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I have done this on a few friends phones who cannot afford a new phone, and or, their phone is not supported by lineage, E/os or any other AOSP custom roms.
I install Lawnchair which is not available on F-Droid unless you add the IzzyOnDroid repo. .
I use droid-ify or neostore, both make it easier to add repo's and include lawnchair.
for the debloat:
Adb is the way to go here:
A lot of the google stuff can be removed, the caveat is that google play services and google play store cannot and should not be removed.
you can safely remove: Gmail, Google One, Google Wallet, Google Podcasts, Google News, Google Hangouts, Google AR Core Library, Google Docs, Google Play Movies, Google Music, Google Android Auto, Google Maps, google Chrome as well as facebook. youtube, amazon, ebay, netflix, linkedin, etc,
as well as all the other surveillance, data harvesting bloatware:
com.amazon.appmanager: com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping: com.booking com.ebay.carrier: com.ebay.mobile: com.facebook.appmanager : com.facebook.katana:c om.facebook.services: com.facebook.system: com.linkedin.android: com.netflix.mediaclient: com.opera.browser: com.opera.preinstall: com.spotify.music
A complete list here:
[GUIDE] Remove Google Play Services from Android without root via adb shell (more privacy for your malware phone)
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-remove-google-play-services-from-android-without-root-via-adb-shell-more-privacy-for-your-malware-phone.4720085/
To enable ADB:
https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/
Be careful
Getting rid of google play services got my phone stuck in bootloop. You can however, use adb to disable those and Gemini. My issue is that I can only disable Windows Services Link and not remove it. Also, Samsung has a modes and routines feature that I can't disable. That has got to be a massive security issue. Thinking about just rooting the damned phone to get rid of that, but its probably in there deep.
Hey ScoffingLizard
Depending on your phone model you can install a custom rom, it is much easier than messing around with disabling google services.
No need to root your phone. I have bricked many phones because I went the root route.
here are the device lists ands install guides
if you dont want to use any google services use lineage
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
If you want to still keep some google apps use E/os. It uses MicroG.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
For installing on Samsung phones I use:
Heimdall-grimler-git
https://git.sr.ht/~grimler/Heimdall