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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

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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 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...

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.

LineageOS MicroG on Fairphone 4.

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

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

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.

On Lineage Microg

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

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

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.

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 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.

Using Lineage on my PX 5 and couldnt be happier

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

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.

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