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[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

Can you work around it with magisk like rooted stock android? I bought my pixel specifically for graphene but google pay is the main thing preventing me from switching

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[–] Githyanki@lemmings.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

You cannot root grapheneos, so the answer is no. That method does work on other rom's like lineage.

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[–] ByteWelder@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

Last time I checked, it was broken for years already. It’s been a while though. edit: Confirmed: https://xdaforums.com/t/module-play-integrity-fix-safetynet-fix.4607985/ Only basic/device attestation is working.

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[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I'm currently getting MEETS_DEVICE_INTREGRITY with play integrity fix, which is enough for Google Pay to work. The only thing that I haven't been able to do is drive for Uber or use RCS oddly enough. RCS happened to fix itself about a month ago as well.

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[–] ByteWelder@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

As far as I’m aware, there are no work-arounds that allow for circumventing the Play Integrity API. Probably because you cannot avoid the involvement of a Google backend API that is accessed by the app’s backend. It works like this: Play Services hands a token to the app, the app sends it to the app backend, and then the app backend lets a Google backend verify the token, which results in a verdict. You cannot manipulate the token.

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