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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Honestly, Custom ROMs have been in decline of usage since few years. There are also Other ROMS like Pixel Experience, PixyOS, Havoc, evolutionX, PixelOS, Paranoid, Derpfest, CrDroid and lot more.

The reason for the drop is due to a combination of reasons like better OEM UI, unpublished Kernel code (Chinese OEMs, Mediatek), locked bootloaders and Safetynet issues.

I'm currently rocking CrDroid it has currently ~85K active devices (https://stats.crdroid.net/).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

better OEM UI

Very subjective.

Unpublished kernel code

Don't use those phones.

Locked bootloaders

Plenty of OEMs allow bootloader unlocking, stop buying Samsung.

Safetynet issues

It's Google Play Integrity checking now, and as someone who has been using LinageOS on unrooted phones for a while, I've never had these issues. Not to say people out there aren't having them, but it's not as bleak as people seem to believe it is.

I have one phone that's rooted, and I have to use magisk to hide it, and that occasionally has issues, but not the non-rooted ones running custom roms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where are these OEMs that allow proper bootloader unlocking on most of their range?

Google, Sony ...? Huawei stopped doing it, Oppo & Samsung doesn't last I checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xiaomi Does albeit with some wait time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still remember the good old days when there was no waiting time.

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