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).
what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies
I have a pixel7pro with graphene. It works great! All the banking apps work. I have Google services (I really need Google maps), but as they are sandboxed I can stop them when I don’t need them. I don’t use Google play store (aurora store instead and droid-ify). I’d say go for it!
Seems unlikely. What do you “really” need Google Maps for?
Have you tried Magic Earth?
Have you tried
GW Maps?GMaps WV?I try to use Magic earth as much as possible, also because I like the dashcam feature. But more than once when entering a street address/number it sent me in the wrong spot. Or searching for places by name instead of address I get the right results maybe 50% of the time. But if I know exactly where I want to go and can pinpoint it on the map, it’s great!
Now tbh I’ve found a bug (or something I can’t figure out anyway) and the sound doesn’t work on graphene. I need to look into it a bit more but can be a problem.
Never heard of GW maps and the only results seem about Guild Wars maps…
Yeah sorry, the app is called “GMaps WV”. It’s a private front-end for Google Maps. I use this to find locations and share them to Magic Earth.