cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55281333
How’s it so far? Based on your experience, do you feel it gave you more benefits than a regular Pixel can give?
For someone who’s only using apps from Fdroid and not signing in to Playstore, do you think it’s worth the change?
P.S. I found GOS community in Lemmy but they seem to have disabled posting.
I’ve had GrapheneOS on my pixel 10 fold since it got support in ~mid December last year. This is my experience so far:
Depending on what you use you’ll probably need to mess with settings a lot. I had to change a few settings to get RCS working and it’s broken a few times over the past year because of updates on Google’s side. A lot of Google’s apps (Gemini, call screening, etc.) require extra setup because they assume play services won’t be sandboxed, but I’ve heard it’s still possible to get them working. Google Pay is also blocked, but if you’re somewhere that allows 3rd party NFC payment apps to work, those still will.
Aside from that, everything has pretty much just worked for me. I haven’t had any issues with any normal apps. Some apps don’t like that you’re on a 3rd party ROM, but most of them are only checking for root and/or unlocked bootloader, and GrapheneOS will pass both of those checks. And since there is the option for official Google play services (but sandboxed unlike regular android or other ROMs), I haven’t run into a lot of the app issues that come from needing to go through Aurora/MicroG