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  • RRZishe What is a "virus" going to do? First off, any "virus" is going to target windoze. Second, any malicious intent would be scope restricted to the specific application loading it. Third, its a PDF file, not an executable program, which means that for it to do anything it has to target specific known vulnerabilities in the application loading it.

    • You're fine. Nothing to worry about.

      • Vagabond8630 With that said, I recommend you to follow GOS security best practices and to use a phone that is not EOL.

        Keep in mind that "best practices" are just that... "best". In reality, it will still be a "better" practice to run GrapheneOS on an EOL device, than the factory OS on that same device.

      • Not to be contradictory, but notifications do NOT "go through" g* or anything else. Notifications are a function of the operating system used to alert the user and they are totally private except to people who can actually SEE the screen. The reason for the alert could be a local condition, such as an alarm clock, or they could be data sent from some server, which may be g* if you have your phone set to use that (g* is themselves trying very hard to force network services to route their alerts through their servers, but it is NOT actually necessary), or it may be some other server.

        FCM is not notifications. It is a route that can be used to pass messages via g*, which may or may not even result in a notification.

        • Did you switch off data when you left to prevent huge data charges?

          System Settings --> Network --> Sim --> Sim --> Mobile data.

          • Someguyuphere Quantity of storage doesn't explain that behavior, so its probably a coincidence. That kind of a sudden shutdown sounds like it could be tied to a failing battery. This would make it more likely to happen while the screen is on high brightness, you're using the CPU heavily, high network usage, etc.

            Pixel 6 is getting to be old enough for some to be experiencing deteriorating batteries by now.

          • Dumdum How do you define "stable"? And why do you assume that it should have more changes than once a year? If there's nothing wrong with something, why does it need to be fixed?

            • dot_______166 Last I checked, lineageos was using the same upstream aosp applications, just with a whole bunch of very questionable and dangerous patches, for instance, they added some stuff to the dialer to interact with 3rd party servers for callerid.

              • Then it could be a hardware problem. Try a factory reset and borrowing someone else's simcard. If that doesn't work, the phone may be toast.

                • Eirikr70 No, my bank works for me, and EU has absolutely no authority, especially since I don't use any EU banks.

                • Viewpoint0232 Exactly. Ideally there would be a FOSS app like Google Wallet that can hold multiple cards for NFC payments.

                  No, that's not ideal AT ALL. It adds complexity which has no purpose.

                  • de0u No, it is FAR FAR MORE risky to use closed-source software because you really have no idea what is in it. Generally, people working on open source software will be "kept honest" just by the fact that their contributions are visible to ANYONE. It can be quite complicated (although not unheard of) to slip in sneaky code to open source projects. But closed source? Could be anything in there and its incredibly challenging to detect.

                  • monkey i was asking generally if a FOSS sms/dialer application's devs could look at your texts/calls

                    For SMS, yes. If you install a 3rd party SMS application with network access, it could theoretically share messages with the developers.

                    For PHONE, NO. A 3rd party dialer could share call logs, but could not share an actual copy of the audio data. This is because of how the audio data is routed on Android. In order for a dialer application to have access to the actual audio data (typically for the purpose of call recording or transcription), it has to be installed as a SYSTEM APPLICATION (i.e., part of the system image). An installed dialer application cannot access this data.

                    The Dialer and SMS applications included with GrapheneOS are from upstream AOSP, with a few fairly minor modifications (the upstream dialer has no call-recording capability, which was added to GrapheneOS dialer). These applications have had so many eyes on their code that you can feel very assured that there is nothing nefarious added into them. Further, since those applications are part of AOSP, they carry the same level of trustworthyness as the REST of AOSP, and if you don't trust that, then absolutely NO version of Android can be trusted, since EVERY Android is a derivative of AOSP.

                    Feel free to audit the source code yourself if you're THAT paranoid.

                  • What you really should be doing isn't complaining about gpay not working (you REALLY REALLY do NOT want it working!), you should be complaining about your BANK if their application doesn't provide contactless payment without going through gpay.

                    Gpay is NOT required for contactless payment using your phone, but your BANK has to implement it in their software.

                    • prisi pixel 7a might have additional battery stress and battery life might be shorter

                      Other way around. Your phone will use LESS power, thus longer between charges, resulting in greater longevity.

                    • Every SMS message stored in the SMS database contains BOTH the SENT time as well as the RECEIVED time. Try using a better SMS application if you want to gain access to both, like QKSMS.