Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 weeks agohows your experience with graphene? Better than stock? I heard they have a sandboxed Google Play store now, so getting apps is even easier.
Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 weeks agohows your experience with graphene? Better than stock? I heard they have a sandboxed Google Play store now, so getting apps is even easier.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
So far it’s been good for about a week. Highlights have been the easy install, secure by default but lets me override when I want (block app network access on install is awesome), and getting access to the other app repos than Google’s I haven’t seen since I installed dirty unicorns years ago. I setup multiple users so I can keep me primary like a root which was also simple to do.
Only complaints I have are when I get messages on another user than primary I can see the messages in the app but not the message content in the notification, its just a genetic alert message like new messages received. Nice to have but not going to make me switch back.
Also I did install the Google app store to get a couple paid apps and calendar/contacts I need to move out of Google. It does sandbox by default which is really cool and i think should be required for phone manufacturers. I just disabled services/store/calendar access to the network after I let it download everything.
shifty@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Some alternative for you for the keyboard:
github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
keyboard.futo.org
voiceinput.futo.org
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
do you have the ability to remove whichever apps you dont like?
The user notitication makes sense, i guess its more secure. Btw, so everytime you switch user, you have to restart?
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Yes, and it comes with very few by default as well
No restart needed, pull down twice and the switcher is on the bottom right. Usually takes just a couple seconds to switch.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
thats nice to hear. I thought you need to restart to change profiles.
You’re on the 9a right? How is the battery under Graphene? I used to have the OG Pixel (codename sailfish) and try different roms on there, but the battery is just terrible.