Indeed that’s why people should learn from it and not buy such crap in the future. If it’s not a lineage official supported device next step is xda forums for a rom. And if its really bad at least root the stock one and remove/block the worst of it. I rarely seen a phone where there is nothing to do at all but the junk heap

Used phones exist. GOS is not the only option either. So basically any phone can be improved with at least lineage.

Counterpoint 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywo-NT8K6B4&t=100

Counterpoint 2 You don’t. I use a bunch of them from different countries and crappy builds. GPay sure , just get a case with a cardholder

Yea its a lot easier just to flash a custom rom and not use it then trying to clean out a already google infested install. Usually a lot of headache , but usefull for really old cheap phone the runs out of storage due to updates.

Nope. You want to add them I say don’t do that. Post was not about removing Gapps. Adb commands for uninstalling system apps exist but there is like 10 minute of a learning curve to flash GOS

Don’t do that :)

Yes but internet exist so they are not stuck if they actually put some effort in. Unfortunately people don’t care the way they should.

Well . That’s what forks are for. The aim of GOS is not to support a lot of devices. Since it can’t achieve its goals of a reasonable secure device that way. But as I said a fork of GOS would be good , or longer support from calyx. I think I got a year more out of a pixel 3 on calyx OS. But if your goal is maximum security there is no way around the fact that without manufacturers updates and to a certain extent hardware limitations, it won’t be possible to do.

But best would be a good Linux phone so we can move away from Android all together, hope we can see that soon

A fork of GOS for EOL devices would be pretty nice I agree , but GOS doesn’t decise phone security, manufacturers do. Any phone with good enough security would be a target device for GOS.

Calyx OS usually run longer on EOL so I would go there before lineage.

Google do Google stuff not because they are evil. They do it because they can , which is true for any company in this system. If another takes the position it will do the same. Also its not like phones are Googles main income source. Buying a pixel and putting GOS on it probably is worse for Googles bottom line , no matter new or used, than using a stock any other Android.

I don’t have one. GOS

I don’t have one…

Wow ty , had mine off for unlocking screen since i got this phone , wasnt visible until i turned on unlock with fingerprint :)

Seems it found its way there as well then. Think it was a GOS thing on 14

Its built in in GOS. And duress pin as well. Best middleground for security, you can still use fingerprint for apps.

I always had a fat32 partion available for sharing stuff when i did dualbooting. Just for saving some stuff, but limited to 4 gb files then. Ntfs works as well so either partion or separate drive