How hard is it actually to desolder / remove mics and sensors from a Pixel?

Hathaway_Noa
I'm not sure why the advice around these parts is always not to desolder your phone from a privacy conscious point of view?

What if a 0 day is found which has the power to somehow turn on your mics, gps or other kinds of sensors

or god forbid, what if the admin of grapheneOS gets compromised and forced into providing a dodgy update. I know everything is open source, but let's be real most of us are not technically gifted enough to understand and read the code, so it would probably take some time before the bad update was realized.

jibl Anyone has login access to this site? I would need the docs for Pixel 6 and 7

Hathaway_Noa hey mate, is there any ways to getting in touch?

rustam Hi, removing the microphone and cameras is easy, I did it on my 4a, but I couldn't find the motion sensor. Don't forget that if you want to remove the microphones you also have to remove the speaker, anything with a diaphragm can be used to listen. Also, don't forget to buy b7000 glue for sealing.

rustam It also means getting good wired headphones for making phone calls. Apple's are perfect and cheap.

[deleted] To hack speakers and use as mic you need rewiring too, cannot be done via software.

easthvan Did you find the docs for Pixel 6? I'd appreciate if you send it to me as well.

Impossible. Tried from underground too. Google kept it secret.

easthvan Thanks for responding!

In general, is there any case of successful (physical) remove of microphone and sensors from Pixel 6 without breaking functionality of the device? (I want to know if that's done in the past.)