Reviews are starting to come in on youtube and people are not being kind.
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Are you sure it didn’t work? I thought I had the same problem, (backing up to a usb drive). I thought it wasn’t working but then I saw that the backup was on the drive. It doesn’t give a notification that it worked.
Hi. I am using MetroPCS which is the T-Mobile network, and had the same problem. I did try to use the OpenEUICC to install it, and it didn’t take. I took it to two stores and they couldn’t help me either and were confused about why not.
I’m just in the process of finally doing all my outstanding app installs (after 2-3 weeks fluffing around) and getting my phone finally ready for use by end of the weekend hopefully. Anyway some of the posts I’ve bookmarked on the forum for reference includes this one by @0x7 which (in addition to their post above in this thread) I thought is another great starting place for any newbies or people not familiar with the app options yet, or feeling a bit overwhelmed about where to start. This thread is linked to above (earlier in this thread), but I thought I’d quote a key part of it quick access:
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Thanks, very useful list I had not heard of some of those apps.
A couple of the links are 404 though.
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Yes @0x7 had noted some had stopped working and had updated them where he could - but likely more have also. It’s not so much they are defunct, just the link has changed so need to find the new one.
Another example is the Brave Browser repository for F-Droid:
This post below has the old outdated Brave link in it but also has some great info too for adding F-Droid external repositories (including a list of many common ones):
EDIT: removed references to out of date Brave repository link as URL is the same as one in original post (there was just some transient issue at the time I used it).
Close to two months in. How is the Brax3 working for you? ( only if a Brax 3 was shipped to you and you received it). Any serious issues, problems?
I recently stumbled upon these DPS Blog posts (edit: actually I had read a couple of them sometime ago, but not looked at the rest of the blog) - Anyway - they are relating to iodéOS setup and such, they aren’t specific to BraX3 but do provide a really good collection of information for anyone new to iodé and setting up a degoogled privacy phone.
So thought I’d post them here for future reference for anyone new reading this thread - some are more general or basic but may still help people new to this, and some are iodéOS specific:
DPS iodéOS Setup Guide
DPS How to Use a SIM Card and Stay Anonymous
DPS Enhance Privacy with Multiple User Profiles
DPS How to Enable Private DNS Resolver
(Basically to Activate Private DNS) Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Private DNS. Select Private DNS provider hostname and enter base.dns.mullvad.net (or dns.quad9.net).
DPS Best Privacy-Friendly Android Apps
DPS Transfer Personal Data from an iPhone
DPS Transfer Personal Data from an Android Device
DPS Free Wallpaper
DPS Best Privacy Guides & Resources
P.S. I’m not affiliated with DPS in anyway, nor even agree with every single thing that is written on their blog - I just found the majority of their posts around degoogled privacy phones were pretty useful and had a lot of potentially useful info in one place; that could be especially most helpful for new or less-techie people…
Edit: Added 3 additional links from the Digital Privacy Shop’s blog for completeness.
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awesome thanks for sharing
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I’ve so much trouble loading apps I haven’t even put my SIM card in yet. It would have helped to have a setup guide at the start. It seems you have to be a tech whiz to get this phone configured.
It is a little hard and overwhelming at first, especially if you come from an iPhone (and even if you have past experience in general with Android phones) - I’m both… I’m also fairly techie minded and worked in corporate IT for many years when I was younger, but am still configuring my phone to be sure I do it right (I’ve been at it intermittently for 4 weeks, and don’t expect to finally put my sims in for the first time until probably next weekend, so 5 weeks all up).
You may also need to look more at iodé community too, than just here, for more specific stuff around certain apps.
The install for basic trustworthy open source apps out of F-Droid is pretty simple if you are familiar with Android at all, it’s more the insidious undesirable apps you have to have on your phone, that you need to source through Aurora that are the challenge (things like Android Auto, Microsoft or Google apps, and so on). And that’s where profiles and sand-boxing become really important, plus using Google stubs for any required background services and so on…
Without knowing your level of knowledge/skill, so not wanting to tell granny how to suck eggs and please ignore if not relevant, have you read through the iodé documentation for example to orientate yourself?
Also not sure if you are meaning the installation is the challenge or just choosing the right apps (to replace the mainstream spyware ones), but this list might help - many of these are default on iodéOS:
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Thanks so much for the great info. Being an iPhone user I’m not used to all the configuration required in other phones. I think I was thinking it would take less time to set up but I guess that was my misperception. Glad to hear others are in the same boat as me, requiring time to set it up. Appreciate all the links you provided as well. Thank you.
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Just FWIW another link for newer people - the list of compatible apps on the official iodé community forum (this may have been posted previous in BraxTech Community in another thread somewhere):
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Thanks for the link.