It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data.
Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
You weren't the end-user in mind for this feature, it seems.
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I've also discovered that some apps that require safetynet, can be grabbed from the Huawei store and used, because apparently on chinese phones your bank suddenly doesn't need safetynet to be secure.
i don't even
>installs grapheneos which focuses on security and privacy
>wonders why their location isn't being logged by the camera app
We've been so brainwashed by saas companies to expect that simply collecting information implies sharing it. The point of distributions like this is to remove those cloud dependencies while retaining functionality, and placing that functionality at the control of the user.
I naively assumed, given how GPS works, that I could enable location access, and disable network access for the camera app, and that it would still be capable of copying two floating point numbers from the local GPS chipset to the exif data.
Instead, it wants to call out to some questionable network services.
I'm clearly not the only one that wants this feature. Graphene even includes a reimplementation of the necessary Google API.
However, it (and the original google implementation) are flaky. This all "just worked" on my iPhone and (before that) Windows Phone. It didn't even occur to me that it was a thing that could be screwed up.