You should keep your phone and install GrapheneOS. It's not hard, you just have to reboot your phone and press few clicks in your browser. You can install Google Play and every Google service should work (except Android Auto and you can't use NFC with GPay).
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Android Auto works by now. GPAY not so much sadly.
This. People with Google Pixels wanting to switch is something I dont get. You literally own the most secure phone on the planet, with the best OS.
I just want to see if other phones don't suck nowadays, I'm not switching to a different brand just yet (I own too many Google things).
They do poorly. Securitywise (which also means update lifespan and ease of creating a custom OS with full support) Google Pixels are unbeaten.
Samsung actively prevents custom OS from using many security features.
Most other phones have nonexistent update spans.
Fairphone maybe, they are still worse softwarewise than Google.
Fairphone 5 is still on my list but unfortunate it does not support QI charging.
Agree a lot, Google Pixels are stupidly huge.
Google Pixel with GrapheneOS.
If you are actually, really, honestly low on money, you may get something with DivestOS or LineageOS.
GrapheneOS is the gold standard, every Google certified Android is full of tracking and will show ads in places
I have already said that I don’t want to deal with custom bootloaders/systems. I know that stock phone systems are full of tracking, but I just want to know which ones have the least tracking that are not from Google.
GrapheneOS really isnt comparable to LineageOS. The install literally is
- In the phone unlock the bootloader (just requires internet access if not already available) and enable usb debugging
- Plug in device using a reliable usb 3.0 cable
- Windows: install drivers, Linux: setup adb group stuff
- Open chromium, go to grapheneos.org/install/web
- Click a few buttons, on the phone press a few buttons to accept things
- Click another button
- Start your phone, set some preferences, install apps
Have a look at Veronica Explains' video, i recommend to use F-Droid Basic though. Thats it, it just works.
And you can revert back to stock Android without a problem too, why not give it a try? This "I am looking for stock android without ads" is pretty half baked, stock android is a tracking platform, everywhere. No fairphone (or Murena with their insecure "private" OS) or ANY other brand will give you a reasonably private phone, all are basically a tracking instrument.
We really need a googerteller Android App. Stock Android sends everything to Google
GrapheneOS yo. You even already have a pixel for it lol