Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 9 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.