CalyxOS, the Android-based, privacy-focused operating system, is back after nearly a year-long pause following the founder and tech lead’s departure.
CalyxOS, the Android-based, privacy-focused operating system, is back after nearly a year-long pause following the founder and tech lead’s departure.
But the jump to 7.2.2.0 is not an OTA jump. Meaning it’ll factory reset as it installs. That part’s a huge bummer.
That was expected from the moment they announced the whole situation last year. It’s a signing key change.
Oh, I know. They were fully transparent about the whole thing from the beginning, and vowed to put safeguards in place to prevent this similar thing from ever happening again. I’m not knocking them for this release at all.
It’s still hard for me to transfer my things from one phone to another, and having only one device now makes it that much harder. I’m open to suggestions, though.
I’m in the same boat. They suggest Seedvault, which I haven’t tried yet. I’ll do the factory reset when I don’t crucially need my phone, I’ll take it as an opportunity to declutter a bit. I don’t need much for a functional setup. The painful part will be manually re-entering the config for my WebDAV server. Definitely not ideal, though.
I’ve never had any luck with SeedVault, but I’m sure it’s me. If a dumbphone is able to support Signal, that would really be all I would need.
Sounds like Punkt MP02 which has its own Signal client, but I’ve never seen any real feedback on it
Thank! I actually saw that when it first came out, but Signal doesn’t officially support it, which means the app could stop working at any point. That’s an unfortunate dealbreaker for me. The lack of a QWERTZ or QWERTY keyboard is a bummer, but not a dealbreaker.
The only issue with Punkt is that the bootloader is locked.
If they had any interest in making a 5G capable model, (they don’t - i asked) i would have one of these already :(
Seedvault works really well. Just remember to take the backup off the phone before you install the new version. That was a fun afternoon.