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To get a good experience degoogling your Android phone, you have to go farther and install an aftermarket OS, like Lineage OS.
by rthomas6 6y ago
To get a good experience degoogling your Android phone, you have to go farther and install an aftermarket OS, like Lineage OS.
- worik 6y agoor whole hog and get a Pine phone?
- slac 6y agoJust get a Huawei phone. That's Android without Google.
- ptx 6y agoSoon it will be even more Google-free, with Huawei's own Hongmeng/HarmonyOS. They just released a beta of version 2.0: https://www.huaweiupdate.com/harmonyos-2-0-to-support-android-apps-and-better-performance-than-emui-11/ https://www.huaweiupdate.com/harmonyos-2-0-to-support-androi...
- gcblkjaidfj 6y agoyou say potato I sat potahto. Same thing, different company.
- slowmovintarget 6y agoAlso different government listening in.
- gcblkjaidfj 6y agoI'd love to, but mobile phones are bad-compromise-all-the-way. I can't live without a proper SSH client, and that requires a proper keyboard where you can actually do key combinations. Any phone with a keyboard (and not ancient) can't receive an unofficial OS. e.g. blackberry Key2 Either because they do not have unlocked/vulnerable bootloaders, or because you must have the closed source driver running to be usable. Android is not opensource and even lineage OS still requires TONS of closed source binary blobs to even boot. There is zero open source android alternatives.
- yorwba 6y ago> I can't live without a proper SSH client, and that requires a proper keyboard where you can actually do key combinations. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboar... Not quite the same as a hardware keyboard, but does support key combinations with modifier keys.
- jet_32951 6y agoWell, Termux [1] as a ssh client works well enough for the basics when I am too lazy to shift my 'okole to the office. [1]https://github.com/termux/ https://github.com/termux/
- jhoho 6y agoThe F(x)tec PRO¹ might be of interest to you. Comes with a full keyboard and LineageOS support.
- Fnoord 6y agoPlanet Cosmo Communicator and Planet Astro Slide have a physical keyboard and support custom OSes.
- nuker 6y ago> .. install an aftermarket OS, like Lineage OS LineageOS for microG fork, lineage.microg.org. Lineage refused to include it for some reason.
- BlackLotus89 6y agoIt needs patches that allow faking the app signature. They consider this bad practice/a security risk and they are kinda right. I patch my lineageos to support signature spoofing though and use micro g.