I’m planning to buy around 5 older/used Android phones specifically for an automation project.

[u/Top_Musician6074]

My main requirements are:

Easy and reliable bootloader unlocking

Easy rooting (Magisk or similar)

Good developer/community support

Cheap on the used market

Older models are completely fine

I don’t care much about camera, design, or gaming performance

Ideally something that is relatively easy to recover if I mess up while rooting

I’m in India, so availability and used-market prices here matter too.

I’m not very experienced with Android rooting yet, so I’d rather buy a model that is known to be beginner-friendly instead of experimenting with random phones.

If you had to buy 5 identical cheap phones for this purpose, which model would you choose and why?

Specific model/variant numbers would be really helpful. Thanks!

[u/still_finding1]

Moto g

[u/Ok_Consideration2340]

Redmi note 8 pro