android

Hi,...

the android device I might buy with the audio format I usually listen to....

if I buy a pixel 7a within the next 5 days they’ll add on top of the 20% off they already offered, a free pair of pixel a-series buds (retail price $100), so I’d get a 33% discount on both items....

Other alternatives:...

I visited 3 stores looking for the pixels 7a. One of these stores (best buy) sells it at a 20% discount for only 2 weeks, brand new, 128 GB, so I may go for it to buy and nuke to install graphene OS, then relock it....

(Picture alt text: a screenshot of my phone’s call log, with numbers redacted (just in case). The phone numbers (except for one) are all spam calls)...

I’m lucky my banking app works (GrapheneOS), as it’s now requiring 2FA with the app anytime I login on the browser. Can’t use an actually secure form like TOTP. At least they now allow passwords over 8 characters (yes, serious)....

When I go to bed I use my smartphone to listen to something soothing and I fall asleep. It usually takes less than an hour....

I can’t root my phone because I don’t have an image for it (Moto G73) although I’d like to, but for some reason my banking app thinks it’s rooted and refuses to work. This happened just after I updated it, it wasn’t happening before....

I have been trying to reduce distractions from my phone. I have installed a simple launcher (Niagara), and turned off system notifications on almost all apps....

thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough)....

desktop shows all available versions, including the newest ones. This is not always the case when I load the f-droid app on my phone. If I check the f-droid website, results are the same as using the desktop.

phone loads the icons but even for popular apps like firefox, it shows nothing.

apparently I didn’t ask the correct question with my last post: I’m looking for a foss messenger I can also send audio and video with and have a conversation over the smartphone not needing to use voip (and not needing a phone number).

I basically want to talk and send messages and pictures, video call is not really that important....

Running Android 13....

Hey, my Pixel with GrapheneOS doesnt get dark enough. Android has some “extradark” feature that basically overlays black with a set transparency....

I have Tecno Spark 10 Pro and would like to install lineageOS or other degoogled firmware, but how can I do this if my phone is not in the list of supported ones?

Do you root or do you go straight to ROMs?

gsf stands for google Services Framework....