Tentatively wanting to press the buy button for a Fairphone 6. Currently using a Sony Xperia phone with headphone jack and 1Tb microSD card (it's one of my backups), BUT on factory OS and still on a privacy learning journey. Considered the move to Pixel with Graphene, but have always had my lifetime collection of FLAC music locally. Phone = music player. Can live without headphone jack since discovering USB adaptor DAC / amps.
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I am currently using a Pixel 6a, with GrapheneOS.
However, since Google’s update to the battery,
I thought you were using graphene...
Well, I just checked on the stats of the battery, and the status says "dead"
So maybe it's just a coincidence it happened at the same time? Battery is at around 700 cycles.
Yeh..... I'm on a 6a with Graphene and nothing has changed.
My SO also has graphene on a pixel 6a and it's chugging along nicely, like it always has. She doesn't even charge it every night, so that's 24+ hours of use per charge. Please look into your battery, something might be wrong.
Agreed. Maybe check app battery stats? I found that home assistant app in some configurations kills my phone in 4 hours.
I've been planning to get a Pixel 6 to run Graphene.
Do you know if that's still a viable plan to avoid Google's recent side-loading bullshit?
From what OP said it sounds like Google is kinda closing that door but your comment leads me to suspect OP is mistaken?
As said below, it won't affect users right now running custom ROMs, but it will impact the number of persons able to use them
Do you know if that’s still a viable plan to avoid Google’s recent side-loading bullshit?
Google's new EEE tactics should not in theory impact custom ROMs such as Graphene, especially considering Graphene goes out of its way to avoid using any G stuff unless sandboxed.
From what OP said it sounds like Google is kinda closing that door but your comment leads me to suspect OP is mistaken?
So, unless i'm mistaken, google's updates shouldn't impact graphene phones...
thanks!
It won't affect it directly but it's likely a bunch of developers just quit making 3rd party apps for the 12 people running custom ROMs.
FWIW, I took the plunge with a iFixit kit to replace my Pixel7 spicy pillow battery. I'm reasonably handy but had never done a glued phone before. I sprung for a clampy, watched the video and it all went extremely smooth, ~ 1 hour.
Yay, what, 30€ for a fucking battery. Who the fuck is fine with paying that? Or is it only expensive in EU?
Have you considered just replacing the battery?
I have a Fairphone 5 with eOS, and I'm happy. Their service is painfully slow, but otherwise professional and reliable. You can run into headaches when flashing eOS if you are not super-cautious (dm mefor details if you like), but the instructions are good, and you can also buy various phones direct from Murena with eOS already installed.
Fairphone4 user here. Fairphone is the kind of environment you go into knowing there are tradeoffs (e.g. the camera sucks) but for me, what you gain in terms of privacy and the downright respect they have for you as a customer are worth those tradeoffs.
Fairphone 4. Ubuntu Touch is supported at a manufacturer level, it supports Postmarket OS, easy user serviceable, SD card slot (which apparently is rare now). No headphone jack but that's about the only downside. I'm running one with Calyx and while it is a little older of a phone - it's perfectly fine.
I also looked into Jolla SailfishOS. I tested it back then with the XA2, now I would go with the Xperia 10 V or VI (when it is supported). Because of better performance. https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/
Apparently it's great, but don't expect Bluetooth, other connectivity for android apps (wearables, etc)
Google Pixel with GrapheneOS or an iPhone with Lockdown Mode enabled. That's what I've read earlier today.