Must have: SD card, SIM, Good flashing and root capability, Audio port, 4G
Preferred: Removable battery
Not have: built-in AI bullshit
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Any specific reason why they should be phones older than 2020?
After 2020 it’s guaranteed to be ugly and dumb. Also I’m buying it used, I want it cheap.
Old chips really suffer on some of these if you want to really do anything honestly get a new Pixel off Swappa.
I know everyone fucking hates Bluetooth headphones and they’re valid for that because I know they haven’t gotten into KZ earbuds. They’re like $20 and they have amazing audio quality you could pay like $600 for with Beats and still not get. Dongles are also NOT THAT BAD (coping)
I got a note 4 and I couldn’t be happier. Suck my little micropenis
Dark woke response on here. Refreshing.
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.
Fairphone
Motorola G100 / Edge S
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…
Yeah, me aswell.
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.
You can get a Nokia, it has a great user base, removable battery, and audio Port, SD and sim too. Also, you dont need to pay an arm and a leg for it.
Just dont choose the ones with that big display, otherwise its all the same.
Nexus 4
Great little device from 2013-ish and could take a beating. Battery wasn’t too difficult to replace. No SD slot, though.
poco f1 maybe. runs mainline linux
i like my xperia xz1c, but its very hard to replace battery
