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It's sometimes necessary in order to get latest android security updates.

We need a way to break free of vendor update depency with an independent distro. Many perfectly fine phones become obsolete just because of the OS not keeping up.

It should be illegal to discontinue a phone and not release the boot unlock codes so that people can toy with it and hack together a usable distro.



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