I assume virtually everyone in this place is using some third party ROM. Many of you probably rocking Banana ROM off your Alcatel z657 bought at Boost Mobile in 2012.
But is there any simpleton here like myself who is on stock android? You know, the middle age dude who has “Privacy” as a hobby because he can’t afford or have time for a real one. 😶🌫️
Recently switched over to LineageOS without the play store. But a few weeks ago I was still on regular old android. Have been relying on FDroid though for a while now - its nonpredatory apps are very nice.
I’m on a stock Samsung Galaxy S9+. I dabble in privacy using Blokada on my phone, VPN on my PC, and other adblocking extensions and features. I’m not smart enough to do rooting and sideloading. I barely know what an API or APK even does.
I hope to one day be able to absorb the knowledge of folks on here somehow.
The issue with custom ROMs is the support for devices. I had to buy a new one from eBay to install LineageOS and I didn’t regret it. I use now 2 phones, one for privacy (I use it 80%) and the old one for mail and whatsapp (I’m forced to) to contact my family and friends but that’s it.
Nothing phone here, stock is as close to AOSP as it gets across the board.
I was running lineageOS on pixel 7 for a little while, but unfortunately it lacked visual voicemail. So, I’m back and have been using rooted pixel OS. That’s after I switched from Samsung s23. If anyone has any alternatives to the visual voicemail, please let me know. I need this feature for my job search.
I’m stock Pixel 7. At a certain point jailbraking / rom switching just started being more work than it was worth to me
Funnily enough, I’m on a stock Pixel 6. I flashed custom firmware onto my Pixel 2XL back in the day, and the gain wasn’t super worth it. My phone before that, some Motorola brand, I flashed custom firmware onto and it helped a lot with features I wanted and bloatware removal. But, let be real, save being in the Google ecosphere, the Pixel is as stripped down baseline as a phone gets. And since my job is all-in on the Google apps, I have to be in that space anyway. At some stage, it just doesn’t feel like there’s much of a point.
Yeah, I’m on Android here because I like using my phone to pay for stuff. I’ve made a half-arsed attempt to degoogle a bit by running Immich on a home server for photos.
I’m running GrapheneOS and use my phone to pay for stuff via NFC.
GrapheneOS doesnt support my phone. I wish but it aint gonna work. Not yet.
I really wish I wasn’t, but some freaky thing about my Galaxy means I have no compatible ROMs
Next we ask how many women and other non-guys are on here.
More than you think, half of hexbear is trans for instance
I have stock Fairphone, but disabled all Google Play Services and most proprietary apps, and replaced them with FOSS apps.
Idk how close this is to a privacy-respecting custom ROM, but I’m mostly just waiting for a good one. I really enjoy having the slide button to turn on Do Not Disturb. It’s so amazing idk why not all phones have this.
I def want this working on the custom ROM I’m switching to in the future.
+1
…although I would have taken the degoogled version if I had known what the latest android was like.
So far just too lazy to install custom rom.
But I’m not sure if /e/os is worth it over LineageOS.
how would lineageos be better?
I thought LineageOS had a bit more functionality and bigger community, and that /e/os is smaller and more focused on privacy as a single issue?
You can’t be running stock Android (AOSP), it’s not going to work on your phone.
Define “stock.” You mean what comes on a phone? Or raw AOSP?
I’ve ran CyanogenMod back when that was as close as most people were ever gonna get to AOSP. I’ve also run the “Google Play Edition” version of Android that was only available outside the US for whatever reason back in the day. I remember we had to flash the firmware, then flash something else to use CDMA on it (when that was a thing). Otherwise you got no signal because out of the box it was GSM only.
Right now, my Android phone runs whatever the latest version of OneUI is available for the Galaxy S10, because that’s what I have. My main phone is an iPhone, but I do like running the S10 for a few things. Like if I’m gonna be doing any typing. Gboard on Android kicks the crap outta any keyboard on iPhone. Anyway, I’m running “stock” — what is stock for that phone. I have no real interest in modding it. I would not mind running an AOSP-like on the S10, but I don’t really need to be fancy about it, and since I want Gboard, I need Google Play Services, so something privacy-oriented isn’t going to work. Not on the S10, anyway.
Yeah, Stock could mean whatever Android your phone comes with, or it could mean standard AOSP like even without GApps, OP should really clarify that.
If OP is like me, OP probably doesnt know.
Turn phone on. Phone works. Jobs done.
No results for “StockOS” on XDA. Must be a very new ROM. ;)
I am but I only have the smartphone for work and otherwise don’t really use it. I hate smartphones.
I’m using a Moto G5 with stock android, too. Couldn’t be arsed to install lineage, since I could just enable USB debugging, run Android Bridge and uninstall most of the malware/spyware shit that comes builtin
tell me more about that.
https://developer.android.com/tools/adb
When you enable USB debugging (gotta enable Developer Mode first, which is usually enabled by tapping several times on Settings -> About phone -> Build Number, but can vary depending on model), you can connect the phone to your computer and have the computer start a command line shell via ADB (Android Bridge), which will allow you to uninstall almost everything. First, you should get a list of installed stuff with
adb pm list packages. With the list, you can then useadb pm uninstall -k --user 0 package.name- wildcards don’t work, you’ll have to go one by one.wow THANK YOU! just uninstalled a bunch of garbage from one of my stock phones. i thought you needed root for this.
Yup, when I first learned that you didn’t need to root, that developer options + adb was enough to get rid of most bloatware, that was an incredible relief to me, too!
