Right now I have a Nokia 8 and it cannot be rooted because the bootloader cannot be unlocked. Which sucks a lot.

Are there any manufacturers that make Android phones that are easy to root and have good support for LineageOS or something similar?

  • riccardo
    4·
    4 years ago

    So, last time I’ve looked up how easy it was to unlock a phone and root it/install a custom rom was when i bought my current phone, a OnePlus 5T (that is, late 2017). At the time, OnePlus phones and Pixel phones were the easier to mod. OnePlus phones are probably still pretty easy to mod, and OnePlus has historically been pretty friendly with third-party developers - they also heavily marketed it as a selling point for years, but things change and big corporations are still big corporations and if endorsing the post-market world becomes not as profitable as it used to be, they’ll just drop the effort and stop being friendly with the community. No idea if it happened with OnePlus, but a few years ago imo they were the ones to pick if you were looking for a phone you could easily mod.

    Again, I’m really out of the loop here so take my advice with a grain of salt

    • nutomicA
      5·
      4 years ago

      It might also be a good idea to get an older phone model, those should have better support (and you safe money).

        • DessalinesA
          4·
          4 years ago

          I’m a fan of this, you can get a 2 year old popular phone model for less than $200 now, and chances are it’ll have a well supported degoogled rom.

          • AgreeableLandscape
            3·
            4 years ago

            Though I would personally get one with either a removable battery or one that’s easy to disassemble, since the battery is almost always the first to fail in a device. That way you can use the second hand device for much longer by getting batteries from reputable third parties.

    • Atahualpa
      1·
      4 years ago

      I was looking at OnePlus too, then I saw this toot from Geotechland

      I really hope my phone lasts until linux phones become somewhat viable… but I dream

      • riccardo
        1·
        4 years ago

        I was looking at OnePlus too, then I saw this toot from Geotechland

        Hmmm, I think they had to request a token just because of the T-Mobile partnership. I don’t think you really need to do that if you buy an unbundled OnePlus phone (if second hand, make sure it’s not a bundled version)