I am toying with the idea of buying the GS6 with Murena e/os, but there is very little information about this phone. I was wondering if somebody had tried it
I am toying with the idea of buying the GS6 with Murena e/os, but there is very little information about this phone. I was wondering if somebody had tried it
I was about to but found out I could get a much better pixel with grapheneOS for cheaper. It’s great it exists to develop European operating systems though!
Same story for me: I got a refurbished Pixel for less than $200 and installed GrapheneOS in a few minutes. I wanted a secure OS, but I got something better: the most plain, stable, and dull Android you can have. It’s perfect for me.
My next phone will be either the Motorola/GrapheneOS, or a Sailfish thing on a cheap Sony Xperia.
/e/ OS looks like a fork of LineageOS, which is not a good selling point because I cannot buy a refurbished phone for that, and the advantage over LineageOS or GrapheneOS is not clear to me.
One of the advantages is that if you have to buy a Pixel to use Graphene then you are basically rewarding Google (even if you are buying secondhand). E/os USP is it comes pre installed option on Fairphone which are the moment is the most ethical way of buying a phone - if that is of concern to you. It is to me so I have bought one. By all accounts they have solved a lot of compatibility issues with banking apps so I might give eos a go myself.
Sadly the absolutely pitifully small storage space of the pixels to force you to use their cloud services carries over to graphene.
Currently I have immich not removing any photos or videos from my phone and my entire music library synced via syncthing.
Even if I got the more expensive “upgraded memory” pixel, I would be out of storage (having 0 games on my phone and minimal apps) in about another year, maybe 2…
The experience of only “cloud” (even if self-hosted) media services is a compromise at best.
I saw that but you ave to be able to flash graphene, high I can’t…
It’s ridiculously easy through their web installer.
Oh, OK
Super ridiculously easy, even before they had their installer. I got pixel 1 years ago, second hand, just for fiddling with it. It was the shortest fiddling in history and the phone was ready to be used in minutes.
Nothing like the experience I had in Samsung for example.
Another veteran, I see! I concur, messing about on Samsung phones with Odin and TWRP was an entirely different business. I switched to CalyxOS after that, and their install process / command line installer was already leagues better (partly probably also due to the Pixel line’s greater openness).
Why can’t you flash graphene? It requires a PC or android phone with a web browser and a cable.
I fear I might brick the phone with a mishap
I think it’s healthy to worry about that but I will say that Graphene’s install experience is the best I’ve ever seen. Visiting a page in a web browser with the phone connected, the page will walk you through every step, explaining each one clearly and then double-checking your work to confirm proper execution before continuing. It is by far the most polished and safest ROM install I’ve ever done.
Believe in yourself ,its easy