I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.
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Just did some research as it all sounds very good, and they dont support the fairphone 4. Some of their arguments are legit ( missing cpu features ), some of them are questionable ( fairphone not releasing security patches fast enough. Idk, lineagoeos seems to release weekly together with the android releases? ). Guess ill have to look at grapheneOS at the future when i look at a new phone ( so in 7 or 8 years lol )
Yeah, they are really picky about phone vendors in regards to security. In order to achieve a fully patched Android system, you need multiple up-to-date components. Obviously, you need security patches for Android itself, but you also need kernel patches for the specific device that you are using. Those are provided by the vendor. I can imagine that Fairphone can't always provide them on time, as they are a smaller company with limited resources. That's why only Google Pixels are currently supported by GrapheneOS. Btw: If you get an 8th Gen Pixel, you can also use that for a really long time, they just extended the security patches for the newest generation of phones to 7 years.
You can try DivestOS, it's also a good ROM for privacy and they have support for the Fairphone 3 and 4.
Thats too bad. I dont plan on buying a new phone in , at least, 6 years so itll have to wait then.
I know fairphone might look to be slow on driver update, but afaik they skipped a few versions to go straight to android 13. And i also know they try to maintain their own drivers so they provide support even if the soc vendor doesnt.
Its a very complex thing tbh, but ill keep grapheneOS on my radar!
That's not good.
Interesting. I don't know how they do this, as SOC manufacturers almost never publish sufficient documentation in order to actually write custom drivers.
Maybe try out DivestOS, they support Fairphones.