Android 14 changed the color of the low battery icon from red to white.
Recently, for some reason, I've stopped getting "Battery low" notifications at very low percents...but I still get them at 30% & 25% (I have it set to start at 30%).
...so now I rarely notice when my phone is about to die. This has interrupted me on so many occasions.
My hatred of Android has been growing exponentially lately.
I use #GrapheneOS, which does a fair amount to curb some of my biggest problems with default #Android.
...but at the end of the day, the ecosystem is built on behalf of & in service of advertisers & spyware manufacturers, so problems like every app spamming notifications persist.
Google has tried to fix the notification spam (probably to prevent competing advertisers from encroaching on their market share), but ended up exacerbating this problem.
Which alternate OS should I install on my backup Android phone, a Google Pixel 5a 5G? I was going to test #GrapheneOS, but I waited a while and now my phone is only supported until August 2024. https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime
This is a problem plaguing all Android devices, they become very difficult to keep secure once Google stops providing security updates. #CalyxOS seems to provide an extra year: https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/device-support/
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Auf meinem GrapheneOS-Testgerät (Update vom 5. Februar) funktioniert Google Maps (11.113.0104) nicht mehr. Die Suchfunktion funktioniert, aber es werden keine Karten/Orte etc. mehr geladen. Alles bleibt weiß. Auch nach Löschen des Caches und Neuinstallation der App. Vermutung: Ohne Play Services nicht mehr lauffähig oder ein Bug.
@louis@zyd Got a #Pinephone in 2021 and at that point none of the OSes (that I got onto it) were usable at all: pre-alpha buggy. Don't know about now. Not sure if this qualifies as "open hardware."
In 2023 I put #GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a and I love it. Hardly any inconveniences, and all of those are likely Android itself. Not open hardware. [EDIT:] I never used Android before, so I don't know, but judging by @JoeRess's and others' complaints about e.g. Google Android on the same hardware, it may be Android.
Hi there, folks. I've moved back to #Fosstodon yet again.
I'm a #DevOps guy, who used to be a Linux #sysadmin for many years before that. I run #OpenBSD :openbsd: and #GrapheneOS :GrapheneOS: on my personal devices.
I post random thoughts and dumb jokes. And I think up unlikely #infosec vulnerabilities.
Bei meinem Google Pixel 8 (#GrapheneOS) habe ich die Entsperrung mittels Fingerabdruck eingerichtet. Fun fact: Meine Tochter kann das Gerät mit ihrem Fingerabdruck entsperren. WTF!?
Bin gerade am Überlegen ob ich mein jüngstes #Smartphone (#Oneplus 8) auch mit #LineageOS bestücken soll. Leider habe ich keine andere Wahl ein alternatives #CustomROM außer LineageOS zu installieren, da zb #GrapheneOS oder #CalyxOS das Gerät nicht unterstützen. Der momentane Zustand mit dem hauseigenen Betriebssystem #OxygenOS von Oneplus ist nicht mehr tragbar. Viele nutzlose (Spy)Apps von Oneplus lassen sich nicht deinstallieren, einige wenige nur deaktivieren. Sehr unbefriedigend das ganze.
Curious about the community's thoughts: What's still holding people back from embracing @GrapheneOS It's a mobile OS with a strong focus on privacy and security, which seems to tick many important boxes. Could it be issues with device compatibility, or are key apps/features missing? Maybe it's just a matter of awareness. Keen to understand what barriers exist.
Wie bereits angekündigt, habe ich die Empfehlungsecke überarbeitet. So wurde zum Beispiel das Kapitel Android Custom-ROMs komplett überarbeitet. Unter anderem neu dabei eine Orientierung: »Welches Custom-ROM soll ich installieren?« 👇
I know I promised to stop mentioning this hacky port of LineageOS, but the Android developer who keeps claiming he gets routinely swatted without any actual evidence to back his claims up actually makes a good point here.
I have an #iPhone and I have a #Pixel, the iPhone is the main, but I toy with going full time #Android. Please share the reasons you use the platform you use and please boost.
@parzzix I’m currently using an iPhone due to iMessage being the only way I could communicate with my family. Tried to show them switching to #Signal would be a good option but they weren’t convinced.
But I would switch back to android running #lineageos or a Pixel with #calyxos or #grapheneos in a heartbeat if I could.
GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system, has posted a series of tweets on X suggesting that Android should introduce frequent auto-reboots to make it harder for forensic software vendors to exploit firmware flaws and spy on the users.
LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5 million Android devices (9to5google.com)
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
GrapheneOS: Frequent Android auto-reboots block firmware exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system, has posted a series of tweets on X suggesting that Android should introduce frequent auto-reboots to make it harder for forensic software vendors to exploit firmware flaws and spy on the users.