I have now a pixel 8, which was working OK from the past 8 months and using grapheneos. Unfortunately, today out of nowhere got the green screen bug (searched around, this seems to be really a thing with pixel 8 and some pixel 7). This really stroke me a nerve. Previously I had a pixel 5 which at some point also got screen problems and later the speaker piece just straight up did not work properly. And now this with the pixel 8.
So my question is: what other phones could potentially be used with a custom ROM that allow bootloader relocking? Other Roms can be something like divest or calyx (I used calyx before, so I am fairly familiar with it).
It really pisses me off the only option until now are pixel phones for proper relocking (from what I know from a while back), and then they have these annoying issues. It makes my skin crawl, but if required I would change to an iPhone (and throwaway a lot of things that android is actually superior, such as proper tor browser, VPN split tunneling, work/user profiles, no bloody account to use a phone).
Thanks for the responses in advance.
Last time I heard, fairphone did support calyx, but no dice on the relocking. A shame really, since I do believe the people at fairphone are doing quite an important mission on the phone world.
GrapheneOS also supports the FP 4 and 5.
I did check their page, do not see it there https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
Is it an unofficial image that works on FP 4 and 5?
Graphene only supports Pixel
The comment is no longer there, but claimed that FP did have a graphene image, which I found weird, and so I checked the website. I still ask if there was a chance was an unofficial image somewhere, since those things can actually exist
there are unofficial builds around + you can build for yourself i you have a high-end linux desktop