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What Are the Best Ideas for Using LineageOS with Root and microG?

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I have OnePlus 7 Pro that I successfully flashed with LineageOS 21 with MicroG. Do you have some interesting apps or ideas to take advantage of it? I thought of some Magisk modules. Maybe someone is more experience than me! This is the spare smartphone, the main one is GrapheneOS, so I don't mind breaking stuff.

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  • Try passing the SafetyNet check

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    • Any guidance on this?

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    • Someone suggested to me the other day that safetynet was now (or will soon be) deprecated. I'm not sure what the situation is with regards to attestation, though I sort of dread to think about what will replace it.

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      • I think the new "safetynet" is "Play integrity". I think you need playstore installed and activated to pass the test though.

        At least, it seems like many apps are ok with passing only safetynet though, so probably not a big issue yet.

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      • Let's see how apps will adapt it.

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    1. AFWall+ firewall to allow list apps to internet using your preferred method (e.g. VPN, wifi, data, etc)
    2. PcapDroid to help monitor and analyze packets, or to just confirm things aren't communicating unexpectedly
    3. AdAway if you're not using your own dedicated dns over a permanent VPN connection

    If not all 3 of these, AFWall is probably the best to go with. Having a way to not only block Apps, but also define your own custom firewall rules is very powerful. For example, I redirect all DNS requests to my own DNS with a custom rule (for apps, like Termux, using hardcoded DNS lookups instead of what the phone is set to)

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    • So you're suggesting more "network" control. I like it.

      AFWall+

      I use NetGuard, but I don't see any benefits from having root in it.

      PcapDroid

      Hmm, interesting, I think the closest thing that I use now is TrackerControl.

      AdAway

      I'm using my VPN "socket" with TrackerControl.

      define your own custom firewall rules is very powerful

      Yeah, and also easy to mess up connections so they no longer work properly. 😆

      I redirect all DNS requests to my own DNS with a custom rule (for apps, like Termux, using hardcoded DNS lookups instead of what the phone is set to)

      That seems cool. For now, I'm using Mullvad's public DNS service. See their dns-blocklists.

      I also know App Manager, and I'm using it and with root it with ease blocks any necessary trackers and other things. Have you tried it?

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      • I'll have to check out TrackerControl, that's a new one to me!

        I have seen app manager but currently use AppOps. I didn't recommend AppOps above because I'm not sure it's still supported or not, and it's also not really Foss. It's treated me well over the years, but I'm definitely interested in finding a better alternative. The last time I checked app manager, it wasn't as good... But maybe that's changed as it's been several years now so I think I might be due for looking at it again!

        My wireguard connection on my phone connects to my home network to an pi hosting my internal VPN... But the network is completely covered by a mullvad VPN through opnsense. I've got pihole setup using the mullvad anti-trackkng private DNS. With this setup, the only real need I have for root on my phone is because I do some pretty low level automation on it through crond and some backups of core app data that I'd really hate to lose... And the complex firewall rules lol.

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    • How do you make AFwall and vpn working together, when i tried it said one or the other.

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      • This is where rooting the phone is required. I use wireguard without root and have AFWall granted with root at bootup so it doesn't require acting as a VPN

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  • Have you tried apatch as an alternative to magisk?

    It ~combines rhe advantages of magisk and kernelsu

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    • KernelSU is unsafe. Is apatch the same?

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    • No, I have never heard of it. Thanks!

      I don't even know what Kernelsu is. Magisk is already applied to the phone, never thought there are alternatives.

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      • Oh oke oke. I had issues with magisk a few months before I switch. I think there were incompatibility issues between magisk and lsposed manager, so I did a full reset, I upgraded the rom (from a beta version from November 2021 of the rom xiaomi.eu miui 12.6/android 11, I went to xiaomi.eu hyperOS/android13) and installed apatch so that I dont have incompatibikity issues (plus, it hides root much better).

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