Seriously! Shouldn't it be illegal to break into someone's private life and do stuff behind the scenes without the device's owners knowledge?
Is Google Play Services not the app that maintains a constant connection to the server for the purposes of receiving notifications for all apps? As well as other things apps on your phone might be using like location services.
This is one app I'd expect to run 24/7, but happy to be corrected on this.
This is basically correct, though it also does other stuff.
EDIT: Location services is in its own process tho
That's not Google, these are the APIs that power the whole OS. Most of the apps on your phone use them.
just vibing (doing stasi stuff)
Downloading a lot of stuff in the background over slow networks? Or facilitating some kind of cloud backup/save data?
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Can anyone share your experience with installing LineageOS on a Xiaomi device? I was thinking doing this as the only way of removing google from the smartphone but the build for my device is community (not stable)
Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:
Even if you remove all telemetry you'd need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.
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