Questions before jumping into GrapheneOS

Clueless

pit2p Use this app for backup, sms, phone logs and contacts https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie

I second this.

Clueless

yore
Depends on what you are willing to spend. I am very happy with Synology which I recently upgraded to a DS224+. It has everything one needs: contacts & calendar which you can sync via webdav, drive/cloud, office suite and photo backups (and much more, especially with docker). I also love the note station app.
Almost everything I just mentioned has its own android and/or desktop app. You can connect your own domain or access it via Tail scale. The latter is more secure, but doesn't let you share stuff with the outside.
But my model cost about 340€, if that's to expensive for you, then you can try to build your own NAS with a raspberry pi or just rent a next cloud instance from a reputable provider. I used Linuxfabrik in Switzerland for a while. It shouldn't cost more than 10€ per month. You can check here for providers: https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/

5rlyn

Word of caution about dating apps:
I do all the things when it comes to data privacy: Graphene, VPN, Email alias, etc...and it appears Hinge doesn't like that. After two weeks of no matches whatsoever, I began the process of deleting my account, only to be presented with a screen saying my account had in fact been banned. Hinge refuses to clarify what caused any of its users to receive a ban, but I didn't interact with anyone on the app so it can't have been any sort of community standards violation or anything.
Tinder has almost no real users on it at this point, and I don't agree with some of the decisions Bumble makes as a company, so I can't really speak to those apps. But I'm just letting you know I think Hinge thought my privacy precautions were suspicious enough to justify a ban.

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5rlyn

it feels like trying to participate in social media and apps like those that using a VPN becomes very difficult. Instagram can all of the sudden decide to ban you after you have been using your account for awhile. It is frustrating. Shadowbanning is another evil that is really lame, reddit does it where you think you are making posts that are being seen as they don't tell you anything and the posts show up for you, but nobody else can see your posts.

notatliia

I use google playstore. With sandboxed google services. VPN, mysudo, next dns. I have not been able to get any of the dating apps to work for me. I had accounts with my apple or facebook account. Have not been able to make any new ones. I have been using grapheneos for a month or two. So I am fairly new. I use a third party podcast software that does not require a log in. Also, I have been trying the waze map app. I had some problems on a trip last week. But, it got me where I needed to be.

Clueless

notatliia

Have you tried turning on native code debugging? I've found that this seems to interfere with many apps.

Clueless

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Not to mention the endless captchas on some sites. OpenAI is especially annoying with this. Sometimes one has to do real quizzes and that 5 times in a row...

DeletedUser161

GrapheneMantra Back when I used LineageOS, I could back up the entire phone via the Settings app,

On LineageOS and GrapheneOS (as well as most custom firmware), SeedVault is used for backup.

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one can't even post on 4chan with a vpn

I need to find a set of fun social media sites I can participate in and have good conversations every day that work on my phone when I have 24/7 vpn on all the time

Eirikr70

GrapheneMantra As a Linux user, one of my biggest complaints with my current device (an iPhone) is that I'm only able to back up my photos to my main machine, nothing else. Back when I used LineageOS, I could back up the entire phone via the Settings app, and selectively back up certain apps via the filesystem (for example, I could copy the Messages app's sqlite3 database over adb so that I'd have an archived copy of all messages I've sent/received).

As a Linux user, you can set up a self-hosted server with backups of your main apps. For instance set up an Immich server for your pictures, ...

grumpbot

I'd also like to ask a question. On my old phone, the main profile was google-less and I had a secondary profile with all the google services. I ran into a few minor issues, mainly my bank app and google wallet. Would using google services on the main profile and googleless on the 2ndary one fix my issues?

DeletedUser88

grumpbot Some apps need to be installed in the owner profile and some don't. However if it was a bank app then it is probably due to Play Integrity checks not being passed which GrapheneOS cannot do anything about. Your best option would be to either bank through the website, ask your bank to support GrapheneOS through hardware attestation, or switch banks to one that works with GrapheneOS.

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