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Why do most newer phones other than pixels have little to no support for custom ROMs ? (lemmings.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/android

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I know that most customizability features that were once exclusive to custom roms are available for use right out of the box these days.

In the case of manufacturers like Samsung, I think,there are still no official builds of lineageOS for the newer phones after the galaxy s10 series.

I'm aware that GSI roms are available. My experience with GSI's have been kinda bad. Most of the time they lack a lot of features which makes the phone not viable anymore. Then there are also the random UI bugs, which frustrate the hell out of the user.

I miss the old days when there were lots of custom roms, even for budget devices. I used to flash them when my phones were out of warranty. I could use my phone however I saw fit.

Is there no way to bring back these good times ? Or will the whole custom ROM community just shrink to the pixels and a select few devices ?

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[–] Madnessx9 24 points 11 months ago (19 children)

I used to install custom roms all the time back before knox on Samsung, now I cannot be bothered, usually something in the roms does not work among other bugs, it takes too long to keep up to date on rooting stuff etc, the support for roms is abysmal. I started to lose interest around the time banking apps started detecting root and not working, there were ways around it with magisk but it was complicated and could not find decent documentation on it.

It just became simpler to use what's out of the box and the newer phones I started buying had very little in the way of custom roms to start with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (16 children)

It must be a long time since you ran a custom ROM. I use GrapheneOS and that is far from the case.

[–] Izmir 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If the recent drama with the former lead dev of GrapheneOS is any indication, putting our trust in a singular entity in charge of custom ROMs is also risky.

[–] Willifire 5 points 11 months ago

Last I heard the person in question stepped down. Made me consider to switch to Pixel with grapheneos

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