LineageOS, one of the last great Android ROMs, is currently in use on around 1.5 million different devices.
  • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.idEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, Custom ROMs have been in decline of usage since few years. There are also Other ROMS like Pixel Experience, PixyOS, Havoc, evolutionX, PixelOS, Paranoid, Derpfest, CrDroid and lot more.

    The reason for the drop is due to a combination of reasons like better OEM UI, unpublished Kernel code (Chinese OEMs, Mediatek), locked bootloaders and Safetynet issues.

    I’m currently rocking CrDroid it has currently ~85K active devices (https://stats.crdroid.net/).

    • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Before i got my Pixel 6 Pro, i’ve been running Custom Roms on everything. The Pixel 6 Pro is probably the first device, i’m actually okay running Stock. It just does what it should. And i’ll be honest, the hassle of getting it to work properly (Banking, Netflix, etc) is just too much for my everyday phone…Google really did a number on that one, both positive and negative. I kind of hate it…

      • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ironically that’s one of the only phones that you have the choice of not running stock

          • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 year ago

            That isn’t the only factor though. Take OnePlus, for example. You can still unlock their bootloaders, but if you check out XDA you’ll see that their hasn’t been any custom roms for a OnePlus flagship since the 9 pro because they stopped publishing the MSM tool, so the risk of bricking the phone is too great.

            • Gunpachi@lemmings.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I guess the same thing is happened with samsung after the s10 series. No new roms for the newer ones apart from 1 or 2 oneui based roms.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      better OEM UI

      Very subjective.

      Unpublished kernel code

      Don’t use those phones.

      Locked bootloaders

      Plenty of OEMs allow bootloader unlocking, stop buying Samsung.

      Safetynet issues

      It’s Google Play Integrity checking now, and as someone who has been using LinageOS on unrooted phones for a while, I’ve never had these issues. Not to say people out there aren’t having them, but it’s not as bleak as people seem to believe it is.

      I have one phone that’s rooted, and I have to use magisk to hide it, and that occasionally has issues, but not the non-rooted ones running custom roms.

      • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.idEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m talking from a general user perspective who often can’t even differentiate between chipsets let alone look for such details.

        People used to got to Custom ROMs because OEMs were really doing shit job, that’s not the case now given now.

        • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          People used to got to Custom ROMs because OEMs were really doing shit job, that’s not the case now given now.

          Yep. I used to use custom (ROMs, kernels, etc) for the extra features and playing with my phone like a shiny new toy. Now I use GrapheneOS because OEMs and Google don’t do security and privacy anywhere near as good as GOS. And I can live with the minor inconvenience of apps that use Play Integrity API, though I do encourage the app devs to switch to hardware backed attestation because: “Android’s hardware attestation API provides a much stronger form of attestation than the Play Integrity API with the ability to whitelist the keys of alternate operating systems. It also avoids an unnecessary dependency on Google Play services and Google’s Play Integrity servers.” https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

  • nfsu2@feddit.clEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lineage OS is really great, I recommend the forked version with MicroG bundled to use google apps.