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De-googling and privacy on Sony xperia

I have been considering replacing my nearly 7 year old iPhone (although very reluctant) and I was checking for options. Really the only phone that caught my eye was the Sony xperia 1 V, but I found no information about how to degoogle and lock down the device. I really like the features and the built in camera apps, etc. Is...

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Google for Sony Open Devices. AOSP, but running on Sony devices. While I prefer LOS, SODP is always the beginning to port it from.

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Most common issue would be something with your system memory. I could imagine that this caused the timeout of your cpu, which waited for the startup code, which never arrived.

In case you want to test that, swap your memory sticks around. Or tell the kernel to ignore that cpu (see command line arguments of the kernel).

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