Not yet. My Motorola g84 behaves well enough and there’s probably no alternative rom that will run on it anyway.
My motorola broke recently. Was stuck to an older Android, got security patches very seldomly and no Lineage rom existed anyway.
Had a small Redmi 7A lying around. Installed Lineage and that little thing is running Android 15 now and everything works and feels sufficiently snappy. Antenna podcasts, Drastic DS Emulator (which recently was taken off the store), Nextcloud integration, Aegis Authenticator, Vivaldi, Boost, KDE Connect, DuoLingo, Signal, Mastodon, Organic Maps all run without any hassle. Camera and telephony works perfectly. Will continue using it for a while as I kinda like the form factor and I don’t need NFC or other fancy features. A stellar job by LineageOS devs for taking care of such dated hardware. If they accept donations I sure will spare a few eurodollars soon.
I’ve basically degoogled mine as is, but I really do wish I could switch my tablet off samsung’s nightmare OS. Every update they move/change/add things, even though I have updates turned off. They keep remapping things to use that ridiculous bixby thing.
So yes, the moment it’s supported, it’s getting switched.
I’d love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I have Pixel 7, so GrapheneOS is an easy choice. But I have a few paid subscription apps via Play Store, and I don’t want to get rid of them… Maybe I could ditch some, but not all.
Graphene supports running GMS in a sandbox like any normal app. That’s what I do as there are too many apps in the play store I need
I probably don’t know enough about sandboxing in GrapheneOS. So if you do that, you still have to log in with Google account, but Google will be able to only see what you are doing with play store apps? And the rest of data like sensors, file system, other apps, will not be visible to Play Services?
Not quite. The Play store will be its own application. Which you can apply permissions to. Any application in the same space can still talk to the Play store. That’s just inner process communication. So if any app wants to it can still talk to Google Play in that same profile.
When you’re logged into the phone you have three areas that are separate by default, you have the main user, you have the private space, and you have the work profile. All three of these could have different Google accounts that don’t see each other, they could have no Google Play and nothing goes to Google. It’s up to you
Okay, thanks! I think I should try it then
You can lock Google into its own little play area on GrapheneOS using a work profile with the shelter app, or a completely separate Android user account.
No. I have better things to do with my time and need a reliable device at all times.
I moved from iOS to Graphene back in March, and have never had an issue with it, despite having to very suddenly learn how to Android.
It takes longer to figure out what apps and data you want to keep than the actual loading of the ROM onto the phone.
They’re more reliable because you have a smaller set of things that can go wrong without all the bloatware. Now if you’re doing crazy Android magic, then I understand what you’re trying to say about the reliability part.
I would if I could. I only found out Verizon has some bullshit lock on my phone that prevents me from at least trying GrapheneOS. Likely the last time I buy from them and I’ll bring my own device next time.
If anyone knows a way around the Verizon lock let me know.
yep
yes, but my phone isnt supported. I’m looking a lot at mobile linux but thats still a ways off.
there are only two viable ecosystems:
- android based
- stock iOS
- niche Linux phones not ready for daily use
The post is basically asking if people will move to apple, and I don’t want to give up side loading, newpipe, and my open source freedom.
It’s not, I was thinking more about /e/os, graphene or Lineage
Those are all android, they are not stock android it’s true, but still flavors of android.
I edited the title to make it more clear
Had been Android user for more than a decade. Switched to iPhone last year.
No, not like that! Lol
Really interested hearing why.
My journey: https://piefed.social/post/180870
Wait, you are that Cloudless! I only realize now, I only remembered the dog profile picture
Yeah 90% of the threadiverse is from our multiple accounts.
Yeah, Android has been getting worse. I still remember when I could still install apps on an SD card. Suddenly, the next version of Android just removed that feature, and I was stuck with the pitiful 16 GB of onboard storage even though I had a 32 GB card at the time.
I’m contemplating making the same move. Google killing sideloading also kills the last reason for me to stick with Android, so I may as well go with the phone by the company that hasn’t based literally its entire business model around harvesting user data for targeted advertising.
Years ago, I switched to an iPhone. It’s awful, but the alternatives were even worse.
Before that, I experimented with everything: full de-Google setups, vanilla Android approaches, and compromises like LineageOS with Gapps. None of them were good enough for me. The middle ground (LineageOS + Gapps) served me for years, but eventually, essential apps started requiring vanilla Android, which I refuse to use due to privacy concerns.
At this point, I still prioritize functionality and reliability, so stock Android and iOS are the only realistic options. I’m not a journalist in a dictatorship, so my data leaking isn’t a life-or-death issue, but Google’s data-exploitative business model makes Android the worse of the two evils. Both platforms have major flaws, but blatant privacy violations are a dealbreaker for me.
In an ideal world, LineageOS or GrapheneOS would work seamlessly with all apps, but that’s no longer the case. The perfect OS is out of my reach.
If my needs were still limited to calls, SMS, and email—like in the 2000s—there’d be plenty of great FOSS options. But the 2020s demand more, and the FOSS world hasn’t kept up.
I’m seriously considering using my laptop for 99% of my computing needs in the future.
Constantly, to the point where I’m considering what concessions I would have to make to start using a linux phone. I’ve also considered the possibility of reverting to not having a phone anymore and supplementing my communication needs through other means.
It’s definitely getting to that point, especially with the new stuff google is trying to pull.
My old phone is 5+ years old at this point and the battery’s going spicy pillow on me… Considering replacing it with one of Murena’s offerings (which ship with /e/OS) but I’m still on the fence.
I’ve been slowly trying to de-google my Pixel 6 pro. Thinking about Graphene.
I use Google Photos to share kid pictures with the grandparents but I’ve been trying to migrate to Ente. Google checkout makes it a pain to export your pictures in bulk and load them into something else. I think I found a Python script that did the last batch but I forget the specifics.
My wife and I track each other on Maps but that’s not a deal breaker, just nice to see when the other is in transit to time dinner and things.
After that it’s just some banking apps, bitwarden, 2fa, etc which should work fine.
It just feels like a big leap.
It’s funny. When I first heard about couples sharing their location with each other, I thought it was so creepy. I trust my SO, why the fuck would I want to spy on them?!?! But then, we had some family members develop some health problems where it could be life or death to know where they were, so we started sharing our locations. And now I find it comforting to open up maps and double check to make sure they are still okay, and how long till their home, etc.
