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Dumbphones are just better IMO
I hope mine lasts me at least another 7 years before I have to buy a new phone, but yeah, this will be my last Samsung phone. Hopefully, by the time I have to switch to something new, there will have been enough changes made that I can get a non-american phone and still be able to use important apps without having to use Google play. Cautiously optimistic.
I have an fe last one ever, pixal here I come.
Dunno how it is over Australia, but in my country, finding information is hard if the problem it solves isn't on the nose of the population already. So if Australia's anything like that, your failed quest may not even be your fault to begin with.
Still, failure is just another form of confirmation, so even if you yourself went through it, sharing it as a cautionary tale is extremely helpful. 🙏
https://github.com/jameskdev/android_samsung_imsservice
Not sure if the above helps (as the links are from 2024), but might be useful for the S10 if their efforts are usable. I haven't messed with custom ROMs on anything in a long time and I don't know the processes for patching mentioned in the links. The last time was not with intent to actually have a working phone and just messing with my S6 just to try installing Lineage OS on something I had no plan of caring about.
Yeah, I saw that. It has a lot of stuff I don't know what it is. It's certainly not for my kind of person where I need them to "hold my hands" like with the Lineage documentation, except for Lineage not making it obvious what IMS is, and that shows the level of mistake I can make and how much money and time I can waste where someone more knowledgeable would have avoided.
Plus, I haven't seen any success story coming from that, and that from people who knows what they are doing. It's not worthy to spend god knows how many days or weeks it would take me to properly redo what he did and find out it would not work in my case, if I even get to that point.
He mentions an apk he changed, so initially I thought it would be just that, an apk to install (magic). But I didn't find it and I guess that's just one small step in the massive stuff he did, decompiling things and what not.
But thanks anyway. It did make me hopeful when I first saw it, but no big deal. When I thought it was just about my effort, I would spend whatever time it takes. But now that I finally understand that it's samsung really not wanting me to use their phones (like in an abusive relationship, after years of proof of the abusive partner), then I made peace with the idea. Fuck samsung and fuck google. I'll use pidgeons to communicate before I trust them again.
pixel 5
Um, that's a Google phone. If your objective is de-googling, does de-googling work on your pixel 5?
Hopefully that Motorolla partnership with Graphene goes somewhere soon
Fairphone has an degoogle option as well.
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