• synthllama@lemmy.sdf.org
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      They said that, but I couldn’t find the fix in their github repository. Does anyone know the commit that fixes this bug? It would help shed light on the technical details of the issue.

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      I looked at Graphene OS and I am interested, but how can I find out if it will run on my old Samsung Galaxy S7?

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        how can I find out if it will run on my old Samsung Galaxy S7?

        It won’t. GrapheneOS only supports recent Pixel phones.

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        By looking at this page on their website. But I can also just tell you the answer: No, unfortunately it’s not supported. There are quite a few reasons for this. The Galaxy S7 is old and abandoned by Samsung, meaning it doesn’t receive kernel and firmware updates anymore. Even if it ran the newest release of Android, it would still lack important patches and potentially be insecure. There’s another reason why the GrapheneOS team decided to only support modern Google Pixel phones: Hardware security. Google pixel phones are equipped with what is known as a ‘secure element’ with their Titan M chips. These are tamper-resistant and can thus safely be used to store cryptographic keys and other secrets that are e.g. used for full-device encryption.

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        Could you briefly explain what that is?

        Edit: I did some research and apparently it’s a japanese mobile payment system that utilizes NFC. I found this on the GrapheneOS issue tracker, it seems to have been broken, but apparently it’s fixed now. Unfortunately I can’t try it out as I’m not from Japan. I also found this in the patch notes of a GrapheneOS version that was released in March of this year:

        include PixelNfc app on all supported Pixels to enable support for FeliCa on Japanese Pixel models

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    So this is what it looks like when Google prioritizes a fix. Neat!

    Google from the article:

    Thanks for sticking with us. Our team is looking into this storage issue affecting some Pixel devices running Android 14 and we’re working hard on a fix. We’ll update this thread with more details soon.