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What do you use as Dialer/SMS/Contact app?

I tried to switch myself from iPhone and almost everything was OK but these were the worst to get right... I ended up using suite from Tibor Kaputa (Simple Dialer etc) but I ran into some rather annoying issues.

Also, do you use phone recoding? This was actually my breaking point, because i have an iPhone w/ jailbreak that enables me to record phone conversations (for my use only, not trying to get into the legal discussion). I did not find anything for GrapheneOS (or Android in general) - just some info that I need to root my phone to get this working and with that I just reverted to my jailbroken iPhone.




The only functional FOSS call recording app for Android that I'm aware of is the Call Recorder app on F-Droid:

- Call Recorder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.callrecorder...

To use this app, you'll need to root your phone using Magisk[1] and the install the Magisk module for Axet's Call Recorder.[2] Then, upgrade the Call Recorder app to the latest version in F-Droid. Note: do not enable "System Mixer Incall Recording" in Call Recorder, since it is not needed and may cause issues with recording.

[1] https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

[2] https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/callrecorder-axet

The default dialer and contact apps are both FOSS and functional, so I never felt the need to replace them. Signal can take over as the default SMS/MMS app, and there are alternatives with more features such as QKSMS:

- QKSMS: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.moez.QKSMS/


LineageOS's default phone app supports call recording out of the box. I'm using LineageOS 18. I don't know if this is true for earlier versions.




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