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Re:Essential Phone, available now by Brakenshire on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:23PM (#15042713)
Lineage OS works very well with the 6P, incidentally.
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Re:Essential Phone, available now by magila on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:42PM (#15042807)
Lineage OS isn't a substitute for vendor support. Lineage is dependent on vendors for updated drivers and firmware blobs. So if there's a bug in the firmware, like the recent BCM43xx vulnerability, you are still SOL if the particular chip in your device is no longer supported by the vendor.
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Re:Essential Phone, available now by jacobush on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:06AM (#15046275)
True, but I could imagine a situation where Lineage could work arond a bug in firmware and protect from it.
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