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Since we don't yet have a specific community for custom phone ROMs, let's discuss them here. Are you running a custom ROM? Which one? On what hardware? How is it?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

None sadly because fuck samsung

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Locked bootloaders should be illegal if the phone is paid off.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS. I love it. I migrated from the Apple ecosystem about two years ago into the FOSS and Linux world and haven't looked back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5. It is very nice and I would recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same setup. Love it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 4a, bit I'm looking to upgrade to a 6a vor 7a depending in the next good sale price

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are these sales directly from google?

Last time I checked pixel phones the performance and "freshness" Vs price ratio was really bad compared to something like Xiaomi with working xda ROMs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

LineageOS on a Fairphone 3. It works well for what I do on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use this little niche OS called iOS, made by some fruit company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that. I heard the project leader died of a perfectly curable form of cancer because he was going to heal himself with food or something. Crazy story, but the OS works well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Guy who ran a fruit company tried to cure cancer with fruit. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

LineageOS with microg on a s10+. It works great, no issues with apps not working but still have minimal google dipping it's fingers into my life.

I only buy phones now that will support a custom ROM, I can't go back now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man I remember the days of xda and custom Roma holy shit. Nexus 5 was the one, slimrom was the way. Ahh memories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I recently flashed LineageOS on my old Note 4 that had previously ran a few custom ROMs but other than that haven't used one in years since I haven't had a need with my last LG or current Samsung phone.

These days there's more of a need for custom hardware like a headphone jack or SD card slot but unfortunately those can't just be flashed to a phone like a ROM can. The software/firmware side of things has been fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

*custom roms oops

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

CalyxOS on a Pixel 5. Its nice and micro G works fine in most situations. When I have the time though, I'm probably going to try graphine os with sandboxed google play and see how that works for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

IodeOS on FairPhone 4.

I'm only running FOSS application on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7, having a great experience with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately none. I have an S10e with a locked bootloader. This is the first android phone I've owned that I hadn't used a custom ROM on. The last Samsung phone I owned was an S4 and I hadn't kept up with the custom ROM scene, so I hadn't known the locked bootloader nonsense when I got the S10e.

It sucks because there are no note security updates for the phone even though the hardware is still in good condition. I can't justify replacing a working phone even if I could afford a new one. I'm hoping eventually a vulnerability will be uncovered that allows unlocking the bootloader. There was one a few years ago I think, but it got patched before I even knew about it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5a5g 👍

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pixel 7 with Graphene. I love it. I have sanboxed google play installed, and occasionally dont get a notification (i suspect the apps are just not running in the background, so once I open the app I get the notifs). Would recommend.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

None because blackberry locked the bootloader :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CalyxOS on my Pixel 3. Love it. Runs better than the standard Android crap.

Who knew getting rid of all the tracking bullshit helps? This is my surprised face -> :-/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pixel Experience

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6. Works, I've had to override the custom memory allocator one or two times for banking apps, but that's just flipping a switch in the app info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

None ... yet. Hadn't even looked into the possibility since my Pixel 2XL, and I have no idea what I dug up all those years ago.

I'm now on a Pixel 6 Pro and would love to move to a privacy-focused OS; I'm already on KDE Neon on desktop for both my production machines as of May. Rexxit has motivated me to at least dip my toes in on mobile, but as with desktop Linux, I fully expect my first attempt to bring into specific relief what I'm looking for and then go try things until I find what I like.

Graphene and Lineage seem like the best starting options at this point, but I'd love to hear from anyone else on my hardware on their experiences. My use cases are vanishingly small: Signal for text, voice and video; the local transit app; music app (still haven't found one that makes be forswear any further experimentation) for my commute; mindless games (currently Royal Match) for my commute; 10-15 texts a week; and a phone call or two. I barely even use the camera except for work, and yes, I'm aware I purchased a phone utterly overpowered for my needs, but I'm picky about pixel size.

What recommendations do y'all have, either as a starting point or — perish the thought — an obvious daily driver?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

LineageOS seems fine for your use case (and it has official support), but Pixel users are honestly spoilt for choice on custom ROMs so you could try out a few. Maybe Pixel Experience if you want to keep the Google "look", or crdroid for another AOSP rom.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

LineageOS on a Moto One 5G Ace. Soon to be replaced with a OnePlus Nord N200 because the charging port of all things is failing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also LineageOS. Pixel 3a

It's going to take a lot for me to want to upgrade when this phone has unlimited photo upload, and a headphone jack.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LineageOS so i can use Android11 on pretty old hardware

also another one with LOS11+MicroG instead of GApps, same reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have CalyxOS on my Pixel 4a; want to try GrapheneOS

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss LineageOS. My current nokia has next to no scene. The thing I miss the most is holding the volume keys as prev/fwd buttons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't do that in the stock ROM? That seems like a basic feature to me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Using GraphineOS on a Pixel 6. It's very nice! I haven't had any problems with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I went with good old lineageOS but I would like to pick up a Pixel device so I can give GrapheneOS or CalyxOS a go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am using Elixir on my Xiaomi phone, I really like the customization stuff. It would be ideal if it would come in a variant without Google services :/ Otherwise it runs pretty nice.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

First I tried iode but after a short trip to Ubuntu Mobile I decided to try Calyx. Runs fine on my Fairphone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/e/OS - I bought a cheap Poco X3 pro, that was probably cheap because they show ads inside the OS. So now I got to have a cheap phone that's also private and fast (a friend bought the same phone, no custom ROM, and now complains about it being slow)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PixelOS on Redmi Note 10 Pro, more stable and less bloated than MIUI tho I didn't try the other pixel roms or stock android roms.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Havoc on LG G6 (Android 11 + Microg)

Works well but will be pretty much the end of the device

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