Since we don’t yet have a specific community for custom phone ROMs, let’s discuss them here. Are you running a custom ROM? Which one? On what hardware? How is it?

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      Are these sales directly from google?

      Last time I checked pixel phones the performance and “freshness” Vs price ratio was really bad compared to something like Xiaomi with working xda ROMs.

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    GrapheneOS. I love it. I migrated from the Apple ecosystem about two years ago into the FOSS and Linux world and haven’t looked back.

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    LineageOS with microg on a s10+. It works great, no issues with apps not working but still have minimal google dipping it’s fingers into my life.

    I only buy phones now that will support a custom ROM, I can’t go back now.

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    LineageOS on a Fairphone 3. It works well for what I do on my phone.

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      What do you think about the Fairphone 3? Is it a respectable daily driver?

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      Oh that. I heard the project leader died of a perfectly curable form of cancer because he was going to heal himself with food or something. Crazy story, but the OS works well.

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      Same but on a Pixel 6a. It’s good for the most part. I don’t use this phone for calls/sms so I wish I could just disable that while retaining mobile data, but I haven’t figured that out yet really.

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        I read you can delete any stock apps like Phone and SMS Messaging by connecting your phone to a computer and using ADB (does not require root). I haven’t tried it but you can search online about using ADB.

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      Same but on Pixel 6. Though I caved in and installed the sandboxed Google Play to run bank apps, fortunately they do work that way without problems.

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    LineageOS on a Moto One 5G Ace. Soon to be replaced with a OnePlus Nord N200 because the charging port of all things is failing.

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    Man I remember the days of xda and custom Roma holy shit. Nexus 5 was the one, slimrom was the way. Ahh memories.

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      I recently flashed LineageOS on my old Note 4 that had previously ran a few custom ROMs but other than that haven’t used one in years since I haven’t had a need with my last LG or current Samsung phone.

      These days there’s more of a need for custom hardware like a headphone jack or SD card slot but unfortunately those can’t just be flashed to a phone like a ROM can. The software/firmware side of things has been fine for me.

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      The Nexus 5 was my favorite phone ever. Perfect form factor. I still miss it. I ran LOS on it. Also tried SlimRom and a couple of others.

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    Pixel 7 with Graphene. I love it. I have sanboxed google play installed, and occasionally dont get a notification (i suspect the apps are just not running in the background, so once I open the app I get the notifs). Would recommend.

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      Not getting notifications for something like a chat app is a big deal. Are there ways to allow apps to run in the background?

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        If the app uses Google FCM (which uses Google Play Services to poll notifications on device) it should register an FCM service that runs separately from the application, so it shouldn’t need to run in the background.

        However to answer your original question, you can disable battery optimization for particular apps. Or if an app wants to really never be killed, it can create an Android foreground service.

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    GrapheneOS on my Pixel 5, and I highly recommend it!

    Also, it’s “operating system”. Not “ROM”.