As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I’ve found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it’s refurbished so google doesn’t get a shit from me.

I’m curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it’s good, some it’s bad so I’m curious to know.

I’m still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it’s missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative… I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

  • communism
    3·
    1 month ago
    1. Can’t change the default icons on the default launcher. I think custom launchers may be able to.
    2. I use Open Camera whose quality I would say is fine for my purposes (no kind of professional photography, just taking pics for record-keeping, to show people things, etc)
    3. Battery life is way better than stock Android IME. It makes sense cause stock GrapheneOS is so debloated and isn’t running all these spyware services in the background.
    4. You go to the app called “App Store” (preinstalled), download Google Play, then you use it like a normal Google Play app. Very user-friendly.

    Been exclusively using GrapheneOS for ages, never had any problems. It’s very easy to install (especially now they have a WebUSB installer) and even easier to use.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayOP
      1·
      1 month ago
      1. I asked the color, I know I can’t change the icons without a launcher
      2. For me it’s confusing but just downloaded and opened it, I have to try before judging
      3. Makes sense!
      4. So I can make a new profile, name it(?) “FUCK GOOGLE” and install the google play app there. Not sure if I’ll ever use it but I know I can do it

      Yeah the flashing through chromium browser. Need to install one for that purpose but I’ll do it. Thank you

      • communism
        1·
        1 month ago

        I asked the color, I know I can’t change the icons without a launcher

        Yeah I was including colour changing as an icon change. The colours don’t change based on wallpaper nor are they customisable in default launcher.

        So I can make a new profile, name it(?) “FUCK GOOGLE” and install the google play app there. Not sure if I’ll ever use it but I know I can do it

        Yep, GOS profiles (and maybe Android profiles, not used stock Android in so long so I wouldn’t know) act like a completely different phone basically, so you can have GPlay installed in one profile and it won’t affect the other profiles at all.

          • communism
            1·
            1 month ago

            Uh weird! Others said it’s possible to do it.

            Huh. Possibly it is and I just don’t know about it then? At the very least it doesn’t change purely based off wallpaper. It doesn’t change based on Material You colours either. If they’re customisable some other way then I don’t know about it.