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Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market.

Counterpoint Research reports that, in Q2 2023, US smartphone shipments dropped by 24% year-over-year. That includes both iPhones and Android phones, and virtually every brand saw a drop in shipments. Samsung saw US shipments drop by 37% while Motorola saw a 17% drop. TCL saw the biggest decline at just shy of 70% year-over-year, and even Apple saw a 6% drop.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there an Android phone that supports dual boot? I would like to have that so can use Lineage or something similar and only boot into Google android when I need to use banking app or government ID that requires the safetynet antifeture. This would free me from carrying two phones. But I suppose a locked down bootloader can not support dual boot and an unlocked will not support the safetynet antifeature.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Use Magisk, it bypasses SafetyNet. No need for dual boot https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

You must install the Universal SafetyNet Fix afterwards https://github.com/kdrag0n/safetynet-fix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's risk in that. Unless you go through a bunch of other steps to hide magisk, there's quite a few apps that will stop working or flag you just for having magisk, and some games may even ban you from playing. Namely PokΓ©mon go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hiding Magisk is just 1 click in the settings

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tkank you. I already had magisk. I tried installing the safetynet-fix, bit unfortunately it did not resolve the issue on my Xiaomi Mi A2 phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried that, but the banking apps still claims that the security check failed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You also need to hide the Magisk app and change its package name and block the banking apps in the Magisk settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Try Shelter https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/. I had one app that refused to launch no matter what I did but this fixed it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

almost every good android phones have locked bootloaders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Get a pixel and install GrapheneOS. The whole install process is painless and easy.

There is also this about SafetyNet Attestation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To add to this: In GrapheneOS you can install sandboxed Google Play in a secondary profile for banking etc. This way you can keep your main profile Google free and totally isolated from their preying eyes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This, although the vast majority of users just use the one profile and just enjoy the benefits of a sandboxed and de-privileged Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just be warned if your work uses Google Chat that will not work on GrapheneOS even with sandboxed Google Play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With a partially broken screen and weak battery it may be time for a new phone anyway. I will look into pixel and GrapheneOS. Thank you for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love my pixel 6a. Fantastic phone for the money.