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I don't think it is reputation the manufacturers are concerned about. They care about money before anything else. Yes, reputation can affect sales (ever so slightly), but that is a secondary effect. A primary effect is customer support. And, it is sooooo easy to refuse support for a rooted device. Yes, there are half-wits who have no clue what they are doing and who break their devices ... but these will find a way to root and screw up anyways. On the other side, if the manufacturers and Google would not constantly screw up and give their users more choices/freedom, there would be fe

There´s a whole thread about the Pro1 with Verizon: https://community.fxtec.com/topic/2133-fxtec-on-verizon/

I agree with most of what you said. Except perhaps the part about comparing app permissions to a desktop OS. Every desktop OS allows apps (we used to call them programs or executables, remember?) to do pretty much whatever they want whenever they want. Please note that there are two distinct meanings for "secure" / "security" in terms of a device. There is security from the corporate perspective, which includes things like DRM and evidence of tampering. And then there is security from the user perspective, which includes exploiting vulnerabilities, hacking, malware, etc. Whene

Fair enough. And you are able to choose to verify your content via HTTPS, MD5, SHA1, or all three. 🙂 Of course if you were really worried about MITM attacks you would be right to be concerned that the attacker could alter the hashes on the lineage.html page also. In which case, I suppose those people would be asking for the hashes to be made available via a third party server (such as this forum). But nobody has asked for this so far. In fact, I doubt that more than a couple people even bother to check the hashes. Hmm, not sure what the timestamp issue co

(split from another thread) I have a hard time finding the logic here. If you want the free access to do as you please, you can just root it. The whole point of NOT rooting is precisely to make sure the user do not have the rights to accidentally make something that messes things up. If you want to be in complete control, then root. Yes there are apps that won't work rooted, for security reason. Typically apps like bank-apps. If you disagree with them requiring the device to be locked&certified, it is a matter to take up with the app-maker, Not Android in it self.

I have always required root on my phones. I will not buy a phone that can't be rooted. I've even bought phones without a keyboard, but that were rootable. Root is non-negotiable. OTA Updates are affected, not directly by root, but by other things using root to modify the partitions that the OTA updates would affect. The OTA mechanism is a simple binary diff, so if a single byte is out of place, it would fail. This is done to minimize download size. I totally agree that android would be better off for all users if they adopted a finer-grained permission model for apps. In particular,

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Pretty much nothing has changed since that Verizon thread. The Pro1 has not been officially registered with Verizon. To get it to work you will need a "mule" phone that has a Verizon SIM where the mule phone has been provisioned for VoLTE. You then transfer that SIM to your Pro1 and the Verizon system thinks it's still the mule phone. It works fine, mybe for months, but for some, myself included, it breaks down, usually with the symptom of refusing to send SMS. However, not everyone has reported that. I was lucky enough to be able to go to a GSM carrier (AT&T in my case) because I di

I think there are at least two examples so far which allow installation of (some) Chrome extensions in an Android browser: Kiwi and Yandex. My experiences (with the latter) are mixed, though (not even wanting to get into the subject of data protection here) and I have no idea how the developers accomplished it, either.

Ah nevermind then. But thanks for the info about the integrated ad-blocker!

Any updates on which GCam port works best so far? The SnapDragon camera is horrendous to use.

In my case, everything went smoothly: Refund requested by email, first response within 24h, refund within 48h and credit card crediting within 24h later. So everything is fine and there is no reason for any doubts about the company or the support!

tdm has the answer: I had this once and that did the trick.

My order #53*** (qwerty) has been received two days ago 🥰

If you're blind I'll buy you one.