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So excited this week to downgrade my phone two models and kick Goog out for good.
Okay, got the bootloader unlocked.
That was weirder than expected, but it worked.
No going back now.
Aaaaand hard brick.
This is not right. Cutting Goog out of one's life should not require ending the lives of perfectly good phones.
@ntnsndr What phone?
@ntnsndr oh noes :( it's really not diy yet. I only managed to do my s5 mini with the step by step guidance of someone who's bricked several phones in learning how not to... #doItTogether
@ntnsndr As an less extreme step to total degoogling, I've discovered if you can root an Android phone and install Xposed Xprivacy, you can at least stop applications forcing their permissions on you.
Saying that, I have just discovered my phone, a cast-off HTC One Mini 2, which has no more OS updates coming beyond v4.4, cannot connect to Nextcloud using the app because the Kitkat SSL crypto suites are inadequate.
So again I am looking into getting a different phone... But not sure what.
@wu_lee Ugh, the whole system of walled gardens is so horrible, esp. since there is a far more reasonable way to do it. I can't root mine either unfortunately, due to the locked bootloader.
@clacke @wu_lee It's a new open/privacy-focused distribution of Android: https://e.foundation