My working phone is an S10. I didn’t want to take the chance of rendering it inoperable, so I was thinking of buying another S10 or maybe later version Samsung with faster processor and install e/OS. I’m computer saavy, but not phone saavy and need some advice. Like how to pick a good phone candidate for this install. One issue that has jumped out in my research is that the OS version of the phone can’t be greater than whatever project version the e/OS is. I’d really appreciate any suggestions where to start.
Thx
a Samsung is next to unbrickable,
you can downgrade a Gogol phone
Motorola are cheaper but less easy to unlock
OnePlus and Xiaomi are cheaper also
Fairphone is the Roll’s Royce expensive, but easily repairable by yourself
Sounds like sticking with Samsung is a good idea then. I’m also batting around the possibility of a Murena FP4. I’m curious though; the carrier limitation in the U.S. is T-mobile. Is that a hardware fairphone limitation or e/OS limitation? In other words, if I install eOS on another S10 myself, will I still be able to connect to Verizon who is my current carrier?
Thx for the suggestions…
Hmm; I searched that to get a better understanding. Thank you for that useful tidbit. I have to confess that I’m trying to degoogle, so I’m also degoogling the hardware which means no pixels either. Maybe my safer bet might be to go with the FP4 on T-Mobile. Seems so many hurdles to get some simple privacy.
Later I realized that it’s just a hardware, can’t do anything without software (unless speaking of drivers part) fine to get one as long as it works AND has at least as good or better price than others.
G will not be able to track & steal data from us as long as we flash a degoogled rom on it.
I would still not buy a Pixel from G, instead I would get a refurbished one from another source.
Other OEM’s do have their business of collecting data through their system apps , so I’d never let the phone connect to internet until I flash the degoogled rom (even prefer the one, which is already unlocked by somebody else).
I’ll just throw SONY in the mix here, they have made voLTE available and some are reported to work, even here on this forum. Worth the research, I think, but I do not have a SONY any more.
@Zok, I may at some point have to cave to G. I’m not convinced that their hardware cannot have some hooks in it by design much less the icky feeling I’d have using their device. I hope to find some reasonable alternative. I also would rather use hardware that doesn’t limit my carrier like FairPhone 4 ( to T-Mobile) but I know of no success stories thus far. It’s really a dumbfounding experience to fully realize how locked down the U S. Market is by iOS and G. If FP4 were cheaper, I’d jump on it, but it seems to have such a limited lifespan unlike the FP5 which again of course won’t work here. I’m virtually bricked and so also considering a Light Phone 3 or Mudita Kompakt. I guess at this point I’m still searching for hardware that’s both U S. Compatible hopefully for more than one carrier and e/OS stable and only last resort…Pixel. But if I even consider Pixel, that also opens the door to the possibility of graphene. Thx again for your thoughts and I may have to go that direction. The “feeling” I get about graphene that magically ONLY works on G Pixel, is that “they” knew the degoogling movement would eventually happen, so the planned fallback was to funnel we cattle into their other pen for poorly behaved cattle. Yes, I’m that wary of big tech.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
You may want to check sites like this https://www.kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker
(in case if you haven’t).
The other G you mentioned, to me is more of security focused rom rather than being privacy focused… but will avoid discussion publicly about it due to risk of triggering some people.