Hello all, hello Sophie, unfortunately I can't answer your real questions, but only advocate that these are very valid questions and that my use case is similar, though I am using Replicant v6.3 for a long time now. And, yes, it's damn slow :(
A few month ago my provider switched off UMTS (3G), (all other providers will do or had done it as well) hence with the good old i9300 I am back to Edge (2G). A slow internet connection is not nice, but the worst thing is that it does not work reliable – at least in Germany these days. I am not sure how this is played in other countries, but afaik it will happen there as well (with the exception of Switzerland). Anyway, I am eagerly waiting for the i9305 port beeing ready for daily (beta) use, but there seems to be very slow progress regarding the modem unfortunately :( Regards, doak On 24.10.21 11:40, Sophie Hamilton via Replicant wrote: > Hello, > > I've been a Replicant user for a long time now on my i9300 (in use as a > daily driver), but for various reasons I've been sticking with > replicant-4.2 because when I tried replicant-6.0 a while back I found it to > be slower to use. Of course, this has led to all manner of issues - not > least that I now can't access most TLS sites because my (pre-built) version > of replicant-4.2 doesn't support TLS v1.3. Finally, the time has come for > me to update. > > My use case for Replicant is that of privacy. I distrust binary blobs in > the firmware used on my phone and most of the apps on my phone are F/OSS. > (I do still have some non-F/OSS apps, but not many. I do not use Google > apps on my phone and refuse to install Google Play services.) > > (Yes, I realise the irony/hypocrisy about how I distrust binary blobs in > the firmware on my phone and yet I'm using a pre-built version of > Replicant. I'd like to be able to compile my own version of Replicant in > the future but so far haven't been able to look deeply into it. This will > probably change from now.) > > The phone itself has also been through a lot, and I'd like to get a > replacement/new device. With that in mind, I'd like to ask a few questions: > > 1. What is the best phone that can run Replicant right now? Is it still the > i9300? > > 2. I'm aware that there is work on getting the Lima graphics driver working > in the dev versions of Replicant, which as I understand it would speed up > graphics on the i9300 considerably. Is there an estimate for when this > might appear in a maintained version of Replicant? > > 3. Talking of maintained vs. dev versions... as I said, I use my phone as a > daily driver and this would be my only phone. With that in mind, I'm > assuming it would be wise to only stick to maintained versions of Replicant > rather than trying dev versions. Is this correct or am I making assumptions > that are not necessarily true? > > Thank you! > > - Sophie. > > > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > Replicant@osuosl.org > https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant >
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