• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Their contributions to AOSP apps are awesome. Now I hope those reach GrapheneOS too…

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      9 months ago

      They’re missing because of Samsung blocking custom ROMs (at least on Snapdragon/US variants). Blame Samsung

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      9 months ago

      You could use a gsi like I do, S22U here, only issue is SMS reception which Samsung broke with OneUi 6.0

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    9 months ago

    Have been wanting to switch to this but have certain apps that I have to use for work and I’m too ignorant to know if regular apps will work on this OS? Can anyone inform me of whether or not some of these apps would work? They’re not any apps that would be widely known, they are specific to my job but can be found on the Play store. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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      9 months ago

      In general, the majority of apps should work on a de-googled phone (lineage, graphene, calyx, etc). That said, there are a few apps that require a feature called SafetyNet to ensure the system hasn’t been modified. Apps with this feature will not work and are generally limited to banking/financial type apps.

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        9 months ago

        They require to pass PlayIntegrity not safetynet. Safetynet is an old thing.

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        9 months ago

        That’s useful information. None of these apps that I use are financial in any way. If anything they’re more like GPS apps that route me to where I need to go, etc. I’ll look more into it before I make the leap. Thank you for answering.

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          9 months ago

          They don’t have to be financial - many corporate apps will not work on custom ROMs - the most popular ones being the ones by Microsoft - eg Teams, Outlook etc.

          Similarly, some games may also not work, such as all the ones by Niantic (Ingress, Pokemon Go etc) and typically many online multiplayer games.

          Finally, this will also affect popular streaming media services, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.

          There are workarounds for some of these - some with certain compromises - but there’s no guarantee that they’ll continue to work. So before you look into any workarounds (if you use the above three categories of apps), know that it’s a constant game of cat-and-mouse, so it’s not for the faint hearted.

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          9 months ago

          Just my two cents I ran lineageos on my oneplus 6 for the last 3 months before getting a new phone, also running micro GApps and I was able to use my banking app and things like android auto just fine.

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        9 months ago

        Cool thanks! Might have a phone I can use to try it out but I’ll ask on the options you have first. Appreciated.