The basic problem is that you actually use Android in the form of Halium in order to deploy the Mediatek binaries. For fully open source Linux like desktop check Pinephone Pro and Librem.
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Do you mean that people are using Pinephone Pro and Librem instead of Ubuntu Touch?
Those are different devices. I have used Pinephone original for years and it’s good but very slow, Pinephone Pro is better. Librem may take years to be delivered to you.
It sounds like the open source Android app stores may be effected by Google in September. I think Ubuntu touch for the BraX3 will be ready for prime time by then!
Okay they are phones. Duh I should have realized. 
But how will having Ubuntu Touch on the BraX3 help with the Android app problem? Will we be able to download similar apps that are not Android based?
I’m working on getting open source android apps into the Ubuntu touch app store. UBPorts has videos showing how!
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Android app developers [will have] to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store
Will that solve the problem though? All the other stores (like Aurora and F-Droid) have written an open letter saying they don’t want Google to have central control. How will getting Android apps into an Ubuntu Touch app store change anything?
I don’t think Google can control a Linux app store. Android came from Linux!
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That would be great if it could truly work as a solution!
I’m starting to really like Ubuntu Touch on a phone! The phone part of it is not functional yet on the BraX3 so I am carrying 2 phones until that is worked out but it is better than Android in some repects!
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You’re kidding, right? Fast communication at a distance can be easily accomplished via voice calls or SMS even with a simple flip phone.
I don’t have a conventional smartphone, I have a Pinephone that runs Mobian Linux. The Brax3 is interesting to me as a possible next phone but it would have to run Linux. I have no interest at all in Android or its garbage “apps”. (Ditto for iPhone.)
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As I can understand LineageOS will be able to remove the lock. The problem is that the if the apps require a verification with cryptographic keys then you won’t be able to install Google Play apks and we are left with F-Droid meaning that we lose all the normie functions like WhatsApp and other messengers. This makes Android a regular Linux with no further benefits from the Android Framework beyond the security provided by virtualization and generally all the security mechanisms developed all those years, Linux is still behind in that respect, Ubuntu Touch has somehow simulated those features but I don’t like it at all and I prefer a regular Linux even if it is still based on Halium and on binary blobs.
I forgot my password for the brax3 phone.
I have never used it when I got it a year ago.
I did not have a sim card and didn’t know what it was.
Am I doomed?
Out-of-the-box there is no password, I reckon you mean that you set up the phone and forgot the password.
You can reset the phone but you can’t get back the data you may have.
When you see the brax boot logo hold the Volume Up button until the recovery menu appears.
Navigate with the up button and select the option with the down button to do a factory reset.
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Thank you very much. It worked.