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platform_frameworks_base
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Korean Smartphones Have Mandatory Shutter Sounds, 8 in 10 Want It Muted
As always, GrapheneOS disables this anti-user crap:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commi...
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CalyxOS 4.13.2
- run the build, wait 2 hours, flash it
Now.. there's no such thing as "CalyxOS compatibility layer" in Calyx. Yet, there's no difference in user experience - none of my daily apps are/were broken on either Graphene+Play services from their store, stock CalyxOS+MicroG or on Calyx+GApps. (Except last time I've used Apps on multiple user profiles, there was a lot of trouble due to different versions being installed iirc)
Taking privacy concerns into account, there might be some difference.. but once more, going through gmscompat code, I see mainly hacks about letting this app pop up this activity this time, faking this permission that time, etc [1].
Yes there's a layer that isolates some calls, but I just cannot see how it's supposed to alter user experience. Now, spinning an isolated "sandbox" (which is likely impossible, as IPC/binder/shared data and services model is fundamentally broken anyway) with just a couple apps on a separate google account - all restricted from having access to sensors, etc, having device ID's spoofed and having separate network isolation - would be a real game changer, but its a niche need, with semi-available solutions (sandvxposed, vmos, waydroid on docker on android), and it would likely violate every line in Play Services' TOS meaning it won't happen on a public OS.
Calyx cares about their users in a kind of a quiet wau, yet there's a ton of activity on their tracker.
GrapheneOS cares about giving privacy to more users I suppose, so that explains their marketing strategy and parts of their code being what they are (hardened libc? definitely cool. Yet I've not seen any public exploit that could bypass e.g. stock AOSP's libc with _FORTIFY_SOURCE since 2015).
End user experience, though? No real difference, thus no superiority. And people in need of "hard" sandboxing would just buy a box of burner phones anyway.
1. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commi...
P.S. What about that SafetyNet certification on either OS?
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Struggling getting "Shelter" app to work
I think this might actually be a fix for it: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commit/efc548c178abfb9c32854f026105c3d720f53be1
- Recent upgrade to LOS 19. Little green dot keeps popping up every minute or so in upper right corner of screen. Says location "Being used by Phone Services" despite location toggled off and Phone Services not having permission to access location. What's happening?
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Google releasing one last Pixel 3a and 3a XL update, arriving ‘by July’
Allowing revoking network access to better prevent data exfiltration: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commit/86bb94b8def3b6f97a984f346950df7ab74f8a96
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Question about Datura firewall. Is this "fixed"?
Fun thing to know https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/pull/132
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Which android applications allow for push notifications without google play services?
But in the git https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/pull/78 it says it will be able to run the Google play services, including GSF, which is to my knowledge responsible for the notifications, or am I mistaken?
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Phone for all or most major privacy OSs
Removing sensor access to applications which significantly reduces the availability of privacy-sensitive data: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_frameworks_base/commit/4717a544f817e0a0cf730223a68fef8d06734356
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[Request] Implementing secondary profile log out.
Link to their commit for logging out of profiles - enable secondary user logout support by default
GmsCore
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LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
Is anyone here daily-driving microg and can share their experiences? https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status does not exactly inspire confidence.
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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
...will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services.
Not true.
All that needs to happen is for open source developers to "re-implement Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries".
https://microg.org/
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A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative
microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec...
No shit, of course they do.
>In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on them and would just not work without.
What exactly do you think they should do instead?
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I need a help
MicroG
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Plans to update to 0.3 in microg's lineage builds?
In release notes for GmsCore v0.2.29.233013 (https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.29.233013), I also see:
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[Help] Is there a module I can install that enables push notifications on a device without google services?
Yes, the Xposed module is one way. There are also other ways
- Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
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Which MicroG fork and version should I use?
Which one should I use? Is this MicroG's official website right? (https://microg.org/)
- New version out 0.30
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Use ChatGPT Android app w/o Google Play Store installed/enabled
Have a look into https://microg.org/ . Revanced yt uses a fork of GmsCore for its non-root install, though you still have to log in with a google account.