Hello fellow degooglers,
Since a few months, the MicroG companion app has started showing up in F-droid’s update list. This is confusing to me, as I thought /e/ installed its own version of MicroG. I certainly did not try to install anything manually.
When I try to update the companion app, it fails. This has happened since two or three /e/ updates. Now, I would ignore this, but at the same time one of my banking apps stopped working as well. I had to verify my ID again, by taking a picture of my passport and my face. It doesn’t work, informing me that Google Play Services are not installed. This has not been a problem before. I started using my FP4 with /e/ about two years ago.
Has there been a change to MicroG in last months? Are other people experiencing this? Are the banking app and MicroG problems even related? If anyone can help me get started debugging this, I would be grateful as well. I am not the most proficient in the Android system but I know the basics.
Thanks for any responses!
Info:
Fairphone 4
/e/ version (at this time): 1.16-s
MicroG version: 0.2.29.233013-2