In a video privacy guy says that the brax phone 3 supports secure boot but iode does not support secure boot when installing it on the brax phone 3. Why does iode not support secure boot on the brax phone 3?
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Is it possible that what the video meant was “Verified Boot”? I think Secure Boot technically is with regards to PCs and OEM OS verification, but still similar in purpose I think.
I have a Brax3, and I have a Fairphone 4. I know the FP4 does have Verified boot, and rollback protection. I’m not sure the BraX3 has the rollback protection, nor if Iode would have control over that, quite honestly. You can relock the bootloader, and so I think that is part of verified boot.
Those features are part of AOSP. And because of that, Lineage would incorporate those features with devices that support it… as in the case of my Murina Fairphone 4, since e/os gets the upstream from Lineage.
So maybe the Brax folks would have more details… Good question though…
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I do not remember in which video privacy guy mentioned it. It could have been on a rumble video. It appears grapheneos and calyxos both utilizes secure boot about their images.
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Discard the following if such inclined.
What do you think about your fairphone 4? Are you running iode on it? Does it still get security updates from fairphone?
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If I watch his vids, they are usually on there. I do know he has used the terms “Secure” and “Boot” many times, but I’ve but I’ve not seen any docs on that stuff related to the bootloader.
So I could talk days on this topic, and how it compares to the BraX in particular… and I’m not looking to get bashed out here, but I’m fine answering.
I bought a FP4, from Murena, and hated it so much I threw it on a shelf for 6 months and didnt touch it. LOL Later, I put Iode 5.x on it. I liked that, and I think the blocker is really great stuff. However, after the BraX3 disaster, I have since returned my FP4 to e/os OFFICIAL with A14, and it works perfectly (for my use case). I mean everything just works, that I personally use. It’s like my little buddy now.
Now, I’m sure everyone has their opinion on devices, and to each their own. But after being on the BraX beta, and just getting to experience that, and doing a lot of reading and understanding on my own, I think the FP4 is a great option, even over the FP5 or FP6, regardless of what you run on it. The main reason is that it has SO MUCH support behind it. And that is a big reason… every major non-google/ios system seems to support that device. It’s even a top-listed device on the UBPorts/Linux OS side of things. Then you throw in all the repairable stuff, and it just makes a great all around device.
The reason I switch backed to e/os was that when I was on A14, and compared to A15, there just seemed to be things that didn’t work so well on A15. If you read the forums, of all the OSs, after they release an update, you don’t see a lot of FP4 users complaining about something being broken. FP5 seems to have some things, and the FP6 right now is a hot mess at the moment (yesterday a bunch had their IMEIs just rando change after the update on e/os, and all hell broke loose).
e/os supports multiple Axx versions, and updates then with the latest security patches (or within a month). So couple that with my situations, A14, and all just working, it’s just a better option for me. With Iode, AFAIKT, I have to run what they are willing to build/update, and that leaves only one option for me A15.
I also run the OFFICIAL of e/os because that when you run that flavor, you get access to the FairPhone official camera app, which is far superior compared to most other options for a camera app, for the FairPhone devices in general. But you only get that on the OFFICIAL. And as I said, for my use case, A14 just purrs, and I have no issues with my device. But I do miss the Iode blocker. I really like it. But Iode seems to be very slow and fixing things, and that’s another reason I switched. The BraX3 beta highlighted that for me big time.
Compared specifically to the 2025 BraX3, my 2021 FP4 is superior in every way (and that is a shame).
If I had to buy another device today, I would look at the Sony because I listen to a lot of music, and like some of their tech. But if it was not that device, I would buy a used FP4. As for my BraX3… it just consumes tiny amounts of energy at this point… I do apply the latest betas to it, just to see if something changes.
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You say when brax phones and fairphones get on the market they are rather unfinished in terms of the software running the phones?