. You will lose safetynet on both unless you want to root.

[–] ZeDoTelhado 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what I feared. Either I deal with the shoddiness of the pixels and get mad from time to time but at least is safe, or no relocking. sigh Thanks for the answer though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See this: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot/issues/299

The issue with the Pixel seems to be a a build-up of static in the LCD.

[–] ZeDoTelhado 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That could be. And also, this is 2024. Why is this even an issue with something basic as static? Surely is not the first time this problem was dealt with before shipping this stuff out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know if you missed it, but the link was to a list of phones that are confirmed to support custom keys.

See this: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot/issues/299

[–] ZeDoTelhado 1 points 1 month ago

I never encountered this I have to say. Will bookmark it and save it for later when I need to double check this. But from what I see, FP 4 and 5 can be locked again after custom ROm imaging. This is actually good news. Thanks for the share!