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Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a rom recommendation that meets the following criteria please:
All features working especially camera and Bluetooth calls and music audio
Stability
Up to date security patches.
I have tried the Lineage 17.1 official builds but despite trying a variety of gcam suggestions found on this forum, cannot find one that works without immediately crashing.
Are there any such roms at this point in time or do I need to stay with stock for now?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Looks like there isn't much development going on atm. If you don't need Android 10 then maybe try some older versions of LineageOS.
Be prepared that on Lineage OS roms the smart cover detection and Always on display won't work with the G5 (LG-H850). That's why I moved back to stock. Fyi, also the official Netflix app did not work for me with LOS 16 and root.
Thanks guys, Lineage 15 doesn't look to be too bad. Anything later then either camera or bluetooth doesn't work properly, thanks for your thoughts though
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Thanks, working great!
Very good. Does it support DC dimming and f2fs？
zhxhwyzh14 said:
Very good. Does it support DC dimming and f2fs？
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yes it does
THX!!!!
Hey always on display is there
Nice! I will follow this ROM, still looking for a stable ROM to move from pixel experience. How stable is it this the moment?
I'll try this Rom asap.
Dev which camera you use in this rom?
And dolby digital plus working?
The rom is pretty smooth and is working pretty good for me. But I couldn't find any settings for off screen gestures. Is that a feature in this rom? if not, could we get it?
im on this ROM and its pretty stable and smooth af, i was wondering why there's few comments on this threat!
i recommend this ROM but some features are missing that i notice like:
network speed indicator
no VPN quick setting tile
why first release of this ROM is stabler than derpfest and pixel experiance itself????? i mean derpfest a11 is full of bugs and its on alpha stage and pixel experiance gone EOL! and unofficial release has these random bugs
then Pixel Extended came out of no where and its almost everything that i wanted
amin318 said:
im on this ROM and its pretty stable and smooth af, i was wondering why there's few comments on this threat!
i recommend this ROM but some features are missing that i notice like:
network speed indicator
no VPN quick setting tile
why first release of this ROM is stabler than derpfest and pixel experiance itself????? i mean derpfest a11 is full of bugs and its on alpha stage and pixel experiance gone EOL! and unofficial release has these random bugs
then Pixel Extended came out of no where and its almost everything that i wanted
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As Isaac Newton once said "... it is by staying on the shoulders of Giants"...
A Work have been done since the very first community releases of A11 for cheeseburger/dumpling...
Hi rom support encryption or must be decripted?
by far it's the most stable a11 rom on the market! great job
keep going it still need some features and improvments.
Anyone help. Just getting bootloop coming from pixel experience.did a clean flash. Does this only work for decrypted? Cheers
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Hey theres a problem i am facing on my oneplus 5t from last 1.5 years which is getting worse day by day. the issue is that my screen freezes and dont respond to my touch sometimes, earlier it was easy to recover by just restarting the phone one time but now it freezes a lot and dont respond to touches and yeah this is not hang or someting , i can control thr phone through google assistant voice commands. and yeah this is even not a hardware problem coz it gets recovered nowadays by just putting the phone in fridge for 10 minutes. you can search on yt of exact issue. so , anyone got a fix for this?
shivamride said:
Hey theres a problem i am facing on my oneplus 5t from last 1.5 years which is getting worse day by day. the issue is that my screen freezes and dont respond to my touch sometimes, earlier it was easy to recover by just restarting the phone one time but now it freezes a lot and dont respond to touches and yeah this is not hang or someting , i can control thr phone through google assistant voice commands. and yeah this is even not a hardware problem coz it gets recovered nowadays by just putting the phone in fridge for 10 minutes. you can search on yt of exact issue. so , anyone got a fix for this?
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Surely its a hardware problem. not a software one!
Ramrod71 said:
Anyone help. Just getting bootloop coming from pixel experience.did a clean flash. Does this only work for decrypted? Cheers
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ya I'm getting the same problem not sure what I'm doing wrong
i am not able to root it with flashing magisk can someone help
fowzanaamir said:
i am not able to root it with flashing magisk can someone help
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which magisk ver. your using?
mohamad ali raad said:
which magisk ver. your using?
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mohamad ali raad said:
which magisk ver. your using?
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The latest one 20.4
Hi,
I'm used to installing, testing and adapting custom roms for android. I even used to write one "minimoto" for the old Moto Droid series back when I had more time.
Nowadays, I'm a busy dad who can't spend lots of time testing things out, so I'm reaching out for help in finding a good, minimal, stable rom for my MI A3.
Don't care what version of android it is, just stability and minimalism/battery are all that matter.
So far I've tried
- CRDroid - fast, minimal, excellent battery life, but with no disrespect to the developers who are in the early stages with this port, it's got way too many bugs (like no GPS, website forms failing for weird reasons, busted playstore requiring manual fixes........).
- EvolutionX 6.22 - a weird mix of very fancy configurable UI elements, but missing apps like camera, and lots of bugs. Gallery doesn't work at all, phone hard locks apps like signal at least once a day, requiring a reboot. A bit slow, and again with no disrespect to the developers, too buggy for daily use.
Can anyone help me find something that just works, and has the minimal amount of services/apps pre-installed?
Failing that, any stable rom and I'll use ADB as root to remove the clag myself.
Thanks for your time,
Thingonaspring
Cool, you've tested those already.
Have you tried PixelExperience? (I've not tested yet, been waiting for someone else to do it )
Now testing pixelexperience, and it appears so far to be very solid.
Fast, has working GPS and camera, no gallery app, but installing google photos fixes that.
@thingonaspring be on the lookout for lack of updates, one of the maintainers declared the ROM as EOL'd but I'm not sure if someone else picked it up.
Checking back in. It's defintely pixel experience for the win.
29% battery use in a day, no crashes.
Admittedly I didn't use it much, but that's just a superb result.
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@thingonaspring be on the lookout for lack of updates, one of the maintainers declared the ROM as EOL'd but I'm not sure if someone else picked it up.
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I hear you on the lack of updates. As long as the security layer updates itself, I'm not inclined to worry too much.
I do wish I had enough time to maintain my own rom again. Maybe in a few years when the kid starts college......
@thingonaspring which one of the many PixelExperience versions did you test? How is testing going? My gf's Mi A3 stock has many bugs and I'd like to get a custom ROM on it for her. Is the process easy enough (bootloader unlock, recovery, flash)? Any guide you followed I could use too?
Good point, there's more than one pixelexperience. I used this one :-
[ROM][12][MI-A3] PixelExperience [AOSP] [Permissive]
[ROM][12][MI-A3] PixelExperience [AOSP] [Permissive] PixelExperience for MI-A3 [laurel-sprout] What is this? PixelExperience is an AOSP based ROM, with Google apps included and all Pixel goodies (launcher, wallpapers, icons, fonts, boot...
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There are still quirks to this rom, I had to switch off adaptive battery (the default) as I was missing loads of notifications from Signal app, and it's crashed once or twice requiring a reboot, but nothing as bad as I've seen from other MI A3 custom roms.
I had a bit of a journey figuring out the flashing process. It turns out the trick is to ignore the slot a/b stuff and just flash everything everywhere. So flash recovery to slot a+b, the flash the rom to slot a+b, and wipe the data partition (factory reset, all data lost). To guard against that, copy any data you can to SDCard, or better still a PC, before flashing.
See this question, and @heinhuiz excellent answer, for more info on how to flash a slot a/b system.
Confused by slot a/b and recoveries
Previous android phones I've used - and there have been a lot of them - have used TWRP for recovery, and that's allowed backup of system+data. You then flash a rom to test, decide it's not for you, restore the system+data, job done. The MI A3...
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TL;DR - it's not like twrp recovery on older phones. The recovery+kernel both occupy the boot partition, so it's more a case of flashing the recovery+kernel that ships with your chosen rom via fastboot, then using that new recovery to install the rom itself, from a zipfile on sdcard.
In this process having an a/b slot for the boot and system partitions is just an unnecessary confusion. Flash the a+b recovery both to the same version, then do the same with the new custom rom (flash A, reboot, flash B, reboot), then clear data and get on with your life.
thingonaspring said:
Checking back in. It's defintely pixel experience for the win.
29% battery use in a day, no crashes.
Admittedly I didn't use it much, but that's just a superb result.
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I've had PixelExperience installed for a couple of days and it seems to chew through a LOT of battery. have had to leave it plugged in while at work. also hate the Camera Go app. missing a lot of features
thingonaspring said:
Hi,
I'm used to installing, testing and adapting custom roms for android. I even used to write one "minimoto" for the old Moto Droid series back when I had more time.
Nowadays, I'm a busy dad who can't spend lots of time testing things out, so I'm reaching out for help in finding a good, minimal, stable rom for my MI A3.
Don't care what version of android it is, just stability and minimalism/battery are all that matter.
So far I've tried
- CRDroid - fast, minimal, excellent battery life, but with no disrespect to the developers who are in the early stages with this port, it's got way too many bugs (like no GPS, website forms failing for weird reasons, busted playstore requiring manual fixes........).
- EvolutionX 6.22 - a weird mix of very fancy configurable UI elements, but missing apps like camera, and lots of bugs. Gallery doesn't work at all, phone hard locks apps like signal at least once a day, requiring a reboot. A bit slow, and again with no disrespect to the developers, too buggy for daily use.
Can anyone help me find something that just works, and has the minimal amount of services/apps pre-installed?
Failing that, any stable rom and I'll use ADB as root to remove the clag myself.
Thanks for your time,
Thingonaspring
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Bro, I'm using Corvus OS 12L. Can't believe this is more smoother and faster than stock rom. Best rom ever. Better than pixel experience it has no customisation, but the corvus has a lot.
couldn't find corvus, but I've settled on this now
[ROM][12.1][LAUREL_SPROUT] PixelPlusUI [OFFICIAL] [Twelve][AOSP]
* Your warranty is now void. * We are not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone by installing any custom ROMs and/or kernels. * You do it at your own risk and take the responsibility upon yourself and you are not to blame us or...
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And it's good. One tip, goto settings->battery and disable the pixel battery plan, just use the default one. Without that change I had apps hanging and deep-sleeping, causing me to miss messages from signal/whatsapp.
Battery is fine - I get 2 days out of it with no drama.
thingonaspring said:
Hi,
I'm used to installing, testing and adapting custom roms for android. I even used to write one "minimoto" for the old Moto Droid series back when I had more time.
Nowadays, I'm a busy dad who can't spend lots of time testing things out, so I'm reaching out for help in finding a good, minimal, stable rom for my MI A3.
Don't care what version of android it is, just stability and minimalism/battery are all that matter.
So far I've tried
- CRDroid - fast, minimal, excellent battery life, but with no disrespect to the developers who are in the early stages with this port, it's got way too many bugs (like no GPS, website forms failing for weird reasons, busted playstore requiring manual fixes........).
- EvolutionX 6.22 - a weird mix of very fancy configurable UI elements, but missing apps like camera, and lots of bugs. Gallery doesn't work at all, phone hard locks apps like signal at least once a day, requiring a reboot. A bit slow, and again with no disrespect to the developers, too buggy for daily use.
Can anyone help me find something that just works, and has the minimal amount of services/apps pre-installed?
Failing that, any stable rom and I'll use ADB as root to remove the clag myself.
Thank
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Cherish OS A13. Best rom ever with lots of customization.
My questions may seem dumb but I have never owned a Samsung phone.
I know samsung likes their bloatware and proprietary methods. Can I avoid all the samsung bloat and a samsung account and still use the phone? Are there ROMs that give a stock android experience?
Also what are you guys seeing for SOT? Im coming from a Asus ROG 6 Pro.
Any bugs you guys are experiencing? My 6Pro is so full of bugs that has pushed me to move brands.
You don't need a custom rom, you don't even need to root it, just use universal android debloater gui from github or adb app control to remove all the bloat (both include good instructions and details about what to remove) and going through first time set up you don't need a samsung or google account.
Unless you are using an international version there is no custom ROM option. The 918U and U1 models don't have the option to OEM unlock and flash ROMs.
You can easily umbloat using the mentioned universal android debloater.
Ui downloaded the 5.0 or sth like that and updated, then it all went south.
Stayed with the 5.0 version and it works great.
As for the ROM I put Nova Launcher and it works fine
Not the same but as long as the X3 camera shoots ****ty pictures I'll leave it warranty capable
Rouvster said:
You can easily umbloat using the mentioned universal android debloater.
Ui downloaded the 5.0 or sth like that and updated, then it all went south.
Stayed with the 5.0 version and it works great.
As for the ROM I put Nova Launcher and it works fine
Not the same but as long as the X3 camera shoots ****ty pictures I'll leave it warranty capable
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What's wrong with your x3? Mine's impeccable. Didn't hear about any other complaints whatsoever.
treahuggs said:
My questions may seem dumb but I have never owned a Samsung phone.
I know samsung likes their bloatware and proprietary methods. Can I avoid all the samsung bloat and a samsung account and still use the phone? Are there ROMs that give a stock android experience?
Also what are you guys seeing for SOT? Im coming from a Asus ROG 6 Pro.
Any bugs you guys are experiencing? My 6Pro is so full of bugs that has pushed me to move brands.
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No bugs. Phone is super smooth and battery is amazing. About bloatware you can find everything you need in XDA thread called "Samsung Galaxy One UI - Optimization Guide".
Pungasul said:
What's wrong with your x3? Mine's impeccable. Didn't hear about any other complaints whatsoever.
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Well, I used the "remove noise" or whatsoever option.
But for a X3 zoom I find the quality more than disappointing.
My Vivo X70Pro shots better photos.
Applied goodlock camera assistant, a bit better, and even gcam.
But quality just sucks for such a "high end" model...
Hoping on a FW fix though since with gcam its quite less worse
No issue here with 3x zoom with my S23U camera (B-version, EUX), just stock point&shoot....
Something like this ?
I'll retry with more natural light.
Maybe that's the issue.
Was pretty dark the time I took the picture
Awesome, thanks for the replies. Since there is no custom roms, do we still have unlock and root available? At bare minimum i would like to install AdAway got universal ad blocking.
treahuggs said:
Awesome, thanks for the replies. Since there is no custom roms, do we still have unlock and root available? At bare minimum i would like to install AdAway got universal ad blocking.
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We can unlock and root. Look for the guide in this sub forum. Root will tripped knox tho, so some samsung app won't work. I would suggest using adhell to block ad
Mrxyzl said:
We can unlock and root. Look for the guide in this sub forum. Root will tripped knox tho, so some samsung app won't work. I would suggest using adhell to block ad
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No magisk module or similar to get around this?
My biggest concern is just losing the samsung camera, I hear other cameras apks dont work well with the phone.
Rouvster said:
Well, I used the "remove noise" or whatsoever option.
But for a X3 zoom I find the quality more than disappointing.
My Vivo X70Pro shots better photos.
Applied goodlock camera assistant, a bit better, and even gcam.
But quality just sucks for such a "high end" model...
Hoping on a FW fix though since with gcam its quite less worse
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Please try to activate night mode before switching to x3. Also in low light you need to be VERY still for the sensor and ISP to work its magic.
Moreoever, keep your lenses clean as much as possible.
These 2 photos I just shot now in a very dimly light room.
treahuggs said:
No magisk module or similar to get around this?
My biggest concern is just losing the samsung camera, I hear other cameras apks dont work well with the phone.
You will lose samsung wallet, I think. you should just use adhell for ease
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Please try to activate night mode before switching to x3. Also in low light you need to be VERY still for the sensor and ISP to work its magic.
Moreoever, keep your lenses clean as much as possible.
These 2 photos I just shot now in a very dimly light room.
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Thx for the info, I will give it a try.
Just wondering why someone would apply night mode while using light in their living room
But if works like this, this is what it is .
Thanks for the info
Hello all! I recently got a refurbished A52 5G (SM-A526B/DS) and have successfully gone through the process of unlocking the bootloader and flashing AOSP 13 GSI to the phone, with the help of various helpful guides on this forum. For the moment I am satisfied with this but there is definite room for improvement that I would like to explore.
First I'd like to just mention that I'm not really a phone guy; I have one because I need to have one and my primary concern is a simple, stable and nonsense-free experience, which is why I always flash custom ROMs to my phones to get away from the crapware that these things are always loaded with. However, I am very much out of the loop because this is only the fourth smartphone I've owned in probably over a decade, and the second one in over 5 years.
AOSP 13 GSI definitely does the trick in gutting out all the Samsung crap and leaving me with a nice clean system, but it has some minor issues that I'd be delighted if I could solve. The main ones are as follows:
I would like to be able to unlock my phone with my fingerprint. With a freshly flashed AOSP 13 GSI, this is unavailable.
The torch/flashlight toggle does not work, but the flash does work if I enable it in the camera app.
NFC for contactless payment would be a nice-to-have (but I can live without it).
I have primarily used LineageOS on my phones for as long as I can remember, so that is on my radar and I would like to try it at some point, but I am very much open to looking into other custom ROMs, especially if they can sort out the things listed above. I don't really know where to start so I'd be grateful for some help and advice in coming up with a shortlist, or if it's possible to fix these problems by making modifications to the AOSP 13 GSI then that is something I'd be happy to explore too. Even if I have to go back to the stock OS and can completely gut it from Samsung's garbage I'd be happy to look into that too.
Thanks in advance!
Interesting, I'd recommend you to just go back to android's stock rom instead for your A52 since it has the things it primarily needs, use ADB Appcontrol to get rid off all the bloat and even more if you decide to dive deeper into it. If you'd need debloat recommendations I'm here to help i out
While custom rom's can be nice and that it can also be the biggest pain in the ass.
WooBLOATERRRR said:
Interesting, I'd recommend you to just go back to android's stock rom instead for your A52 since it has the things it primarily needs, use ADB Appcontrol to get rid off all the bloat and even more if you decide to dive deeper into it. If you'd need debloat recommendations I'm here to help i out
While custom rom's can be nice and that it can also be the biggest pain in the ass.
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Thanks for the reply! I'm aware I might have gone for the nuclear option too quickly by flashing a custom ROM on to the phone but what can I say, it's been my go-to process for years and I'd be lying if I said it isn't a lot of fun!
Debloating the stock ROM is definitely an option but I have to say, the experience I had just simply turning the phone on for the first time and getting it set up and updated was nothing short of a nightmare. It was determined to install social media apps without my permission between updates and that just made me all the more eager to get away from it.
If you have a link to a guide for debloating the stock ROM I'd love to take a look at it!
You can take a look at the discountinued thread of the one ui debloat thread made my hamid
[DISCONTINUED] Samsung Galaxy One UI - Optimization Guide
THIS IS A SUGGESTED CONFIGURATION FOR SAMSUNG DEVICES OUT OF SUPPORT/CLOSED I - RECOMMENDED SETTINGS To Start With - Factory Reset before starting optimisations - Factory Reset after every Major update (One UI/Android) - Remove SIM before first...
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Otherwise make sure to get adb appcontrol downloaded