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ScaNtuRd ,

Yeah, don’t ever connect your phone to your car. It has been proven that they steal all your data.

ExLisper ,

Android auto is, to put it lightly, shit. The compatibility issues itself are enough to make one vomit (try finding out what’s required to use wireless connection) but once you manage to connect it it just gets worse and worse. I would not put it on my main phone even if it did work. Instead I bough cheap stock android phone and got a cheap, data only SIM (€2/month). The phone stays in my car, is not used for anything else and doesn’t have any personal accounts. I’m fairly happy with this setup.

Lemonparty ,

Yes you’re right. A feature so popular that it’s been adopted by most major auto manufacturers is complete garbage. Everyone hates it. Graphene is only even adding it to appease like 3-4 people tops!

ninjakitty7 ,

I was hoping from the title that this meant that Graphene could run on the car. They’re still a huge privacy concern.

csolisr ,

GrapheneOS requires specific safety hardware that, as of now, is usually available only on the Google Pixel line of phones. If your standard smartphone doesn’t include it, I doubt a car does.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

What do you mean “run on the car”? You might be thinking of Android Automotive, the car OS.

They’re still a huge privacy concern.

…who?

E: please stop speaking on behalf of the person I asked the question to. They are the only one who knows the answer.

TootSweet ,

I’m a Luddite for sure, but I’d be uncomfortable with my car having access to data about how I interact with my phone. I use Lineage and not Graphene, but I don’t think I’d use Android Auto if it was available for Lineage. (Or maybe it is. Not sure. But I wouldn’t use it regardless.)

Uranium3006 ,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

the solution is to yank out the stock infotainment system and put in a new one that doesn't suck. that and cracking down on automakers who play dirty

TWeaK ,

I’m more interested in that Nitro Phone 4, tbh. Not in buying it, as I’d just flash it myself, but it’s an interesting product. They also include options for removing sensors, microphones and cameras, which seems kind of cool and crazy - without the microphones how do you make calls?!

monty33 ,

Wow this is incredible, and I will be making the switch! This was the only unavailable feature that I couldn’t go without.

Shyfer ,

Is Graphene OS good? Any downsides? I need to get a new phone soon.

pricklypearbear ,
@pricklypearbear@lemmy.world avatar

From my experience, its overall good. Its basically stock android, meaning no google smart features and apps by default, with more control over apps and google services. But for caution, some apps may break. You will have to mess around with the app settings to fix them. Also some apps will not work such as the google wallet app due to the OS not being acknowledged as official by google.

In short, its a more security focused OS that may require more involvement in configuration.

Strawberry ,

is there any way to do NFC payments with grapheneos?

quentangle ,

Google Wallet didn’t work last time I checked, but contactless payments worked perfectly well by setting my banking app as the payment app.

Not all banking apps work due to the system integrity checks they do. Support for your banking app can probably be confirmed here.

DaddleDew ,

I switched to it a year ago and I like it. The biggest draw for me is it gives me back control and ownership over my phone. It gives you actual and thorough control over what apps can do on your phone including Google’s apps, which on other typical Android OS are being given all or most permissions with no ability for you to deny access to any of them.

To gain almost all the functionality of a regular Android OS you can install Google Play Services and run it sandboxed, which means it will only do what you allow it to do and access only what you will allow it to access, which for me is the bare minimum before things stop working too much for my tastes.

Besides Android auto for now, the only thing that won’t work for me on it is my banking app, probably because of all the security checks involved in it. But I just use the browser-based online service to do my banking operations instead.

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