Ive been using google's services since 2017-2018, now its time to finally depart from that. I just got it in the mail yesterday and I'm already in love with it. So much lighter and easier to carry than my samsung galaxy. Gonna transfer everything over in a sim card, switch to Tmobile and ill be good to go. ๐
everyone noting that T-mobile is evil, please note that here in the USA where corporate oligarchy is the defacto system, there are only 3 actual carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) with each of these having several other brands that are subsidiaries or affiliates that piggyback on their networks. And T-Mobile has a distinct advantage for degooglers in that they are GSMA, still offer physical sims, and do not have strict "whitelists" for compatible devices, like the other two carriers (whose business ethics are just as bad as T-Mobile's.)
Yeah, for getting off of main tech. They are literally are only option.
Everyone in the comments talking about which provider is bad.
Name one good one, I'll wait.
Oof, you're in a world of hurt with that phone's band support. Especially on T-Mobile which is majority 5G now.
4G supported bands B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B7, B12, B17, B20, B66
T-Mobile has a sliver of band 12 in most markets, so that helps for indoor/low-band coverage. No band 71 support means you miss out on their nationwide 600MHz low band, however. No band 25, which means you can't use T-Satellite. No band 41, so you can't use T-Mobile's high speed data band (although in most markets it is all 5G now so you wouldn't be using it anyway.)
On T-Mobile you're using B2/B66/B12 in markets that still have LTE running on those bands, and it will continue to reduce as they shift further to 5G.
May want to start planning your next phone move now and/or return it if you still can.
Dang, are you serious? My current phone even though a year older gets way more 4G bands than that when I just use 4G. im looking it over know and that freaking sucks.Good news, I can return the phone, I just got it a couple of days ago. I might just return that and just degoogle my samsung cause this is freaking ridiculous.
What is the fascination with degoogling?
Just get a pixel and install graphene on it. You can choose to install sandboxed Google play or not. You can also install it in a guest profile if you need it for things like banking apps and stuff.
Or just use aurora in your main profile
Your literally doing the same thing with Graphene. Its a degoogled os system (if you choose it to be that way) same with all of these other OS systems available
Plus, not only those phones are not repairable with the lack of an SD card, but long term support for those phones are heavily questionable now since Google is working on locking out Graphene users. Along with that Im not interested in buying one
Then suffer I guess. Phone is for phoning. Get usbc SD card reader?
Lol, interesting situation over there. My 4G connection is literally 4 times the speed of my wifi (or even 7 times in upload). Reception is great, 4G isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I was thinking that too, cause its still heavily used here. But can this teracube phone I have be used with T-Mobile or used with another affiliate of theirs?
I saw that wallpaper and at first thought you had degoogled by smashing your phone ๐
Kind of irrelevant but nice album choice
Thanks๐. Its my favorite out of all of her albums, especially with seeing her live last month for opening for Evanescence. Such an amazing band.
Yo, nice, I got to see them live, too! Such a sick show, awesome band, can't wait till they swing by my neck of the woods again.
Peace be with you๐น๐น๐น๐น
That's wonderful. I've also deGoogled myself and bought a Fairphone with e/os. I hope many others will also disconnect from Google.
Which phone?
This is the Teracube 2s running e/OS
~~What model of phone? What OS are you running?~~
Is this the A16 5g -> Teracube 2s (Degoogled version with e/OS) you have been waiting for?
In the photo caption it says itโs a Teracube 2s running e/OS
No caption visible for me.
Something to consider for the future. Meanwhile i'll try graphene os.
grapheneOS merits more than a "meanwhile"
If I had a job I'd buy a One Plus direct from China and put LineageOS on it. I don't need to relock the bootloader since my phone is mainly for browsing and text/calls (no important private stuff). I don't even log into Lemmy on my phone because the PC experience is superior.
Recently I got rid of WhatsApp (now fully deleted my account) plus I removed Signal. My battery life is incredible now. I don't even fast-charge cos I'm too poor and my phone doesn't support any worth-while fast charger anyway! Next step is to get LineageOS and get rid of Google Play Services. Even more performance and battery saving.
Lots of caveats there. To preface, most active rom development used to take place on forums, mainly XDA. Nowadays it's on telegram, which is gated unfortunately, so lot's of knowledge get lost.
First, you NEED to be able to unlock your bootloader to be able to install custom ROMs. Here is a source
Back to hardware, recent chinese bought Xiaomi are nearly impossible to unlock bootloader without paying a 3rd party. EU/Global ones can be unlocked, but it's a hassle (waiting 30 days + need to have windows). That makes finding device tree for them hard let alone, finding ROMs.
Oneplus unfortunately is getting worse. Op13 onwards has hardware ARB (which Will brick your device). OP15 onwards has a bit complex way to unlock bootloader.
If you buy it from China, it must be ColorOS version otherwise, you won't be able to unlock the bootloader. Even with COS, you need to install an app to get an unlock token from their server to allow you to unlock the bootloader (this for now, takes 24 hrs max, but this might change and could be like Xiaomi). The Global/EU ones, are fine for now.
Remember you need to have the device tree (basically all the recipes for the hardware of the device to get it to work with other ROMs). Google used to publish this for Pixels, that's why it used to be easy to build ROMs for Pixel. This has changed recently.
So it's getting gloomy for Android devices. I just wish Fairphone would actually follow their "eco" mission, and become the new Pixels. On the other hand Jolla seems to be following up with a no compromise "Linux". Time will tell.
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