COcodethief·Dec 21, 2023
> Everything works including Google Pay.
Wait, what? What did I miss here -> https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1986 ?
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Issue tracker for GrapheneOS Android Open Source Project hardening work. Standalone projects like Auditor, AttestationServer and hardened_malloc have their own dedicated trackers.
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Issue tracker for GrapheneOS Android Open Source Project hardening work. Standalone projects like Auditor, AttestationServer and hardened_malloc have their own dedicated trackers.
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Rooting is a very bad idea. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html#rootin... But GrapheneOS is fully open source and provides great build instructions, so you…
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4 sourcesclarification: NFC payments in Google Pay. For example my bank app has mobile payments implemented and they work on GrapheneOS.
AFAIK the only reason why Google Pay NFC payments don't work is because Google Pay keeps a list of hardware and OS that's allowed to use that feature, and GrapheneOS is not in that list. It's not an OS limitation.
There was an open issue to spoof this data so that Google Pay NFC payments, among other Google features behind this check, would work. But it looks like it got discarded 2 days ago: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1986
In A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternativeThanks, I should take a look. I've also been meaning to try DivestOS.
I'm certainly not holding my breath on more GrapheneOS support, as so few people care. I'm not entirely sure it'd be the right fit for me anyway. I'm currently using a microg setup with lsposed so I can patch out some junk in modern apps (like Outlook trying to be device admin), and this kind of hooking is not something GrapheneOS is interested in (a feature request I opened a while back: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/284).
In How mobile apps illegally share personal dataThe writeup of the bug states that it was patched in the January update for Pixels, which GrapheneOS has. But previous work on applying mali patches early led to GarpheneOS having a fix earlier than stock Pixels
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1914#i...
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