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
The icon pack I am using currently is from the store I mentioned, it is called Arcticons Material You and they have surprisingly niche icons (like brazilian banking apps). The ones they don't have I just use the icon with the first letter of the app.
You don't have to take metadata away from your pictures if you aren't that concerned but privacy. I haven't used Image Toolbox before, just mentioned the one I use!
Adaptive Charging is a very nice feature but it is meaning to have long lasting benefits, I don't think it is a deal breaker
I was disappointed to learn that many banking institutions used to have this feature, removed it and now feature Google Wallet.
Apps that rely on location might not function properly sometimes. Pokemon Go is one that comes to mind, you can access it but sometimes the location can be buggy.
I have been using GrapheneOS for almost a year now. If you have any other questions, let me know!