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I have 15 tabs open and 9 YouTube videos.
It's hard work.
First things.
Download fucking everything.
Then start
Unlock OEM
Unlock bootloader.
Need to know how to access terminal. Run commands
It's really complicated. Would be nice if they made it easier.
Depending on the phone, that can be relatively easy.
What I mean is putting modem and oem files from Xperia 10 onto XA2 (Ultra) to attempt to get working T-Mobile VOLTE. Newflasher won't do it, so trying manually doing it, but I seemingly can't write to /oem, and recovery doesn't pick it up.
I wouldn't say it's easy. I expect 90% of people have never touched a command prompt. It takes me she's just to find the thing. Need to download all the files then start commands.
Once you've unlocked and got TWRP it's really easy.
If phones would just preinstall TWRP and be unlockable. That would free up all the issues. Then it's just transferring files over. Noice and simple
I meant relatively as it's more of a nerd thing to use custom ROMs, and you would usually have more experience with this kind of thing.
My issues are things nobody has cared enough to try, or impossible to fix idk.
True. Be better if they made it easier. More would do it.