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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorta. (Android is technically Linux) What you would want to look into is a custom Android ROM. Something like OmniROM or ArrowOS.

As a side note though, installing can be a bit technical for some people and some apps don't like to work outside of the "security" of a factory version of Android. If you are interested, I would browse around the custom Android communities here (if there are any yet) and check out sites like https://www.xda-developers.com/

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Also mention lineage OS, Graphene OS and Calyx OS too

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that where you have to root it and sideload the OS? I've read about it.

[–] ThePinkUnicorn@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Rooting is a slightly separate thing from sideloading a custom rom, rooting gives apps you give permission to access to system files whereas sideloading a rom replaces the system files but doesn't necessarily give you root access. Both involve a similar process of unlocking the bootloader, installing a custom recovery and flashing a file so it is easy to get the two things mixed up.