Setting up a Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS for My Mom

I helped my mom set up GrapheneOS on the Google Pixel Tablet. Are Android tablets ready now?

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00:00 Intro
02:05 Out of the Box
04:47 GrapheneOS Compatibility
08:25 Profiles
10:17 Android Tablet Oddities
11:15 Signal
12:44 OpenPods
13:22 Viki & Vanadium
15:25 Gboard
15:53 Should You Buy?

[JessicaFEREM]

Both me and my mom both prefer folding tablet phones so we both got the samsung galaxy fold5. Both me and my mom would never use a dedicated tablet but a phone that folds into a tablet is infinitely more useful to both of us.
It's nice to see that Google is making a good tablet now instead of leaving it to the slop makers to make a good tablet.

[dxejcst]

custom roms for android devices have evolved so much

[GainingDespair]

Its honestly surprising how much extra performance and battery life you can get out of a device when all the tracking, and background bloat has been removed.

Pixel 6a battery life is better than ever, and on benchmarks I generally score 15-20% above default android on the same device. I rarely get calls/text so my phone always remains screen off maybe 2 hours of screen on time during a charge cycle. Went from 2.5 days from 100%-10% to well over 4-5 days now its honestly amazing how long my phone lasts without needing to charge it. As it seems like I only interact with the device to charge it.

[icxf]

I love Graphene OS. They need more funding, but they also need devs that actually know how to communicate with the community and ignore the haters.

[richarddcrossley]

GrapheneOS has the same official support cycle as Google. However I’ve got it installed on some older pixels out of support and still getting security updates. By its nature with sandboxing even out of update support it’s still more secure. Curious if the tablet dock mode works because pixel stand doesn’t work with it. Can totally see why you’d go this route for a family member though!

[VektrumSimulacrum]

My mom only uses a iPad. She needed to use a PC for something one day and was totally lost it had been so long (literally years). On that day I got second hand-me-down laptop to do whatever with. She went back to her iPad and made my sister do whatever it is she was trying to do on the PC. 👀

[wallofriogrande]

The pixel tablet does not use exynos. It uses the tensor g2, which yes you could argue is closely related.

[michaeljames]

Are there any tablet hardware options for Grapheneos that are cheaper than Pixel ones? I already use Grapheneos on an old Pixel ‘phone, and while imperfect to me, the keyboard interfacing especially in multiple languages I speak and spell-checking is infancy afaic, I still immensely value the baked-in privacy of the installation. There’s great peace of mind in not carrying around a spy device everywhere with you.

So, to clarify, I do understand the booting issues that makes Grapheneos only deployable on a Pixel ‘phone. Just wondered whether there might be more option when it came to tablets, because, I would like to get untethered from my iPad one day. It almost seems counter intuitive when one routine mobile device is hyper privacy-conscious while the other isn’t. It’s merely the case that, price points of Pixel tablets are quite dear for my budget even secondhand.

[misstornton]

is it possible to use notes and stylus in graphine OS on pixel tablet? thats very important to me since Im studying languages, now i have samsung tab s8, and i use it for this, what about graphene OS pixel tab? plz smb help me with this

[BrianWoodruff-Jr]

0:56 Ah yes, black gloves for safe tablet handling.

[RarefiedError]

How does this compare to the FydeTab Duo

[snowwsquire]

signal does not work, you will get signed out on ur phone if you use it on an android tablet

[pablohoz]

Hello, I have a Pixel Tablet that I bought with Graphene OS installed. I would like to go back to Stock Android. It's possible? Thank you so much

[mrcvry]

Perhaps a hardened Linux on a tablet is better.

[idcrafter-cgi]

i also got a Pixel tablet but put CalyxOS on it to give it to my sister. i chose CalyxOS for it's a bit better privacy due to microG(which does the Google play services thing open source and more private).

[MaNameizJeff]

I don't understand the fully free in the thumbnail. the pixel tablet is far from free cost wise and being google.. you are far from free from all of googles telemetrics.

[christopher]

so its not about your moms actual needs or about whats best for her, its about your opinion it was about her needs you would have told her to get an shes changing her phone to android also, then by all means get a pixel tab. With her iphone she can text from her tablet and if she has ear pods it supports switching seamlessly between apple devices. Not to mention its very similar to the feel of her iphone. Believe me im no fan of Apple devices, so I do not make this suggestion for that reason.

[DeyanKostov]

The support that the custom ROMs give, can't be longer than the official support from Google. It's all based on the Open Source Android Project + proprietary drivers. Google adds more, on top of that, The custom ROMs may or may not add more. But the basis is the same. And, if there is a vulnerability found, but Google has EOL-ed that version, who will patch it? Nobody. The custom ROM projects don't have the resources for it. The end result is 5 years is the maximum you can expect, with the proper flagship phone, not the cheap stuff.