I have been considering replacing my nearly 7 year old iPhone (although very reluctant) and I was checking for options. Really the only phone that caught my eye was the Sony xperia 1 V, but I found no information about how to degoogle and lock down the device. I really like the features and the built in camera apps, etc. Is there a way to degoogle the phone without loosing the funcionality/ease of use?

  • thayerEnglish
    31·
    4 months ago4 months ago

    Quite a lot of apps cease to provide real-time notifications/messages, if they work at all, when Google Play components are not installed under GOS. At the very least, Google Services Framework is required for many mainstream apps.

    • AstralPath
      50·
      4 months ago

      That’s what the Google Play Sandbox is for.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        Other ROMs don’t have Sandbox.

          • lemmyvoreEnglish
            10·
            4 months ago

            What is Sandboxed Play Services? I’ve searched for it but I seem to find contradictory information. Looks like a feature that needs to be added explicitly to a ROM by its devs? It seems to have originated with GrapheneOS but there’s no mainstream support, in LineageOS for example.

            • AstralPath
              10·
              4 months ago

              All I know is that its a feature of GrapheneOS, and is the main reason why I switched over to it.

              • lemmyvoreEnglish
                10·
                4 months ago

                Oh that’s interesting. So basically it’s just Google apps running in userspace as opposed to system apps, and subject to any restriction you can throw at user apps? I imagine that Xprivacy would work too in that case.