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