Wipe button

Pipo

Hi, how do i after installed grapheneos on a phone install a wipe button that wipes everything out?

raccoondad

Pipo Factory resetting can be done in Settings, some apps like Wasted have features similar but aren't great vulnerability wise

Tryptamine

Pipo Until the wipe feature is implemented, I've uninstalled Wasted, but I'm keeping Duress from F-Droid on my phone!

It allows you to type a code or password on your lockscreen and use factory reset right away. Yes, it can be bypassed, but it being in my hands when I activate it (the opposite of what Wasted is intended for) gives me a FAR greater likelihood of it passing that small interval of time when it can be bypassed by holding volume down.

Pipo

raccoondad but if i want to install this feature how would I do it i know have to go to github but how do I install from github to the phone please can you write a step by step tutorial on how to do it.

mmmm

Pipo

1, download Obtainium. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
The instrustions to install are written.

2, go to the main page of whichever github project interests you (with research and prudence)

3, scroll to the bottom and discover the 'Releases' button. Long press and copy the link address.

4, Go to Obtainium app press the add app button at the bottom. Paste the previous link in the top field.

5, tap add.

This method is the best to ensure updates.

You can install directly from github too, by simply tapping that releases button from step 3 and following the instructions, but then you must find a way to keep your app updated manually.

fid02

A proper implementation of a duress PIN is planned and being actively worked on, according to what the GrapheneOS project has communicated recently on social media and the community chat rooms. There is no ETA at the moment, as far as I'm aware.

Pipo

Tryptamine check the image I posted will the button be like this

Pipo

Thank you will the wipe button appear like this
https://postimg.cc/RWXhg9zC

raccoondad

Pipo There is nothing like that for GOS from what I understand. Wasted has an option for a fake airplane mode tile you can select to wipe the device tho. Wasted is on F-Droid, so is Duress

Pipo

raccoondad look at the image apparently it exist but I dont know how to add in the button to the power menu

de0u

Pipo look at the image apparently it exist

Maybe it does exist, but that does not mean it is a feature supported by official GrapheneOS builds. GrapheneOS is open-source, so people can fork it to add their own new features.

matchboxbananasynergy

Pipo That isn't GrapheneOS. It looks like a custom build, perhaps based on GrapheneOS that someone has made.

GrapheneOS is working on a duress feature itself. When that's ready, it might have a similar button of some form, but currently, nothing like that exists, and no app solutions are robust enough to be recommended.

de0u

Pipo its grapheneos

Please see: de0u

Blastoidea

I can see it now, with about a gazillion posts, “I accidentally wiped my phone, can you help me recover it ?”

Pipo

matchboxbananasynergy its grapheneos and i know People my self that has this button and also a feauture when they hold down the power button for 10s it wipes everything, im looking for something similar or even better but i cant find anything

other8026

Pipo

You were asking how to add the button to GrapheneOS. I just checked the code, and unless I'm mistaken wiping the phone is not supported from that dialogue box. The only way to add it is to modify the code.

Pipo its grapheneos

As far as I can tell, that's impossible.

Pipo no one so far has helped me

This is the thing: there are likely a number of people here on the forum who know how to figure out how to do this, some of which you are disagreeing with right here in this thread. It's unlikely that anyone just knows how to add buttons or add the functionality you're asking for off the top of their head, so it seems that you want others to do the work/research for you. AOSP is huge and can be hard to navigate. In order to add just a little button could be a much larger project than you would expect, and may actually take a lot of reading through code and possibly a lot of trial and error.

Anyway, here's a good place to start: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/blob/14/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/globalactions/GlobalActionsDialogLite.java

matchboxbananasynergy

Pipo Don't know what else I can do to convince you that this isn't GrapheneOS rather than to explain that I know for a fact this is not possible on GrapheneOS.

It seems like someone forked GrapheneOS and added that. The code is open source, they can do that.

Them "saying" it's GrapheneOS doesn't make it that. A fork of GrapheneOS is no longer GrapheneOS. They likely meant that whatever they made is based on GrapheneOS. If they're marketing or portraying that end product as GrapheneOS, that's incorrect and they shouldn't be doing that since it leads to these exact confusions.

By the way, that wipe feature on that fork likely doesn't work correctly, same with apps like Wasted. GrapheneOS' duress feature will wipe without rebooting the device, therefore preventing situations where the wipe can be cancelled.

Pipo

I saw the post and just want to know if there is someone here with the knowledge to create a button like this and no one so far has helped me

Pipo

Is this backround or foundation not graphenos?
https://postimg.cc/3dF1xwDv

matchboxbananasynergy

Pipo As per my post above, this looks like someone forked GrapheneOS (which means it took the open code and changed it) and added the feature you're talking about.

That feature is not in GrapheneOS. It's in that person's changed version of GrapheneOS.

You can use Auditor to confirm if something is running an official GrapheneOS release. Whatever that fork is, it's not GrapheneOS, and using auditor would confirm that.

Give it a shot. https://attestation.app

N1b

Pipo if you really want that wipe button feature badly and it fits your threat model (despite it being likely unreliable), I assume you can do 2 things:

Research how it's done and code it yourself, but it won't be easy as people have mentioned already.
Ask the person who owns the phone in the image how it was done or which vendor they obtained this phone with an OS that is clearly not GrapheneOS, and repeat what they did.

These are the only ways I can think how you get your request solved. Before you do that, I advice you take some time to rethink or recreate your threat model. On second thought you might not actuallIy want an unreliable wipe button that gives you a false sense of protection...

I came to the conclusion that the GrapheneOS devs apply features in a very serious manner (as in "only if it works consistently" and "no bullshit, snake oil, security/privacy theatre"). Since such a wipe button is not (yet) present in the original GrapheneOS, it's very likely that it's not a trustworthy feature. I'd rather wait for the duress pin and use the anti theft features that are already there and well implemented.

de0u

Pipo If I buy a Toyota Highlander and weld a statue of a chicken to the roof, and you see me driving it down the road, and take a picture of it, and go to a Toyota dealer and demand they sell you the model of Toyota Highlander that has a chicken statue on the roof, they might not have one in stock (ever) -- even if what I originally bought was a Toyota Highlander and it does have a chicken statue on the roof.