i have a oneplus 9 (LE2113, if that matters) and the battery is starting to give. i’ll try to have it replaced when it goes fully unusable but i’d like to already have a replacement in mind so i don’t risk going without a phone for too long. any recommendations?
my current phone has never been slow, so i don’t really care for a more powerful hardware.
i would like one from a brand with as little software bullshit as possible though (i’ve seen the horrors of redmi software and want to stay as far away from That as possible).
and in case anyone is wondering, i’m not brave enough to try rooting my main phone lol.
any help would be greatly appreciated
edit: i don’t know if i worded myself poorly but by ‘rooting’ i also mean installing a third party os. i would like a phone that is not awful out of the box if such a thing exists.
Android itself without the proprietary crap added to it by Google is open source and will continue being so long it keeps using the Linux kernel. This is not going to change as the Linux kernel is licensed under GPL, and if you link against GPL licensed code your own code also has to be licensed under GPL.
The problem GrapheneOS has is not with AOSP going away, but with Google not publishing the device tree for their Pixel devices like they used to, making it impossible to unlock the bootloader, and generally making harder to develop a custom ROM for their devices.
The GrapheneOS team is currently working with an OEM to develop a phone that comes with GrapheneOS from the factory. If that happens and we no longer have to rely on Google hardware for installing it then the problem is solved.
They’re quite close to Pixel 10 support despite the lack of device trees, the biggest problem is if Google decide to completely block bootloader unlocking with future pixels. Hopefully by that time their OEM phone will be out