Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool.

Obviously, I’d be careful. But am I likely to brick a fp4 by ROM hopping? Is it dangerous enough that I should not go into buying this phone with the intention of installing a ROM?

Mainly, I want to play with Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, and maybe sailfish. But I figure if those don’t quite work out, I’ll land on Lineage with MicroG or /e/, since that’ll be stock fp4 in the US.

  • Anti Weeb Penguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think you can brick the FP4 that easily, just be careful with TWRP backups, they don’t work well with dynamic partitions.

    • butter@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t believe in OS backups. I tend to back up the few important files, and just rebuild everything on the other side.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        While I agree that a clean install should be the goal, an OS Backup allows you to go back if you screw up or forgot to backup a specific file.