I just wanted to know that customs ROMS are secure in privacy and other aspects?
like i just installed Ressurtion Remix to my moto g5 plus and such custom roms are secure to use in terms of privacy and date leak?
btw i like the rom very much thanks for such a awesome roms.
You're safe. You can even audit it yourself, just look at the ROM's source code. In fact, I believe that in stock you're far more 'exposed' because you can't really know what is being done under the hood
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I am just wondering how many people like the actual STOCK rom and cyanogen based ROM
So I am making a poll to see which one get's more vote
P.S this is not related to someone's specific ROM..
As we all know, some people like to keep STOCK as it is and some like modifications and customizations.
Stock means pure stock experience with root (OBviously) and Some like CyanogenMod ROM or based on it.
This is a poll to know what most users like.
Stock in this case means a very stable bug-free ROM with some nice features, like Moto Display. The little bloatware is gone after root. And you cans still get the customizations you want through custom kernels, Layers and/or Xposed !
OK... So I have been using the Pure Nexus ROM for a day or so. Its a great ROM and it feels clean ...but I am looking for tons of customizations, themes etc. I would preferred not to have tons of third party apps so I would like a ROM that already provides that any suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Stock rooted with Xposed will get you there (or Trupure which is Stock debloated), or just flash CM13
I'd say AICP. Very feature rich. Really solid custom ROM.
Resurrection Remix is actually the feature king, but most of what it has beyond AICP falls in the "stuff I don't use" category. AICP is a little more actively developed and supported.
Stock with xposed and Frankenclark kernel is my ROM of choice for this phone, but it has been a few months. About time to give the custom ROMs another chance.
Thanks guys this is what I am talking about ....keep them coming ...last time I used CM was about 5 years ago I was very happy with it don't know how it is right now ..plus now a days there is a plethora of good ROMS available ...
So I recently rooted my Moto X Pure Edition. I would like to install a Nougat rom, but I do not want something like Lineage OS or CyanogenMod, the only reason being that they don't support SuperSU. I looked through the list of Nougat roms on XDA and all of them are either really sketchy or don't appear to support SuperSU. I would also like a very close to stock experience, like LineageOS for example.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
Iglooian said:
So I recently rooted my Moto X Pure Edition. I would like to install a Nougat rom, but I do not want something like Lineage OS or CyanogenMod, the only reason being that they don't support SuperSU. I looked through the list of Nougat roms on XDA and all of them are either really sketchy or don't appear to support SuperSU. I would also like a very close to stock experience, like LineageOS for example.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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You can just flash superSU.. ROM devs have not restricted flashing SuperSU on their ROMs, That'd be stupid
Your closest would would be Slim 7. Very barebones.
However, all Nougat ROMs at the moment have audio and call issues. Your best bet is to flash a nougat ROM from February
Hemidrosis said:
You can just flash superSU.. ROM devs have not restricted flashing SuperSU on their ROMs, That'd be stupid
Your closest would would be Slim 7. Very barebones.
However, all Nougat ROMs at the moment have audio and call issues. Your best bet is to flash a nougat ROM from February
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This... Custom Nougat ROM's for the Moto X Pure/Style are still not perfect, but Marshmallow ones are (nearly) perfect, but none give you the battery life of stock. :/
BTW, step lightly with SlimROMs... they have made some, umm, poor choices recently and have become the black sheep of valid GPL developers due to them stealing the Substratum theme code, rebranding it with their name, registering a copyright, and claim it as their own code, all of which is provable and in violation of the GNU GPL v3.0 license.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NicholasChumCDT/posts/fhMc9SzMACy
Iglooian said:
So I recently rooted my Moto X Pure Edition. I would like to install a Nougat rom, but I do not want something like Lineage OS or CyanogenMod, the only reason being that they don't support SuperSU. I looked through the list of Nougat roms on XDA and all of them are either really sketchy or don't appear to support SuperSU. I would also like a very close to stock experience, like LineageOS for example.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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if you want pure stock like experience then i would suggest slim7 but its beta so it might not be as stable as a daily driver
acejavelin said:
BTW, step lightly with SlimROMs... they have made some, umm, poor choices recently and have become the black sheep of valid GPL developers due to them stealing the Substratum theme code, rebranding it with their name, registering a copyright, and claim it as their own code, all of which is provable and in violation of the GNU GPL v3.0 license.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NicholasChumCDT/posts/fhMc9SzMACy
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Off topic: Wow, that is some shady stuff they're doing.
Currently the 13-Feb build of LineageOS is most stable Nougat with no bugs. Try it.
Audio and Mic both working perfectly fine.
Also you can either use SuperSU addon provided by Lineage team or Chainfire SuperSU. Both works fine but not simultaneously.
Iglooian said:
So I recently rooted my Moto X Pure Edition. I would like to install a Nougat rom, but I do not want something like Lineage OS or CyanogenMod, the only reason being that they don't support SuperSU. I looked through the list of Nougat roms on XDA and all of them are either really sketchy or don't appear to support SuperSU. I would also like a very close to stock experience, like LineageOS for example.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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Hi Matt, why do you want SuperSU? have you already heard/read about Magisk?
I could advise you to try One of the Ground Zero ROMS, Tesla is really great! Good performance, good battery life and AOSP (stock based).
It has build in Root with Magisk and Magisk manager.
I've been mucking around with Android for a while but basically stay with a ROM and what it comes packaged (or recommended) with.
Recently I've been looking around at Custom Kernels and I see they offer different options and functionality, but I lack some basic information:
I am guessing that the Kernel and ROM have to be compatible?
Is, for example a Kernel like Blu Spark or Lighting (all for OP5 and Nougat) compatible with all OP5 Nougat ROMs or is it ROM by ROM?
I looked over the pages for both Kernels and also for xXx Freedom OS and didn't see any information concerning compatible ROMs or compatible Kernels, is there any place/list that shows the compatibility of ROMs and Kernels?
Any information, or guidance to where I can find it would be appreciated.
Very simple.
There are 2 types of kernels. One which only works on an OOS based (custom) Rom, and one which will only work on a LOS or AOSP based Rom. Most custom kernels will work on every LOS or AOSP based ROM. But... There's one negative thing about flashing custom or OOS based Kernels. You will never know how the Kernel and/or ROM will behave. There's no 100 percent guarantee if a custom Kernel or ROM are made for each other. Even if a Kernel which comes with the ROM is no guarantee for working properly. There's no such thing as "Stable" even with ROMs. Because stable doesn't exist in a Dev World. It will always be a never ending story.
Long story short, search for yourself an satisfying combination. If you found one combination you like, stick with it and motivate the Custom ROM Developer and or Kernel Developer.
Edit: as you can read i cannot give a proper answer to your questions. The reason why a Custom ROM Dev doesn't show a list in their OP for working Custom Kernels, is mainly based on the fact that they don't like if a user flash another Kernel that didn't came with their ROM. Mostly to avoid non related ROM issues. Besides that, if you made a decision to flash a Different kernel, along with their ROM, you're on your own.
Sorry for being off-topic.
Each kernel needs to be build for each rom. Well not each rom. Each rom based on the top three. OOS, AOSP, and LOS. As each has their own kernel.
If you use LOS 14.1 or RR, then youll need a los kernel. If you run stock OOS. Freedom or xXx, youll need an oos based kernel
Not all devs build their kernels for los or aosp. Me as an example. I only have mine built for OOS and It wont work on los or aosp (well it may but you are 99.999% likely to run into a lot of problems)
I hope that clears it up a tad bit
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Very simple.
There are 2 types of kernels. One which only works on an OOS based (custom) Rom, and one which will only work on a LOS or AOSP based Rom. Most custom kernels will work on every LOS or AOSP based ROM. But... There's one negative thing about flashing custom or OOS based Kernels. You will never know how the Kernel and/or ROM will behave. There's no 100 percent guarantee if a custom Kernel or ROM are made for each other. Even if a Kernel which comes with the ROM is no guarantee for working properly. There's no such thing as "Stable" even with ROMs. Because stable doesn't exist in a Dev World. It will always be a never ending story.
Long story short, search for yourself an satisfying combination. If you found one combination you like, stick with it and motivate the Custom ROM Developer and or Kernel Developer.
Edit: as you can read i cannot give a proper answer to your questions. The reason why a Custom ROM Dev doesn't show a list in their OP for working Custom Kernels, is mainly based on the fact that they don't like if a user flash another Kernel that didn't came with their ROM. Mostly to avoid non related ROM issues.
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@lekiaM You provided a great answer and thank you. I did notice that some developers (xXx NoLimits) provide the option to select various Kernel during the install. I pretty much expected that matching a Rom to Kernel was a crap shoot to certain degree. I am going to try a few out and see how it goes.
One final question, if a Kernel offers functionality that is not offered in the original Kernel, how do you go about taking advantage of the added functionality?
Will the Kernel add those selection to the settings or will I need a different app to access them? I was thinking in particular of the don't wake on plug/unplug. I utilized some ROMs (CM) that had this feature in the setting, I use Freedom OS now and don't see that in the setting, but I see that the Blu Spark Kernel offers access to that function.
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Each kernel needs to be build for each rom. Well not each rom. Each rom based on the top three. OOS, AOSP, and LOS. As each has their own kernel.
If you use LOS 14.1 or RR, then youll need a los kernel. If you run stock OOS. Freedom or xXx, youll need an oos based kernel
Not all devs build their kernels for los or aosp. Me as an example. I only have mine built for OOS and It wont work on los or aosp (well it may but you are 99.999% likely to run into a lot of problems)
I hope that clears it up a tad bit
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It does thanks. Prior to selecting some ROMs to try, I read that AOSP required a specific ROM so I steered away from it, for now. Until I am able to become a little more familiar with the entire subject.
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It does thanks. Prior to selecting some ROMs to try, I read that AOSP required a specific ROM so I steered away from it, for now. Until I am able to become a little more familiar with the entire subject.
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An aosp based rom will install and run like any other rom you decide to flash. It comes with the stock kernel built in
Each rom has their advantages and disadvantages. Currently Im running xXx 4.0 which is OOS based with extra features and then of course my own kernel for better performance and battery
@noncomjd Good question. And honestly I've been wondering that too (most of the time) i could gave you a simple answer on that, but i wont.
A Kernel can interfere with the ROMs behavior (for example manipulate the vibration, sounds, led light strength, button behavior and so on.) But a Kernel has their limits too and also the Kernel Dev in question. Besides that , i did saw some very strange things a Kernel Dev can do to manipulate a ROMs behavior. But i wont go further in that.
Answer to your question:
Yes. A good kernel dev can overwrite or add some tweaks in the ROM itself (you won't see it while flashing, but believe me after that, some things in settings are missing or added in the build.prop) . But as i earlier said it has their limits. A good Kernel Dev is aware of their capabilities. And they mostly play save. If a kernel Dev mentioned or added a feature or something in their changelog, than the feature is there. But to enable or disable that feature, you mostly need an 3rd party app(like a Kernel Manager) to activate or deactivate their added feature.
You need a kernel tweaking app in order to change kernel settings.
You can change those settings even if you run the stock kernel, but it won't offer as much features.
There are many kernel tweaking apps available and some kernels even provide their own apps.
Thanks all for some great information. Have a good base to set out exploring a little more.
Hi All,
Our forum is full of custom ROMs which i am unable to find out which one is best in terms of battery, stability, bug fix etc.,
Can someone (who tried most of the roms) rate the available custom roms so that we get a clear picture on this?
Most of the custom roms available now are based on the device tree by arrow team. So they all will have the same bugs (if any).
And there is no such thing as the best custom rom. Depends on the person using it. Some roms are feature packed like crDroid, RR, AEX etc... Whereas some roms offer minimal essential customisations like lineage. And pixel experience project is a pure stock pixel experience. So choose the roms that suit your taste