• General

  • Thank you for the install process and the OS itself

I'd just like to thank all developers, maintainers and all other involved in this project for such a wonderful experience installing and using GrapheneOS. Polished, thought-out, there is much to like.

My usecase is to become less dependent on Google. I'm using Google Play Store/services on GrapheneOS so I don't know how much it is improved exactly, but it has to be better than pure Google.

A word of warning for people wanting to install the OS and are dependent on Whatsapp; at the moment there is a flaw in the backup system of Whatsapp that won't let you restore a backup (see reddit thread concerning Whatsapp). I'm not dependent on it and it is a good excuse to just quit it and using Signal exclusively.
No fault of GrapheneOS, it's a fault in Whatsapp.

A backup can even be restored with the latest WA version.
Tested approximately two week before.

Backup this directory: Device/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp
Copy this to your new System.
Make sure it`s the same folder path

Start Whatsapp verify number
Turn off the internet
Confirm warning to continue without backup
After that, it loads chats, and finds the offline backup
If a progressbar appears: "Loading Messages.." or something like that - Turn on Internet-connection.

Thanks for replying. Don't know how it was two weeks before. It is happening now, see Reddit. Glad you weren't bitten by it.