CalyxOS, the Android-based, privacy-focused operating system, is back after nearly a year-long pause following the founder and tech lead’s departure.
But the jump to 7.2.2.0 is not an OTA jump. Meaning it’ll factory reset as it installs. That part’s a huge bummer.
That was expected from the moment they announced the whole situation last year. It’s a signing key change.
Oh, I know. They were fully transparent about the whole thing from the beginning, and vowed to put safeguards in place to prevent this similar thing from ever happening again. I’m not knocking them for this release at all.
It’s still hard for me to transfer my things from one phone to another, and having only one device now makes it that much harder. I’m open to suggestions, though.
@tom GrapheneOS must be fuming rn
I’ve never heard of CalyxOS before, what are the differences to Graphene?
Danny boy will have an opinion, that’s for certain.
To be fair I’ve used both and I get the complaints aimed at each philosophy. At some point, I’m just grateful these projects exist at all and for free. Personally I still think microG is nice to have, flaws and all. My Motorola lasts four days on one charge and I have a gut feeling that not having Play Services constantly running is part of why. Either way you’re better off than stock
