Free your mobile phone from Android
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How to remove Google from your Android Phone ?
Well ... you have to change the operating system of your phone for an alternative android one without Google apps
Alternative operating systems
The most "free" one but supported by few phones :
- https://www.replicant.us
- Supported devices https://www.replicant.us/supported-devices.php
- What is supported for each device https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus
LineageOS (fork of cyanogenmod)
- https://www.lineageos.org/
- Supported devices https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
How To install an alternative ROM
- How to install a lineageOS (exemple with a Nexus Phone) https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/mako/install
The steps :
- Make a backup
- install adb and fastboot on you computer
- activate ADB Debugging on your phone
- Unlock the bootloader
- Copy the ROM on the sdcard of the phone
- REboot in recovery mode
- Wipe the phone
- Install the ROM