Yes, I do this routinely.
Check devices supported by 3rd party distros like LineageOS which out of the box have no Google services. Ironically Pixel phones are very well supported. Xiaomi, OnePlus, too. There are quite a few:
Check devices supported by 3rd party distros like LineageOS which out of the box have no Google services. Ironically Pixel phones are very well supported. Xiaomi, OnePlus, too. There are quite a few:
Without that ability, anyone can plug in to your phone and write whatever they want to the internal flash and your phone will be none the wiser.
...it's sure nice this exists and is available to anyone but it's not seriously a risk if you're not of interest to people who are willing to physically show up and bug your hardware in a way that requires quite a bit of preparation
Or maybe it is because mobile computing is just stuck, and it won't move even in decades ...
All in all I must have installed 3rd party roms on 6-7 devices with good results.