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graphene os advice (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so I've got a pixel 6A and I really like the device itself, but the last several months of updates have just screwed it up over and over again.

first I lost my fingerprint sensor and it still hasn't been fixed with any of the updates. now with one of the more recent beta updates I have seen intermittent cell service issues in areas where I never used to have service issues.

I've been considering switching over to graphene for a while now but wanted some feedback on how that works when I'm not really trying to disconnect from the rest of Google services.

I use family link for my kids tablets, I use Google pay I use Gmail etc.

Will I have any issues if I switch using the same Google services?

also I use Nova launcher, and it would be convenient if I could save that profile and import it, assuming Nova works just fine on graphene as well?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using GrapheneOS for about 5 years.

Google pay won't work, but everything else should. I've never experienced any of the issues the other commenter had, and I've installed Graphene on 4 devices (not dismissing you BTW, just saying I think your experience is quite uncommon).

I don't think third-party launchers are a good idea (you're giving full device permission to an unneeded app) but it should work.

Almost every app I wanted to use worked with Graphene before they introduced their sandboxed google services, and now everything I've tested works with Google push notifications. The only exception is Google pay, and there are upstream reasons for that. Keep in mind, on a very rare occasion the hardened memory allocator breaks compatibility (again this is very rare), but there is an app-specific setting toggle to turn this off so it's kind of a non-issue.

[–] pinpin 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google Pay and RCS don't work. Third party launchers shouldn't be an issue if you don't give them network access. That's how I use Nova.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ah dang I do use rcs, that would be annoying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

RCS not working is new, people are saying a magical module fixes it and pay though.