#asknostr I am not very tech savvy, but am going to try again to de-google my life. I need to get a battery replacement for my older Pixel, and think now is a good enough time to try GrapheneOS. Any advice or tips or tricks on setting that up as a newb?
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Know your going to loose your data. So back stuff up and research some unbrick methods beforehand so you know what to do when things go wrong.
Thank you for your response, does it mean I'll lose access to saving data permanently? Like taking pictures etc?
No, he meant that all the data that is currently on your phone will get wiped, after installing GrapheneOS it is like any other Android phone, but without Google. Here's a UnifiedPush alternative that uses Mozilla's push servers instead of Google's: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.unifiedpush.distributor.sunup/
It is something you'll need if you want push notifications (like incoming messages etc) from certain apps without killing your battery life, or at all.
More involved, but you can also self host NextPush with Nextcloud.
No, that will be fine. But as a security measure it will wipe itself back to factory settings when you unlock the bootloader. So you want all your data backuped before then. Its because when the bootloader is tampered with its easier to install a backdoor. Pretty sure graphene allows relocking but you still need to unlock to be allowed to install it so in the meantime your going to trip that self delete once.
I've done it a few times on a couple devices. It's really pretty easy to do. They have a web-based system that works quite well. I think you need to run it in some kind of chrome-based browser like Chrome or Edge.
And if you get stuck, there's lots of good guides out there and I welcome you to ping me on here if you need help. It's not terribly hard.
Once you get it installed, then the game begins. You'll have to give explicit permissions to every app that asks for them. But this is a feature, not a bug.
And if you want things from the play store or things like Android Auto amd maps or whatever, then you have to make some compromises and you may read about that some before you dive in.
Thank you for your response, I'm watching some guides on YouTube and apparently it's not good to use a phone that's been on a Verizon plan so maybe this isn't a great option for me 🤷♀️
Hmm, that's interesting. I'm wondering why that would be? If your phone is unlockable at the boot loader level, which is a prerequisite to doing this in the first place, then it wouldn't even look like the same device to the network or to anyone.
I wonder if Verizon pixels are not unlockable. Perhaps that's the problem.
If it's not a secondary device... make sure you plan your exit strategy should you ever need to use it. It is a pain in the royal ass to get all of your data off Graphene OS and back onto a traditional mobile OS.
