Will it take time to know if Pixel 10 can support GOS?

poubellier

First, i'm not asking when GOS will be available for Pixel 10 series. I know and understand it'll take time, and that is normal.
My question is about the ability to support this new serie. I have a pretty good offer to preorder it, and have a few days to return for free. So, i'd like to know if GOS' team will know quickly if the series can support GOS (not taking into account the time until the support is available for all).
My idea is to return the phone while it's still possible if the team says that 10 won't receive GOS

de0u

poubellier I'd like to know if GOS' team will know quickly if the series can support GOS (not taking into account the time until the support is available for all).

How could the GrapheneOS team predict how long their investigation will take before getting at least one device?

poubellier I have a pretty good offer to preorder it, and have a few days to return for free.

There are many things that it would be nice to know before they can be known.

Due to decisions Google has made, preorder arbitrage makes less sense for the Pixel 10 than for past devices.

DeletedUser421

You should probably ask in the stickied discussion. Initially it’s likely that they will only know if the bootloader can be unlocked. You can also check this yourself. The rest will likely take time.

neel

Google's Android 16 changes could be like Red Hat locking out public RHEL sources (versus CentOS Stream sources), where Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux had more steps but weren't dead. Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 10 came out even with the restrictions. After all, non-Pixel and EOL Pixel phones long had to build device trees.

Or it could be like the OnePlus 10-series all over again but with Pixels: a harder to flash device. The way OnePlus removed unrestricted recovery tools with the OP10, Google removed device trees. While the OnePlus 11 had custom ROMs, the 10, 12 and 13 series didn't. And the OP11 only got it because of a hardware exploit.

The best case scenario is the Red Hat scenario. But don't discount the OnePlus scenario: unlike RHEL Android isn't limited by the GPL. And even I know so many OnePlus-to-Pixel converts, just for the same thing to happen to Pixel.

Yes, Google didn't remove the Pixel 6-9 flashing tools for Android 16. Maybe we'll have a lifeline. Or maybe we need to lobby the EU and certain US states (assuming either will listen) to open up devices.