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Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm glad to hear that mobile linux is practical for some people. What do you do for GPS? And in day-to-day use, doesn't WayDroid drain the battery?

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I usually use Pure Maps [0]. Note that various phones handle GNSS differently and for fast fixes, depending on the phone and distro, you may have to configure or trigger retrieval of assistance data from the Internet ([1] is an example for Librem 5's Teseo LIV3) - the module will be able to download all this stuff from the sky as well, but it may take several minutes or even fail under poor conditions, while getting fresh data online and acquiring a fix based on it takes seconds.

When it comes to Waydroid, I boot it up very rarely and usually just to do something specific and stop the container afterwards, so it's not a concern. But if you wanted to keep it loaded for fast access (booting it up takes about half a minute) you can either freeze the container or just suspend the entire phone and it shouldn't influence anything other than keeping RAM occupied.

[0] https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.rinigus.PureMaps

[1] https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1207

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