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Old 03-27-2020, 12:10 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
The bootloaders can be unlocked and custom firmware can be loaded onto most any Android phone. For many years I ran Android Open Source Project operating systems on my phones.

Even without that, an app store is not necessary. Android has a file system much like Linux and one can transfer and execute apps independent of the walled gardens.
Have you tried recently to opensource the current OS's? Had my android 9 phone for a month so far and I am just now able to not have google intercept all the time. All the root stuff is blocked from downloading, my XP and win10 machines won't recognize the phone at all.
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