Road Trip without Google Maps? | GrapheneOS review

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Can GrapheneOS be used as a degoogled phone daily driver? GrapheneOS is a consumer-grade open-source mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project, or AOSP. It's one among the many custom ROMs created on that platform. Unlike previous homemade ROMs, though, this one offers enhanced privacy and security. It improves technologies such as app sandboxing, exploit protection, and the permission model significantly.

Daniel Micay, the co-founder of CopperheadOS, a privacy and security-focused mobile OS, developed this relatively new mobile OS. GrapheneOS used to be known as the Android Hardening Project when it was created in late 2014. Micay and his team decided to rebrand the project in 2019 to better reflect how it has grown and matured.

Although GrapheneOS is based on Android, the two operating systems are not identical. One significant difference is that GrapheneOS is Google-free. That means no Google Play Store, Google Chrome, Google Maps, or any of Google's other apps and services. You might question why an operating system would keep Google out entirely when so many people rely on its services. Well, this is all part of the project's efforts to provide the most strong privacy and security possible to its customers; bringing Google and its snooping eyes into the mix would make it impossible. In essence, if you don't use Google, you won't be tracked, which means you'll have better privacy and security.

Apple's new on device scanning is a great reason to switch to a private mobile OS. Apple's NeuralHash works by transforming images on a user's iPhone or Mac into a unique string of letters and numbers known as a hash, which will be available in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey in the next month or two. Any time you make a minor alteration to an image, the hash is changed, which can prevent matching. According to Apple, NeuralHash aims to ensure that images that are identical and aesthetically similar — such as cropped or manipulated photographs — produce the same hash.

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//CHAPTERS:
Intro - 00:00
Magic Earth downloadable maps - 00:31
Android Auto - 01:23
Installing food app - 01:55
Aurora Store Insecure Anonymous Session - 02:53
GrapheneOS location services - 03:55
Finding your current location with Magic Earth - 04:25
Magic Earth Review - 05:20
Bluetooth Audio Integration - 05:49
Bluetooth Phone Call - 06:19

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Just wanted to say, I really appreciate the effort you've put into making these videos. They are a big reason I went through with switching from iOS to a Pixel 5a with GrapheneOS. I've been pleasantly surprised, too, with both AOSP in general and the FOSS ecosystem that's built up around it in the past few years.

InebriatedEscapist

Loved to see the practical review of graphene os . Happy to hear your grandma saying us freinds 😊

mohitjaat

I just got a 6a for graphene. I am going to keep my other phone. I was thinking of making a google account and using their maps. The reason I think it's good... is the police detection alerts on long road trips. I do not speed, just like to know where the cops are.

ACoustaDC

I Worked at a gas station on the way to Death Valley, can't stress it enough on how any person traveling needs to carry an android with downloaded map. So many lost tourist and no signal, but they always carried an expensive IPhone.

JoseAvila-ledr

Respect to the grandmas. Getting my Pixel 6 in the mail Thursday. Been watching your GrapheneOS videos a lot, and appreciate how you're laying it all out there. Very informative. Thanks! Looking forward to trying everything out.

johnzmuda

That tip on the Aurora store was EXCELLENT!!!! I have been doing without a few apps because they weren't showing up. I assumed it was because I was running with Play Services. Just tried this and it worked. Now I can grab a few other apps that I haven't been able to use for almost a year. Great video! Just subscribed!

betterbprepared

I’ve seen you use metric and assumed you were Canadian. Thanks for using KMs even when in Florida. You sir are a gentleman

vonwagner

It's sad to see how addicted you were to the google app ecosystem. Oh woe is me, what ever will I do if I can't switch songs handsfree or navigate with an offline map. LMFAO SAD ASF.

IISeverusll

Liked video for grandma.Magic earth works well.Its a good google maps alt

dreadinajeep

I had to subscribe because of your beautiful sweet grandma! 👵🏻😍 - Bring her more often😁💕

DrAreli

Literally on day 1 with my Pixel 6a GrapheneOS phone and enjoying (and adapting) so far. Your vids have been helpful. Keep it up. And tell grandma we’re friends — I subscribed.

thedangerson

Finally - a video with GrapheneOS regarding maps!! Instantly subscribed.

danielpadilla

I gave you a like and subscribed just because your grandma is so sweet and nice. Go ahead and let her know we are friends. 😁

Supperconductor

Omg I'm a big Taylor Swift fan too! lol Had no idea about Stuckey's having dog parks at their rest stops. Pretty cool. Looking forward to trying out Magic Earth. Thanks making this video. It was helpful.

ybfebbw

Back in the day I used a Rand McNally road atlas bought at Walmart and I taught my daughter to read the maps so she became my designated navigator on road trips. Then in the late 90s I got a Garmin GPS and still use those. I never thought of using a phone as a GPS and probably never will. No data connection on my phone after all it's a phone not a GPS.

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