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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    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.

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    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.

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    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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      That sucks. I also have never used a stock Android phone. I don’t know that I could. Because I’m in the USA, my choices for phones that will run a custom ROM and still make phone calls is very small. But that’s the subject of a different post.

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    /e/os on a Fairphone 3 for a few months now. It’s my first custom ROM, and it’s been a breeze so far :)

    Some quirks that I don’t actually mind : when the phone is turned off and charging, the animation on screen doesn’t update the current battery level (but idc, usually the phone charges at night), the phone calls volume is really loud (but I usually plug my headset in for calls) and the integrated vpn is sometimes slow enough to cause websites/apps to timeout (I can live with that).

    I still have my old android phone mainly for my bank application.

    Edit : typo

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    LineageOS so i can use Android11 on pretty old hardware

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

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

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    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.