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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I finally managed to install Lineage os on this HTC One (m8) thanks to the help of Lemmy!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When using Graphene, is the camera app as good as the default Pixel OS? I seem to recall running the old AOSP, you didn't get whatever secret sauce makes the Pixel phone's camera so good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know it does not include Google's special sauce. You can install it back on in GrapheneOS but I believe that requires the Play Store. You also lose Android Auto in GrapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No and no.

https://grapheneos.org/faq

The GCam works without any sandboxed play service requirements. Note sandboxed Play Services. You can disable components, uninstall them again, give or restrict permissions, like normal Android apps.

On GrapheneOS you can also disable every App.

And Android Auto recently got support, fully sandboxed. But its crazy how much tracking that needs, I still have no idea what it is at all but it works.

I also tried Google Play Games, which is not available through their store, from Aurorastore, and with the sandboxed Play services it also works perfectly fine!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool! I was out of date on all of that so thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah its always easy. There are a TON of misconceptions about GrapheneOS.

I am doing a writeup of a "GrapheneOS Kickstart" guide currently, nearly done. Includes many of those questions, although impossible to include all.

If a person says to you they know everything, you get 100% security or privacy, they are lying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They literally preinstall the required libraries, although their camera is okay, you can install the "AI knows everything better than you" PixelCamera, you can install the LineageOS "Aperture" from the iodeOS repo, and you can install Opencamera.

I think LineageOSses Camera is better for photos as it has this "take an image from a video" thing so it works instantaneous. GrapheneOS camera may have better quality overall.