How many of you use a custom ROM on your phone?

Another one for LinageOS with fdroid on an older oneplus

CalyxOS (MicroG) on the phone and crDroid (No MicroG or Gaaps) on the Tablet

my banking app works on the phone and Aurora Store helps to get Google Play apps if needed

Is mobile banking that popular of a thing? Couldn't you just go to the bank? Or for that matter you could just use the website
- If the app wouldn't work I would probably test other means like it's mobile website but if it works, why not? I'm using a direct bank though which doesn't have branches anywhere in my country while ATMs typically only allow withdrawing from my account

Running GrapheneOS and it is very stable and reliable.

I use LineageOS for years now, it works great but I should finally redo my install with Magisk and MicroG, some things that depend on root permissions and Google services would be kind of nice even tho I don't really need them. Still, once you got used to a custom ROM phones without one seem fucking unusable, all that bloat and shit is just plain terrible!

"Downgrading" from a Samsung S22 Ultra 128gb to Pixel 7a, planning to run Graphene on it.

+1 for Graphene. I'm running it on a Pixel 4a 5g and have had no issues to date. All my banking apps work, although some with the gaps compatibility layer in a different profile.

I used LineageOS for years on my OnePlus 3, and once that stopped getting updates, I snagged a Pixel 5a and immediately put CalyxOS on it. Both have been great experiences.

I personally like lineage os because it is clean and minimal. Calyx os comes with way to many apps preinstalled
- During setup, Calyx shows a list of the apps installed by default, and allows you to uncheck most of them. I personally didn't feel like it was much bloat at all, but I did uncheck a good bit of the apps. If you went through the setup process with all default settings though, I can definitely see why you'd think that

I don't use custom ROMs on my phone, but I'm planning to port it to postmarketOS.

I do and did this with all my previous phones. Unfortunately, it comes with so many obstacles nowadays like non-working banking apps, that I'm unsure how the future of custom roms looks like. If I need to buy a new phone, I'll pick one with good custom rom support and a cheap second one just for the banking stuff.

I don't understand why running a proprietary banking app is a deal breaker. It will never work and should never work for security reasons. The bank wants you device to be controlled and locked down by google so that you don't get robbed if you lose your device. Putting your finances on a device with weak encryption and no locked bootloader is a bad plan as far as I'm concerned.

I know many people like continence but for me freedom is more important.

Lineage with MicroG, too. Been using it for years. I love buying phones for less than 100€ and use them until they are dead. OsmAnd, Syncthing, Keepass, NewPipe, DavX5, Neo- and Aurora Store are so good. Banking works fine after hiding Magisk but I can't get Deutsche Bahn app to work, so I still buy my tickets offline. Not big of a deal. I really love my setup, it took some time to finetune, but it feels great to use a 95% FLOSS phone.

I used all sorts of ROMs but like op I've also gone lineage although I am considering a pure Linux phone, once the tech and foundation are more stable as my trust for google has gone down considerably with they're brazen walled garden approach in recent years, safety-net (soon to be discontinued as hackers/modders have found work a rounds , and another implementation will soon be added if not already.. I don't keep up to date) and other such tactics are going to make the custom ROMs and rooting very difficult and I joined the team android for its openness but google are constantly implementing APIs and "features" and all of a sudden I'm unable to access the apps that had worked perfectly before. But anyway fuck google. Go team foss

I used to feel the same way but now I've realized how mature android is compared to Linux phones. We should focus on developing free software replacements for google services such as push notifications. There are already plenty of free software apps for android that it makes no sense to start from scratch
- I agree that android is mature but when I think of what I use my phone and desktop for they both converge and my use case is well fitted to Linux over android, most of my android apps are lesser versions of my applications on my linux desktop but its also early days so I will continue with android till linux on mobile has matured

LineageOS with microg. Running now since over a year. The last upgrade from 18 to 20 was a bit of a hustle, as i had to upgrade my TWRP. So far i'm quite satisfied. The only thing that bugs me is, that i cannot use paid-apps from thr google store. I don't always find an open source alternative fromF-Droidm.

I'm not sure if /e/ solves this problem i a better way. Was thinking about migrating to /e/. But, als LOS was running quite ok, i did not bother.

have you tried aurora store with sign in? it should work for paid apps

LineageOS on my Galaxy S8. This is such a great phone. Constantly ran out of RAM on the original stock ROM.

i've been using custom ROMs for a long time. In the last years i also replaced GApps with MicroG Currently i'm using LineageOS for MicroG

LineageOS MicroG on Fairphone 4.

How does lineageos work for you on FP4? I'm thinking of installing it too.
- Everything works as expected.

On Lineage Microg

I started with CyanogenMod on my Google G1 and have never stopped.

I've been doing this since the WinMo days. I recently went back to stock for my banking app with the latest 13 ROM, but I still have a 2016 Samsung tab a running great on the latest lineage, it saves so many older devices.

I'm currently on a niche Vanilla Custom ROM. My device is fairly new (came out in the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022, I bought it in the first half of 2022) and is quite niche (mid-range Xiaomi device). As such, it doesn't have proper official support for many ROMs, but some people on a Telegram channel have gathered together to build Custom ROMs for this device. I have MicroG but don't use it because I haven't configured it properly. If LineageOS for MicroG ever becomes available for it, I would switch to that, so I have MicroG properly configured. The thing is, the people there don't care about privacy, they are tinkerers only.

I have been using custom roms since my first android device but the my current one(zenfone 10) cant be unlocked because they havent released the unlock tool for it...

Trivoization at its finest
- Goofy ahh word had to google it lol

I have some F-Droid apps installed, but there's not an available lineageOS' rom for my phone yet.

Pixel 4, using a personal signed build of LineageOS with user build type (instead of userdebug, so no root) with gapps included.

I broke a data pin on my current phone so it only has the stock ROM with F-Droid.

My new phone is a Xiaomi that I don't use enough for Xiaomi to allow me to unlock the bootloader, so also stock ROM with F-Droid for that one until I actually start using it. Once I get the bootloader unlocked, I'll put Graphene OS on it.

Have you tried unlocking bootloader without OEM unlocking enabled? It works on some devices.
- what?

Using Lineage on my PX 5 and couldnt be happier

Graphene OS on my pixel 6. All my banking apps work. I have Droidify (f-droid), the aurora store, and the play store installed.

Some apps on the play store say they don't support my phone, but I can install them from the aurora store if I have it report my actual phone model.

How does this effect battery life? I listen to audiobooks 12-14 hrs a day, with 9 hours of use with Bluetooth. I'm looking to get away from Audible in hopes of that helping as well.
- It tends to improve it due to no google things phoning home
- Better than stock

The only point of custom ROMs in Android is to remove Google stuff.

Its not like on a Computer. You dont really have alot of choice. You have to have someone maintain a custom ROM for your phone model. And two phones using the same name will not be compatible with each other.

I chose a new phone based on its LineageOS support. I only booted the original OS once before installing LOS. Been running smoothly for 5 years now.

YAAP on the OnePlus 7T Pro made me rethink if I want to upgrade my phone at all

Using a lineageos device as a stopgap because my main grapheneos device is broken

Pixel Experience Plus on a Galaxy Tab A8.

crDroid on Samsung Galaxy s10. Running it for 4 months so far and overall I'm really happy. Sometimes I get Problems with high Battery drain and I haven't figured out what the root cause is. But a quick restart fixes the problem and it happens max once a week, so I can live with it.

I have always been use a custom os, since Nexus 4 days.

Currently running SparkOS on my Xiaomi 9

Been using lineageos on my phone and tablet for a few years now. I have not downloaded a google play store app since I switched to lineageos.