The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoDocumenting the descent into madnessmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down126file-text
arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1imageDocumenting the descent into madnessmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoMobile device flashing is a fucking alien world. Samsung products are not good for it, especially in the US. The alt OS’s are mainly built against ancient hardware, and the SKUs that work are so limited that they’re not particularly cheap on the used market. The best thing you can do is go fairphone or pixel and specifically get one of the models that is directly claimed as supported. If you can’t get it to work, find the OS forums and hop in, someone will bend over backward to help you out if you’re nice about it.
Mobile device flashing is a fucking alien world. Samsung products are not good for it, especially in the US.
The alt OS’s are mainly built against ancient hardware, and the SKUs that work are so limited that they’re not particularly cheap on the used market.
The best thing you can do is go fairphone or pixel and specifically get one of the models that is directly claimed as supported.
If you can’t get it to work, find the OS forums and hop in, someone will bend over backward to help you out if you’re nice about it.