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+Android:My Phone Configuration
+==============================
+:author: Aaron Ball
+:email: nullspoon@iohq.net
+
+== {doctitle}
+
+I rebuilt my phone this weekend so I could test out http://aospa.co/[AOSPA]
+(Paranoid Android) for my phone, since unofficial support was just released a
+few days ago.
+
+During my rebuild, it occured to me that I haven't seen much documentation on
+people's processes and software sets, especially for the folks who want to run
+a phone on as much open source software as possible. I have found
+https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy[one
+post] written by the nice folks over at the Tor project, which discusses how to
+harden an Android device and provides a similar set of information I am about
+to provide, but it's slightly out of date. That said, here's how I run my
+phone.
+
+
+[[disabled-applications]]
+== Disabled Applications
+
+The first thing I do when booting my phone for the first time, is
+disable several applications that come preinstalled on most roms or come
+as a part of Google Apps.
+
+
+[[android-applications]]
+== Android Applications
+
+* **Browser**: I disable this one becasue with Google Apps installed and
+an account set up, it forces you to log in to all of Google's services.  I use
+https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser[Lightning Browser] instead (it's
+available on the f-droid market).
+
+* **Email**: Disabled because I use https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/[k-9
+mail] instead, due to its support for account backups, source code being
+readily available, not being developed mainly by Google, etc. K-9 is also
+available on the f-droid market.
+
+* **Exchange Services**: This one I disable because I don't have any
+exchange accounts on my phone. No sense in having it enabled if you aren't
+using it.
+
+* **One Time Init**: This is executed one time, on first boot, or so its
+name indicates. If it's running more than that, I don't want it running, so it
+is disabled.
+
+* **Sound Recorder**: I disable this one mostly because I don't use it,
+and disabling it removes its icon from my application drawer, thus saving
+space.
+
+
+[[google-appls-services]]
+== Google Appls Services
+
+* **Google Backup Transport**: I don't back up my phone to Google's
+services.
+
+* **Google Calendar Sync**: I don't sync my calendar through Google
+anymore.
+
+* **Google Contacts Sync**: I don't sync my contacts through Google
+anymore.
+
+* **Google One Time Init**: It's a one time init. No sense in leaving it
+enabled once it has run once.
+
+* **Market Feedback Agent**: I don't give market feedback on my phone.
+
+
+[[installed-applications]]
+== Installed Applications
+
+These are the applications I have installed on my phone. The majority of them
+are open source and can be found on the https://f-droid.org/[f-droid market].
+
+* **And Bible**: Open source Christian Bible for android.
+
+* **Barcode Scanner**: Useful for scanning all kind of barcodes. Open
+source and available on f-droid.
+
+* **Conversations**: This is my chat client. It supports encryption end
+to end, and has a very friendly interface. Open source and available on
+f-droid.
+
+* **DAVdroid**: I currently host all of my contacts and calendars on my
+own hosted Owncloud instance. This provides support for caldave and carddav
+syncing, which allows me to no longer keep my contacts or calendars on Google's
+services.
+
+* **Duolingo**: One of my favorite language-learning tools. Closed
+source though (I wish they'd change that, but oh well).
+
+* **f-droid**: Exclusively open source Android market. I have to
+download all these applications somehow after all.
+
+* **spaRSS**: Open source rss stream reader based on Flym and Sparse rss.
+
+* **K-9 Mail**: Open source fork of the stock Android email client.
+Supports backup of all accounts so they can later be re-imported (useful for us
+flash junkies)
+
+* **Kore**: Open source Kodi (or xbmc) remote control client. Available
+on f-droid.
+
+* **Lightning**: Open source and lightweight browser. Very smooth and
+fast. Available on f-droid market.
+
+* **oandbackup**: Application backup software. I don't flash a new rom
+without first using this to back up each individual application.  Available on
+the f-droid market.
+
+* **Open Camera**: With the introduction of the lolipop camera, it has
+gotten much "dumber". I like all the advanced settings, so I have this
+installed.
+
+* **OpenKeychain**: Imports pgp keys. Integrates into Password Store and
+K-9 mail for encrypting/decrypting passwords, and encrypting/decrypting and
+signing emails, respective.
+
+* **Orbot**: Open source Tor client. Available on the f-droid market.
+
+* **OsmAnd~**: Open source map application. Fair replacement for Google
+Maps. Available on f-droid market.
+
+* **Password Store**: Password manager. Uses pgp to encrypt/decrypt
+password entries. Also has clients for Linux, Windows, and OsX.  Available on
+f-droid market.
+
+* **Syncthing**: How I backup my phone, off-phone. Open source
+peer-to-peer synchronization client. I have mine set up to sync
+/storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1, which gets all the necessary data from
+my phone, onto my laptop. Available on f-droid market.
+
+* **Google Voice**: This is the one last Google application I haven't
+been able to replace yet, open source or no, free or no. It seems the majority
+of competing services in this arena are all tailored to business voip
+customers. I just want one phone number with text messaging support, and thus
+can't justify $40 or more per month for this kind of service. I'm still on the
+hunt though and will update this post if I ever manage to replace this
+application.
+
+
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