• Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
  • flash a recovery.img,
  • load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
  • wipe some caches,
  • select new os/rom image,
  • pray it doesn’t brick your phone.

You’d think someone would’ve learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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        10 months ago

        ha, you werent under the impression you were buying a device, were ya?

        youre buying a software license that happens to come with a piece of hardware.

        • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pub
          0·
          10 months ago

          I always tell people you’re not buying a phone ( software + hardware ), you’re just buying the hardware, what’s inside ( software ) it all belongs to the company, the manufacturer of your device

          I’m glad to see that every person I said this to, seemed worried about their data, and asked me how they can truly own their phone