If I look at my standard-keyboard, it has the authority to start by boot, maybe this is possible by adb commands also for AnySoftKeyboard…
So what? Did that child copy all of your contacts and track your location? No. Do Google apps do that? Yes.
That might be true, but in a situation where you are forced to give your phone away so someone can seize it, a password won’t help much, and in any other situation, the person unlocking your phone can’t do any real harm. Even if you lose your phone, a normal person wouldn’t try to get into it and if a criminal found it, they would get access to it either way.
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Interesting, where do you see that? I went to app permissions and didn’t see this listed.
first, sry for my bad english… right now I’m using not a Fairphone, my Fairphone will come during the next days, at my old Phone with LineageOS i can go to apps → all apps, I search for AOSP or android-keyboard → permissions and than its a little hidden on the top right the three dots → all permissions
Stanzi, thanks for this great list BTW.
I was trying your whole list and have some questions:
com.fp.camera (previous com.android.fpcamera3) - Camera app
com.fairphone.myfairphone ... My Fairphone app
These were not deleted. I deleted here and all work fine. Any thoughts on not adding them?
com.google.android.overlay.modules.ext.services
com.google.mainline.telemetry
Are marked as unsafe as UAD. So I got cautious about them, do you know why they are marked as unsafe or any comments on that?
com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig.common
com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig.gsa
com.google.android.overlay.gmsconfig.photos
com.google.android.overlay.modules.documentsui
com.google.android.overlay.modules.modulemetadata.forframework
All those com.google.android.overlay.* packages are marked as “Expert”. Do you know if we have to care specifically for something regarding them?
Not being able to enter the password at boot with alternative keyboards isn’t a FPOS Problem, keyboards have to implement that functionality.
Relevant (open) issues / pull requests for various FOSS keyboards:
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They are not from Google, so I saw no reason for removing them.
2.&3.: Like I said in my original post, I’m not an Android expert or anything. I just used adb on everything until it broke the phone, then I went back some steps, repeated something, reflashed the phone because it didn’t boot anymore and so on. I went through about 5 bricks until I figured that I pretty much found everything that sounds like spyware and is not a core component, but my list is absolutely not complete or anything. It’s just a list from a nerd who has too much time to fool around with console commands
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Fair enough, it is a great starting point anyhow.
Update: did more tests with keyboards only one working is FlorisBoard and works like charm. You don’t need any trick, it just works (installed latest stable from F-Droid)!
It is also much more maintained than AnySoftKeyboard.
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Hmm, I don’t find FlorisBoard in the store. Does it have arrows like AnySoftKeyboard? This ist very important to me. FP2 is a rather tiny screen, so I prefer to use arrows instead of target with the finger tip when I have to cerrect a text.
BTW: I never had any problem whatsoever with AnySoftMeyboard.
…and when will Iodé be ready fpr FP4?
Only beta versions are on the Play Store, see the README for how to join the beta.
Or, since this is a topic about de-googling, you can install it via F-Droid too 
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Florisboard lets you swipe across the spacebar to move the cursor around, which is a much more elegant solution than arrow buttons, and I really wish AnySoft implemented that feature.
Also in OpenBoard
Florisboard is not usable in german. at least not for me. because of dictionary and auto correction.
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january at the earliest. but i expect at least february.
I don’t need a dictionary (it’s in my head!), but I need a Swiss German keyboard 
you’ll have to try installing it and checking if it offers the layout you need.
Hi, thank you very much for the list.
How exactly did you uninstall them?
Because I haven’t rooted my fp4 yet (is there a way?) I cannot log in to root over adb.
Have you found a way to root it, or did you just disabled them from the settings?
Or am I missing something else?
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