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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by theK on Monday March 02, 2026 @08:40AM (#47217835)
My account has more comments than that and I share OC's opinion and experience. I've been daily driving /e/ since its FP3 era and lately the experience has been really well polished. Even things that had been "tricky" in the past, like Android auto integration, now work seamlessly.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by em-bee on Monday March 02, 2026 @08:43AM (#47217868)
same here, except for banking apps. the one i am supposed to use now doesn't work.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by aidenn0 on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:07AM (#47219801)
My banking app doesn't even work on the last 3 android phones I tried because it wants a very up-to-date OS which basically means non-Pixel phones more than 2 years old need not apply.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by Contortion on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:04AM (#47218880)
I had this problem and it turned out to be an upstream issue with MicroG which was eventually patched. If you have an error message you can search for existing issues on /e/OS' gitlab/forum.

Revolut stopped working for me for a while with the error that the bootloader wasn't recognised and rooted phones aren't supported. After about a month an OS update solved it.

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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by jdcaron on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:06AM (#47218132)
As long as banking works with web browsers, I think the future looks good for this usage, but I could de-bank my phone and still have plenty of useful things to do with it.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by em-bee on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:34AM (#47218450)
the problem in my case is that the authentication for the banks website requires an app, and that app doesn't work. i am locked out of online banking for that bank because of it. (they also have a windows app that i could not yet get to work on linux/wine)
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by littlestymaar on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:23PM (#47221905)
Ugh. I'm locked up with my bank because of my mortgage terms and being one day forced to install a spyware on my phone really scare me.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by mixmastamyk on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:12PM (#47223435)
Find a new bank. Mine has another problem, so behind they don't support mfa beyond a symantec program I've not heard of before. I don't use it, but can't use my yubikeys either.
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by p0w3n3d on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:55PM (#47222370)
So FP3 is shipped with the /e/ or you need to install it manually?
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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by borosuxks on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:45PM (#47223082)
It didn't come installed and the FP3 isn't sold anymore so you'll have to install it. It was dead easy though, not anywhere near the complexity of installing Lineage back in the days (though that's gotten easier too).

/e/ on FP3 has been my daily driver for 1.5 years and my daughters run it on their FP4s with no problems at all.

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Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem by theK on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:04PM (#47224828)
Murena have been selling Fairphones preinstalled with /e/ OS. I think right now its the FP6 and FP5 they do.

https://murena.com

Its not only Fairphones. I'd say they've got an interesting mix of tech there. I think they even sold refurbished pixels flashed with /e/ for a while.

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