Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle?

I Cast Fist@programming.dev to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 143 points –
  • Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),
  • flash a recovery.img,
  • load into recovery mode (which, depending on the phone, might need extra work)
  • wipe some caches,
  • select new os/rom image,
  • pray it doesn't brick your phone.

You'd think someone would've learned a thing or two from the easy graphical installations linux and even windows have been offering since the late 2000s.

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Yes- I'd recommend Graphene to anyone who can live without Google Pay. I've only been using it for a month but everything has worked without issue and with the added benefit of "storage scopes" and Google Play sand-boxing.

Mine works, but some banking apps won't work if they require full SafetyNet compliance. So that could be a deal-breaker for some people too.

Pay or Play?

I mentioned both. Google pay does not work in graphene. Google play works in graphene and has additional sand boxing implemented.