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?

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years 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.

    • taaz@biglemmowski.win
      2·
      2 years 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.

      • scoobford@lemmy.one
        1·
        2 years ago

        Usually, yes.

        Xiaomi isn’t a thing here, but pixels are usually <$500 USD and get like 5 years of updates, plus I don’t think graphene runs on anything else.

    • The Baldness@beehaw.orgOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • archwizard@slrpnk.net
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • Jomn@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

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

    • 00@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      What do you think about the Fairphone 3? Is it a respectable daily driver?

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    2 years ago

    OnePlus Nord (the last phones before were OP 1, 3 and 5, great value phones imo), LineageOS. Had to use the unofficial version for a while, but they are official again, now.

    I hate modern phones, especially the giant ones that people seem to like nowadays. My 2 favourite phones are my last pre-Android Phones (Nokia E71, blackberry style, with full kb), and my first Android the HTC Desire Z (T-Mobile G2 in the US; fold out full keyboard). I don’t need fancy cameras, and I don’t need a high-powered CPU.

    Considering I’ve been using Android for about 13 years, I have probably been on an official ROM for less than a week :D Back then, I experimented a lot, custom kernels, custom roms, (nandroid backup really helped with that, a full phone backup that’s easy to restore, I miss that) I’ve even encountered ROMs that don’t have the mandatory feature of using volume control to move the text cursor, how do people live without that?

    Anyway, now I just use LineageOS with no custom kernel. When I get a new phone (and I only get those with LineageOS available, for the Nord it was a bit annoying that they dropped support 2 months after I got it …), I flash it on arrival.

    • kuna@szmer.info
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same but on Pixel 6. Though I caved in and installed the sandboxed Google Play to run bank apps, fortunately they do work that way without problems.

    • karce@wizanons.dev
      0·
      2 years ago

      Same but on a Pixel 6a. It’s good for the most part. I don’t use this phone for calls/sms so I wish I could just disable that while retaining mobile data, but I haven’t figured that out yet really.

      • sibloure@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        I read you can delete any stock apps like Phone and SMS Messaging by connecting your phone to a computer and using ADB (does not require root). I haven’t tried it but you can search online about using ADB.

  • Casmael@u.fail
    4·
    2 years ago

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

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years 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.

  • probably_a_robot@lemmy.one
    4·
    2 years ago

    GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6. Works great! 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.