Re:NitroPhone – Pixel 4a phone with GrapheneOS
by kop316 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:54AM
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There is no way this thing is %100 open source. Last time I built a full AOSP from scratch, I found out:
- VoLTE and SMS over LTE is a proprietary library.
- WiFi calling is a proprietary library.
- the Vendor partition is entirely proprietary, and at least for the Pixel, is different depending on if you use the AOSP version or the stock Google Version.
- For the Pixel 3a, you cannot even POST the phone without adding a proprietary library! I would be shocked if it's different for the Pixel 4.
I know for a fact that you cannot even boot a Pixel 3a without adding proprietary libraries.
If the reader is curious, feel free to look here and try it for yourself:
- VoLTE and SMS over LTE is a proprietary library.
- WiFi calling is a proprietary library.
- the Vendor partition is entirely proprietary, and at least for the Pixel, is different depending on if you use the AOSP version or the stock Google Version.
- For the Pixel 3a, you cannot even POST the phone without adding a proprietary library! I would be shocked if it's different for the Pixel 4.
I know for a fact that you cannot even boot a Pixel 3a without adding proprietary libraries.
If the reader is curious, feel free to look here and try it for yourself:
https://wiki.lineageos.org/extracting_blobs_from_zips.html
https://grapheneos.org/build#extracting-vendor-files-for-pix...
In my opinion, if Nitrokey was at all serious about making this 100% open source and secure, they would help mainline the kernel for it.
Edit: https://social.nitrokey.com/@nitrokey/106861801899442589
Its not 100% open source.