Ok i'm in a predicament, GraphenOS & eSim, & stock android?

AngWay

So yesterday i opened my pixel 10 pro xl running graphenos and i clicked on the duress pin to open it and it asked for the pin i thought that i just had to enter it in order to get to the settings so i could change the pin and stuff instead it wiped my whole phone and everything, Yeah it sucked bad!, i lost everything.

But anyway's instead of just starting over with graphenOS i decided i would try the stock android out since when i first bought the phone i went straight to graphenos and never really test drove the stock android. Well when i put stock android back on the phone my eSim was wiped as well completely gone! i thought that it saved the esim even if i wiped the phone guess i was wrong.

So i had to call verizon and stuff but i got my esim restored finally. I ended up having to just install the "my verizon app" and it just took me through some prompts and bam esim installed again. But after running stock android for a day now i can already tell i want to go back to graphenos just because after setting everything up and just seeing how MUCH data and everything they are collecting from me is scary, and also graphen is just a more simplier OS without all this AI bullcrap.

But when i go back to graphenos am i gonna loose my esim again? everything i have read told me the esim is stored and kept after restore/resets but it didn't for me for some reason. what are the steps i need to take here in order to transfer back to graphen and not loose my esim again?

Many thanks

nandohyphen1

AngWay Well when i put stock android back on the phone my eSim was wiped as well completely gone!

This is wrong. The esim got wiped when your Duress PIN was entered. Not when you flashed stock Android.

AngWay i thought that it saved the esim even if i wiped the phone guess i was wrong.

It does. If you factory reset your phone or flash between Android & GrapheneOS, the esim is saved. If you wipe your phone with the Duress PIN, the esim is wiped.

Also, tip for future posts. You don't need to add a tag for every phone model. Just the one you own. This will be easier, especially for people who may not read the initial post after a lot of replies have been made and they don't know what device you are using unless they ask or scroll to the top post

userofgos

AngWay i clicked on the duress pin to open it and it asked for the pin i thought that i just had to enter it in order to get to the settings so i could change the pin and stuff instead it wiped my whole phone and everything

I can see how that might have confused you, and I'm sorry that happened to you.

Just a friendly reminder for in the future, every time you are asked to authenticate yourself within System settings, you are always supposed to input the current PIN/password you have setup to unlock your phone, and never the duress pin/password, even in the menu to setup the Duress feature. The only time you enter the Duress pin/password without the intention to wipe your phone is when you are first setting up the feature and confirming the input.

That being said, the Duress feature in intended to function anywhere authentication is requested, whether it be the lockscreen, System Settings, Private Space, etc.

See here: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

GrapheneOS provides users with the ability to set a duress PIN/Password that will irreversibly wipe the device (along with any installed eSIMs) once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested (on the lockscreen, along with any such prompt in the OS).

Duress PIN will also wipe the device when entered as the two-factor fingerprint unlock PIN but not currently when entered as the SIM PIN.

Johnnyloans

AngWay wiped my whole phone and everything, Yeah it sucked bad!, i lost everything.

So sorry, that's a terrible feeling :[

AngWay

nandohyphen1 Oh ok got it i didn't know i thought i had to add all the tags. i'll just start using the tag for my phone from now on. Thanks i appreciate it.

AngWay

userofgos Ok understood thanks