[Replicant] Is the i9300 still the best phone for running Replicant? (and a few other questions)

[doak]

Hello all, hello Sophie,

unfortunately I can't answer your real questions, but only advocate that these
are very valid questions and that my use case is similar, though I am using
Replicant v6.3 for a long time now. And, yes, it's damn slow :(

A few month ago my provider switched off UMTS (3G), (all other providers will
do or had done it as well) hence with the good old i9300 I am back to Edge (2G).
A slow internet connection is not nice, but the worst thing is that it does not
work reliable – at least in Germany these days.
I am not sure how this is played in other countries, but afaik it will happen
there as well (with the exception of Switzerland).

Anyway, I am eagerly waiting for the i9305 port beeing ready for daily (beta)
use, but there seems to be very slow progress regarding the modem unfortunately :(


Regards,
doak


On 24.10.21 11:40, Sophie Hamilton via Replicant wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been a Replicant user for a long time now on my i9300 (in use as a
> daily driver), but for various reasons I've been sticking with
> replicant-4.2 because when I tried replicant-6.0 a while back I found it to
> be slower to use. Of course, this has led to all manner of issues - not
> least that I now can't access most TLS sites because my (pre-built) version
> of replicant-4.2 doesn't support TLS v1.3. Finally, the time has come for
> me to update.
> 
> My use case for Replicant is that of privacy. I distrust binary blobs in
> the firmware used on my phone and most of the apps on my phone are F/OSS.
> (I do still have some non-F/OSS apps, but not many. I do not use Google
> apps on my phone and refuse to install Google Play services.)
> 
> (Yes, I realise the irony/hypocrisy about how I distrust binary blobs in
> the firmware on my phone and yet I'm using a pre-built version of
> Replicant. I'd like to be able to compile my own version of Replicant in
> the future but so far haven't been able to look deeply into it. This will
> probably change from now.)
> 
> The phone itself has also been through a lot, and I'd like to get a
> replacement/new device. With that in mind, I'd like to ask a few questions:
> 
> 1. What is the best phone that can run Replicant right now? Is it still the
> i9300?
> 
> 2. I'm aware that there is work on getting the Lima graphics driver working
> in the dev versions of Replicant, which as I understand it would speed up
> graphics on the i9300 considerably. Is there an estimate for when this
> might appear in a maintained version of Replicant?
> 
> 3. Talking of maintained vs. dev versions... as I said, I use my phone as a
> daily driver and this would be my only phone. With that in mind, I'm
> assuming it would be wise to only stick to maintained versions of Replicant
> rather than trying dev versions. Is this correct or am I making assumptions
> that are not necessarily true?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>  - Sophie.
> 
> 
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