#calyxOS

2025-06-22

Wenn ihr unter CalyxOS Probleme damit habt GPS Daten von Fotos auszulesen, dann müsst ihr diese Einstellung deaktivieren.

#calyxos

Omega🐇:transfeminine_flag::ms_neurodiversity:purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay
2025-06-20

i'm going to switch back to #calyxos. i have personal reasons to dislike #grapheneos but in the end, i always reach the same issue. on both my former (beloved and dearly missed) pixel 4a and on my current (barely tolerated) pixel 7a,y phone runs noticeably worse on grapheneos.

every time, it's ends up noticeably slower, and noticeably hotter. and now that it's summertime it's just constantly burning hot which drains the battery super fast and it's actually unbearable to use. it's not a me issue, it's not a my device issue, it's a graphene issue. i've had this issue with two different devices and every time i use one over the other i have the same issue every time.

my best guess is that all of the hardening that they're doing is quite intense on the device, i have no clue, but it would also fit with the fact that i find ram management to be much more aggressive or at the very least it feels like i just have much less ram because being able to multitask without apps shutting down left and right on graphene is much more difficult for me.

i don't know what's going on. i don't pretend to be a super technical user, but at the end of the day, one works consistently better than the other for me. and between that and some other, as i said, personal issues that i have with the project, yeah, i think i'm kind of done. sure, i can't get access to google play services or whatever, but i'll put up with microg if i don't have to deal with all of this.

#calyx #customrom #android

Ferda 😻ferda@f.cz
2025-06-18

Motorola už dávno přišla, minulý týden jsem jí zprovoznil, zapnul developerský mód a skončil na tom, že musím požádat firmu Motorola o odblokování přístupu k bootloaderu.

Dnes jsem si 📱 registroval u Motoroly a na Linux Arch nainstaloval android-studio, abych byl schopen poslat Motorole příslušné kódy k umožnění odblokování, které bohužel implikuje ztrátu záruky 🤷🏻‍♂️. Stáhl jsem si i další potřebný software pro instalaci a image systému #calyxos.

#calyxos slibuje, že odblokování bude časem součástí instalace systému #calyxos , což by bylo super 🎉.

Pokračování zase příště ☺️.

2025-06-18
I've also swapped out Niagara launcher on my Fairphone 4 for Kiss launcher and I'm really enjoying the simplicity of it. Just for those that don't know I'm running on #CalyxOS no Google.
A screenshot ofy fairphone showing a cat holding a wilting red rose in it's mouth and a girl with an umbrella kneeling down looking at the cat.
2025-06-16
Progress report:

#unmeta: 100%
#akkoma, #threema, #signal are way better

#unmicrosoft: 100% everything I have control over, but work forces Windows on me
#nobara, #fedora, #mint and various distros on my test laptop

#ungoogle: 75%, still have some email adresses that are used as login everywhere, switching is hard work.
For Android I have #grapheneos and #calyxos on my daily drivers, but testing #mobilelinux like #sailfish and #ubuntutouch.
#Waterfox and #Iceraven for browsers.
And for the rest of the services I love my #nextcloud.
Also, #peertube and #nebula.
Honestly, #google is the hardest to get rid of, but maybe the one that really shouldn't have all that data about me. 🤔
Wolność w Kieszeni.plwolnoscwkieszeni@pol.social
2025-06-15

Kolejny krok Google ku zamknięciu Androida.

Google wykorzystując swoją pozycję monopolisty już od jakiegoś czasu poczynia kroki ku ograniczeniu rozwijanego przez siebie Androida. Firma cały czas swoimi kolejnymi kontrowersyjnymi decyzjami związanymi głównie z Play Integrity oraz usługami Google rzuca kłody pod nogi użytkownikom wymagającym transparentności oraz chcącym używać systemu w duchu open source.
Najnowszym i chyba najbardziej niepokojącym krokiem ku ograniczeniu dostępności systemu od Google jest ostatnia decyzja o przeniesieniu całego kodu źródłowego Androida do swoich repozytoriów, do których dostęp mają tylko licencjonowani producenci OEM. Co prawda kod źródłowy będzie dostępny w dalszym ciągu, jednak dopiero gdy system będzie w pełni gotowy do użytku. Wiąże się to z większym opóźnieniem w wydawaniu kolejnych odsłon robocika, co znacząco utrudni pracę niezależnym deweloperom takich systemów jak np. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS itp.
Kroki poczynianie przez Giganta z Mountain View można łączyć z toczącymi się przeciw niemu wieloma postępowaniami antymonopolistycznymi, z których wiele przegrywa w sądach w USA. według nieoficjalnych przecieków Google może w ten sposób szukać oszczędności i zabezpieczać się przed podziałem korporacji na mniejsze kawałki.

Artykuł od AntyWeb przystepnie przybliżający omawiany problem:
antyweb.pl/google-zamyka-andro

#grapheneos #lineageos #calyxos #google #android

@rl_dane I've been wondering the same. The iPhone I used before I switched to a custom ROM over 2.5 years ago is still in my drawer. Supposed to be my travel phone that still gets updates but I'd hate to go back. Wait and see, I guess. Darn Google! #android #foss #calyxos #grapheneos

2025-06-15

@rl_dane

From what I've read up to now, Google is very busy to save their arse. Google is Keeping Pixel phone sources now to it self, because there a chances that Google will be hacked up and divided up in smaller companies which will have to compete with each other, just like that process Ma Bell phone Company in the 1960s Of The last century

Do you remember the phrase?

We don't have to

We don't want to

We're the f%cking phone company!

Why would you be so masochistical and go to a totalitarian controlled ecosystem?

Just use your Android as you are used to and hack the vanilla Operating System in a manner that it is usable and enjoyable to you

On apple you will be torturing yourself and you will be paying them premium for crappy Hardware

#CalyxOS #GrapheneOS #LineageOS #Calyx #GOS #Lineage

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-06-15

Dang, it sounds like #Google is really trying to kill #FOSS #Android OSes.

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/848e13c7-1bcf-49d3-ad75-02055c0b9576

What are my #AOSP peeps planning to do?

If OS updates get a lot slower because of this, I might have to go back to iPhone. 😭🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

#CalyxOS #GrapheneOS #LineageOS #Calyx #GOS #Lineage

UPDATE: This update from the #CalyxOS project helps answer some questions: https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/

It would seem that all Pixel devices will require a lot more work to port Android 16 to. It's not impossible, by any stretch, but Google has absolutely stopped helping the community in any way.

This is very bad news, all around. Not the worst news, by far, but quite bad.

Google released Android 16 to AOSP - but without Pixel device-specific source code

lemmy.world/post/31256360

Matthias Kirschnerkirschner
2025-06-11

For the first time I flashed a phone with from another CalyxOS phone using @calyxos 's web installer ( install.calyxos.org/ ). No additional laptop was necessary. Quite a step from the first times we flashed phones at the @fsfe in 2012. Thanks @grote for the hint to try that out!

two phones connected with USB cable
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-06-11

@crabbypup

Moto (now Lenovo) and Samsung both make amazing devices, but I won't go near 'em because they love to lock the bootloader and do petty crap like that.

Even when the models are unlockable, they aren't supported by the OSes I like.

Going with a FOSS Android OS, you lose some functionality, but you also lose a TON of the planned obsolescence.

I had my Pixel 4a 5G on stock android for about a year, and it started getting slow. I switched to #CalyxOS, and it was fast as greased lightning again.

Cora, agora com Extra Fofocora@hachyderm.io
2025-06-10

Okay internet freaky people, I have a Google Pixel 4a (Sunfish) device that's been sitting in a drawer pretty much since unboxing. I installed #grapheneos on it a month or so ago, but on first boot got a notification that the device is no longer supported. #calyxos is EOLing it in August, and their web installer doesn't support it now. #lineageos _does_ support it, but there is enough of a time investment in making it happen that I may as well consider more... outré setups.

Sooo, any recommendations? Doesn't need to be an Android variant, as long as it's #linux or #bsd under the hood and I can get a shell on it.

Google Pixel 9a is now officially supported by CalyxOS

lemmy.world/post/31150064

maschmiinw
2025-06-09

It is now a month since I switched from a normal phone to one running . While I still use it is not linked with a google account anymore. I use the Aurora Store and f-droid, are more conscious which apps I install. Generally, I use less apps and more direct links via browser.

And I must say: it is great. Less notifications, less stress, less fear priming an algorithm in a wrong way.

I do not miss much. Payment via NFC and information in google maps sometimes.

herrgruenherrgruen
2025-06-07

@TeomaHK Nein, ich bin User und habe ein Pixel 8a als Zweitgerät. (Bevor dies zu meinem Hauptgerät werden kann, muss ich noch auf mein Diensthandy warten. Ich möchte künftig eine klare Trennung zwischen privaten und dienstlichen Apps.)
, und könnten evtl. brauchbare Alternativen sein. Kennst du kuketz-blog.de und kuketz-forum.de? Vielleicht findest du da weitere Anregungen.

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-06-06

@justincrozer

If you have a spare phone, you might want to try out a #MicroG-based OS like #CalyxOS. I can't guarantee that it'd work better, but it's a nice middle ground between no google services and "sandboxed" google services, because it's a FOSS re-implementation of the google services.

The other option would maybe be putting sandboxed google play and just the troublesome apps in a work profile, so you can turn that all off and on as you need it and contain the badness?

N95 subnet mask 😷sharewarewolf@bitbang.social
2025-06-05

@thomholwerda I don't know the rest of your requirements, but I've been enjoying #CalyxOS for the last couple years. I installed it without microG.

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