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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.

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You'll be fine if you read the manual properly before flashing. I've done some very sketchy shit to my Oneplus 8 because I knew I could save it with EDL if I screwed up, but that never ended up happening.

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used EDL all the time. Basically in between any ROM I tried, I used EDL

[–] akiratoriyama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is edl stuff still working with newer oneplus phones?

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

No idea. I think it's considered an exploit as a proprietary Qualcomm feature. It's just lucky we have it here.