I assume virtually everyone in this place is using some third party ROM. Many of you probably rocking Banana ROM off your Alcatel z657 bought at Boost Mobile in 2012.
But is there any simpleton here like myself who is on stock android? You know, the middle age dude who has “Privacy” as a hobby because he can’t afford or have time for a real one. 😶🌫️
Nah, running stock my self bcus
- no custom rom worth switching to available for my device
- don’t wnna break tꝏ many things
I just adb out the stuff I can. Old owner of the company I work at gifted me a z fold 6 and I decided to use it instead of reselling it for a pixel.
Nothing phone here, stock is as close to AOSP as it gets across the board.
I run stock on a pixel although I do have droidify installed and prefer that too the play store for most things. Especially for the freeze app where all my corporate stuff is run from.
Same as the other commenter, Pixel 7 + default Android OS. I appreciate the third party ROMs existing but haven’t really bothered going through all that in a few years. Way back I did used to install CyanogenMod but it always felt like a bit of a hassle with random bugs, phone restarts… at some point I bought one of the early Pixels and felt the stock Android worked well enough. My own motivation early on was to avoid the phone bloat/random apps that were pre-installed on non-Google Android phones.
That aside I may take another look at this stuff if it becomes impossible to sideload apps on stock Android OS with Google forcing app developers to verify themselves. And/or check out Linux-based phones.
Typing this out just realized LineageOS started out as a fork of CyanogenMod so I guess that code still exists in some capacity even today.
I have tried LineageOS (Flashed it on my Pixel before reverting back to stock) and MAN that is a ROM done right. Its literally how Android should be. Next to zero…ZERO Bloat. Your app drawer is like 1/4 full because there is simply nothing on the phone!
I’m on a stock Samsung Galaxy S9+. I dabble in privacy using Blokada on my phone, VPN on my PC, and other adblocking extensions and features. I’m not smart enough to do rooting and sideloading. I barely know what an API or APK even does.
I hope to one day be able to absorb the knowledge of folks on here somehow.
Stock Samsung A something. Like the others are saying, if I wanna run maps and things like that it’s just easier to leave it as is. Might revisit if chat control comes though, that shit is vile.
Basically no one runs stock android. It doesn’t exist
But if you’re asking if I run OEM android, yes I am
Isn’t pixel basically running it? What are they adding?
Pixel is running something close… But as for what their adding? All kinds of stuff, from camera features to launchers to subtle tweaks
But the reason no one is running stock android is the reason the Linux phone project is so difficult… The drivers
Your phone is basically running two sets of firmware. One controls the radio, coordinates with cell towers, handles data both as an Internet connection and a set of old cell protocols we still use sometimes (like phone calls and public alerts), plus hardware backdoors.
And then there’s Android, which has some degree of control over that mess, but it has to be custom fit to each black box or you get bugs, because they’re all different
The only way to run stock android is through an emulator, and even then most developers just use the pixel builds
I had a Wiley Fox phone back in the day that was supposedly as stock Android as you could get.
Which oem and why?
Because it’s not a pixel, so I can’t run graphene out of the box, and having my phone working is a key component of my job
The issue with custom ROMs is the support for devices. I had to buy a new one from eBay to install LineageOS and I didn’t regret it. I use now 2 phones, one for privacy (I use it 80%) and the old one for mail and whatsapp (I’m forced to) to contact my family and friends but that’s it.
I really wish I wasn’t, but some freaky thing about my Galaxy means I have no compatible ROMs
Recently switched over to LineageOS without the play store. But a few weeks ago I was still on regular old android. Have been relying on FDroid though for a while now - its nonpredatory apps are very nice.
Yeah, I’m on Android here because I like using my phone to pay for stuff. I’ve made a half-arsed attempt to degoogle a bit by running Immich on a home server for photos.
I’m running GrapheneOS and use my phone to pay for stuff via NFC.
GrapheneOS doesnt support my phone. I wish but it aint gonna work. Not yet.
I was running lineageOS on pixel 7 for a little while, but unfortunately it lacked visual voicemail. So, I’m back and have been using rooted pixel OS. That’s after I switched from Samsung s23. If anyone has any alternatives to the visual voicemail, please let me know. I need this feature for my job search.
I have stock Fairphone, but disabled all Google Play Services and most proprietary apps, and replaced them with FOSS apps.
Idk how close this is to a privacy-respecting custom ROM, but I’m mostly just waiting for a good one. I really enjoy having the slide button to turn on Do Not Disturb. It’s so amazing idk why not all phones have this.
I def want this working on the custom ROM I’m switching to in the future.
+1
…although I would have taken the degoogled version if I had known what the latest android was like.
So far just too lazy to install custom rom.
But I’m not sure if /e/os is worth it over LineageOS.
how would lineageos be better?
I thought LineageOS had a bit more functionality and bigger community, and that /e/os is smaller and more focused on privacy as a single issue?
Next we ask how many women and other non-guys are on here.
More than you think, half of hexbear is trans for instance
