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Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?
Date: 1 Jan 2025 15:36:37 GMT
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R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:
> Newyana2,
[...]
> > I have a TracFone with no Google account,
> [snip]
> 
> I replaced android with graphene OS.  The phone is switched off unless I 
> need it (when traveling).  Its main app is OsmAND, a map program.

  You might want to post which phone (brand, model, etc.) you have and
what you needed to do to put graphene OS on it (i.e. unlock the boot
loader, fastboot, TWRP, etc.).

  Probably other privacy-concious will be interested in learning whether
or not a non-Android OS is something they would be willing to try and
how hard/easy it is to accomplish it.

  Just a thought.