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Of course,

If anybody knows of a tutorial to flash the zte blade 70, in less than a week, let me know..

#zte #android #degoogling

This started with me dropping my phone in the loo (rite of passage to adulthood?).

I considered to live without phone and indeed managed some weeks.

I worried about privacy (mine and people i am in contact with) and my mental health: phone usage, specially commercial social media.

I still had to borrow a phone because of the 59euro monthly ticket (that is how i call it): One can get a subscription on a plastic card, but i cherry pick subscribe and unsubscribe a lot.

Banking also contributed, i considered getting an autentication machine, it costs 28 euros.

The straw was one of the borrowed phones died, and i borrowed yet another and realised the bahn app needs android 9.

I was furious at the absence of accessibility and backwards compatibility, but sucumbed and bought the cheapest phone with maximum memory and version of android i found.

Of course no alternative OS seems to exist for the cheap ZTE blade (correct me if wrong) so degoogling per hand.

#degoogling #android #zte

More degoogping in my phone.

I had turned off most permissions for google apps. Yesterday i found them turned on again. I dunno if it was me messing while doing some reset or turning knobs elsewhere, or remote intervention, but i lost my patience and conveniently found a "disable" button in individual app controls.

Google play included.

Messages and phone stop working.

Install fossify messages, fossify phone, and while i am it, fossify file manager, galleey, camera, voice recorder and music player.

Fossify contacts and keyboard i reported previously.

Everything fine now.

Now i just need to get rid of the doom doom doom google play messages that my phone is messed because i dusabled google play services..

#foss #degoogle #android

Fossify keyboard not only one step further into degoogleing and removing bigtech from my phone, it got me rid of a very erratic autocorrect that went really weird and hyper the last months.

(no, the cheap zte phones dont have alternative OS)

#foss #degoogle #android