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That’s the solution for a specific phone. A solution for the problem of having malware on phones period is to stop buying phones with malware.

It's not easy to check whether a phone has malware. It's easy to check whether a phone supported by LineageOS. Just like home routers and OpenWRT.

It's easy to boycott a manufacturer though. I was a lifetime ThinkPad user up until Lenovo's malware debacle, for example.