So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days.
Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off.
Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don’t want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.
Is that still being developed?
I guess if it’s not, you can always go back to… Umm… Well KaiOS is a smart disaster. We don’t even have dumb phones anymore
As far as I know it is still being developed.
KaiOS really peaked in 2018; since then, major companies including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have backed away from it. For example, there is no more speech to text because Google ran away, and there is no more WhatsApp in KaiOS 3.0.
Despite it being mostly closed source, I do hate to say that.