Was thinking of using Yalp or some other alternative store with Lineage for more privacy and possibly improving performance/battery life and ditching google playstore framework but I have some questions:-
- does syncing work with apps like contacts, email, calendar with my google account?
- will map gps/navigation apps work the same or will it only be able to access device gps only location and will not have playstore information like last known location and location updates?
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html
- is it infringing the Google TOS for using google sync for (built in Lineageos) email/calendar/contacts without installing google playstore framework?
- has google banned accounts for infringing their TOS for people using paid apps downloaded from Yalp. Is there a workaround for this?
barrack1 said:
Was thinking of using Yalp or some other alternative store with Lineage for more privacy and possibly improving performance/battery life and ditching google playstore framework but I have some questions:-
- does syncing work with apps like contacts, email, calendar with my google account?
- will map gps/navigation apps work the same or will it only be able to access device gps only location and will not have playstore information like last known location and location updates?
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html
- is it infringing the Google TOS for using google sync for (built in Lineageos) email/calendar/contacts without installing google playstore framework?
- has google banned accounts for infringing their TOS for people using paid apps downloaded from Yalp. Is there a workaround for this?
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I think most of these are microG questions. Look at shadow53.com or nanoDroid.
And yes, there are rumours of banned accounts.
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In case your Google Apps aren't working right...there's a hairball in Google's servers:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
Hmm that must have been why gtalk app was not working.
Just installed LOS on my Nexus 6P -- I'm excited! I'm totally new to custom ROMS & have a few initial questions. Oh, I do not have the Play Store & Google apps installed (I think you call them gapps?) .
Why is Chrome the default browser? This was a huge shock to me -- I expected Firefox for a privacy focused ROM. How do I remove Chrome?
Is the default email app some sort of Gmail clone? I have not yet added any email accounts to it because I need to better understand what this default email app is all about -- I don't want to connect to anything Google. I will be using O365 Exchange & iCloud.
Is there a way to get ExpressVPN to work on LOS? I don't see the app on F-Droid.
Where else can I go to find apps that are safe to install?
ron_jeremy said:
Just installed LOS on my Nexus 6P -- I'm excited! I'm totally new to custom ROMS & have a few initial questions. Oh, I do not have the Play Store & Google apps installed (I think you call them gapps?) .
Why is Chrome the default browser? This was a huge shock to me -- I expected Firefox for a privacy focused ROM. How do I remove Chrome?
Is the default email app some sort of Gmail clone? I have not yet added any email accounts to it because I need to better understand what this default email app is all about -- I don't want to connect to anything Google. I will be using O365 Exchange & iCloud.
Is there a way to get ExpressVPN to work on LOS? I don't see the app on F-Droid.
Where else can I go to find apps that are safe to install?
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Congratulations.
-chrome is not the default browser. Android contains chromium web view which is used by default leightweight browser. That is identified as chrome by webpages. You can replace the webview with bromide or install fennec from f-droid.
-email is a native AOSP app, you can trust.
-no idea about vpn. Some are even worse than a average ISP. You can use tor instrad.
-sometimes i install apps from Google play store. No need to use play app. Use yalp or aurora.
And you will connect to Google as soon as you touch any connect device.
btw there's also a build of Chromium from Bromite's developer.
You can trust APK Mirror and APK Pure. I haven't tried any other APK sites so be wary.
Hey,
I got many issues with my BS3 Chinese.
After many tries, install apk etc the solution to fix everything is to search in installed App Store the Google installer called GO(+chinese stuff).
This app will delete every Google thing already installed then install good version of play store, framework, etc.
This fix payment issue, maps, sync except contacts.
To fix contacts sync you need to download Google contacts sync apk.
Dont forget to give all permissions to Google app or service.
I hope this helps.
I have try this Go+ a.k.a google installer from appstore..but i try to buy diamond for mobile legend and others games cannot..any ways to make it success?
I think you missed some authorization for Google apps
Stefan / Germany.
Thanks everyone for Your service!
My Redmi Note8T doesn't synchronize my contacts to the Google cloud.
As contra measures to excessive advertising I deleteded all system updates and didn't create a Miui account.
The latter I read could be the cause for my contacts not to sync into the Google cloud. I have tried to work around that by installing the Google contact synchronisation app from the Google Play Store but it didn't download at all. So I tried APKMirror where the app was available in several 6+ and 10 versions with nothing in between to match P9 (according to Droid info my system software at hand).
I chose the latest 6+ version but cannot locate the executed app nor do the contacts sync with Google now …
Thanks so much for Your help.
Stefan
Lodidol said:
Stefan / Germany.
Thanks everyone for Your service!
My Redmi Note8T doesn't synchronize my contacts to the Google cloud.
As contra measures to excessive advertising I deleteded all system updates and didn't create a Miui account.
The latter I read could be the cause for my contacts not to sync into the Google cloud. I have tried to work around that by installing the Google contact synchronisation app from the Google Play Store but it didn't download at all. So I tried APKMirror where the app was available in several 6+ and 10 versions with nothing in between to match P9 (according to Droid info my system software at hand).
I chose the latest 6+ version but cannot locate the executed app nor do the contacts sync with Google now …
Thanks so much for Your help.
Stefan
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Regards the ads, you have in settings on every app (or almost) the ads/personalize ads to choose from showing or not.
Regards the contacts issue, enter to /Settings/Google/Settings for Google app/Google Contacts sync and check that all is correct there.
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Regards the ads, you have in settings on every app (or almost) the ads/personalize ads to choose from showing or not.
Regards the contacts issue, enter to /Settings/Google/Settings for Google app/Google Contacts sync and check that all is correct there.
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Unfortunately I have neither succeeded in even finding possibilities to personalize apps like contacts, calendar, file-management, playstore that all showed advertisements before deleting their updates nor could I find anything wrong with the settings for Google sync …
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Unfortunately I have neither succeeded in even finding possibilities to personalize apps like contacts, calendar, file-management, playstore that all showed advertisements before deleting their updates nor could I find anything wrong with the settings for Google sync …
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When you face the first setup, you have to see from the 5 items (all checked) at least 3 items related with ads, you have to uncheck. After that, take for example the Miui Music app, from the settings you can find an option to disable ads, the same happens with the Miui Files and so on. When I spend the time waiting to unlock bootloader always I do that, and I don't have annoying ads disturbing me all the time, we have to get apart from that, browser behavior, it's a different thing, some ads don't rely on Xiaomi itself, TBH.
Actually I'm running a custom ROM based on AOSP, but in the path that I gave you can see, the number of contacts that's synchronized, I have to guess that you're doing something wrong, can you share some screenshot from this path? To see what's saying.
I have 2 different phones, running LineageOS 18.1 and 19.1 respectively. After the initial install of MS Office (All-in-One) App, the App will not update automatically from the Google Play Store in either phone/LineageOS version. Updates get to 90% download and then just crash out. I have to manually find the latest APK and force it. Been this way for over a year. Uninstalling and reinstalling the MS Office App cumbersome and moreover, I have some custom settings and fonts that are a real pain to reinstall. I can live with the installing the APKs, but I sure wish this was simpler. I have emptied out Google Play Store and Play Services caches etc. Does not help. I can find nothing on-line. First I thought it might just be something I've done. But problem is on 2 completely different phones, but both use LineageOS.
Could of course be Microsoft. They have an undated post that says Google is aware of the problem (!?)
Resolve app installation errors in Google Play Store - Microsoft Support
Describes workarounds for an error that contains random numbers when you download Office apps from the Google Play store.
support.microsoft.com
Anyone cracked this? Thanks.