Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool.
Obviously, I’d be careful. But am I likely to brick a fp4 by ROM hopping? Is it dangerous enough that I should not go into buying this phone with the intention of installing a ROM?
Mainly, I want to play with Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, and maybe sailfish. But I figure if those don’t quite work out, I’ll land on Lineage with MicroG or /e/, since that’ll be stock fp4 in the US.
I don’t think you can brick the FP4 that easily, just be careful with TWRP backups, they don’t work well with dynamic partitions.
I don’t believe in OS backups. I tend to back up the few important files, and just rebuild everything on the other side.
While I agree that a clean install should be the goal, an OS Backup allows you to go back if you screw up or forgot to backup a specific file.