Hi everyone,

Genesis

I have an unused Xiaomi redmi note 6 pro that was standing in a drawer and I wanted to re-use it.

This phone was already running with a custom ROM lineageOS but they do not support it any longer and they’ve also deleted all the ROM files relative to it 🤯 so no way to download again those ROM !

So I tried few other stuff and I landed in bricking my phone. Too bad as it was still in a great shape and condition. What a waste/pollution !!

I’am myself an IT guy, but the unnecessary complexity of the Android phone and what the brands does… etc. make too many steps and I cannot spend ~two weeks to unbrick it.

And additionally to that, when I see what Google planned for us https://keepandroidopen.org/ oh my God. 🤮

So I am looking for a phone[1]:

  • around 100-150€/$
  • screen ~6.50’
  • a mini jack 🎧
  • Easy to install/Flash another ROM ! ( let’s dream, maybe the vendor itself guide/help in order to do so )
  • Bootloader not locked !?
  • Easy to be the root [2]
  • Not need to be the newer model

  1. Floss
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software ↩︎

  2. And by the way, why we should struggle and trick so much just to gain root access? Do are we not the owner of our phones? Why not a simple option that asks to be root? And the user will take its own responsibility for it !? ↩︎

  • Rick_C137@programming.devOPEnglish
    1·
    27 days ago

    Thank you all for your input !

    I still didn’t found a solution… to my goal…

    purism was looking really good ! but the price is outside my range.

    ~out of topic

    I’ve post the exact same topic on XDA, but this as been moderated censored

    F*ck them