How good is the Lineage OS support on Asus phones?
Do they lock it down including the camera modules or are they fairly open?
Do they lock it down including the camera modules or are they fairly open?
Unfortunately I do not know anything about the camera modules. I only know that it works.
I beleive each model depends on the number of contributors working on image for that model, my phone is quite old yet it is now possible to upgrade (fresh install) to 19.1, which I will eventually get around to. I bought this phone specifically to use lineage. I use the camera, it works fine, and dont have any issues personally with the quality, although i am not really too bothered as long as its not shit, which it isn't IMO
you can bootloader/oem unlock zenphones, though that might wipe DRM keys.
samsung apparently also used to have a kill switch on their S22s with the Exynos cpus in EU (the only models that are unlockable...Snapdragons are not). i have a hard time believing this tho if they permitted unlocking at all. most likely it was some signed firmware snafu as you say.
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-s22-bootloader...
Installed Lineage on my OnePlus 6 and it basically had no camera app. Using the Google Camera atm which crashes/freezes randomly.