GrapheneOS Community Guidelines

As an open source project registered as a non-profit foundation in Canada, we use Matrix, Telegram, Discord, IRC, Discuss forum, Reddit and Twitter for our community discussions related to GrapheneOS. It’s crucial to address how we handle instances of users who may derail discussions, engage in trolling, or go on rants about hypothetical conspiracies. When such messages are redacted by moderators, it sometimes leads to accusations of censorship. However, this is not a case of censorship but rather a necessary step to uphold the integrity of our community and adhere to our code of conduct....

January 27, 2024 · 6 min · 1210 words · akc3n

Banking app issues

Potential ways to resolve compatibility issues for users encountering either: their freshly installed banking app aborting at launch a previously functional banking app suddenly stopped working Update: Please see https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/8330-app-compatibility-with-grapheneos for a more up to date list of possible workaround solutions. Introduction Numerous users encountering such circumstances may find it frustrating and challenging at times. However, for most cases, the common solutions provided below may help resolve some of these banking app’s compatibility issues....

October 23, 2022 · 4 min · 709 words · akc3n

USBDevice Errors

A small hand full of end users may experience a failed error during their attempt at installing GrapheneOS during flashing. The common denominator is quite often the user not reading the prerequisites thoroughly. These are the error codes and their meanings, as well as the procedures for resolving these common end user errors. Introduction The most common error of all is the end user. It is extremely important to read the installation guide’s prerequisites slowly and make sure you understand what is required!...

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · 331 words · akc3n

AOSP and incorrect assumptions on calyxos and microg being degoogled

AOSP doesn’t have proprietary Google apps and services. CalyxOS does have proprietary Google apps and services bundled and not only via microG. CalyxOS takes AOSP, and adds Google services to it (microG) along with not replacing Google as the provider for non-proprietary services. microG is a very small subset of Google play services. What microG does is reimplementing a small subset of Play services in a hacky and incomplete way, with less security, because they don’t implement features like certificate pinning for services and apps (TLS and local components), as well security checks....

October 17, 2022 · 1 min · 182 words · akc3n

Battery Management

Introduction A recurring question we get at the GrapheneOS IRC Channel is how to maximize the healthy lifespan of your phone’s the battery. The official answer we have to this is very simple if you’d like to ensure your phone’s battery lasts the longest: That answer is to keep your phone plugged in to the original charger that it came with, with the original cable that it came with, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year....

October 15, 2022 · 8 min · 1562 words · JollyRoger

GrapheneOS WSL

Introduction This guide only mentions Arch Linux as it’s the only good alternative to building AOSP on besides Ubuntu. It utilises Docker Desktop for the Arch Linux image as it’s very close to stock Arch Linux instead of using tools like ArchWSL which are not very close to stock Arch Linux. Docker Desktop uses the official Arch Linux Docker image. AOSP and GrapheneOS dependencies: Specs: At least 400GB of fast SSD (preferably NVMe) storage At least 20GB of DDR4 memory....

October 13, 2022 · 7 min · 1308 words · June

GrapheneOS is not a ROM!

GrapheneOS is an Operating System with a very comprehensive package of many different subprojects that all work together in harmony to improve the security of AOSP: this includes the Auditor and Attestation Server, Hardened Android bionic standard C library, Vanadium, Camera, PdfViewer, Apps, Hardened malloc much of the specific work in the kernel, it’s right across the entire stack. For more information please visit GrapheneOS’s Features. Introduction When it comes to GrapheneOS, the term ROM is frequently misused....

October 12, 2022 · 8 min · 1651 words · akc3n

Hello, world!

Welcome to my personal page, where you will find streamlined collections of information from multiple platforms related to GrapheneOS and things I’m passionate about. Introduction I spend a lot of time on the internet trying to dig past all the misleading and/or dishonest marketing nonsense that mainstream news media outlets and ‘technical’ blogs making claims on security and privacy topics. The information is often misinterpreted by the vast majority, leading to more problems then solutions in today’s society....

October 10, 2022 · 3 min · 566 words · akc3n