F-Droid has an option to share installed apps. It’s quite flakey though, and it might not work right away, but that should work on non-rooted devices.
Another option to get an apk into the phone: email it to yourself, download, save somewhere, then open with a file manager. That’s known to work, I just tried it
Tried F-Droid again between two non-rooted phones (but with self-compiled images). It worked, it’s just a bit tricky to understand how to get it to work:
Connect both phones to the same WiFi network
Open F-Droid on both
From the menu choose “Swap Apps” on both phones
Make them both visible on WiFi
Wait until they both see each other
Click the other phone’s name on BOTH phones
On the phone you want to send apps from, choose the apps you want, click Next
Then you just basically follow the instructions. I just sent one application that’s not available on F-Droid, I had just grabbed the apk from a “honeypot” phone.
It would be great if some experienced users can post how to “un-google” Fairphone or at least which functions (sharing, syncing…) can be deactivated without problems.
For all who wants to know, what kind of information is already connected to their Google account - check your Google Dashboard: https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard
install the FP open source OS as soon as it will be released.
compile it yourself
as you mentioned: deactivating Google Apps, disallowing Location Services, disable auto synch, always say “no” when google prompts you for some permissions, …
I’ll test which Apps can be deactivated and if that results in some troubles…
Owncloud also offers the possibility to sync your contacts and your calendar with it. On the phone you will need <a href=https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=davdroid&fdid=at.bitfire.davdroid>davdroid for it (to be honest, I do not use davdroid so far, but caldav/carddav from the google play store work for me).
The contacts and calendars are really the same style as google calendars, no difference. I had my calendars on google and then just moved them over to owncloud, that was no problem.
Tasks and Notes (<a href=https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/grauphel±+Tomboy+sync+server?content=166654>grauphel = tomboy for owncloud + <a href=https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=tomdroid&fdid=org.tomdroid>tomdroid) also can be synced via owncloud. And even firefox (with <a href=https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/Mozilla+Sync?content=161793>mozialla_sync - but that is not reliably working for me and a pain to install).
I have Opencamera as well and it works with the button. The first time I pressed the camera button, it asked me if I wanted to use OpenCamera or the build in Camera app. And if this was just once or always. I chose OpenCamera and ‘Always’ and now it works.
Details on programming the camera button and using the expansion port will be released later.
OSMand~, Firefox, DavDroid, Owncloud, fdroid, conversations ( I use Signal more these days) and K9Mail all work like a charm on my FP2 that I finally got yesterday!
weird… the only thing I can think of is that I found that the camera button needs more pressure to function then the power button. Try pressing harder?
Thanks again for this great list - Etar, OpenCamera, F-Droid and Vanilla Music now replaced another sector of the Google galaxy on my FP - wonderful!
One more hint: if you are using LastFm, then <a href=https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=scrobble&fdid=com.adam.aslfms>this works perfect for scrobbeling.
Hey,
I will get my FP2 in the next days and I am quite curious/sceptic about some goolge related stuff during the fist setting up / booting the FP2. Here are some of my questions conernces, which maybe somebody can answer, althoug it is most likely not a FP2 only topic but more a Android 5.1 thing.
Maybe wen can make of this a short “Guide how to set up the FP2 with stock Android 5.1 for the first time”, as this topic is quite wide spread over the forum…
My concerns are mostly how I can minimize google automatisms with the FP2 stock OS:
Is having a google account a MUST for booting the phone normally for the first time?
How will the playstore/google account looks like, if I use the same account for two phones (FP1 & FP2) in parallel?
Are the “installed” apps completely synced between both (also payed apps)?
Or is Android asking me, which of the installed apps from the FP1 I want also install to the FP2?
What happens then, if I install any new app - will it appear also automatically at the second phone (which I would hate)?
Which steps I should do, if I do not accidently upload my contacts to google, which I will try import locally (e.g. via MyPhoneExplorer and MyLocalAccount)
What to do to avoid that google upload anything to the server at all (pics, messages…)? Are there some “hidden sync options”, which differ much from FP1/Android 4.2?
How to prevent Android5.1 of eating the mobile data amount?
I am sure I will have some more questions, but that’s all for the moment.
If you have some more recommendation feel free to post - also within the frame for a future guide, if usefull hints come in…