Life Without Google in Volla OS
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Volla OS is a new degoogled android experience direct from the volla phone team. Is this the future for privacy and security? .
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Here was the Ubuntu Touch video using the Volla Phone: czcams.com/video/neG2Z21epLI/video.html
Have you tried De-Googling a phone? What do you think?
I have rooted Google phones at the lab. They still make great botnets. Crypto mining too.
I use a degoogled pixel 4 running LineageOS as my phone I leave the house with and keep a Simcard in. Works well but still have another running andriod as some apps break and it's not perfect. Also just a note that Fennec is based on the latest firefox release with a few trackers and telemetry removed.
I have a E Os phone as spare mobile, like it a lot. Use a Fairphone to..
@@soder959 We tested Pixel and Note series phones yearly. There are some hardware issues that to this day are unresolved.
I'm so glad these "degoogled" phones are becoming more mainstream! I'm having trouble finding quality tutorial videos and I don't want to brick my Moto G7+
I use iodeOS as a daily driver it's amazing ..
I have been using a pixel 4a5G with CalyxOS for the last 6 months or so and I love it. Very few sacrifices.
What are the sacrifices
What's the sacrifices?
@@_Trakman Android Auto, being the biggest one. The second I would say is OpenStreetMaps. I travel a lot and it is not very user friendly and the search address function sucks hard. A few other minor inconveniences but overall I would recommend the degoogled experience.
@@xjpsmithx yep same with lineage though for some reason it stopped letting me update without connecting to computer on the last 6 updates, does calyx do that?
Good to know. I have the same phone and will most likely be switching to either CalyxOS or GrapheneOS down the road.
I already imagine the despair in the house when the kidz ask: "Daad how do you install TikTok?"
I love the idea of degoogling your car
Finally a light at the end of the tunnel! These kind of phones and technologies are much needed and most welcome!
I am definitely on the path to degoogling my life. Moved to self hosted Nextcloud, and this OS would couple nicely, nice work!
Can you share your experiences setting up your own Nextcloud? Also, what guide did you use?
Be warned! Using microg with your google account can get your account shut down. Better to make a new account and use that with microg.
This is true! Be careful out there.
How does one do that anyway?
All the more reason to use it
@@darren537 Not exactly.
1:04 Icons would fit perfectly in this menu =D
Lineage OS is great for deGoogled Experience.
OR install a custom rom without gapps
cant wait to see the calyx os review
8:08 looks a lot like firefox mobile
I think de-googled things should be an option as you said but I think for most people google is far too convenient for them to de-google(which is kind of the problem ig).
Perhaps but I believe were just ahead of the curve. Normies will catch on eventually.
imho the update from the settings menu only fails if you loaded volla os on the phone yourself (when coming from UT for example). there is info in the help section of the volla website that helped me solve this.
How to backup/restore your phone once you have it set up as you want is always the first question for me - may make a useful video?
Yes please do a CalyxOS guide. I want to move to CalyxOS but ROMs are new to me.
KUDOS for share, information and Video! I personally would love to ditch Google and tracking etc. The key I picked up on as you mention, run CZcams on a de-googled device? I am IN! :) Maybe time to reconsider and just order one. Thanks again and ALL THE BEST to you! Cheers ")
as Steam Switch is announced
would you redo review on (gaming on Linux / Steam OS) ?
I'm running Volla Phone 22 with Ubuntu Touch and Waydroid. If Waydroid is running without any other app, it consumes 30% of battery in 11 hours. If I set Waydroid in sleep mode, it consumes as much as without Waydroid (about 10% in 24 hours).
Of course, you have to know the howto of using it, and you have to be willing to use a Linux phone.
"What do you think about degoogling?"
Well, it's not a necessity for me, but since the phone came with the painless possibility, I went with it. Don't need all the Google services on my phones. Can do everything else on the computer.
Mostly went with this Volla Phone 22 because I was tired of my previous phone being riddled with hidden privacy options.
Isn't that browser basically Firefox for Android?
Yeah Fennec based on Firefox without certain telemetry
Unfortunately the official shop doesn't ship to India, and i have no way of knowing if the phone will work with Indian Bands even if i import it somehow.
Lots of other options though man. Degoogle a regular phone yourself in the mean time?
Thank you, Chris.
Fennec is based on firefox
I’d like to try it but aurora store won’t load for me today. From what I looked into, briefly, is it’s been around for quite a while n I didn’t see when it was last updated but it looked pretty clean from his use of it
@ChrisTitusTech nice video, and can't wait for more. My next rabbit hole will be to de-googling my Pixel 4a. I switched from iOS for that reason and price. Recently I got a small homelab up and running. Looking at my Pi-Hole stats most of my blocked queries are from my Pixel.
Yeah I plan on getting a pixel and before even using it plan on degoogling it. I am more tech savvy so can do that stuff my self. I haven’t decided on either graphene or calyx. I wouldn’t mind using graphene but I do know it has a noticeable performance hit compared to something like calyx. You get can pretty close to graphene privacy in calyx by just not using microg.
Hardcore Tech videos, that's what I love here!
@@terrydaktyllus1320 hardcore enough for almost half a million subs. Everybody learns that way
@@developerpranav So there's half a million people that find tech "a challenge" then - is that something I am not already supposed to know then?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 there's definitely more than half a mil, but however big that number might be, it wouldn't warrant deleting your previous comment :D
I use microg for lineage os on my OnePlus 2, I've tried the whole fully degoogled experience already and it's ok but google does have it's merits. Take maps for example, no one else comes close, CZcams as well, yeah you can use newpipe but you always have to export your subscriptions anytime you unsub or sub so a new channel. Use microg with tracker control and it's the best middle ground.
...if only google wasn’t leeching off our tax dollars n didn’t have self driving cars taking pics everywhere. I think it’ll get better for us eventually.
I always liked Nokia Here, nowadays Here weGo, best. Straight to the point, minimal fuzz. Confirmed with winscp, but that's a while ago.
What About SailFish Os !? 🤔
Hey Chris just wanted to let you know that the amazon store link doesn't work, great video tho, very interesting :)
What are your thoughts on the new Freedom Phone? It seems like a good price and A Linux distro should work…
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The freedom phone is basically if clickbait was a phone
Its a scam dude
@Jon Dewey its just a umidigi a9 which is a phone that costs less then 200 with lineage os installed being sold for 500 its a blatant scam
Did you have to install the quickstep android desktop by your self or is it already included in Volla OS?
google must go the way of the buggy whip
On a moderately old mobile I found replacing GooglePlay with Micro-G worth it for the space & battery saving alone.
I am very interested in this topic. The speaker on my LG just quit working and I need to buy a new phone. The problem is it has to be affordable. So would getting something like a Blu still enable me to try some degoogled OS'es?
Aurora droid is a better looking f-droid client which has a integrated repo manager and aurora store can be used to install google play apps
As long as you keep an eye out for trackers n install any of those minimally...prob my fav feature of the auroral store is giving that info
@@zugzwang2161
Yes, Aurora's all right but there is an abundance of trackers almost throughout.
I tried to put Ubuntu touch through ubports on a fairphone and now it's stuck in bootloader loop as well
Just found out about this phone, but guessing its too old for 5G/C-band support?
Just so it's clear, UBports doesn't develop or manage the Volla OS. They only work on the Ubuntu Touch OS and the installer.
I just had the impression you implied UBports needs to fix the updates in Volla OS :)
Why not just flash custom rom witouth gapps,, thats same
How did you do signature spoofing on volla phone with volla os to use microG?
CalyxOS is also a great option
Can I install from Google play banking app into this phone? Ho wdo I use banking apps on volla phones? Can I get Root access?
Does anyone know how I can buy one of these phones in the US. I see that the reviewers get a test phone to review but I don't see where just average joe can buy the phone. I went to the "en" version of the site but its still in German when you go to the store. Do they have or a reliable trust worthy USA site that lets you order one of these phone, the Volla 22
How private is it?
De-Googling cell phones do not make them safer or private.
@@motoryzen I'm using KATIM R01.
Can't get any better than that.
Aurora store bad?
Nou chris.
Is a must have.
what is the keyboard in the video? 8:20
I think it is the default keyboard from Android "AOSP keyboard"
Yap, I did not test Volla OS and CalyxOS yet, but already tested almost the rest of the other de-googled OS-s and the GrapheneOS was the best fit for this purpose (and even the installation is quite easy as need to run just one installation file after unlocking the bootloader).
Want an Android phone without Google on it? - just buy a Pixel phone (3 or newer) and install GrapheneOS, come later and thank me here =)
I got a motorola moto g fast a while ago. Been debating on installing the lineage rom for it but I haven't done that since the OG iPhone. Rather not brick my only phone.
Can you degoogle android tv ?
i have been using Linage for years with no Gapps,love to flash a custom recovery and flash the latest security patch with Linage in Andriod 11 on my old phone's ie Note 4.Get much longer battery life.
Anyone else having problems intalling alternative Android OS's thru USB 3? My laptop has only USB 3 ports and all brands of phones vanish when rebooting to prepare to load the OS.
Can you use Gmail with microg?
How is the performance of the os?
I hope that I can choose to deGoogle without much compromises.
My experience with lineage is phenomenal - very rarely the keyboard doesn’t pop up n I just minimize the app n bring it back it works, now it wants me to plug it into my computer to install updates...if you use signal the app will occasionally not work bc it forces you to update n well they don’t update it for us so if that’s no big thing - maps are your only real concern otherwise.
How do Volla OS and /e/ OS compare in privacy and security?
/e/ is the worst in terms of security & privacy compared to all degoogled ROMs
@@samhirsch4863 any evidence for that
The browser appears to be a fork of Firefox
Would you recommend getting a Pixel phone for de-googling?
I want to see a good custom rom for android
How to flash that rom on a android 10 device
Volla OS or Ubuntu touch?
+1 for CalyxOS.
does the device pass safetynet?
I appreciate what you are doing. I killed a sim card trying to degoogle my last j7. I deleted everything that had google in it. I just wanted to see what would happen. I took the phone back to the the store and he couldn't figure out what happened so he gave me a new sim card. The phone did what it could. It lasted about 3 days without google. I was able to delete play store, chrome, google. It was fun while it lasted.
You can use lineage os
could somebody point me in the right direction please. i need to replace huawei os on my tablet with something lite, making old last longer, less crap on it
I dualboot kali nethunter and a custom rom i edited on my Work tablet. This is Google free. My Phone i hardly use except for messaging and emails so its very stripped. I prefer my own rom compared to these custom roms but its interesting to see.
How do you get the best of all world? A Linux phone that runs flawlessly, compatibility and sudo in terminal.
@@motoryzen Yes, and quite expensive. Maybe when they do hit primetime, the price will come down a bit. Thanks for your reply.
But can you get the phone? Still waiting on Librem 5 for over a year.
Have you tried a regular degoogled phone? Pine phones have a much shorter wait time than librem. They’re like regular computers.
Would be cool to upgrade to something like this when the battery of my current phone dies 🤔
You would not believe what google has done to me.
Nifty little phone!
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the UBPorts Method to switch between Ubuntu Touch and Android Forks on other Linux phones?
it's called ADB driver and needs trwp to change boot modes.
Tracker Control is pretty buggy IMO
8:38 it looks like firefox
It is, it's a fork
Could you do a video rooting a smart TV?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 please then, provide me a link on how to hack a Smart TV in order to install a custom ROM and boot loader.
-Winston
@@Bagginsess I don't do "homework" that strangers on the Internet set me. You're point wasn't about custom ROMs, you were asking him to make you a video about how to root a TV, probably because you're too lazy to do the research yourself. And I, as a cyber-security expert, advise against anyone rooting any Android device anyway. Do try to keep up, you're still as "slow on the uptake" as last time we "crossed paths".
@@terrydaktyllus1320 see the thing is I did do research and it isn't easy to hack a TV. There's little surface level knowledge on the subject and all further information is to technical for me. But I would have thought an expert would already known how to do so, guess you're slipping man.
Btw I don't care about my TV being secure I care about disabling the camera and microphone built in it. Forgive me of my grave mistake of saying rooting instead of hacking...
@@Bagginsess No, stop putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them because, once again, like you did when we last met, you ended up looking a bit silly.
You asked the question:
"Could you do a video rooting a smart TV?"
In response, I said to you that I do not recommend rooting any Android device because it removes a valuable security layer that works in your favour.
An expert in customising Android (which isn't me because I work specifically on Linux) might be able to use root access to remove certain applications if he/she chooses.
But you're not an expert because you asked him to make you a video on the topic anyway - otherwise, you'd have some at least baseline knowledge to go and do some additional research yourself.
Now, stick to the topic and do try to keep up. I will drag you back on topic every time you deviate from it - so don't be silly now.
excellent !
A big problem I see here is that this is android P. That's old as shit.
ClassyShark3xodus app show me that the TrackerControl got 1 tracker
it is still android, sooo
Steam Deck comes with custom steam OS. Is that OS completely different or just Linux with protondb? And valve people are saying it can run every game, are they indirectly expecting people to install windows on it?🤣
SteamOS is based on Arch, and it's default way to play games is with proton. Honestly I've been using Manjaro and literally all my pc games (not Valorant tho) work fine. The only exceptions are Fortnite and Apex; they technically work but their anticheat isn't compatible. Granted Valve has already said they're working with devs to get games with anticheat working too
Also they literally said it's a pc and you can do whatever you want with it. So yeah, they don't care if you run it with windows c:
Volla or ebolla
degoogled phones are all dreadfully expensive.
Not really
@@killertigergaming7395 i got my last regular for 130cdn with tax.
@@felderup k and?
@@killertigergaming7395 same.
Where can I order this phone? Link pls. Thanks
Ubunchoo
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Another way to live life without Google: Turn off your phone and computer. There...I said it. : D
the less Google the better
These all feel like lineageOS clones.
Volla OS is based on LineageOS after all.
@@replacesoundboard Wow that was the biggest Necrobump I've seen in a while.
@@Reevos Well, I figured since it's a comment and not a forum, it shouldn't hurt to reply even if it's 10 years later x)
Sorry if I bothered you though.
@@replacesoundboard Oh that was more of a joke. I just have no clue what I was talking about a year ago. Not even using android anymore.
The gui is boring
understatement... I like it, it's different.
The whole point of a smartphone is easy accessibility. so dumbing it down seems pointless.
15 years of dev behind. Gotta start somewhere. Stick to your slave slab n Microsoft if you love it so much.
btw its ubuntu not uh-buntu
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Too much work. I prefer using my iPhone
Maybe i am a minority but i never look over my shoulder suspicious who is tracking me or following me. If a program bothers me with it and i do not want that i'll delete it or block it from doing that. But i feel fine if Facebook knows this or that and if Google knows this or that from me. I am fine with Android how it works on my phone or tablet. I am no 007 or Simon Templar who has to be carefull not leaving traces.
btw, i am following you right now Chris 😂😜
You don’t understand much about hacking then
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Kool Kid
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Why?
Volla Os = Renamed Lineage os