Google Pixel 8 Pro
The operating system (Husky) randomly rebooted while I was using the browser and I ended up stuck in an endless loop with no other option except to factory reset. Data may be corrupt try rebooting or factory reset. Every time I tried rebooting it tried to reboot twice but everytime sent me to that same screen with only those two options.
So the only thing I noticed was every time the phone updated I would have to optimize the apps and it would reboot a second time. This time I was busy every time I saw the message to reboot and I think two days had passed (after optimizing apps).
I'm a very low level user. I was using this phone like I would any other normal phone. I appreciate and support privacy and open source oriented apps and software. My main purpose for using this OS was to put google in its place. So even though I use the proton apps (mail, drive, VPN), element, signal and other open source privacy driven apps I still had apps like outlook, telegram, crave, Netflix for a total of 83 apps installed. I was simply happy and content that google and all those apps were sandboxed.
I've never had any OS crash like this on me so this one stings a bit. I've been following this project since it was CopperheadOS and if I remember correctly the devices were all nexus. So I specifically bought this phone just to install GrapheneOS for the first time.
Obviously I cannot provide any information now that my phone is formated however I do have some questions.
If this happens again is there a way to somehow get you logfiles that could explain what happened?
Should I continue using this phone like a normal user? Or is sandboxed google too unstable?
Clearly I need to backup my device but what is the most secure way to do this? I was thinking save the backups on proton drive but I saw the restore during setup after the factory reset but is there a way to load that file and restore it after the factory reset is complete? Perhaps I am assuming wrong but I always thought backups were security liabilities. Again normal user but my position is that regardless if I have something to hide or not that my data belongs to me. These companies do not belong in my home, they do not belong in my bedroom and they do not belong on my phone, period.
I would be grateful to anyone who can answer my questions accurately and any future suggestions are welcome. Regardless of future experience this phone will always have GrapheneOS installed. It was painful for me to even support google to the point that I purchased their phone, so there is no way I will be restoring googleos on a google phone.