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.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    EDIT: where you read unlock I actually meant root. Most phones cannot be unlocked unless you have root

    I don’t think this is right.

    Unlock related to bootloader. root is different.

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.worldOP
      01·
      7 months ago

      Haven’t touched other phones in a while, so there is a chance this is not correct. However, I do remember trying to have my old s10e to have anything else that is not Samsung ROM. Its a nightmare.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        1·
        7 months ago

        As far as I recall, root has never been required to flash a phone.

        This is because flashing occurs at the firmware level, while root, again, is a function of the installed OS.