Ive grown quite fond of lawnchair within the last 24hours…its kinda sad, that there is no decent, active launcher. I checked librechair, but havnt gotten past this weird telegram channel, where youd download the apk. That does not really seem trustworthy, nor professional…
In nearly two months you ported the /e/ OS de-googled for Fairphone 3. Outstanding achievement and great work.
Donated 25 euros - should be the least I can do.
Some things you did quite well:
Driver support (Camera, sensors, LED indicators, Wi-Fi, cellular network, etc.)
Bliss launcher is a easy to use UI
Location services with Mozilla Locations
microG is a data protecting open source alternative to Google GMS services.
Choose different DNS server
Alternative forked de-googled apps from Lineage OS system
Some things that you can improve:
Apps at the /e/ app store aren’t up-to-date. I additionally used the F-Droid store app to update the apps.
Today I installed /e/os on my brand new FP3 - after setup and tuning my favorite apps, I was quite convinced about the integration of the hardware. But then I launched GPS-related apps (OSM and more…) and found, they didn’t work properly. In the same place, where my old phone finds 30+ sats (mesured by satstat-app), FP3 with /e/ shows 5 sats and doesn’t fix with one of them. Did I do something wrong in settings (Location: accurate [device and wifi/gsm])?
Hello AnotherElk,
thank you for this hints. As of this morning, localisation is working with gps, glonas and beidou. I don’t know, what has happend over night…
Only bad news is that I had one app I paid for in the Play Store and can’t get the premium version of on my new phone.
The app is Automate and it says I can’t purchase it because the play store’s payment API is not implemented.
Is there anything that can be done for this on /e/'s side? I asked the app developer (see discussion) but they say it’s not easy to implement another payment method on their side.
EDIT: hum in fact I already searched there. Logging with my “goolag” account is out of the question since the main reason for switching to /e/ is breaking free from these guys. I’ve tried other solutions in comments but none seem to work for me. Which solution did you use?
I’m in the comfortable situation, to switch from a googled device to an ungoogled one. So I was able to copy all payed apps via apkshare to my new device. Btw.: not all payed apps run on the google-free device, but the majority does.
I’ll give a try to apkshare then thanks ofr the tip.
I’m in that same situation as you (two phones) but the difference is that my old phone is not only old, it’s ancient
So I’m migrating apps from Android 4 to 9. Should be an interesting test…
Bad luck… didn’t work.
Also, goolag hides the open-source apkshare. Searching for it by name in the play store does not show the list of options but directly redirects to a chinese app instead…
One has to search for the app author to find it. Disgusting.
+1 for graphical animations, it is very slow.
OpenCamera is not so good too (slow).
Let user delete preinstalled (or disable) all apps and microG.
Let user delete all /e/ services. I don’t use it, but have some ping to /e/ services.