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Custom Android ROMs are bound to make a bigger comeback if Android manufacturers aren't going to take a stand against similar crap

Markoff 5y ago
as someone who use custom ROMs entirely for 10+ years there is hardly any comeback possible, since they would need to be used in first place in past, how many phones had custom ROMs at peak 0.1% ? Plus good luck installing custom ROM without affecting functionality of phone or installing at all, Sony will mess your camera, Huawei/Honor doesn't allow it at all, Oppo/Realme will disable fingerprint sensor, Samsung will trip the knox and some features will never work again, so what's there left? pretty much only Pixel and Xiaomi, unless you wanna tablet only Pixel which is hardly distributed anywhere in world
- celsoazevedo 5y ago
  Custom ROMs are like Linux. Only advanced users will use them. Regarding the functionality we lose when using a custom ROM, I think the trick is to use a device from a "modding friendly" brand. Samsung, Sony or Huawei are not modding friendly. Get a OnePlus, Asus, Xiaomi/Poco/Redmi or Google Pixel and most if not all hardware will work fine. (My experience is based using the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 8 Pro and Redmi Note 9S with LineageOS and a Asus Zenfone 6 with OmniROM. Fingerprint works fine and even more exotic features like the IR blaster on the 9S or the flip camera on the Zenfone 6 works.) Now, by replacing the original OS you also remove some things that makes the phone better. Eg: the stock camera app, which often gives you better processing (there are modded GCam apps that might help fix this, alternatively you can save DNG/raw files). One useful feature that I had on the Zenfone 6 that custom ROMs can't give me is the ability to stop charging at a certain % (can be done with Magisk, but it's not supported by the ROM itself). The main problem for me are the apps. Many require Google services and Google's safetynet and both are a problem if you decide to use "pure" Android. Even if one decides to install Google Apps to have the Play Store and their other services, there's still the safetynet issue that gets triggered just for unlocking your device.

Markoff 5y ago

as someone who use custom ROMs entirely for 10+ years there is hardly any comeback possible, since they would need to be used in first place in past, how many phones had custom ROMs at peak 0.1% ? Plus good luck installing custom ROM without affecting functionality of phone or installing at all, Sony will mess your camera, Huawei/Honor doesn't allow it at all, Oppo/Realme will disable fingerprint sensor, Samsung will trip the knox and some features will never work again, so what's there left? pretty much only Pixel and Xiaomi, unless you wanna tablet only Pixel which is hardly distributed anywhere in world

celsoazevedo 5y ago
Custom ROMs are like Linux. Only advanced users will use them. Regarding the functionality we lose when using a custom ROM, I think the trick is to use a device from a "modding friendly" brand. Samsung, Sony or Huawei are not modding friendly. Get a OnePlus, Asus, Xiaomi/Poco/Redmi or Google Pixel and most if not all hardware will work fine. (My experience is based using the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 8 Pro and Redmi Note 9S with LineageOS and a Asus Zenfone 6 with OmniROM. Fingerprint works fine and even more exotic features like the IR blaster on the 9S or the flip camera on the Zenfone 6 works.) Now, by replacing the original OS you also remove some things that makes the phone better. Eg: the stock camera app, which often gives you better processing (there are modded GCam apps that might help fix this, alternatively you can save DNG/raw files). One useful feature that I had on the Zenfone 6 that custom ROMs can't give me is the ability to stop charging at a certain % (can be done with Magisk, but it's not supported by the ROM itself). The main problem for me are the apps. Many require Google services and Google's safetynet and both are a problem if you decide to use "pure" Android. Even if one decides to install Google Apps to have the Play Store and their other services, there's still the safetynet issue that gets triggered just for unlocking your device.