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grafena How long does it generally take for Graphene to support a new Pixel?

I think it has been as little as a day or two for some releases. But there is absolutely no way to be sure in advance! When the 8a shipped, Google did something weird (source), so GrapheneOS 8a users had to use a beta release for around a month. Also, I think this drop has more devices than most, so it might take longer.

And who knows? In theory Google might have decided they won't release certain key components for the 9 series into AOSP. It's up to them!

Overall, it seems pretty plausible that there will be GrapheneOS for the 9-series devices within a week after the developers get devices. But it also might happen that it takes noticeably longer, or maybe even never happens.

"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."

protonuser2 Obtainium always pulls the latest builds, which in Brave's case are the nightly builds, and are pre-releases.

If you look at the Brave github release page, the stable versions have a title that starts with the word release. So in obtainium optpions for Brave you can fill the filter release titles by regular expression field with .*Release.*. Also tick the option include prereleases.

This way obtainium will ignore betas and nightly.

protonuser2

FFUpdater can automate the updating of Brave from Github.

Tldr: Bravearm64Universal.apk or BraveMonoarm64.apk

Long answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/rv0ks1/what_is_the_difference_between_brave_apk_files/

You can disable a lot of the bloat in Brave. After that it's just as simple as Bromite.

Hello,

As you may know, Signal decided to drop SMS support in a near future...
It seems they consider it as legacy and don't want to bother with it anymore...

But here in France, SMS is still in use for most of us, and for man usages (bank 2FA, package notification delivery etc...)
I would be very happy to avoid SMS usage, but must consider 80% of my contacts uses SMS, or WhatsApp...

WhatsApp is a NOGO for me of course, or I would not use Signal...
But SMS is still mandatory, unknown contacts or family not familiar with technology don't want to bother with a dedicated app...
I successfully made some friends and family install Signal some month/year ago with SMS integration argument "don't worry, you won't have to bother with another app, you will still use only one app... blabla..."
And trust me, for some like my stepmother, now Signal wants to drop SMS support, I feel bad... I will now need to explain them the situation... and hope they will understand it, and what will change for them (If they are still OK with it... Most of them will probably simply drop Signal...)

Signal does not seems to bother with handreds of messages on Twitter/Github and there board asking to keep SMS support

But, as we can't do anything about it, we must consider an alternative for SMS support.
Looking at what currently exists for SMS, to be honest, the default GrapheneOS SMS app is ... "simple".

I saw some comments about apps like TextraSMS wich seems to be very handfull, but don't really know if it is safe for privacy concerns...

Some others recommand Google Messages (really ?) with its RCS integration...
But looking a bit on articles about it I found some concerns :
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-phone-app-text-messages-call-logs-google/

May I ask users opinion here about our best options ?

As a reminder just to close a useless debate. I CANNOT ignore/avoid SMS usage, again, here in France, it is still widely used for many stuffs... and YES, I will still use Signal the best I can... even if I feel betrayed / backstabbed by their choice after years feeling like and abassador for them praising them...

abcZ Doesn't make much sense to say that 6a and 7 are "bug fixes". 6 had a lot of firmware issues but a lot of those have been fixed. There isn't something wrong inherent to the hardware. 6 and 6a are perfectly usable devices, and so will the 7 which brings some hardware improvements.

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https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/6285273

Android Auto doesn’t work and most likely never will since it’ll be giving a propriety app too many privileges.

g2oe specifically Pixel 6a had issues with OEM unlocking on earlier Android versions.

"It's best practice to update the device before installing GrapheneOS to have the latest firmware for connecting the phone to the computer and performing the early flashing process. Either way, GrapheneOS flashes the latest firmware early in the installation process."
https://grapheneos.org/install/web#:~:text=It%27s%20best%20practice%20to%20update%20the%20device%20before%20installing%20GrapheneOS%20to%20have%20the%20latest%20firmware%20for%20connecting%20the%20phone%20to%20the%20computer%20and%20performing%20the%20early%20flashing%20process.%20Either%20way%2C%20GrapheneOS%20flashes%20the%20latest%20firmware%20early%20in%20the%20installation%20process.