Simple question really! Are any of you running a Custom ROM? Furthermore, are any of you running a De-Googled ROM?
Why do you run your custom ROM, and what are the drawbacks?
Simple question really! Are any of you running a Custom ROM? Furthermore, are any of you running a De-Googled ROM?
Why do you run your custom ROM, and what are the drawbacks?
Sadly not anymore because I need my banking apps to work reliably. Making them work isn’t the biggest problem, but I’ll never know when an update blindsides me and breaks something.
On a sidenote, I’d really like to know why banks think that an ancient phone that hasn’t seen a security update in years is somehow more secure than an up-to-date Lineage or GrapheneOS.
All of my banking apps have worked perfectly with GrapheneOS
I would love to run Graphene OS, but their stance on root (“REEEEeEEeeEeEeEeEEEE iTs nOt sEcUrE aNyMoRe wHy WoULd yOu dO tHaT” Jesus fucking christ I’m aware of the risks now stop being a little removed about it) drives me up the fucking wall.
Yea unfortunately the community surrounding GrapheneOS is toxic. But the project itself is one of the most compatible and secure Android ROM.
Aside from the initial install is GrapheneOS a simple forget about it type of experience, and no fiddling around with safety net or whatever so someone with no technical experience can be given it and use it and stay updated?
From my experience, yes. The only thing that you won’t get working is Google Pay but I never used that to begin with.
One thing to note, when you first start up GrapheneOS, it is completely free of bloat. Like you don’t even have an app store, no weather app, no notes app, no maps, zero social media, you build your own ecosystem which in my opinion is quite a fun experience. After you create your ecosystem you are pretty much set and can forget about the fact that you even have GrapheneOS installed.
The only thing would be to back up your device every once in a while to a usb using seedvault which is built in to many custom ROMs like Graphene and Lineage.
Edit: Android Auto also won’t work if that is something that you use. My car is too old for that though.
I wonder if one possible alternative is getting an old iPhone and Apple Watch and using the iPhone just for setting up and updating the Apple watch. Then use Apple Watch for Apple pay. You don’t seem to need any data to use it for paying https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8204935
I think if that works going full GrapheneOS for a degoogled smartphone device and a smart watch for paying might be something I could do.
Eh, banks don’t want to piss off their customers over something they have less control over.
However I do know that my bank does keep Android version updates in mind. The app won’t work on anything less than Android 10, which is about 4 years old. So no working on any kind of ancient phone.