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. 😶‍🌫️

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m stock Pixel 7. At a certain point jailbraking / rom switching just started being more work than it was worth to me

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Basically no one runs stock android. It doesn’t exist

    But if you’re asking if I run OEM android, yes I am

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    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

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        1 month ago

        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 adb pm list packages. With the list, you can then use adb pm uninstall -k --user 0 package.name - wildcards don’t work, you’ll have to go one by one.