Mastodawn

Help me out, Fedi:

I have a brand new Galaxy A15 5G. I want to start using it, but there's one small issue, which is that it's a smartphone in 2026.

Ideally, I'd put a custom ROM on it. Last I checked, though, that's not currently an option for this particular model (SM-A156U1/DS).

What I'm looking for is recommendations for the best way to de-Google it/make it less of a privacy nightmare/etc. If I'm wrong about the ROM thing, that'd be good to know, too.

Boosts welcome!

#android #smartphone #degoogle #google #privacy #customrom

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SnazzyGumball

@aearo I can recommend to use canta with shuzuku to remove apps and rethink for dns filtering and mostly firewall and blocking apps from network access. Or if you don't want to use canta or shizuku you can give universal android debloater next generation a try.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.samolego.canta
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/

Canta | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Canta Debloater lets you uninstall any(*) app without root (updated version).