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Rooting services and/or wiki (keepandroidopen.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Background

Rooting disables OEM updates and makes your device unofficial, so you will probably still be able to sideload apps. Depending on how this shitstorm turns out though, and if there will ever be a need for it, I would love to help people root their smartphones.

Another idea is to collaborate on a wiki that aggregates and documents all rootable versus non rootable smartphones and the methods that work.

Rooting services

We could setup a chatroom on Signal or any other platform that enables voice and/or video chat. People would also be able to send their smartphones to another person that roots it. Or like street vendors, setup a pipe chair and table and do it on scene at festivals and other gatherings.

The wiki

I could host something fresh from my desktop or create a community on some fedi instance. The wiki would aggregate preexisting information but also be open for continuous updates by the community.

Edit: thank you @ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip for posting the repo Bootloader Unlock: Wall of Shame

Question

What does the community think of such an idea? I'm just spitballing here, trying to add something to the opposition.

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[–] YC99@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

google pixels, and I think they'll extend its compatibility to motorola

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't really want to give Google money because of this. They've been doing what a lot of corporations do, use open source as a cheat for good will and then change the license.

[–] gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Graphene is open source, anyone is able to build for their own phone if they'd like ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Graphene is heavily relying on security and firmware updates from Google to stay as secure as it is. In fact, the fast and strong updating regime of Google on its Pixel, reference Android, devices, is the reason why Graphene is so far only available for Pixel phones (even if they plan to diversify to Motorola).

[–] YC99@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

have you also considered buying something like a fairphone with /e/OS on it

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

That is actually more interesting to me. Even a phone that could run some form of linux on it.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Geez, everytime this point! Don't you guys have a second hand market? My daily driver is a Pixel 6a with GOS and all apps but one (for which I have a substitute anyway) work perfectly.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I also just don't like Pixel devices. I've had 3 of them and every single one of them had terrible battery life. The Pixel 6 was one of those. I didn't have that problem with any of my OnePlus or Samsung phones.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

This surprises me. I had 2, both "a" versions, so budget, and second hand and I had to literally have the first falling in my hand-wash for it to finally die.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

the second hand market still supports google by driving up the value of the pixel and, personally, i've NEVER had any luck buying a used phone.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 17 hours ago

That's also a google phone.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

or stuff it all inside play services, which is proprietary.