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Interesting cheers. Looks a lot different than when I last rooted a phone and loads of stuff refused to work. I'd be keen to see if it improved the battery life for my Pixel 6 but the inability (so far as I'm aware) to just make a full backup and restore everyything to what it currently is if things don't work make me suspect I may not get round to it.
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With Google One, you can make a full backup and restore.
But... it's not absolutely total, it doesn't include some local data files some older apps may have created.
You do kinda need a 2nd device to do these things confidently.
I still effed up and lost all my WhatsApp history though... so even with my careful planning things went to shit.
Signal was wonderful though, full wireless transfer of chat history from one device to another.
Velocio
Haven't yet found an app that doesn't work, except for a single one that was documented in advance.
Not working:
Working:
those are just the ones I've installed... I set up the new device whilst having the old device (a Pixel 6) next to me... if I'd found anything that didn't work and that was important to me, I would've stopped and rolled back, re-installed the Google flavour of Android, and started afresh.
but I've not found a single thing that didn't work, that I didn't already know wouldn't work.
what I knew would not work: Pay, Assistant (and most of the small AI things as a result)... and then contextually, Camera AI that involves networking (which is things like Magic Eraser, and I never used this)
so really my only loss is Google Pay... but I'm 100% happy with this as Google have positioned themselves as a Level 3 transaction provider ( https://www.tidalcommerce.com/learn/what-is-level-3-data ) which means that using Google Pay is providing them with an incredible amount of data on your spending habits, which they can use for marketing as Level 3 provides enough information to fully de-anonymise and associate to marketing profiles. I am, very intentionally, going back to using cards directly and not using a phone as a payment device.
On Google apps, I have installed Gmail (for work), Camera (for the on-device improvements), Photos (without network access for a nice on-device gallery), Maps (as it's still very nice), Calendar (for the nice widget)... so it's not like I have totally de-Googled, but I've put everything in nice sandboxes.
it's only been a few days, but predicted battery life is around 2.5 days, I only have 2 background apps running: Gms Compatibility (provides an abstraction to allow Google apps to think they're on a Google device), and Syncthing.