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What Rom do you prefer for your Pixel device? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone!

A lot has happened since my last post, specifically talking about my LineageOS inquiries. I had a string of bad luck and broke the digitizer but no cracks to my Pixel 7 Pro.

So I ended up "upgrading" to the Pixel 8 Pro because the store I went to only had the 8 Pro and not the 7 Pro in stock and it was dire that I have a phone.

So this leads me to my next questions:

What is your favorite Android spin for your Pixel Device?

I have used GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and Stock Android (of various versions on my Pro 7)

This leads me down the rabbit hole of deciding which experience I want on my Pixel 8 Pro.

I have GrapheneOS on my 8 Pro right now because I wanted to see if I could make it fit my needs, and I am leaning towards it not working for me. Since I switched, android auto is not connecting even following the instructions GrapheneOS has to offer.

AdAway (nonroot) is not working on GrapheneOS, as it just kills any internet connection to everything on GrapheneOS. So that's another point against me wanting to stick with GrapheneOS.

No AFwall+. Another point against it.

It appears that CalyxOS is going to give me a similar experience with issues related to the ones I mentioned with GrapheneOS.

I had considered trying out LineageOS for microG but unsure if this is the route I want to go because I am unsure if some of the apps I will rely on will work for various reasons. (Mainly unsure if MicroG will suffice for them.)

I am open to other options to, and would love to hear what you are using!

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

You mentioned exactly the two ROMs I'm currently using. GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. And LineageOS for microG on my Samsung tablet. I'm really happy with both of them.

I don't use that many proprietary tech so there is little issues for me. My car only has regular old plain bluetooth, so I wouldn't know. And instead of some add-on firewall/dns adblocker solutions, I'm just using the ~~Librewolf~~ Mull browser with the uBlock plugin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

As a former LineageOS for microG user I'm happy to say that it's no longer necessary to use it instead of official LineageOS because they finally added signature spoofing to upstream LineageOS [1].

As far as I understand, this allows microG to work perfectly fine with any app on official LineageOS, without any patching of the ROM needed.

I haven't tried it and there's no reason to switch of LineageOS for microG, but I'll definitely give it a shot on a future device.

[1] https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/383573

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