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Grapheneos is the whole reason I bought a pixel.
Big same. Sadness over no micro SD though. Hell they should just have nvme 2280 slots these days.
I was tempted to install GrapheneOS, then I noticed a chance that banking apps may not work due to some check will fail.
There's a semi-official compatibility list for banking apps: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
This thread is a year old why are you here?
Install GCam, few reasons:
- The new update that requires you to go into a menu to change exposure and white balance instead of just tapping on the viewfinder to show the two sliders infuriates me to no end.
- Custom video bitrate. Not every video I take needs to be full quality, and even then, full quality video on my Pixels so far are not worth it. Couple hundred megabytes just for 1 min of footage that doesn't even look that good? Nah.
- Photosphere >>>>> panorama. I don't understand why they decided to kill it off entirely.
In the developer settings I set all the animations to twice as fast (half as long) so they feel snappier.
Do all gestures work, when you use 3rd party launcher? Got P9 PRO XL and so far I'm on the default launcher. Came from Xiaomi 12, where if you switched launcher, gestures stopped working.
I very much like CalyxOS, it's fast and polished, using microG (an open source clone of Google play services) so all your apps work, but your battery lasts longer since everything ribs locally if you like.
Anything in particular that works better with CalyxOS + microG than with GrapheneOS + sandboxed Play Services?
There's a lot but not total function parity. Android auto is one I wish worked, but I have a motorcycle, so don't really care.
You've just gotta hope the sandboxing is effective. I'd rather just have something open source fool the apps into thinking it's Google, vs having a low-level malware written by very smart Google engineers, constantly checking the perimeter of the sandbox for an open door..
If you use sandboxed Google services for notifications, you need to allow full network permissions to Google services. Kind of defeats the purpose.
That's why I don't run Google services on my phone. CalyxOS instead uses microG, an open source replicator of Google play services. Since it isn't signed with Google's private keys, some things (particularly Google pay) don't work, but idgaf.
@RubberElectrons @Renohren 😁 Have never seen "idgaf" before but, like the expression, "he was a man of few words and greeted me with two of them", it is instantly understandable. Cool!
Try Neo Launcher and its associated Neo Feed. Amazing control/customization.
I also recommend OpenBoard, but the newer maintained fork with gestures and other features.
Browser-wise - Mull.
Instead of Google autofill for passwords - something like Bitwarden instead.