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.
The goal is always not to hop. It just comes down to how long it takes to find a ROM you like.
Anyway, I don’t intend to relock. Not unless someone releases an EDL tool. Then I’ll use Stock Locked probably for a while.
This discussion about bricking the phone after a locking attempt is interesting, also mentioned on the Divest wiki : https://forum.fairphone.com/t/trapped-in-fastboot-mode-with-locked-bootloader-and-corrupted-custom-rom/80985/280
I just used fastboot to get the locking ability, the result was 1 so it could be locked, I did and it went ok. No problem since.