10-13-2022, 08:56 AM
(10-12-2022, 07:07 PM)zetabeta Wrote:(10-12-2022, 12:33 PM)tckosvic Wrote: I agree! I was completely into the pinephone pro making over 125 posts, spending many many hours here, and making dozens of software changes. I made so many software changes through sim/sd, that sim/sd card insert hardware broke and the phone will not now make calls as it can't read the sim. The same sim card makes calls after being inserted into original pinephone. I also have never received the replacement sim/sd replacement hardware promised by pinephone and that I applied for.this https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro says "The PinePhone Pros shipped prior to the end of July 2022 come with a micro-SIM slot instead of a nano-SIM slot.".
Even more exasperating is that after 2000 posts on this site, pinephone has ignored all this info and has, apparently, not made any chamges to what they are selling. I can tell from the questions of newbies that they are having the same problems experienced by the january shipment purchasers. I think my time with pinephone is over. They've completely ignored their customers.
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tom kosvic
The core components used by brax2 are taken from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. I don't think there are any google elements either above-board or hidden in it. There are substitute apps that are not supplied by goodle.
tom kosvic
(10-12-2022, 12:33 PM)tckosvic Wrote: Waiting for a new batch of the brax2 phones to come out. I have heard good things about that de-googled phone using opensource android; not linuxi have this rhetorical question: how you de-google something which is developed by google!? yeah, sure, aosp does not have google's closed stuff, but its development is still controlled by google.
tom kosvic
if i look after three years, i think google has done changes in android which makes unlocking, rooting, debloating practically impossible. requiring some closed source stuff as a dependency in aosp is enough to close android. i also think fuchsia kernel eventually replace android kernel. fuchsia's license is more permissive.
for the short term de-googled android might be good idea for privacy and control, but it still uses google's code and api indirectly. i essentially got sick of debloating and degoogling stuff and end up to this pinephone stuff.
for the longer term, linux phones have real possibility now. i can think now that i'm not necessarily stuck in two monopolistic platforms.
