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GrapheneOS bugs (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone!

Quick preamble: I'm going to be posting a proper bug report. In the spirit of GrapheneOS and this community (privacy) my details will be kind of generic here. Phone is a modern a-series Pixel.

Is anyone having notably more bugs in the last few days or so?

A few examples:

Fingerprint flickering on touch with erratic behaviour, the boot options after holding the side button do not register presses properly making it difficult to even reboot. I was stuck in this cycle for a few minutes. Fix on reboot.

Switching profiles lockscreen bug, when switching back to the owner profile, the home screen with app icons is displayed in the background of the lock screen for a few seconds, before switching back to the proper lock screen background.

Certain notifications, if timed just right while the screen shuts off, persist on the lock screen until they naturally fade.

Now that I'm typing these, they all seem to be related to the lockscreen in some way. Using default launcher.

So, anyone else experienced an uptick in bugginess lately? I read through the recent release notes and didn't see any obvious indicators, but I'm not certain.

Would like to hear from other GrapheneOS users!

Also, if you want to take your privacy and security seriously, please consider switching to GrapheneOS if you haven't already and are able to. It's the best we've got right now as far as privacy and security in a mobile OS goes.

Cheers!

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[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This reminds me that I've yet to set up complete backup of my phone.

It's not Halloween yet please don't mention OS corruption 👻

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Using what for full phone backup?

[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I use Synology Drive for much of my stuff which backs up to my (really old) NAS. I also use cryptomator for some things. I also do a lot of manual backups because I made the habit and some things just aren't easy or necessary to automate.

For the record, I know Synology sucks but I bought this NAS before they started pulling that BS about third party drives and removing codecs etc. I keep the NAS offline, tailscale only (sorry not doing Headscale). And for anyone in the same boat about the codecs, there's a Github project I helped a tiny bit on which patches back in the old codecs and prevents synology from updating over it. If you want the link lemme know!

Edit: while I'm on the tangent of Synology I want to add that somebody came up with a script to activate many of the features which require device registration. All of it can be done offline and with no external scripts. Here it is!