This is unofficial fork of Fossify phone from https://www.github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone
as a temporary fix to have notifications by implementing never-fully-finished FossifyOrg#253 until FossifyOrg#83 is more properly fixed.
This is already done by this repo, but if you want to reproduce it yourself, you need to:
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Fork Fossify phone from https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone
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Checkout 1.6.0 version (last one that the following PR applies cleanly)
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Apply PR from FossifyOrg#253 to fix notifications on missed calls (otherwise you'll not see missed calls!) e.g.
curl -s https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone/pull/253.diff | patch -p1 -
Setup GitHub to build the app:
4.1. Install prerequisites
on Debian Bookworm: apt install openjdk-17-jre-headless adb # to get keytool and adb
4.2. Generate signing key
keytool -genkeypair -v -keystore release.keystore -alias release -keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 10000
4.3. On your GitHub fork of Fossify-Phone settings, under "Security", click "Secrets and Variables" and then "Actions" and then under "Secrets" tab setup "Repository secrets" by clicking 4 times on "New repository secret", ad add:
- RELEASE_KEYSTORE_BASE64: (output from `base64 -w 0 release.keystore`)
- SIGNING_KEY_ALIAS: release (because of `-alias release` in keytool)
- SIGNING_KEY_PASSWORD: (password from keytool - make sure there is no trailing whitespace or newline!)
- SIGNING_STORE_PASSWORD: (same as above)
4.4. Create .github/workflows/build-release-apk.yml in your fork to build signed release see https://github.com/mnalis/Fossify-Phone/blob/master-mn/.github/workflows/build-release-apk.yml for example
4.5 In your GitHub fork of Fossify-Phone, click "Actions", "Build signed release apk", "Run workflow", choose your branch with all the changes, and click green "Run workflow" button
4.6 Wait ~5 minutes so it produces foss-release-signed.zip
4.7. Download the .zip to your phone, extract .apk from it and install it
- After installing (via instructions above, or simple download from https://github.com/mnalis/Fossify-Phone/releases/), you need to setup the app on the phone as follows:
5.1. Long click on the Fossify Phone app icon, select (i) and add all permission that it wants to the app.
Also see three-dots menu and "Special access" and find all that mention Fossify Phone and allow it (e.g. "Appear on top")
5.2. In android "Choose default apps", you must make the Fossify Phone app the default for both "Called ID & spam app" and "Phone app". on Samsung Galaxy S23+ with OneUI 7.0 and Android 15, the latter would refuse (with "App was denied access / Access to this permission can put your personal and financial info at risk" error). Allegedly one could fix that by using three-dots-menu and choosing "Allow restricted settings", but that didn't work for me. Workaround which worked for me is to have "USB debugging" in "Developer options" (search the net on how to enable that hidden menu), and then connect phone with computer, and issue following commands:
adb shell cmd role add-role-holder android.app.role.DIALER org.fossify.phone
adb shell cmd role get-role-holders android.app.role.DIALER # verify if it worked - should return "org.fossify.phone"
adb shell pm grant org.fossify.phone android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG
adb shell pm grant org.fossify.phone android.permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG
adb shell pm grant org.fossify.phone android.permission.READ_CONTACTS
adb shell pm grant org.fossify.phone android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
adb shell pm grant org.fossify.phone android.permission.ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS
#adb shell dumpsys role # if need to debug system data only
adb shell settings get secure dialer_default_application # returned "null" for me, which is apparently OK
5.3. (optional?) uninstall Samsung Dialer:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 10 com.samsung.android.dialer # might fail on your system if you didn't use work profile
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.samsung.android.dialer # (alternative is `adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.dialer`)
5.4. Reboot the phone
5.5. Test receiving calls, making calls, and getting notifications for missed calls