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Anyone use phone besides iphone/Android? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interested in hearing everyone's experience using alternative phone OS's. Have you ever used Lineage or Graphene, Pursim, pinephone? Was it good enough to replace your android/iphone?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I run Arch on a PinePhone Pro. It's been working really well. Recent updates have improved it a lot. The phone now wakes itself up from sleep when it receives a call or SMS, calls and SMS have been very reliable, MMS messages now work, etc. I even have Android apps running on my PinePhone Pro using Waydroid, which is now hardware accelerated. I use it as a daily driver and it's a very good daily driver.

The only major issue is that the drivers for the cameras haven't been mainlined yet which means that even if you get a kernel that supports them, most camera apps won't support them and the ones that do don't have postprocessing yet, so the white balance is off and the quality is horrible. If you don't need the cameras though, it works really well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's a screenshot of Waydroid running on my PinePhone Pro. I'm using an Android image with microG. The black bars on the top and bottom are part of Phosh, the desktop environment I'm using, then everything in the middle is Android running inside a Waydroid container.