Custom Phone ROMs in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Do people still do this? Well, it has been a while since I loaded a custom ROM on my phone, and it's time to revisit the custom ROM.
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So glad to see my builds of RisingOS for the 6a being used and shared via here on TH-cam. Yes I'm the official maintainer of the rom. It gives me the ideology that their will be a little bit more interest in the custom rom community in general as this is to give end users just a bit more features over stock while retaining everything from stock... Thanks for the amazing video.!!!
Thank you for putting effort into maintaining the rom. Haven't tried it yet, but looks promising. Keep rocking 👌
Haven’t used yours but thank you for your work!
How did you learn to develop custom android roms?
That's so cool. I have a 6A and I might want to do this sometime I hope you keep working on it. I don't like the pixel OS anymore.
Damn, I have a pixel 6a too. I'll be sure to try out this rom. Good job maintaining it!
The more they enshittify, the more we're all desperate for a Linux phone alternative that is daily driver ready.
This ❤
your aware fairphone exists right?
@@robonator2945that isnt linux
@@robonator2945 and if he asked for an android based phone then that might be a good point. But he didn't so shut up
I just want a phone, so I can phone home like E.T. and get off this planet.
being a custom rom developer myself it feels good when some big youtubers cover this topic too 😊. (Btw i am in ProjectBlaze and EverestOS Core team and take care of pixel side stuff)
Any rom for realme gt5 pro
@@appleios2564 i can if someone sponsors a device. Because building without a device causes mess.
Any rom for mi 11t pro
Lmao the people, asking for roms
Back when i had the samsung s8, i was a real custom rom user. Heck, my s8 is still on a custom rom. Now I'm on s23 i don’t have much need for it anymore as samsung has a whole bunch of features. However, would still love to try for the love of the game.
A few days ago I actually tried to root my oneplus 7T pro (non branded, EU edition) and it is now forever stuck in fastboot lmao. Not mad about it, that thing stopped receiving updates 2 years ago, and the last update it got made the phone absolutely unusable. But safe to say that I am probably going to wait a bit before trying any of this. But I will still bookmark this video just in case.
UPDATE: I got curious and decided to see if I could install lineageos on my phone. Initially I was just trying to get magisk, so I did not even think of this solution. And to my surprise, it actually worked! I know there is no direct connection, but I would have just given up on that phone if not for your video Chris, so thanks!
I also encourage you to reject the demonic proprietary GApps and install holy opensource microG
Don't ignore the MSM tool, it's what made custom roms for the 8 series and below so popular
there are way to fix it
Yeah, I swore off OnePlus after they left the OP7 in a completely broken state. That was around when they got big, and the phone that garnered their support. Was a big FU to customers imho.
Yeah, I gave up on OnePlus ever since they had some weird "lens flair" bug in the photos after an update (don't know which one it was, because I ditched it).
Cool. I wish I had the time to mess around with custom ROMs again.
So true man!
Same here
Me too man me too 🥹
Yeah. Why isn't it as easy as getting into the bios and then jumping straight into installing something different like it can be done on PCs? There is zero practical difference between mobile tech like phones and desktop tech, so why all that firmware nonsensical hurdles between me getting a phone and me installing a different OS on it?
@@safwxn I'm flashing ROM rn haha
It's sad rooting is not popular anymore. I really can't use a phone without rooting. It has risks, but having my phone to work AS I WANT and not a company, is marvelous for me.
A lot of root only features back then already works on vanilla ROMs right now (such as theme personalisation)
Honestly, root and custom ROMS can provide great afterlife to an old phone. I've rooted my Galaxy A50, and managed to install docker on it. Now it runs a Kavita instance.
would you please share how you are running docker? I also have a rooted device on android 14 but have not been able to run docker
How did you unlock the boot loader for the A50?
How did you unlock boot loader? I have Samsung Galaxy A51.
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@@partypiggaming9344 just search "how to unlock bootloader on Galaxy a50 xda?" Then click on the link with xda forum.
The reason I stopped using custom roms is I realized that no one is really auditing them. It's essentially "trust me bro" in terms of security. I don't have time to code audit a whole OS myself, so I depend on other entities for this. Say what you want about stock firmware, but in the western hemisphere I don't have to worry about it potentially stealing my bank passwords.
My problem with the stock firmware is the lack of updates. You're lucky if you get three years of software support, leaving third-party OS as the only option for security patches.
I mean you're whether you get a custom ROM or Google android you're still doing a "trust me bro" except their doing worse. So it's no different.
@@any4003Na my Pixel phone receives updates daily, I'm on the bleeding edge.
Custom rom is the safest option right now. A lot of 3rd party apps detect root, unlocked bootloader and even safetynet magisk modules have hard time bypassing them. Heck some games even detect developer mode turned on.
they really got that petty about microtransactions that they detect if DEVELOPER mode is on?
@@theshapeshifted Yes they did
We can easily hide root and play integrety with magisk and ksu, we can even hide our xposed mods but we can't hide bootloader status. Atleast not yet. So any app that can detect that will refuse to work. Oh yes, we can also hide developer mode
Google should seriously stop with transforming into apple lite with android
All these issues could be bypassed with shamiko
I've been using custom ROMs since 2014, it's amazing how clean and updated your device can be, even without official support. I got a Redmi Note 7 with Android 13 (Pixel Experience) and don't think of changing it until it explodes in my hand, it's great!
The first week i got the phone, i already unlocked and put a custom ROM (also voiding the warranty, so be careful and test your device before).
Heeyyy same! Unfortunately the Pixel Experience project as a whole is dead (the project lead called it quits like two weeks ago), so I recommend you jump ship at some point. Right now the most up to date ones are EvoX, CrDroid and ProjectElixir.
Don't flash project elixir
Almost a decade ago I was always tinkering with rooting and ROMs. And when I got my OnePlus One, that was the time that my daily driver was always modded. Resurrection Remix was my jam, and I used to mod my friend's phones as well whenever their phones stopped receiving official updates.
However then adulting happened, so I had to keep my daily driver stock (especially considering I was living abroad for a while, hence wasn't worth the risk). And then finally moved to an iphone (wasn't that keen to switch, but since I saw how the ecosystem was integrated, took a chance).
But I still have my oneplus one, and yes I do miss the good ol' days
I'm similar. Started out on a Nexus 5 with CyanogenMod and went Apple once support for it dried up. The "android ecosystem" is more fractured than Windows. It's like having basic apps like Notepad fail to open on an HP computer when they open on a Dell. Cyanogen tried to unite it all but their own internal hubris ruined it for everyone.
Early days of Android were one of my memorable days. My first Android phone was Samsung Galaxy Young. I've spent so many hours trying out many custom ROMs. Optimizing and squeezing every performance it could have just so i could run Dead Space.
Some ROMs pass SafetyNet by default without root (like DerpFest or crDroid).
Also, a phone with face unlock that only uses a regular camera and not an iris scanner/whatever Apple has on their iPhones is NOT secure at all. It can be bypassed by just a photo of you. Fingerprint unlock is much more secure.
SafetyNet is not enough, now you have to pass play integrity
@@david_horvath that is passed by default too. Point is, I can use google pay and banking apps
@@david_horvath Most up-to-date ROMs nowaday pass both by default.
I've been rocking GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 with a locked bootloader for 4 months now and it's been a pretty seamless experience for me. Minimal, yet it does everything I need. Not a huge upgrade compared to stock battery-wise though.
Thanks to that thirsty tensor SOC
iodéOS:
-> can combine their adblocker with a VPN
-> can uninstall preinstalled apps
-> based on Android 14
-> degoogled
...
I can't not use custom ROMs. I checked for a good ROM/development support before buying my devices, and immediately change the ROM. (All my phones have been Xiaomi).
really great video, thanks for it!
just a quick correction:
You don't have to lock your bootloader to get GPay working, if your rom is able to pass the play integrity test then you can easily use it!
(Even if your ROM can't, there are still few tricks to win that mouse cat game against Google :P)
Running PixelExperience on Xiaomi. I'm so glad I was able to get all the trash off of the phone, though I miss a good camera.
Have you checked out GCam ports?
Most people stopped is because the devs were hurt when essentially the community and their work was sold out from underneath them. That on top of more and more locked phones and Google making the move from Nexus to Pixel and essentially close sourcing a lot more of the apps in the source essentially killed what was an amazing community.
In the days of Windows Mobile, I ran almost exclusive custom roms. When I moved to Android, did the same but many / most of the cool ones required root. I didn't mind, but tools from my new workplace wouldn't install / work properly because my phone had been 'jailbroken'.
I have a Pixel 7a and I'm very happy with the stock ROM, it does everything I want, plays Dreamcast, GameCube, and PS2, so I got no complaints.
I'll probably install a custom ROM in May 2028 when it stops receiving security updates.
Thanks for this video, Chris.
A bot copy and pasted your exact comment and somehow got more likes lmao
As an iphone user i am jealous
But Apple is allowing you to sideload apps, that's awesome! 🙂
Actually, no, that's a lie. They're allowing alternative stores which they control and monetize.
U can get a second android phone.
Custom roms are kinda dying. Google is implementing ways for apps to check root / custom rom status.
I started flashing roms back when Verizon tried to make me pay for features on my HTC Thunderbolt. It’s nice to play with, but it got old. It’s really nice to just have everything work (without worrying about being googled) with my iPhone. Once I used my apple watch to open my hotel door, I will never be able to go back!
@@DIoxide-ck8uy use custom ROMs without rooting. It is dying because oem are implementing features from custom ROMs.
Would you be able to do a video of a step by step of the entirety on a fresh device that you can install another custom rom?
Finally someone who use custom rom other than lineage os!
I usually use derpfest because they have a lot of customization but for now I use evolution X because no one maintain derpfest on my old phone
Android custom roms should be a lot more popular.
if you have a Chinese spyware phone, custom rom is a must other phones probably not specially since new ones have long software support. mid range Chinese phones like xiaomi phones are very bloated buggy and full of ads and privacy issues, custom roms are the only way to go with these phones
i have the poco f3, has excellent custom rom community, works great and removes all the xiaomi junk
I used to be huge into custom Android ROMs when I was a teenager, but nowadays it's really impractical as an adult with a job who needs to use crappy, country-specific banking and e-wallet apps :')
I've been using custom roms on every phone I ever owned, since the galaxy Y iirc
ClockwordMod recovery was then the charm.
if you wanna see volume of people using custom os check crdroid and awaken os
A while back I flashed my original Pixel with Pixel Experience, it also had face unlock. I completely understand why it's something to use.
This video is perfect, I recently purchased a Nexus 7 (2013) and flashed Nethunter to it. Im having fun with the nostalgia.
Edit: Paid $10 for the Nexus 7 believe it or not.
Am 38 years old and i started with the first lg android smartphone to Samsung and i still do it after all these years, i still go to xda to such for a rom for whatever phone i have, also i gi out my way looking for a rootable phone to buy just to root it. Currently i have a note 20 ultra with a custom rom on it.... With magisk to bypass certain apps i use... One thing i like about rooting is unlimited access to my own phone and lower the cpu and gpu frequencies so that my phone last a whole day and plus it make my phone less suseptible to hardware failure... I just love tinkering with roms.
Not played around with custom ROM's for a while. This has inspired me to revisit. Thanks Chris.
I have been using a Galaxy S21 port on my Galaxy Note 9 for over a week and it's pretty decent and makes my GN9 more "modern" and up to date. One option in the aroma installer allowed for overclocking of the CPU so I did that and my phone definitely gets warm to the touch and battery drains faster.
Custom Roms Still Going Strong Im Using AOSPA Which Smooth As Butter ♥️
The problem with adding face unlock in software is that it can be tricked with a printed picture.
Just tried it and it wouldn't take any picture I had. So it isn't as bad as I thought. I still wouldn't trust it 100% though.
I have been running LineageOS 21 on my 2017 OnePlus 5 for months now. Best phone experience I ever had. Much better than the original Android 10 and the UI is blatantly smoother compared to my brand new, work-issued midrange phone. It receives updates frequently, often once a week, which are installed as easily as with big vendor phones and especially version 21 has been very stable! Only issues I have is that my bank app does not work on rooted phones and the battery is definitely showing its age. Definitely recommended for old phones that are not receiving carrier updates anymore.
Face-unlock is no-go. I look completely different in the morning.
It's always cool and funny when I watch your videos. You sound like an honest drunk wise man 😂
CyanogenMod was the goat back in the days. Spend my childhood just installing twrp and different custom rom on cheap Redmi Note 2 and a Xiaomi Mi 4
Google itself killed the custom rom thing by introducing the play integrity shit which needs you to root and find spoofing tactics to bypass the CTS profiles to be able to use your phone normally, which should have run without root. But google being google did this.
I'm a big fan of /e/ OS. Great for privacy and is actually simple enough to be used by non techy people
This is a great throwback to pimping out phones and makes me miss it! Now I need to get an Android Phone again. So cool!
I really do love custom ROMs. I think device support is a HUGE problem though and I'm surprised no one has worked on a solution yet. A large amount of devices don't have ROMs, or have very low quality proprietary ROMs that are no better than the stock spyware they came with.
I use LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S8+ that I got from a cousin for like $50 and its honestly incredible how well a now 8 year old phone can run, i can still run modern games and software and Android 13 works and runs just fine.
I just installed crdroid without gapps on my realme phone, super smooth!
When you got notifications issue on stock rom,usually custom roms fixing that problem. But when you have Xiaomi mi 11i or else phone with good cameras,you install the proper version of LineageOS,the camera quality was absolutely terrible.Lack of options in camera app,not remember exactly but video max was 4K 60fps quality max available,but no options for 8K 30fps at all,and the phone at stock doing it. If you dont want mess your photos and video quality,dont touch custom roms.Depends on custom rom,but for sure it gonna be worse than the original rom.Before someone say me,there is ANX Camera port from miui: Yes,there are some.They brick my phone and i back to stock miui.
I've built 2 custom ROMs for the OnePlus 8 and I'm working on a LineageOS device tree for the OnePlus Open
Custom ROMs are a gem, I don't understand why there not more popular. It's the equivalent of buying a laptop and keeping the preinstalled Windows. At least throw something debloated on there, or Linux, any distro. There's so many choices out there. No need to run Stock bloated firmware, even if you like Pixel exclusive features there are plenty of ROMs that keep those and Google services.
Edit: Using a custom ROM is equivalent in security to using a Linux distro not made by a giant company like RedHat or Canonical. All ROMs are completely open source and based on AOSP android. Not a security risk.
Installing this ROM is too complicated for people who just want to use it.
7:23 Well in terms of security..even legitmate companies can be notorious
Is the custom ROM would work on all Android phones & not only for specific smartphone brands?
Sorry, but no. Custom ROMs are made for a specific device, model and specs. You can install a GSI (Generic System Image) tho. It's like a Custom ROM, but works on every device.
@@ShadowGD_OfficialYT I've tried flashing GSI but it would only end up in an endless bootloop on my Samsung Galaxy J4 2018. It'll be better to use smartphones that already have been specified by these Custom ROMs just like what I'm using now my LG Nexus 5X.
That voltage info looks great. But the 6A doesn't have USB-C altmode, the 8 series added it. Unfortunatly Google hates root and disables RCS for unlocked bootloaders.
i use alpha droid rooted , safety net passed also i can hide developer status for apps not to mention i use microg, all apps are sandboxed, smooth animations ,latest android version ect,
I have been putting custom roms on phones since 2016. Even now I'm on a pixel 7a and still rom it. Since all the unique features from the 4 and 5 are gone, the only thing custom roms add at this point is extra appearance features like how it looks and the type of animations it uses. There's no more proprietary drivers since no fancy hardware so everything else stays the same.
- Bought a Poco X3 Pro.
- MIUI is garbage
- Open bootloader and flash A14 rom
- Now the phone is smooth af.
i wish flashing roms would come back, but most bootloaders are completely locked these days 😔
I remember flashing my Sony Experia(SEX1) rom, just because you can and there were alot of choices.
Man I love custom roms. First thing I do when getting a new device is unlock the bootloader and install my favourite custom rom like EvolutionX or Project elixir.
Love custom roms still use them daily
Been using custom ROM's for 3 years now with root, and google pay/banking apps, everything works, you just have to set everything up correctly.
Samsung devices aren't too difficult to unlock in my experience, you just need to enable OEM unlock in developer options and figure out how to boot into download mode (on new devices hold Vol+ & Vol-, while connecting a charger to a device that's turned off), then enter device unlock mode. That should allow you to factory reset and unlock the device. That being said, Samsung devices don't allow flashing from fastboot, so you need to use Odin3 or compatible software to flash stuff through download mode.
Installed LineageOS 21, and it's working fantastically batter than Stock ROM!
CyanogenMod was the very first and only custom os i used from 2013. It started out from a fundamentals of OS classes in university. I went home downloaded cyanogen and spent a weekend installing it on my old sony ericsson xperia active. Took that phone from half dead to excellent,used that phone till it finally died in 2019. Pity that cyano was discontinued.
LineageOS is a pretty good successor imo. But the focus has become more on stock android with FOSS replacements of the old AOSP apps and less on extra features and settings.
I remember putting an Xperia-inspired rom on my samsung S1 Dous back when Xperia was the shit, good times :)
Nice, you tackle this topic haha. I am using custom roms on my xiaomi devices as soon as possible after buying hahah
Rocking GrapheneOS since this weekend on my new Google Pixel 8 Pro, rock solid and amazing experience.
watching this on custom rom 😂
FYI, gpay can still be used after some tweaking
I run a custom rom with root and unlocked bootloader, and I'm using gpay without issues
It's been so long since I messed with custom ROMs. I've got a cheap Oppo now and I can't unlock the bootloader for the life of me
Nothing Devices are so cool for custom development as well!
I use LineageOS on my Galaxy S10+.
The Custom ROM scene is dying, I hope to make this my final Android Phone until the Linux Phone is viable.
I am a customrom maintainer myself, I do maintain a few ROMs for my device.
It was good in the old days.. But now G**gle doesn't leave us in peace now. You know first they introduced CTS and now Play Integrity which can't be passed in custom ROMs without several workarounds like spoofing your device fingerprint to another device's etc etc. G**gle literally was banning fps every hour. But now it is calmed down a little but yet you can't just get STRONG INTEGRITY profile without locking your bootloader..
its been around 2 years since i installed one on my phone
I'm not an Apple user nor a fan of it , but let's be honest, infrared camera for face unlock is way better than fingerprint but there's no reason to remove any of them (face unlock or fingerprint scanner)
I also like to install that Orange fox recovery which is faster and has advanced options
Problem is, alot of stuff which custom rom used to offer are now stock features. Plus there is a lot of security issue, specially with bank apps etc and there is no camera optimisation as well.
legend time back then
I miss installing custom roms
I've never used a custom rom. Nobody ever makes one compatible with the phone I have at the time.
Been using crDroid on my OP7 for a while now. It's great and if RisingOS is based on it, I'll consider switching to it.
the good old days.
I just upgraded from a Pixel 3 to a 7a !!! It's awesome, I love CaylxOS
I am currently using RisingOS 1.4 and i really love it..!
DivestOS is my daily driver, but I have a Googlefied backup device. Still do all I can do that that phone.
The main main features at this points is just having Unlimited Gphotos and Pixel exclusive features... The rest is the same as always.
Custom roms are still safer than stock oem android 😂
I think you didn't get the use cases of custom android roms.. For example some people would like to have the choice to de-google their phones or some "like me" have older phones which have alomost no updates for years & I'm more than happy that some communities are still working on custom roms to keep my phone up to date & avoinding buying a new one..
Nova Launcher since 5+ Years. tried ca. 1o different and Nova was THE ONE ^^
but its just a launcher not a custom version of android.??
Using Redmi Note 8 Pro with crDroid Android 13, officialy it supports only up to Android 11, works great, there is also Android 14 ROM but i choose to stick with 13 for now
yeah!! just a week ago i started with custom roms again as my current phone broke and now my 2 old devices run better then my most recent broken phone :D
generic systemimages for trebble supported devices saved a lot of old china phones that would never have gotten a specific rom just for that device.
Sure you dont get support by the developers of the rom but its still better then buying a new phone and throwing the old one in the trash.
Samsung user here. I can unlock my bootloader in developer options.
If you have Pixel I'd say there is really no other choice other than GrapheneOS
Otherwise DivestOS is amazing, works with a lot of phones of different brands, it's a fork of LineageOS but more hardened. I installed it on my old OnePlus 6T and it's just a great experience
I was a big fan of the custom rom's, but right now when Google is fighting so hard with devs and it's complicated to fix Gpay on the custom rom's I must to use the original rom. It's so sad:(
Custom roms might not be big in Europe and west but it's a big deal in Asia mainly because of the xiaomi devices, as they themselves provides tools for device unlock which has resulted in a very big cummunity in the region. Crdroid is is my favourite till now
I'm not installing anything I can't build myself from source code. Would be more interesting to see/compare products that can be built that way. After all, people interested in this want it for a reason...
some phones just really needs custom roms
best example i can think of is realme phone like the c51 which has a broken android 12 rom (its task bar crashes the system)
Using rising os 2.1 and it's one of the best ROM after a while
Wait till your device becomes unsupported... costum roms are dying a slow painful death
What is your screen recorder? How do you do the magnify effect?
May have try this on my old Samsung!
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