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Which is the best phone company in terms of consistently putting out good phone products.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just buy mid-range Xiaomi phones, unlock them and install LineageOS. So far, so good.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

True, my bad. It's more "how do you make a no fuss phone".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Some people need CIA roms, for them it's worth it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've thought about doing this, but I'm worried about banking, payment, stocks (and other similarly picky) apps flipping the table when they notice it's a rooted device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, this may be a concern. I've bee relatively lucky using magisk + microg, but unfortunately YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been having good luck with graphineos but you really need a pixel since they don't really support anything else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, I've been through that, banking apps and payment apps definitely don't like that. When I did that they weren't that well-used, but now I wouldn't go that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even their old flagships are still quite good. I'm currently daily driving two 7 years old Mi6 phones with Lineage, because you just can't find a small phone nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, definitely this. I've just done this for the first time ever two weeks ago on a 5 year old xiaomi redmi note 7, and this ancient thing is suddenly a beast again! Everything is suddenly so smooth and fast without all that bloatware and spyware