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Thanks, that was interesting and eye opening read. Do you know if he is still working on graphene os or is he out? Because some users mentioned that he left.


I don’t hate GrapheneOS, it is probably fine. I just don’t think I would feel comfortable running an OS on my phone when its main dev acts like this. That’s just me and completely subjective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0


Oh man, you seem lost. Do you need help? Did you take a wrong turn when looking for c/boobs?


After looking into it more, I don’t think I would use Graphene OS even if it was supported on FP4, main dev seems like a lying man baby.

On the other hand, I didn’t know Calyx OS has support for FP4, I might try it out.


I don’t really blame fairphone for this. They would probably have to make their own chips, if they wanted control over that. Almost nobody has money for that.


I use location only for/with Organic Maps, otherwise it is turned off, so using fake location seems pointless.

It looks like if I want to use gps without problems I have to allow these connections. Or switch to pixel and GrapheneOS. Other chip makers like mediatek, samsung probably have something similar, so that isnt option either. I just got this FP4 and I like it alot, so I guess I’m stuck with qualcomm getting some telemetry.

Thank you very much for your help.



Thx for very detailed reply. I was trying to do the option 1, but I couldnt find how to do that. I am guesing that because dns is blocking the requests they dont show in the app. That would mean the app and dns are doing the same thing, so it doesnt really help.

I might just allow them, because I need the gps to work properly.



I use gps a lot, I don’t think turning it off is an option then, I will just have to allow it and live with this.


I am kind of new to all these privacy things. So what do you exactly mean by getting rid of this problem? I have DNS which blocks these connections but phone is still making them. How can I make the phone stop doing that?

Ubuntu Touch is just a linux distro for your phone. I actually haven’t used it yet, but according to their website, the Fairphone 4 has really good support. So I might try it.


I actually wanted to get a Fairphone 3 because of headphone jack but I got really good deal on a Fairphone 4 so I took it instead.


Android is so troublesome, I am tempted to just install Ubuntu Touch and be done with this.


How do you deal with this? Or are you using iPhone or something else?


So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days. Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off. Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don't want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.
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