Some Pixel owners can't unlock their phones after the latest update
11 days ago by schizoidman to c/android
I dunno about them but my phone is only at 22% battery and I can't reach the cable from where I'm sitting.
It's been a minute since I flashed a rom but I feel like I'm gonna need a cable and a laptop?
It's tap to pay (or use the public transit) that's keeping me back.
You can still use Google wallet if you're happy to accept Google services in full*. Also, Curve has touchless payment that doesn't require Google's stuff. You do obviously trade Google for another company to slurp up your data, so it's not a perfect solution.
* I'm bad and a big fat liar, Google Pay does indeed not work on 3rd party OSes. Curve Pay does though, as that's what I'm using.
Tap-to-pay is an obstacle for GrapheneOS adoption for sure. It seems like some Garmin watches have tap-to-pay support which doesn't just utilize your phone like other smart watches. I'm going to be heading in that direction soon. I've found some reports that the Vivoactiv series actually loads the card onto the watch so I'd use the Garmin app in a secondary profile to set it up but then largely leave the Garmin watch disconnected from my phone but should still be able to use the watch for tap-to-pay.
I did recently and its been better than I expected. The only real issue was RCS. After 2 years of me not having a Facebook account, my friends finally switched from Facebook's system to a group text... which broke utterly without RCS.
I had to install Google's Messages app and fiddle with the native app and Google's RCS settings and eventually it start working again. I am pretty competent but the support for this seemed to be digging through forum posts and trying a bunch of different solutions unsuccessfully and then having it suddenly work and not knowing why. I hope they manage to get a solution working in the native app.
Otherwise a great experience!
Good thought. Luckily all my critical folks are on Signal.
It's actually really easy nowadays. There's specific setting in the sandboxed Google play for ICC identification (needed for RCS) and activation/it getting it to work is trivial as long as you use Google messages.
The native RCS app is something they want to do but is far out.
I was able to get RCS to work on Google Messages easily on GrapheneOS. The issue I had was trying to NOT use RCS. My messages have never been encrypted with iPhone users so I'm using Molly for people that matter anyways, and I was hoping to be able to recieve group texts even though I wasn't using Google Messages anymore. Nope, could never get it to work. I tried deregistering from RCS on Google's page, I tried contacting TMobile support, etc. Those group text just disappeared into the ether. So I'm back to Google Messages until Grapheme Messages adds RCS.
This is what I did and do not regret a thing. It takes a few weeks to get used to (especially when coming from iOS), but once you find good open source replacements for daily apps, there's no going back. The only thing I miss is Apple Pay, but using regular card again is not a huge deal.
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