As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I’ve found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it’s refurbished so google doesn’t get a shit from me.

I’m curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it’s good, some it’s bad so I’m curious to know.

I’m still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it’s missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative… I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    3·
    11 hours ago

    You can change the icons with a different launcher. Try Lawnchair.

    I think it’s pretty good, although I did install the isolated GCam but I wouldn’t with another chance.

    I hear battery is better but I can’t confirm.

    I haven’t used the sandboxed services other than the isolated GCam but that worked great.

    I’ve used Graphene for years now and I’ve loved it!

    • Cris16228OP
      3·
      11 hours ago

      No, no, the icons are fine but I want to know if their color is based on wallpaper or it’s black and stop. Sadly, I miss the old Nova paging but they sold the app 🤷‍♂️ using NeoLauncher now, I tried lawnchair but didn’t use it for some reason (I don’t remember why)

      What do you mean? I can try GCam but I was curious above GOSCam

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        2·
        7 hours ago

        I just meant I hear GOSCam is actually better now than it was when I first got Graphene. So, if I had another chance (realistically I could do it now but I’m lazy to change it) then I would just stick with GOSCam to avoid having any Google software.

        • Cris16228OP
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Ooh I get it. Yes, the app is good but I had this small problem on a non pixel phone, nothing crazy though