I assume virtually everyone in this place is using some third party ROM. Many of you probably rocking Banana ROM off your Alcatel z657 bought at Boost Mobile in 2012.
But is there any simpleton here like myself who is on stock android? You know, the middle age dude who has “Privacy” as a hobby because he can’t afford or have time for a real one. 😶🌫️
Basically no one runs stock android. It doesn’t exist
But if you’re asking if I run OEM android, yes I am
I had a Wiley Fox phone back in the day that was supposedly as stock Android as you could get.
Which oem and why?
Because it’s not a pixel, so I can’t run graphene out of the box, and having my phone working is a key component of my job
What about LineageOS?
Isn’t pixel basically running it? What are they adding?
Pixel is running something close… But as for what their adding? All kinds of stuff, from camera features to launchers to subtle tweaks
But the reason no one is running stock android is the reason the Linux phone project is so difficult… The drivers
Your phone is basically running two sets of firmware. One controls the radio, coordinates with cell towers, handles data both as an Internet connection and a set of old cell protocols we still use sometimes (like phone calls and public alerts), plus hardware backdoors.
And then there’s Android, which has some degree of control over that mess, but it has to be custom fit to each black box or you get bugs, because they’re all different
The only way to run stock android is through an emulator, and even then most developers just use the pixel builds
Yeah, I’m on Android here because I like using my phone to pay for stuff. I’ve made a half-arsed attempt to degoogle a bit by running Immich on a home server for photos.
I’m running GrapheneOS and use my phone to pay for stuff via NFC.
GrapheneOS doesnt support my phone. I wish but it aint gonna work. Not yet.
Same as the other commenter, Pixel 7 + default Android OS. I appreciate the third party ROMs existing but haven’t really bothered going through all that in a few years. Way back I did used to install CyanogenMod but it always felt like a bit of a hassle with random bugs, phone restarts… at some point I bought one of the early Pixels and felt the stock Android worked well enough. My own motivation early on was to avoid the phone bloat/random apps that were pre-installed on non-Google Android phones.
That aside I may take another look at this stuff if it becomes impossible to sideload apps on stock Android OS with Google forcing app developers to verify themselves. And/or check out Linux-based phones.
Typing this out just realized LineageOS started out as a fork of CyanogenMod so I guess that code still exists in some capacity even today.
I have tried LineageOS (Flashed it on my Pixel before reverting back to stock) and MAN that is a ROM done right. Its literally how Android should be. Next to zero…ZERO Bloat. Your app drawer is like 1/4 full because there is simply nothing on the phone!
I run stock on a pixel although I do have droidify installed and prefer that too the play store for most things. Especially for the freeze app where all my corporate stuff is run from.
I got whatever the cheapest phone was at the shop that wasn’t an iphone, and am running whatever version of Android it came preinstalled with along with whatever updates have been rolled out since then.
But I’m not a guy, so your statement may still stand.
No results for “StockOS” on XDA. Must be a very new ROM. ;)
Next we ask how many women and other non-guys are on here.
More than you think, half of hexbear is trans for instance
I’m using a Moto G5 with stock android, too. Couldn’t be arsed to install lineage, since I could just enable USB debugging, run Android Bridge and uninstall most of the malware/spyware shit that comes builtin
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https://developer.android.com/tools/adb
When you enable USB debugging (gotta enable Developer Mode first, which is usually enabled by tapping several times on Settings -> About phone -> Build Number, but can vary depending on model), you can connect the phone to your computer and have the computer start a command line shell via ADB (Android Bridge), which will allow you to uninstall almost everything. First, you should get a list of installed stuff with
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Yup, when I first learned that you didn’t need to root, that developer options + adb was enough to get rid of most bloatware, that was an incredible relief to me, too!
Define “stock.” You mean what comes on a phone? Or raw AOSP?
I’ve ran CyanogenMod back when that was as close as most people were ever gonna get to AOSP. I’ve also run the “Google Play Edition” version of Android that was only available outside the US for whatever reason back in the day. I remember we had to flash the firmware, then flash something else to use CDMA on it (when that was a thing). Otherwise you got no signal because out of the box it was GSM only.
Right now, my Android phone runs whatever the latest version of OneUI is available for the Galaxy S10, because that’s what I have. My main phone is an iPhone, but I do like running the S10 for a few things. Like if I’m gonna be doing any typing. Gboard on Android kicks the crap outta any keyboard on iPhone. Anyway, I’m running “stock” — what is stock for that phone. I have no real interest in modding it. I would not mind running an AOSP-like on the S10, but I don’t really need to be fancy about it, and since I want Gboard, I need Google Play Services, so something privacy-oriented isn’t going to work. Not on the S10, anyway.
Yeah, Stock could mean whatever Android your phone comes with, or it could mean standard AOSP like even without GApps, OP should really clarify that.
Recently switched over to LineageOS without the play store. But a few weeks ago I was still on regular old android. Have been relying on FDroid though for a while now - its nonpredatory apps are very nice.
Nothing phone here, stock is as close to AOSP as it gets across the board.
LTT did a video about a year ago covering how rough the “stock” android experience is.
You can also jump to 7:10 for custom ROM information/options, but it doesn’t really go into depth on any of it (outside the scope of the video).
I am but I only have the smartphone for work and otherwise don’t really use it. I hate smartphones.
You can’t be running stock Android (AOSP), it’s not going to work on your phone.
Nah, I too just use whatever version of android is already installed onto the device. I would use custom versions of android or more preferably, Linux distros, but the biggest issue for me, is the fact that the only way to install a custom OS is to use a rom that’s made specifically for that device. You can’t just download a “one size fits all” rom and install it onto your device. As a result of this, most of my devices don’t have a custom OS available at all, and the ones that do, the OSs haven’t been updated in several years.
I also haven’t used any advanced methods for removing apps I don’t want. I’ve never used anything like root or ADB, as I’m just worried about potentially bricking the devices I own.
