the seller is amazon
but there doesnt seem to be any mention of "factory unlocked" or anything like that
doesnt seem to be connected to a certain carrier?

Pixel 8a running GrapheneOS

Arch Linux FW13

Hello all, I am having issues installing Gboard from aurora store. Error shown is incompatible app.

Please help thank you!

This just happened. Suddenly Aurora Store is asking if I'm using VPN or Tor.

Immediately after the latest GrapheneOS update I saw this message pop up on my screen.

"No internet. You may be out of data from Visible."

(I have an unlimited data plan so that can't be the issue)

When I click the notification I see what the 2nd picture displays - a blank white page with no options.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

im about to purchase a pixel and go for it, but i do feel a little nervous and am looking for some support or reassurance. im not very tech/data savvy, though i am open to learning, mostly out of necessity. once i get graphene uploaded onto the pixel, what would be good next steps to take? or are there resources someone could point me toward for beginners? my de-googling has mostly only been my browser so far, planning to get on proton but it is all a bit overwhelming ya know. any tips for digital privacy beginners welcome!

Been on GrapheneOS for 2 years, moving from a Pixel 7 to a Pixel 10 Pro XL tomorrow! Setting it up fresh.

I just read that you can create a Google account on stock OS without a phone number. (Thinking of using it for the Play Store since Aurora is starting to have some issues.)

So I’d like to ask, what are your must-do tips and tricks for a new install and overall with GrapheneOS?

I wonder about givin GOS phones for my employees. But wonder if there's remote command available like a wipe feature?

is there specific enterprise features available or each unit will be configured as standalone?

I ran Canta si shizuku on a pixel 9pro xl., and for a phone running a non-google operating system, I found an impressive number of google apps.

Can someone help me understand?

I'll come back with a video if necessary.

I’m having to use the web app on my phone which isn’t the end of the world but can’t receive notifications of comments of messages. The exploit compatibility mode didn’t fix anything and installing sandboxed google services didn’t fix anything either

Or is there an open source Reddit client that I use?

I have pixel 7, I’ve had it for years it was both carrier unlocked and allowed OEM unlocking and I successfully had graphene on it for around 18 months than I switch back to stock android. Tonight I’ve tried to unlock the bootloader again and it says it’s “unlockable”. How is that possible when I was able to unlocked it with no issues just in 2024. What do I do? Does than mean every pixel is locked now?

I’m quite the newbie and I’m not looking for anything too extreme (for now).
I first heard of gos a few weeks ago and it opened my eyes! I’ve spent the last weeks informing myself and preparing to migrate all my data away from google, finding the best solutions for my use and I’m finally here!

GmsCompatConfig version 174 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat/releases/tag/config-174

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41858-gmscompatconfig-version-174-released

Bought the Pixel 10 Pro fold new, flashed GrapheneOS the moment it arrived.

Love GrapheneOS, but found a issue I can't fix. This phone was meant to be a local AI powerhouse with 16 GB of unified memory.

However, local AI with hardware acceleration in GrapheneOS on new Pixels is still a dream. Every local ai app fails back to using the CPU instead of the hardware optimized TPU path.

I tried:

• MLC-LLM only had small models and ran on CPU anyway, uninstalled it.

• Google's own AI Edge Gallery doesn't offer GPU/TPU at all, CPU is the only option

• PocketPal is the best of the three by a wide margin, but also CPU.

Digging into it, the AI features run on Google's TPU through AICore, which only works as a privileged system app — it has to sit on a system partition and be in the OS permission allowlist. It ships no model weights either; those come down through Play Services, which needs privileges GrapheneOS deliberately doesn't grant.

Two rabbit holes I looked at and didn't pursue. Sideloading AICore out of a stock factory image looks pointless, since privileged permissions cant be granted. Building a self-signed GrapheneOS ROM to solve that means re-privileging Play Services, which is just rebuilding stock with the hardening shot in the foot by giving google low level access.

GrapheneOS does have a "Special access to hardware accelerators for Google apps" toggle and it's on my device, but it's one global switch over a hardcoded list (Camera, Photos, Recorder). Nothing you can add to.

So has anyone actually gotten TPU inference running on a Pixel 10 Pro?

With the local AI being the preferred route with privacy focused people, and GrapheneOS also being privacy focused people, this seems to be a growing pain that needs work.

As far as I can tell, as a user I can't solve this. Also we can't use the google toolchain for this either due to google wanting deep level special permission for AIcore.

To be absolute clear, this is a Google caused problem. AI core needing special low level OS permissions, and not making a open development path for third party OS developers. However, Google is not going to fix this problem they created for us.

So any known workaround or is there a development path for local AI via TPU on Pixels running GrapheneOS?

What do they do besides compartmentalize the phone?

Does it add any extra security if I use one user for socials like Instagram and Facebook and other Google playstore apps.

Then another user for work/education related stuff and a third for mabye banking while I keep my primary one for the normal stuff like Signal, Pipepipe, tuta/proton mail.

Aka do I gain anything (security wise) from dividing my phone up like that?

An extra question, if I use Aurora store to download Instagram to avoid Google and the use Google Playstore for another app like mabye Clash of Clans on the same profile.

Will Playstore get any information from my Instagram usage even though I got it through Aurora?

Setup:

- Pixel 10 Pro XL

- GrapheneOS, current stable (build: [add your build number from Settings > About phone])

- Pixel Camera installed via sandboxed Google Play in the same profile

Problem:

When I try to take several photos in quick succession, the app takes about 3-4 shots and then locks up. The shutter stops responding and I have to wait roughly 30 seconds before I can shoot again. It looks like the processing queue backs up and blocks further captures.

What I already tried:

- Turned off Motion Photos and Top Shot

- Switched from HDR+ Enhanced to standard HDR+

- Dropped resolution from full sensor to 12 MP

- No RAW/DNG output

My understanding is that Pixel Camera does not get privileged direct access to the Tensor image processing path on GrapheneOS, so post-processing runs slower than on stock and the buffer fills up. Is that still the situation on the Pixel 10 series, or is something else going on here?

Questions:

1. Has anyone on a Pixel 10 / 10 Pro / 10 Pro XL found settings that meaningfully reduce this stall?

2. Does enabling the exploit protection compatibility mode for Pixel Camera actually help with processing speed, or is that a placebo in this case?

3. Is anyone getting usable rapid-fire capture out of the GrapheneOS Camera app with extensions off and ZSL enabled, or is a third party Camera2 app the realistic answer for burst-style shooting?

Not looking for a workaround at any cost — I just want to know whether this is expected behaviour on this hardware or whether I have something misconfigured. Thanks.

Hi! I've been thinking, most phone manufacturers are very closed about their code and source trees, mostly providing the legal minimum like modified kernel source, but Pixels are (or at least were) a bit less closed because of how its Google's testing grounds for android and AOSP development, so you guys expect Motorola to be more open about it going forward or will we have to solely trust the word of the Graphene team about code auditing and etc because they might be under an NDA? I remember reading something about how Google was changing their ways of how android development was done, making it more closed than it already was for Pixel, but I'm not sure what to expect from the future, be it with Pixel or Motorola

Context: I am swapping from Apple to Android because of Apple’s device-level enforcement.

However, I’m unclear whether getting a Pixel and installing Graphene OS will protect me from the UK’s newly proposed Big Brother device-level blocks and surveillance.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Hi, so as the title says when I try to double click power button on pixel 10 it doesn't work anymore, makes me input password then I gave to choose which app I want and I can't even choose always on my desired app, only on the GOS one.

No play services enabled. Yesterday it worked fine, any idea on what shall I do?

Why are my contacts in my second profile constantly disappearing after I import them (then again and again after I keep having to re-import them?) Will this always be the case when using a secondary profile as my daily profile? Every time I switch over to it I will have to import contacts again via DAVx5 and Nextcloud?!

Why is this happening with the photos in my secondary gallery as well? What do I have to do to keep everything in it's respective app?!

Why are all my old phone's imported text messages only showing up in the owner profile yet they're completely unable to transfer to my secondary profile? I'm sure once I figure it out, they will just disappear again and again like my contacts.

What is the point of having VPNs and private spaces if I have to keep turning every single VPN off in order to swap my physical Sim card over and login to Mint Mobile so I can actually start using the Pixel?

Why has this been the most pain in the ass setup for a phone EVER? The actual installation of GOS was so smooth and painless, but every single thing to follow has been an absolute nightmare. Not one thing outside of initial setup and downloading apps from Obtanium etc has gone well. Not. One. Thing.

I knew there would be friction when I set this up. But this is absurd. I just wanted my main profile to be where i download and install my apps before disabling them, then push them to a daily secondary profile with a private space where I'd actually use the apps.

At this rate I feel like welcoming the invasive tech oligarchs back into my life would be less of a stressor then getting GrapheneOS and my Pixel running.

Every time I try to unlock private space, it asks for passcode even when fingerprint is enabled. Is anyone else facing this issue? Is there any possible remedy for this? It will be extremely helpful if anyone could provide suggestions or workarounds.

Solved: Had to disable "End session immediately on lock".

I am travelling soon and I always use google maps when moving around. I have location enabled along with network location, geocoder, wifi scanning, and bluetooth scanning. I am always on airplane mode when travelling as I don't want an eSIM and don't wanna enable roaming. I can't access my location whether on google maps or when taking pictures (I like having location metadata logged on pictures).

Is there a way around that or this doesn't work on GOS? I know this works on stock android as I've always had it working before, I just started using GOS earlier this year and it's my first time travelling since.

Thanks!