With the recent announcement of Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS, I got curious about installing a custom rom like LineageOS or/e/OS on my Moto G Power (vegas) because I’ve been meaning to degoogle for a while now. As far as I can tell, Motorola has all the keys to be a primary development target: OEM supported boot unlocking, cheap devices, accessible hardware, etc. Why have their devices largely been ignored by custom ROM developers?


Motorola was never good, at smartphones. If you look back just a little further they were pretty great.
Although, if I remember right they did manufacture the Nexus 6 which was pretty well liked at the time.
Yeah, I meant smartphones. I had the v120 and some letter, I forget, and the ROKR z6m slider. Both awesome phones. And of course they make industrial radios (mainly for police, hence the saying “You can’t outrun Motorola”?).