alicia-avery

  • Joined Dec 3, 2022
  • Can I use Vanadium as a default browser instead of Chrome in a Chromebook?

  • mythodical Ah. Must have not noticed it before. Thanks.
    I also never have Location permissions enabled as well. I just checked the Permission Manager, tapped on 'Show system [apps]' and found GmsCompat along with three other system apps having location allowed all the time. This concerns me a bit, but I believe it's better to be cautious with playing around with system app permissions. I think I'll leave this enabled until somebody can confirm.

  • mythodical Thanks! Did these apps exist already before GSF was installed? And do you think it's safe to disable the Location permission for GmsCompat?

    • Before deleting the secondary user profile, I also uninstalled Google Services Framework through the Graphene app repository client (Apps)

      • Hello, everyone.
        I installed GrapheneOS a week ago, and decided to only use the Owner profile without Sandboxed Google Play Services.
        Yesterday, I ran into some situation where I had to install Google Camera. So I created a secondary user profile and installed Google Services Framework from Apps.
        Out of habit, I disabled Network permissions for GCam and GSF in the apps settings, and then I noticed GmsCompatConfig (I didn't see it before installing GSF) but it didn't have Network permissions enabled so I simply ignored it as I thought it was included with the GSF installation for it to work.
        Having decided the secondary profile was temporary, I deleted it a few hours later.
        Today, I noticed GmsCompatConfig is still present in the apps while I'm using the Owner profile. I searched 'Gms' in the settings and also saw an app named GmsCompat with Location permissions enabled by default.
        I would like to know what do these apps do and how they ended up in the Owner profile without Google Services Framework installed.

        Thanks.