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So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days.

Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off.

Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don't want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.

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[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Android is so troublesome, I am tempted to just install Ubuntu Touch and be done with this.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Ah, it's just a quirk of e/OS/. Nothing much - and you can run a DNS filter on your mobile to get rid of this problem (Bonus: won't take too much of battery since it'll not be operating a VPN since you're root)!

I haven't heard much about Ubuntu Touch - does it work well?

[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I am kind of new to all these privacy things. So what do you exactly mean by getting rid of this problem? I have DNS which blocks these connections but phone is still making them. How can I make the phone stop doing that?

Ubuntu Touch is just a linux distro for your phone. I actually haven't used it yet, but according to their website, the Fairphone 4 has really good support. So I might try it.

[–] codenul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just a heads up - Been following UT for some time and the major for me is that there is currently no VolTe support. Major bummer for US folks. There's workarounds, at least for pixel3a but its not 100% reliable.

Also SMS / MMS can be troublesome as well. Can't download images while on WiFi??? Group MMS doesn't work.

Great system, works well but I can't make it my daily driver

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