I just did one and it is working a lot better. Still, a good reason to be preparing as my phone’s days ate numbered lol

Damn, I thought this would be a flashpoint of something major. Still might be.

I thought he was getting support from his people for coming out and asking the US if they were their slaves?

Nice! I will be taking a look at this. Thank you!

Forgot to mention i’m in the US

I’m a simple kind of guy. I would just use it for calls, texts, videos, Lemmy, and to check emails. I’m in the US.

My current $150 phone has been perfect until one day over the past three weeks it just started sucking at everything. I suspect foul play and wanted to workaround it. The suggestions of alternate OSs for phones have been great but I didn’t realize that I would have to request permission from the phone manufacturer due to it being a Verizon phone.

lol yeah my country is the literal antithesis to ethical manufacturing.

I do like this concept. I wiped my phone and will aim to buy one of these in the near future. Their aftermarket parts are very reasonably priced as well. What’s weird is that they don’t seem to even have a market in the US.

Lol yeah there was a step where you have to request a password to unlock the phone from Motorola and they just flat out said I wasn’t allowed. I’m going to offer some tech guy $50 to see if they can figure out a way to bypass it haha.

This is honestly looking like the cheapest option for me. Will Verizon be able to activate it with a different OS on it?

I have been slogging through a similar process this morning. I came upon a brick wall when i found that I have to go through Motorola to unlock my phone. They simply denied me the privilege. I’m currently looking for a way around it. I have a Moto g7 Power. They have Lineage and /e/ for it but it all depends on this unlocking of which I cannot do unless Motorola gives me permission. Apparently there is a workaround called Sunshine but I’m really getting into the weeds here and they don’t explicitly support my model.

I guess because it is a verizon phone and not a “global” phone, I’m not permitted to unlock the bootloader.

I am considering it. I would still like to browse lemmy on my phone though lol

Holy Moly. I guess because I have a Verizon and not a “global” phone, I am not permitted to unlock the phone. Capitalism has thwarted me.

Any recommended tutorials on how to install this stuff? Looks like Lineage is the most applicable to my phone.

lol nice. My current phone is on this list!

Damn. It’s like $700 but a great idea. These are “de-googled”?

oooh! I can download this on my current phone and it may be and improvement?! Thank you. I will check out Murena as well.

I’m in the market for a new phone and would very much like to abandon Android.

They have single use vape pens as well. A true disaster