Submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
love that i switched to graphene. I was hesitant because ages ago i bricked a phone with a random ROM, but boy have things changed.
installing was seriously easy, like in a pinch my elderly parents could probably do it. the result worries better than stock Android imo
Really strongly recommend checking it out if you have a supported devices.
I didn’t brick mine, but got very close to it. Was able to run some command prompts to it while it was giving me a blank screen and managed to factory reset/ get it to where I wanted. Man was I worried I just turned my $1,000.00 phone into a paperweight. After that near miss, I gave up on rooting/ custom roms even though I enjoyed tinkering with them. Maybe I should give it another go.
If you just want to play around you can get a Pixel 7a for $374 USD from store.google.com while it’s on sale. You can pay in installments.
I don’t really like Google as a company, or idea of changing phones often, but it’s pretty cheap for a brand new smartphone, and buying from Google gives the option for having an unlocked bootloader unlike if you bought from a service provider’s store.
I need a slightly less secure walkthrough to allow, essentially, android auto and google maps to operate.
I did without for a while, and it wasn’t pretty.
Lets just say I went from a sketchy hospital district to a very sketchy dead end in a neighborhood that had lookouts. Working nights, this was not a great time to drop in unannounced.
Only thing I hate is the messaging app sucks. I have “enter” key so I cannot make new lines in my messages.
The April 2024 security update for Pixel phones fixes 24 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29740, a critical severity elevation of privilege flaw.
Too bad it doesn’t expose which updates were made and which CVEs were patched. I guess it came in the “April 5” security update my phone has now…
It constantly annoys me that it doesn’t present a change log for system updates. It’s just like here you go, install this, maybe this one has security updates, you’ll never know. Doesn’t even tell you what version it is installing.
That’s why I like Samsung. They at least tell you what kind of update you’re installing.
*Google fixes backdoor left in by Google for law enforcement.
Fixed that headline for ya, big guy.
Wish Graphene suports more than just Google Pixel
Some Samsung devices (Galaxy S series) have a proper hardware that met the requirements of GrapheneOS team but Samsung doesn’t offer a proper support for other ROM’s. Pixel devices are very similar to the old ADP (Android Dev Phone) in matter of software because they are the few one or even the only OEM that provides a smartphone with the ability to lock the bootloader after the installation of a different ROM
lordfarquaad@kbin.social 7 months ago
Exciting: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112204441311327128