Simple question really! Are any of you running a Custom ROM? Furthermore, are any of you running a De-Googled ROM?
Why do you run your custom ROM, and what are the drawbacks?
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Lineage 18 on my bacon!
Daily driving it
I haven’t run a custom ROM in years. I pretty much stopped using them when I started buying unlocked global phones that didn’t have carrier bloatware on them.
Depends, is OxygenOS considered custom? I’m running a rooted and largely (manually) degoogled stock version.
When I was a teenager, I’d probably change my ROM 3 times a day. Spent more time in the recovery mode than using my phones.
As a working adult… I wouldn’t even know the names of any modern custom ROMs.
As a working adult… I wouldn’t even know the names of any modern custom ROMS.
And there are psychos like me that changed their custom ROM in the work… Ahh, that thrill to mess it up and lose your device for several hours until getting home.
This is obviously a sign you need to be medicated
The medicine is an iPhone for me I guess but it is hard to go back to Apple.
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As much as I like blokada (and in a similar vein DuckDuckGo’s app tracking protection), I run an always on VPN so these are a non-starter for me, unless I get up off my ass and set up a layered VPN setup on my home server. AdAway is too simple once you get past rooting.
This is me. That rush when a new ROM booted for the first time, or the panic when you’re not sure if you’ve just softbricked your phone.
Bugs? You tell me!
I just stick with lineage os. Its clean and efficient
I run GrapheneOS without any Google Play Services. I don’t want to be locked into any software and I selfhost all my backups except having encrypted backups in one cloud provider for very important things to keep them off-site.
Most of the things people generally would consider drawbacks like lack of google assistant, chrome, play store, youtube etc. I consider to be a positive thing. I am in mostly full control of permissions and I have a siloed work user when I do need to access Slack and other apps for company use.
I’m running lineage OS on my moto one 5g ace. Main reason was to upgrade it to the most recent version of android, since it wasn’t getting any updates beyond 11. No drawbacks here, haven’t run into any bugs or anything. But I’m also not a power user or anything, just trying to extend the life of my phone
The charge port on my one 5g ace just gave up the ghost recently forcing me to buy a new device. I liked it, but it is rather heavy.
That’s unfortunate :/ yeah mine is showing it’s age, and the headphone jack doesn’t work properly anymore. But it was a great phone while it lasted. Thinking about moving to the oneplus n30 or the moto 5g stylus
Yeah, i moved to the OnePlus Nord N200 model DE2117 so i could run Lineage. I make sure any device i buy is at least Lineage compatible otherwise its a no go.
Yep, LineageOS 20 ON A onePlus Nord N200 with no gapps installed at all.
i run Lineage because 4 years ago i had enough of all the tracking and switched off and deleted my google account completely. I also deted Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc accounts in the same time period. I really cant see any drawbacjs to running Lineage the way i do.
Been running CalyxOS for 3 years. Compile it myself from source with some extra tweaks and such. I’ve even got a nice build server going that automatically compiles builds monthly and pushes updates to my phone via OTAs. It was a little work to get set up, but now it doesn’t feel any different from the stock Android experience.
It started because I was tired of all the unchecked spying Google does, and I wanted to get away from that. But now I can never go back to “regular” Android, because the vendor bloat in “stock” ROMs is incessant, and I am maintaining patches for quite a few features Google has either removed, or never supported in the first place (2-button navigation, AM/PM clock, automatic call recording).
Honestly, there hasn’t been any drawbacks. The phone works perfectly, calls are fine, it runs great, and I haven’t needed Google Play Services for basically anything. My banking app still works. I don’t use Google Pay so I don’t really care that it doesn’t work. Android wearOS doesn’t work, but at this point Google has dropped the ball so severely, I don’t have the motivation to bother with a smartwatch.
Most of my paid apps continue to work without patches, and I get them from Aurora Store. For the ones that don’t work, I just patch them myself to remove the license checks. I paid for them, so I should be able to use them regardless of what ROM I use.
I want to do that to but with grapheneos so I have more freedom and control over my mobile.
Damn dude, self compiling with your own OTAs is rad as hell. Kudos to you for getting and keeping that running.
Thanks! But I can’t take all the credit. Calyx maintains the OTA updater and it’s very configurable. Just change the domain name, make sure your webserver has all the right files, and you’re off!
Same here (CalyxOS on Pixel Phone). Except for me not compiling it myself. Its super easy to install and runs super smooth. In my case for two years without a single issue.
ArrowOS 13.1 on my POCO F3 and Xiaomi Pad 5
GApps version btw, because I just hate MIUI and love AOSP.
It’s so nice to see folks here moving away from Google. I hope I can get there too.
Yes to all questions. Only drawback I can recall is my banking app refusing to pass Safetynet but the website works good enough.
Would if I could, but I cannot.
I have “debloated” as much as I can, which includes a fair amount of Google stuff. I don’t have a Google account.
No drawbacks. In fact, if anyone, like me, is unable to root their phone or install a different ROM, the simple process of using
adbto “uninstall” the apps nets you a few more hours of battery per charge.I’m using Paranoid Android in my Poco F2 Pro , I like more the smoothness and visuals of AOSP against MIUI, especially since A12 when Material You and Monet features were introduced, before only smoothness was my motivation.
not anymore…
i used to screw around with custom ROMs all the time. mostly AOKP and cyanogenmod… but then phones started getting picky about rooting… things like camera stopped working or not working to full capabilities…
also i was installIing “[NEWEST SHINY] KERNEL 4.1.1 (L33T SCHEDULER, FASTEST PERFORMANCE!!!111)” like every week, but that got really tiring.
edit: i just noticed AOKP is dead… so sad. anyone know what happened?
I used to muck around with custom roms in the early 2010s, but at some point the Galaxy UI stopped bring horrible and I needed my phone to be available at all times, that’s when I stopped.
