Must have: SD card SIM Good flashing and root capability Audio port

Preferred: Removable battery

Not have: built-in AI bullshit

Thxxx

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Samsung Galaxy S5 was/is a good device for tinkering. Supports many custom ROMs from CyanogenMod to Lineage to Ubuntu and postmarketOS.

    Has a removable battery, 3.5mm audio jack, SD card slot. IIRC it worked fine on 3G, but did not support calls on 4G.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Aren’t most/all of the newer Motos bootloader unlockable? I’m in the market for a new phone, but not wanting google or apple all up in my shit. Not a fan of pixel phones, so…

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    The Xiaomi Mi A1 from late 2017 had very good ROM/rooting capabilities when I last used it 4-5 years ago. It didn’t have a removable battery though. The second sim slot can function as a microSD card and it has a 3.5 mm audio port.

    Checking the LOS website, they say it has support for LOS 20 / Android 13, which is pretty impressive considering the official ROM only went up to Android 9.0. I stopped using the device on LOS 17.1 / Android 10.