Installed #GrapheneOS several days ago on my Pixel 8. It works great without any Google services! https://grapheneos.org/
I use a pixel 7 (with GraphineOS), I love it :3
Absolutely agreed. Been there since the Pixel 6, no regrets.
Welcome to the club!
There are many apps that rely on Google Play services for notifications. Did you enable that from the Graphene Apps or does Aurora provide a push service?
I wanna know that too! I actually found a lot of app notifications working, but some not and also some constantly told me “This app doesn’t work without GPS” while running perfectly fine, apart from that message.
I did not install anything to replace GPS, so something must work out of the box there. Installed most of the app via Aurora Store from FDroid
Do location services work nicely without Play Services? I use them daily so I’m a bit hesitant to try…
Yes, I’ve never had any trouble with apps being able to get GPS location without Google Play Services. Obviously, you won’t get that Google location timeline because you don’t have Google Play Services or Google anything on your device. But any GPS app will work just fine.
Don’t wanna crash the party, but I tried the 3a and recently the 6a with Graphene, and while everything else worked really well, Location actually didn’t work at all. Everytime when I wanted to get my location, I needed to wait about 5-15 minutes for it to find it. This was actually one of the reasons to not use it as a daily driver.
That’s weird. Everything that needs GPS location works great for me. I agree that it does take a bit longer to lock, but it’s only about 1 or 2 seconds longer.
My OsmAnd~ works amazing.
Thanks for the answer!
The google location timeline convinced me to get my ass off of Google more than anything so not having it is a big plus
Maybe the switch for me would require staging on a burner pixel that supported. I have a lot of shopping apps, that I may not need, but need some time on the testing phone to make sure everything works before taking the deep dive.
This is also how I made the switch off windows. Stagged it on a space older laptop to see what’s what.
I’ll get there…
