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Ask Slashdot: Are Custom Android ROMs Still a Thing?

Posted by msmash on from the where-do-things-stand? dept.

Thelasko writes: Reading Kashmir Hill's series Goodby Big Five on Gizmodo made me consider switching to a custom Android ROM like LineageOS again. The Gizmodo articles make it seem that most phones are so locked down it is almost impossible to do. My last experience with custom ROMs confirmed that to be true for me. Is anyone having success? Why is LineageOS making builds for 185 devices if no one can use them?

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  1. Derp summary summarized : by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Why is LineageOS making builds for 185 devices if no one can use them" = you have yet to prove that nobody can use them, only that you cannot.

    1. Re:Derp summary summarized : by Krakadoom · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Uhm, that's why he's asking if people can actually use them. The last question is rhetorical. ....

  2. Re:One possible reason... by Dracos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Android, as well as the rest of the mobile space, is not meant to serve the user: it's meant to serve handset manufacturers, carriers, and app developers, and content providers, everyone except the user.

    I'll get another mobile device when it actually feels like mine, not something that seeks to abuse and exploit me at every opportunity.

  3. It's not about new features by DogDude · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's about privacy. If you're fine with Google knowing everything there is to know about you, then you're right, there's probably no chance. Call me nuts, but I don't want to give Google (or Apple) all of the details of my life.

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    I don't respond to AC's.