r/GrapheneOS

Hi! I'm a life-long Samsung/Motorola android user, currently the Samsung Fold 4, but I've been interested in GrapheneOS so I took the plunge and bought a $120 Pixel 6a off Facebook Marketplace (remarkably kept, very low battery cycles) and loaded the OS.

My first impressions is how well this is polished, genuinely insane, and in terms of usability it's absolutely viable. I have noticed this thing loves to scream about every nook, cranny, app, and permission of things but overall awesome.

I have met some gripes though, this isn't necessarily directed at GOS though, just an overall rant I've been struggling and hoping maybe someone could help me.

Gripe #1- What the fuck is a Samsung Smart Switch and why can't this shit be useful to not-Samsung products. Backing up, Moving to PC, and do this rigamorale only to punish yourself with lost metadata and then try other methods to transfer stuff over and have it be all like you had it. If anyone has a stupid proof (and I mean that) way to clone Samsung to Pixel of all my data that'd be nice. I just learned how to move my contacts last night.

Gripe #2- NFC/Tap-to-pay, Big fan, love to use it. Google Wallet no-likey. I get it, that's the point, but is there a replacement? My bank doesn't have its own tap to pay method so my option was Google Wallet to do all that and I liked that. Not the end of the world, does suck though and I'd love to have it back.

Gripe #3- This one is petty and Is entirely a me problem so feel free to ignore but I really like One UI Home and how it lays itself out particularly In the swipe up app drawer, I like having my search bar at the bottom and able to browse my installed apps in pages swiping left to right and I HATE the continuous vertical scroll and it makes me want to huck this phone across the goddamned room and have a reason to go touch grass. It may be the reason I stop using this phone. Please for the love of god, someone have a solution for me because I hate using some jank launcher that has to compete with how blank and bland you can make a phone. I've tried like 15 different launchers and none of them fit right, granted I'm not researching for launchers cause it's just the stupid app drawer but god damn it, my autism has lead me this far why have it stop here!

Anyways. Love GrapheneOS, love the fight, keep it up. My phone may up in a blender but at least I can say I tried.

Hi, I have a Pixel 7 with the stock ROM. I'm thinking about installing Graphene OS for all the known reasons.
My hesitation is, TAN generating banking apps and similar. As my country Germany is slowly discovering digital bureaucracy, "official" apps that may not play well with Graphene OS will only increase.
One approach is, setting up a dedicated googlefied account on GOS. However, in forums I get the sense, that apps still can make problems, because its not stock Google.
Another approach would be, to leave Graphene OS completely degoogled and buy a second, cheap smartphone with stock google android and just use this phone for those apps, that don't work on Graphene OS.

Do you have experience with either or both approaches, and can hint me in the right direction? Thank you.

im tired of ai shit. im tired of my data being sold. i would like to know one thing. the games that i have on my phone, am i giving all those up, or will pretty much all android apps work with graphene

whenever in listening to YouTube or music I get a really harsh "sh" sound any time a s is pronounced. this started a few weeks ago and its driving me crazy. I used to be really impressed with the base of the phone when I first got it as well but its no longer as base heavy. I thought it was hardware but I checked and both the to and bottom speaker does it so maybe not. Im using graphene os but in not sure if my issue is software or hardware so im cross posting to relevant subs.

Setting up a GOS phone and have a concern. My work does not provide company phones. It's a good company overall but I dislike this specific policy point. They also use google services for email, chat, etc.

Technically they can't require me to install these apps, or retaliate against me if I don't, but it will make my life a lot harder without at least email, chat, and g-meet. The conundrum is that when I'm afk I'll need these (esp g-chat) on most of the time so they will need to be in the main profile and not in a specific google profile as is usually recommended.

So my question is around how apps are sandboxed. I realize that if I install these apps with my work profile google will be ingesting that information but I don't see a way around it. That info isn't private anyway. But can they see anything at all from the system? If I disable direct location services permission can it still get that?

I'd love to have a modern tablet running GrapheneOS for when I am on the go.

Currently there's only one supported device: Pixel Tablet (tangorpro) from 2023 that is no longer available to buy and refurbished/used ones are extremely expensive where I live and not worth it for the older meh hardware.

I'd like to avoid carrying an external monitor and simply use a modern iPad as the bigger screen if needed, that otherwise can be used as a regular iPad.

• the newer Pixel phones support DisplayPort Alt Mode
• iPadOS doesn't support video input via USB-C for external devices
• Bluetooth mouse/keyboard are used as primary input methods during such a use case.

the only solution that possible works is an App based (example Duet Display) on both devices, with a wired or network connection.

the Luna Display dongle and apps don't work, as there is no Android based app from them.

Anybody using such a setup or have another solution?

Since switching to GOS, I ditched my Pixel Watch 2. I bought an Amazfit Active 2, which shows good compatibility with Gadgetbridge. As instructed, I installed the Zepp app, connected the phone and created a login/password for Zepp on the phone. It's working fine, but I want to switch over now to Gadgetbridge.

I understand that I have to get the token to plug into Gadgetbridge. When I go to the Xiaomi or Huawei cloud pages, there is no login associated with the email address I used to set up Zepp on the phone. So, I fired up ADB. I can see my phone and connect to the shell and navigate to the folder that's supposed to have a log file that I can grep for the key. But the /log directory doesn't exist, so there's no log file to search. What am I doing wrong here? The Zepp app has network access for now, so I would think it would set up the account on the Xiaomi or Huami cloud. Do I need to manually sync something?

This is a fairly clean phone right now. There's not much on it. I checked all the directories in /sdcard/Android/data. The only folder remotely close to anything is the /com.huami.watch.hmwatchmanager, and it has no log files in it.

There's probably something easy or dumb that I'm missing here. Any suggestions?

Hello everyone, I have been thinking about switching to GrapheneOS for some time, especially since I saw Pewdiepie using it. My current daily driver is an iPhone 16 pro max and I do plan on using it for some more time before giving GOS a shot.

I will try to keep this short. Basically, I am sick and tired of Apple's limitations. They think they know what's best for their users and I hate it. I realized Android would much better suit my needs. But the biggest problem with it is Google spying on you. So after some digging, GOS should be the perfect solution - I get more privacy and security than on an iPhone but I also get the freedom of every other Android. Hell, even more freedom since the GOS team won't comply with Google's developer verification as far as I've heard.

So the question I have is: How did actually using this os feel like compared to the expectations you had before trying it? Do you think someone such as myself would enjoy it? A person that values privacy and freedom? I have switched to Linux Mint from Windows a little less than a year ago on my laptop, so in my head GOS is the Linux equivalent in the mobile world. Correct me if I'm wrong, and I also hope this is the right sub for this question

Hello! I was wondering guys, when you travel abroad do you use public WIFI of Hotels and stuff, or you always get ESIM?

Which one of these is best option for safety of myself? I want best option to protect myself from being tracked? So far I only use few WIFI connections, and never use any other internet

So I noticed when I reconnect to my router at home my device keeps being registered as something different every time and my router keeps giving me alerts which is the only reason I know it show up as a different thing every time. so is this a bug or by design?