Pixel OS sound effects on graphene?

RobotChickens

What's going on with the OS sounds in graphene?

I recently got a Pixel 9 Pro XL with the intention of using it with Graphene OS. Before I did that, I spent a day using it on the stock Pixel OS with no google account. One of the reasons I enjoy android so much is the tactile and audio-sensory experience, only made even better by the Pixel 9's haptics. In my opinion, the lock/unlock and default tap sounds on stock Pixel OS beautifully match the haptics, and I'm pretty sure that's by design. Upon installing Graphene OS, I realized that the modern and elegant OS sound effects form the stock OS were surprisingly gone!

I was greeted by the ancient ka-chock unlock sound I grew up with back on Android 8 & 9 when I waited a whole 10 seconds for the family tablet to show the homescreen unlock animation.

Will the Pixel sound effects get migrated over to Graphene? How difficult would it be to add custom ones?

I'm new to this community, so I'm also wondering how closely Graphene OS tends/plans to stick to the Pixel experience, especially with the upcoming Material 3 Expressive redesign. Will Graphene OS update minor non-privacy details to follow Pixel OS even if a majority of the userbase dislikes the changes? Is that what happened with these sounds?

Thanks!
-RobotChickens

akc3n

RobotChickens Will the Pixel sound effects get migrated over to Graphene? How difficult would it be to add custom ones?

GrapheneOS is a hardened fork of AOSP. These features aren't part of AOSP and only included in the stock OS. Unlikely this would be added anytime soon, if at all, due to the objectives and entire purpose of the project.

See: https://grapheneos.org/#never-google-services

No Google apps or services
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See: https://grapheneos.org/features#features

GrapheneOS is focused on substance rather than branding and marketing. It doesn't take the typical approach of piling on a bunch of insecure features depending on the adversaries not knowing about them and regressing actual privacy/security. It's a very technical project building privacy and security into the OS rather than including assorted unhelpful frills or bundling subjective third party apps choices.

See: https://grapheneos.org/faq#bundled-apps

GrapheneOS is focused on making meaningful improvements to privacy and security, and bundling assorted apps into the OS is not only usually outside of that focus but often counter to it.

RobotChickens I'm new to this community,

Welcome to our community!

RobotChickens

akc3n
Okay, cool! That does make a lot more sense. Thank you!

spl4tt

You're hearing AOSP sounds, that's just how it is. I changed notification and ringtone sounds anyway, and the rest is muted ¯_(ツ)_/¯