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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Bye bye Android and hello Murena Fairphone.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

I wish a have Fairphone, They are great

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Partly because of this, I moved to graphene.

Fuck google, simply. And I did like then 15-20 years ago. How far have they fallen..

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I wish I could, but I don't want to carry around a wallet, so I need Google Wallet :( and it doesn't work on Graphene.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 37 minutes ago

I don't know much about Google Wallet what's the benefits?

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, same. I have considered a watch to solve this, but not sure.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

15-20 years ago? I thought GrapheneOS was 6 years old

[–] Padit@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I think he means he liked Google 15-20 years ago.

[–] ViolentMiracle@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have an Android device with a locked bootloader and no available custom ROMS. Am I fucked ?

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You need to unlock bootloader first

[–] ViolentMiracle@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I don't think it's unlockable. You see I'm using an honor device (huawei basically)

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nope.

Just remove gapps. Problem solved.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure but on same devices removing Gapps on stock ROM can result in soft-brick

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 9 hours ago

Sounds like a huge market for degoogled phones is about to open. Stock up now.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 1 points 4 hours ago

What is ROM state of development with locked bootloaders and pixle going down the drain. Not to mention broken VoLTE (last time I looked) now needed in a bunch of countries since 3g cutoff.

Like ideally yes.

But you think they'll stop at the play store?

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Use Custom ROMs with MicroG

Here is active and good custom ROMs

LineageOS (many devices) e/os (many devices) crDroid (many devices) GrapheneOS (only pixel)

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 44 points 1 day ago (11 children)

that's just it, they're targeting custom ROMs with this too. the number of security updates for AOSP is being cut by Google in order to make custom ROMs less secure, so that they can then close down the project while claiming it's to protect users. make no mistake, the end goal here is make everyone who uses Android have to do so on their terms.

it's why Linux phones being mainstream is an absolute priority.

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I just got my fairphone! It feels so free!

[–] TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good news on the GrapheneOS front: Graphene will be available on hardware other than Pixels.
I like my Pixel 6 Pro just fine, but I'm nonetheless thrilled about this.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/02/grapheneos-non-pixel-hardware-announcement/

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

good but I don't have couple months

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Refurbished Pixels can be cheap nowadays. I got a Pixel 8a for less than 300 euros in great condition.

[–] Death__BySnuSnu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That's just the announcement. The devices won't be ready till 2027. 😖

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My girlfriend and I both need new phones from her failing and buggy Samsung A52 and my Xperia 5ii. We are not going Samsung anymore because they are putting unremovable Israeli spyware baked into their devices, fairphone 6 still seems very buggy and we had a friend with a fairphone 4 with 99 problems with it, and I don't want to give google money and we want SD card slots instead of almost no memory to force cloud subscriptions.

2027 is starting to be a big ask though.

[–] slamphear@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For what its worth, I've been daily driving a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS for over 4 months now and it seems quite polished to me. I've had a small number of issues that I've had to work through (as has been the case with every phone I've ever used), but I definitely wouldn't describe it as "very buggy."

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 4 hours ago

Do you mind if I ask you a few questions about it? Especially on/e/? I think you are the first user I have seen.

Does android auto work, connect fast, and have all of your enabled apps on it? My girlfriend's maps app just doesn't work in android auto sometimes and the same with Antennapod for me and we have to reconnect. That is quite an important one.

How is battery life with screen off? On my xperia 5ii it has always been terrible with 1.5% per hour (accubattery) on WiFi or 3% per hour on 4G...

Does your microphone work well in calls, recording, and on speaker? I have seen a ton of bug reports for that.

Have you run into the common "terrible haptics/vibration" thing that people are saying with it barely being noticeable or not noticable in your pocket? I have heard that and that the haptics are really really bad in general.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, I guess this means that f-droid can only be installed via Google Play. /s

I'm getting flashbacks to using Internet Explorer to install Firefox.

edit: made sarcasm more obvious.

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