On Mon, 12 Oct 2026, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote:
Well, what a coincidence !!! As I was reading the thread of emails in the list about GrapheneOS on phones, my wife who wants to completely get out of Google (and eventually out of US products/services) also heard about GrapheneOS. A quick look told me that unfortunately, GrapheneOS is only properly supported on Google Pixel series.
It only runs on Pixels because the GrapheneOS project has firmly resolved to only support phones with proper hardware security elements. Motorola is including that on a soon-arriving phone so GrapheneOS will run on it. But it will be an expensive, high-end model.
Google has made it increasingly difficult for GrapheneOS to port their variant of AOSP to Pixels in the past two years, forcing GrapheneOS to find a new phone hardware partner.
GrapheneOS also requires an unlockable and relockable bootloader for the same security reasons. GrapheneOS also prevents rollbacks of OS updates without wiping the phone first. It trully is a security-first OS.
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