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As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I've found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it's refurbished so google doesn't get a shit from me.

I'm curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it's good, some it's bad so I'm curious to know.

I'm still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it's missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative... I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

~~Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?~~

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

U can change icons etc by installing different launcher fdroid has a bunch take a look through to find one u like.

There are a few apps that wont work amazon prime is one. My banking apps work but some people have had issues. Overall ive had no issues that i couldnt solve with dr gpt. Would reccommend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I tried a few launchers and NeoLauncher is the one I'm currently using. Lawnchair has something I didn't like but I don't remember what lol

[–] iamtherealwalrus 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I have tried on several occasions to like GrapheneOS. But every time I install it on my Pixel 7, basic functionality breaks. Things like receiving regular phone calls, as in people calling my number using a normal phone. GrapheneOS will sometimes not even ring and immediately display a notification saying "Missed call". If my phone cannot be used as a .. phone, what good is is?

[–] hate2bme 2 points 15 hours ago

Hell my android does that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Is it a problem with you only or is it a problem others have too?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if you can change the icon color, I didn't try. I have a launcher I like so I immediately switched to that and it let's me use any icons I want.

I have not had any camera issues on mine, 6a

I never used the stock os or sandboxed play services so I can't help there.

I use Organic Maps and am fine with it, but mostly I use paper maps. My need for live mapping is very limited. You might want to try GMaps WV https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/

What it is GMaps WV is a WebView wrapper for using Google Maps without exposing your device. more info, including limitations Here

Overall I am happy with GrapheneOS, no issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Currently using a launcher too but I was curious, probably I'm going to switch to it bhr not sure which icon pack I should use

The camera problem is on a non pixel phone, on GOS maybe it doesn't have problems

I can try it. Didn't know there was a Gmaps wrapper. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Looking to degoogle myself too. For the maps, Here we go is a german brand. I know it's not foss but being german, they have to follow GDPR which, I guess, is better than google anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I would like to compare it to another non-foss app: Waze

I think it's better that maps but I don't know

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[–] Nednarb44 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

-I haven't found a way to change the default app icons, but it doesn't bother me that much with all the other apps I end up having.

-the camera app is plenty good for general use. I don't use it for social media or anything, I use mine for work for taking pics of machinery and I use it to take pics of my kids and stuff and it's plenty good for that. I can't say how much tinkering it let's you do, someone else will have to give more detail

-Battery life is plenty good for me. I have a pixel 6, and I go to bed with it at like 45-60% most days. I'm sure the newer phones are a bit better, but can't say for sure

-I wish I could give more detail on the sandboxed apps, I use a few apps that use google play services and they work well, bit idk how it works behind the scenes

-honestly it just works like your phones OS should, it's really quite good

  • I also try to use organic maps when I can, but it is still missing things, I use google maps in my browser, but that's getting worse and worse
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I wanted to know if the icons color is based on wallpaper or it's black and you can't change it. Not sure if I'll keep the default launcher anyway

I'm not looking for professional picture quality so if it works good, that's great!

Still thinking if 7/7 pro or 8 (no white so probably no)

Organic map is a cool project but the fact it misses a lot of places near me is something I don't like, I need it for work 🥲

[–] Ekpu 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not foss but if you need good maps and a ton of features look into locus maps. I really like it for hiking as you can save offline maps and with brouter you also have offline routing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

For now, it looks like it it has some features I'll never use, like: forecast or other specific data but I have to try it before saying anything about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

By default the icons are black and white, but if you long-press the desktop, there's a wallpaper & style menu that lets you change the colors to one of several options, including matching your wallpaper or a bunch of pastel color pairs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Then it's like I thought, thank you!

[–] Nednarb44 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Right, for the color, I have a neon background and the icons stay black and white. There's no option to manually change them as far as I know. I tried changing them before I commented the first time. There might be a way to force it somehow, but that's outside of my interest level lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Long press the desktop and go into wallpaper & style, you have options there to change the colors.

[–] Nednarb44 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah nice, good find. I tried a few things and those didn't work. Though to note, the option I found to work changes apps other than the default system apps too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Someone said you can activate sometimes to match the wallpaper (?) Like on regular OS other OSes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Try Magic Earth for a maps app.

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