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The one thing that prevents me from switching my Pixel over is the lack of support for emergency services to see your location if you call the emergency number.

The one thing that prevents me from switching my Pixel over is the lack of support for emergency services to see your location if you call the emergency number. I know this because I called twice while having GrapheneOS installed. I do some watersports and always take my phone with me, so letting emergency services see my location is good for my safety in case I ever got into trouble on the water. I also have a PLB, but I like to have two devices for redundancy, as is best practice.

cromka 1y ago
This should be higher up.
- strcat 1y ago
  GrapheneOS supports E911. It doesn't have Google's proprietary Emergency Location Services implemented as part of Google Play services which some countries depend on. We plan to implement the same standard it does for regions without support for a variant of E911: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174
  - aussieguy1234 1y ago
    It the Australian emergency number (000). Not sure if they're using the Google Play services implementation of Emergency Location Services.
strcat 1y ago
It sounds like you're in a region not supporting E911 but rather depending on Google's proprietary Emergency Location Service. We plan to make our own implementation of what that provides: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 GrapheneOS supports E911 and has our own network location implementation you can enable which gets used by it. Unlike Google's implementation, our network location is based on location position estimation similarly to iOS. Unlike iOS, we'll be providing full offline support for it.
- gf000 1y ago
  Thank you very much for your work here!
bugsMarathon88 1y ago
Counter-point: Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS, location services off, Netguard installed and active; I engage with emergency services on a regular basis for work and always receive the public record which tracks the incident. The reported coordinates are almost always within 100' of my actual location, so YMMV.

cromka 1y ago

This should be higher up.

strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS supports E911. It doesn't have Google's proprietary Emergency Location Services implemented as part of Google Play services which some countries depend on. We plan to implement the same standard it does for regions without support for a variant of E911: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174
- aussieguy1234 1y ago
  It the Australian emergency number (000). Not sure if they're using the Google Play services implementation of Emergency Location Services.

strcat 1y ago

It sounds like you're in a region not supporting E911 but rather depending on Google's proprietary Emergency Location Service. We plan to make our own implementation of what that provides: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1174 GrapheneOS supports E911 and has our own network location implementation you can enable which gets used by it. Unlike Google's implementation, our network location is based on location position estimation similarly to iOS. Unlike iOS, we'll be providing full offline support for it.

gf000 1y ago
Thank you very much for your work here!

bugsMarathon88 1y ago

Counter-point: Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS, location services off, Netguard installed and active; I engage with emergency services on a regular basis for work and always receive the public record which tracks the incident. The reported coordinates are almost always within 100' of my actual location, so YMMV.