Fairphone is nice. Flashed /e/os on it, now its even without 99% google shit :D
I use lineageOS personnally and you can install it without any google apps as well. And the updates are quite frequent.
Had LineageOS on it previously, but the official support of e/os means automatic updates.
Have you had issues receiving group messages on e/OS? RCS is borked but I figured that would be the case. Not getting group texts is a problem though and I’ve tried every solution I can find but nothing seems to work.
Can’t tell as I don’t use RCS.
No SMS or MMS either?
yeah… my family is sadly a whatsapp family :/
Ah fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.
I wish they were sold in the States at a more reasonable price. Murena’s prices are ridiculous.
Yeah it’s pricey. I’m on a fairphone 4 and that was easily over $700. I have at the same time had a very easy time replacing the screen when it broke, and have just stashed several of the more breakable components, which it’s nice that I can do that super simply.
I don’t think fairphones are much cheaper from fairphone directly, though I might be wrong. Overall, I don’t game on my phone, and the fairphone 4 has been able to tackle all my needs pretty well without issue. Most of my gripes come from minor glitches or certain features lacked in lineageOS, but tbf, it’s still a very solid OS despite those minor issues.
Tariffs go brrrrr
(Good luck friend, I hope the price drops soon or that you find a good alternative :D )
Check out lawnchair. 😊
Highjacking your comment to ask generally: Is there an easy way in lawnchair to put my apps into folders in the
dockdrawer? Going through settings is kind of tedious and the automatic caddy thing puts half of them into some catch-all category because it can’t identify their purpose.That’s so far the only thing that I find annoying about lawnchair. Nova spoilt me because it made that part so easy.
I’ve also not found a way to arrange my widgets without padding between them. That’s a bit unfortunate because it means my todo list doesn’t fit next to my calendar anymore but I can deal with that.
Do you mean dock or drawer? edit:
- Dock can be done by just dragging app untop of other app.
- Drawer can be done in settings:app drawer:folders
Sorry, meant drawer, had a brainfart. I know how to do it, but it’s more steps than in Nova and my lazy whiney monkey brain doesn’t like that :)
Yeeah it’s kinda unintuitive, and on several occasions have apps been removed from folders on my device after they had received an update. Still a great launcher overall. 😊
Digging it so far
Enshittification - Migration
appears to be a perpetual cycle. Stop giving Joe Rogan your $12 each month and your email provider announces it’s agenda to gargle MAGA balls… Now, all we need is an open source alternative to US healthcare…
Kiss launcher is amazing. It’s really worth a try. Once i got used to the concept it seems silly to have anything else
Based.
posted from my Fairphone 5
I wish they’d get their security in order.
It would be the perfect Graphene phone if they did.
To answer OP, Niagara Launcher.
kvaesitso is pretty nice and is what I use
I just got a new phone and I’m trying Kvaesitso to move away from Nova, but I just can’t get used to it.
I think I just really like the paradigm of having a ‘desktop’ where I can freely arrange my most used apps in a specific layout, and Kvaesitso - by intentional design choice - doesn’t allow it.
It’s a shame for me because I love the ethos, I love the open-source approach, and I love that it’s a wholly original launcher - rather than a fork of the stock or anything else.
For some it’s the perfectl launcher I’m sure, but to me it’s like even after I unlock the device I’m still stuck in something that feels like a lock screen to me, and I feel weirdly trapped and claustrophobic.
Not sure why it makes me feel that way, but it does!
Ah yeah it’s not for everyone. I like having a clean homescreen and call things up as I need them so it works for me. I make use of the tagging too.
I use Pie Launcher on mine, but then again i am a bit strange at times.
Here is how it looks like for me.
That’s awesome I hate it
You should be using PieFed with the Pie launcher.
Bruh what the fever dream fuck!? Am I a fuckin normie or can someone back me on that being extra af?
Cool though
Use this table and try a few. Find one you like. You can check the privacy report for trackers etc on the Exodus site.
I tried a whole bunch of launchers and settled on Pear launcher. I keep KISS launcher solely for the search (launch KISS search on double tapping the home button). Neo launcher was on its way to greatness, but then development was abandoned… So if anyone has the skills/time/interest in forking that, that would be great.
Do you know if there is something similar to Niagara launcher?
No idea bro. Install and try them out. I don’t remember Niagara from when I trialled it.
lawnchair.
i like this one https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
I switched to Kvaesitso a month or two ago, it’s pretty much perfect for me
What is wrong with launcher repositories not placing a screenshot if their launcher in the readme.md
Because some people consider the readme to mostly text and informative. This one does link to the actual website, which does contain screenshots. To answer your question: nothing’s wrong with it. 😉
That aside, I’ve been on Kvaesitso for quite a while, now, and it’s quite nice. You kinda have to get over it being different from a lot of other launchers.
Faiphone is being frog marched out of Australia. Each telco is shutting it down and blocking IMEIs. Sucks for the people that imported them.
Cant even use it as data only. So unless you use it as puerly on WiFi it’s going to landfill. 🙃.
Also. Lawnchair nightly/beta.
What the hell is going on there? Why??
As an American, I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess: corporate influence.
The 3G service was shutdown. The telcos needed to ensure devices can call VoLTE incase of emergency.
FP5 does this. But it’s not officially sold here. So they see a modem there unsure of and now cant confirm if it will reliably call emergency. Easier for them to block it than see it works.
From what I understand the major telco had some priority VoLTE stuff that made orbit not work. The second major telco seemed to support it as they use more open standards. There’s one left and well have to see how that goes.
It also means telcos can now choose when to drop support for given phone models. Literally force users to upgrade handsets by turning them into WiFi only bricks.
…why?
My Fairphone is working just fine, but if yours doesn’t have 4G VOIP, then it won’t work in Australia.
I’m personally using Kvaesitso, but it isn’t necessarily for everyone. Otherwise Lawnchair is quite good and stable (for a beta). It’s not on fdroid but it is on izzyondroid
Try out Niagara. It only takes about 5 minutes to set up.
If you’re like me, you’ll think it’s too simplistic, you think you want all that nova launcher shit. But do yourself a favor and give it a try. Pick a background, pick an icon pack, select a few favorites and that’s all you need to try it out.
After that if you want to really dig in there isn’t much (some of these things are pro features, I can’t remember which because I decided to get it so soon after trying it out), it’s like 45 minutes at the most to customize your clock, do the custom widget (multiple widgets can share space, you just swipe through), decide if you want music controls on the home screen, and set up pop-ups (like a folder but more, can be in your favorites or your app list), and hide apps from the list (either because they’re in a pop-up or you just never use it). And then…that’s it, there’s nothing else to do.
I tried it out a while ago when the original developer for nova quit the company that bought nova. Did a quick setup, played around for 30 minutes and bought pro right away. I was very surprised at how much I liked a simplistic launcher.
You’ve got nothing to lose but 30 minutes, check it out.
Edited for clarity about the nova developer quitting.
Their privacy policy says they collect a list of every app you have installed lol
You can turn it off. It tells you what might get funky if you do. I didn’t notice any problems so I’ve left it and all other analytics reporting stuff off.
+1 for Niagara. I’ve been using it for quite some time, and I love the simplicity of it. No clutter and just a quick launcher. I have a widget stack for my calendar, tasks, and Firefox search.
Every setting is locked behind premium…
Also I missed my drawer. I’ll just keep never updating nova
