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don't let google alter the deal (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 4 months ago* (18 children)

My tech brothers, how easy is it to install graphene on my pixel 7? Will my banking app (Barclays, UK) still work? Tia

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Its so easy with their web installer, takes like 5 minutes. If you go to their website they have a list of bank apps that work. Mine does and no issues. Ive been using Graphene for a couple years and can never go back.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    The only thing I'd like to note is, their guide says to use a high quality USB cable. Most times I've seen that, it's been completely irrelevant. With the Graphene installation, the only hard part of the process was finding the USB cable that came with my phone. Once I did, all other obstacles disappeared.

    edit: Correct a word.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    Barclays: This app only runs in the owner profile and secure app spawning may have to be disabled

    https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

    The installation is super easy - barely an inconvinience. However you need to set up everything on your phone manually - no easy transfer from stock Android afaik.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    super easy - barely an inconvinience

    I understood that reference!

    And agreed, installation is super simple, just a good quality USB-C data cable (the one that comes with the Pixel works great) and a Chromium-based browser. As for post-installation, yeah it can be a pain but you'd be surprised how much crap from your old phone you don't actually need. Going GrapheneOS is a good way to go minimalist if you want to.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It should. My banking apps worked fine. None of them work on a rooted phone but worked absolutely fine on Graphene.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I thought you had to root the phone to install graphene?

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