I managed to hard bricked this phone while playing around with various ROM. Thankfully someone uploaded mediatek auth file for this phone that can be used to revive the phone using SP Flash Tool on youtube of all places. You might (eventually) need this too.
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By the way, this is unimportant, but hard bricks cannot be fixed. I think you're thinking of a soft brick.
In this case, the phone was literally hard bricked (at least in the state of what people on xda forum would consider a hard brick, which require EDL mode from authorized repair shop to fix). Can't be powered on at all, not showing up in usb device list, not charging, etc. Basically would require a trip to an authorized repair shop if not for someone posting the authfile on youtube.
How did they get that file? Is it common nowadays, that this file is leaked?
Sorry for my mistake. That's interesting.
Lots of thanks for the info!! Hope I don't have to use it tho :)
Just go with any. I try to stick with the Official ones. Don't know how much of a difference that makes
You can go with microg, if you know you don't need it's shortcomings
The thing is my first option was LineageOs, because I use it rn, but the fact that I don't know why it is not official "scares" me
So, don't use Lineage OS then?
I would recommend CrDroid. Havoc is meant to be similar to a Pixel, so it has some more Google stuff than you want, but CrDroid is basically Lineage with some extra features. I haven't used it, but I've heard good things about it.
They're all pretty equivalent stock Android with a few extra customization options. I've usually ended up on CRdroid. Havoc comes with a bit of bloatware which may or may not be what you want.
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