• 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.

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    10 months ago

    For many reasonable vendor, the process is ver unlikely to brick your phone, and requires minimal effort to unlock the bootloader or load the recovery.

    However, many phone vendors (Xiaomi was the one I know) subsidize phone price with data surveillance and ads; so they don’t want users to use other OS, as it hurts their revenue.