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New to Moto G5 Plus, it's my backup device, the main device got some issue so using this one as main for some time. Stock Oreo was laggy and slow, so tired Omni, it was good but missed some goodies on it, so flashed the latest Havoc, it's working ok.
Can you please suggest the best working latest ROM (+kernel)? I need face-unlock, double-tap to wake and sleep, a good battery, and a smooth interface.
Forget to mention Pixel Experience 11, that was the first custom ROM I tried, it was extremely slow for me, even opening settings takes 2-3 seconds on it.

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Discussion/Poll for best rom performance

We're all here because we want better roms than what our phones came with, upgraded roms etc. Idealy we'd want the most stable version with the last junk so it's the most responsive. As I upgraded more and more roms, I started to feel that the phone is showing it's age in processing power, and just like computers, you can't just install a newer stronger OS on older hardware, at some point you aren't gaining performance, you start to lose it because the hardware is struggling to keep up. I went from stock to 4.2 roms, then 4.4 roms, (pacman, mokee, CM, etc etc ). I eventually went back to 4.4 stock and it gave me the least trouble and quite snappy. Of course it had the OEM bloat from Verizon. Its been going strong for maybe a year, and now it too is starting to crash with a lot of bugs, probably from installing so many apps, but also I see a lot of built in apps taking up memory. So my main question is, if you still the Razr M and still using roms, what have you settled with ? What has been the most stable and fastest for you so far? For me so far it turned out to be the stock 4.4.2. So my options are to start over again with a fresh 4.4.2 or maybe a stripped 4.4.2, or one of the new 5.1 builds. I mainly use it for Navigation + music + calls, generally nav + music at the same time. Someone mentioned that CM12.1 couldn't handle that because of memory issues so that scared me off, but I love the CM12.1 on my galaxy tab pro. I do use the Bluetooth when im riding, and the camera from time to time, and the stock just had everything working.
If I can't find a stable build/rom, it might be time for me to move on to a newer quad core 2ghz + phone, browsing on the razer m is ok, but admittedly a little slow. The battery isn't what it used to, but it still gets through the day, and there are (albeit dodgy quality ) replacement batteries on amazon to hold out longer... The phone was basically free over 2 years ago, I've never been one to shell out $300 for a phone, but that oneplus one is mighty tempting to switch carriers for. ATT failed me on signal at this house so Verizon has been great, but i'd be willing to try tmobile if im forced to pick a new phone.
TLDR: Which rom has been the most stable for you ? ( rom name and build/version ).
vo_danh said:
So my main question is, if you still the Razr M and still using roms, what have you settled with ? What has been the most stable and fastest for you so far?.
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Stock 4.1.2 (with uninstalled bloatware), as 4.4.2 has broken audio on (some?) Rev.B phones.
I have been on stock jelly bean, rooted stock kitkat (debloated with permissions removed for batt life), cm12.1 (our device is just too limited) and now cm11 snapshot 12 on kitkat boot loader. So far cm11 is my favorite.
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For me stock kitkat debloated runs smoother, although is very sluggish sometimes: for example when I'm swapping messenger, whatsapp and running music player at the same time, it's almost impossible...
Ice tested cm when was 5.0,and was terrible. Pac man Kk, not as good as stock.
Sorry for this ugly link, I'm on my phone, but this post and the thread overall has a lot of good tips:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53724034&postcount=17
In the last 2 and a half years I've been through:
Stock 4.1.2 (rooted after 1 day, debloated, Safestrap)
Eclipse Rom v1.2 (Safestrap)
CM10.1 (Unlocked BL)
CM10.2 (Unlocked BL)
CM11 (Unlocked BL, JB Kernel)
Stock 4.4.2 (rooted, debloated)
CM11 (Unlocked BL, KK Kernel)
CM12.1 (Unlocked BL, KK Kernel)
Best user experience for me? Sad to say but I had it with the Stock 4.1.2: overall smoother than all the rest. Then after some months my Razr M started a bootloop, so I unlocked the bootloader and tryed the CM ROM: the CM Power Widgets were an overkill at the time (mainly the 2G/3G toggle)...
After all the CM ROM that I've used, the second place goes to CM11 (with JB BL).
Right now I'm testing the latest CM12.1 builds, and they seems ok. I've installed onlyt the apps that are strictly necessary to me (gmail, maps, onenote, osmand, dropbox, wikipedia, Room Toolbox Pro, SuperSu, calendar, meteo, etc...). Everithing seems fine but I liked more the old KK style (lockscreen, quick settings). Everything is working, even if sometimes the data, Wifi and GPS signals are erratic. The performance are acceptable too.
So far a vote for CM11, and stock unlocked debloated. That's what i was heading towards too, stock debloat, and probably 4.1 it still has the best performance really. I mean the custom roms look great and all, but at the cost of performance which, after the initial wow factor, I think we would all prefer performance. Back when I had my HTC my favorite and most stable rom was jacko's most basic slim version ( he had like 1-5 tiers of peformance and features ). If I go back to stock and it lasts me another year or two i'll take it.
I'm trying out CM11 Snapshot 12 right now. I was already on 4.4.2 stock with unlocked kk bootloader so it made sense to try it first. Its already a lot smoother than what it was, freeing up half the memory. I noticed the dialer doesn't go all the way up sometimes, you have to push back and hit the keypad icon again. Otherwise very smooth so far. I'll report back after I get some use out of it and if I ever decide to go back to 4.1. I might need a new battery though, if I'm using it it doesn't last through a day.
*Update - I went from having basically no free memory left to about 50% free memory. I think my battery life increased dramatically with so much less running in the background. Maybe by 20-50%.
I took one phone call and updated a few apps, about mid day through the work day. was 12h by the end of the day and a few calls and some browsing w/o having to charge. Definitely gave new life to the phone. Very minor dialer bugs, sometimes the number pad doesn't come up correctly the first time.
Android 4.1 has various security issues that won't be fixed anymore, so that's not really an option.
But I don't think there are big differences in battery life anyway (see this).
After testing a lot of CM11, using Performance settings, changing memory settings, having a very poor battery performance, I've come back to the 4.4 backup with all the apps I had. The difference was incredible, now my phone feels snappier than an iPhone, and sincerely, i don't know why!! I think that doing a restore sometimes can help a lot.
Yeah the last time I did a fresh install of 4.4.2 stock it was great. After a while though with all my apps installed + the oem bloat the phone had very little memory left and became sluggish. My best options right now seem like going back to stock, either 4.1 or 4.4 and trying to do manual debloat.
I did a fresh install of CM11 again but still didn't fix it. I still had the occasional dialer error and wifi would only work upon boot, after disabling, it never reconnects to any wifi. Battery was still horrible. I went back to stock 4.4.2. RSlite would not work on any version on windows 8.1 64 bit. I had to do msfastbootv2 and was able to restore to stock 4.4.2 However upon booting, it wanted to update to 183.84.15 but failing. It would say there's an update, download it, reboot, and automatically boot into recovery. I would select reboot and it boots in, sometimes saying update complete but it hasnt' actually updated anything. I eventually gave up and started over, this time using stock recovery, not logging into my google account so it doesn't start downloading all my apps, no supersu, no gapps, and it successfully updated to 183.81.15. At that point using mfastbootv2 I installed twrp 2.8.5, rebooted into recovery, installed gapps and supersu. Then used titan to debloat using http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr-m/general/complete-debloat-list-droid-razr-m-t3045731 , removed most of the things on that list, particularly anything I didn't use that I saw running. I also installed Greenify. After about a day I started noticing the google play services issue using a majority of my battery. I downloaded App Ops to disable google play services wake permissions. I am amazed at what happened. I feel like I have the original batteries back. I received 2-3 short calls today, and 2 browsing sessions, installed some apps (facebook lite), and I still have a lot of battery left, normally it would be over half gone. Going home after that much use and still having over 70% of battery left is nothing short of amazing and I no longer feel like getting a new phone. I was very close to trying the Droid Turbo.
TLDR: Got original usage/battery back with stock 4.4.2 + debloat (backup & Uninstall with titanium ) + App ops to fix google services wake battery drain + Greenify. I don't know how much Greenify is doing, I attribute most of my gains from debloat + fixing the google services issue. Before App Ops you'd see a giant bar at the top of Google Services instead of screen.
Still odd you having WiFi issues. I don't I did learn recently that my Bluetooth does not seem to be fully functional.
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So far, all I've tried (and stuck with) are stock 4.1, stock 4.4.2, and CM 12/12.1.
Stock ROMs were fairly snappy, but I was always a little fearful (irrationally, but still) of trying to debloat while on 4.4 (and I remain fearful of downgrading the bootloader). This is my daily driver, though, and it must remain so until I become eligible for a newer phone in December (or I can pick up something better, used, for extremely cheap ...).
I have been toughing it out on CM 12 since late January. I like several of Lollipop's UI changes and new features (as well as CM's additions over stock), so despite some frustrations with bugs and somewhat-laggy performance, I haven't felt terribly compelled to try CM 11, or to go back to stock 4.4.2. (At least, not all the time; there have been moments of extremely slow response times where I've wanted to wipe /system right then and there and flash CM 11. I have stuck with 12 so far in hopes of improvements on the way to the first snapshot.)
Also, vo_danh, I was the one who reported about the issue with simultaneously running Maps and Play Music. I don't think I've ever gotten a phone call while trying to run those, but suffice to say that I have enough trouble with (occasional) lag when a call comes in.
If you're already on the kk boot loader like me, you don't need to downgrade the boot loader for cm11. Its been almost a week and i am still just amazed at how well this config is working for me. The battery life is like new again. Don't be afraid of debloating with titanium, since you can back it up first before unisntalling, if anything goes wrong, simply reinstall the backup. As a safety, after I restored to stock 4.4.2, updated to 183.84.15 OTA, I created a TWRP backup, so if anything goes wrong I can just restore it with TWRP instead of doing through all the steps to go back to stock. I didn't remove everything that was on that debloat list, just most things from verizon or anything I raw under 'running' list that I didn't need. It's so stable and fast. I would only move to a stock + debloat rom now for this phone for now. If I had a stronger phone there's no doubt i'd be using Cm12.1 but for now, this phone isn't meant to handle it smoothly and the wifi issues i had with Cm11 just make it not worth it. All wifi issues are gone now on stock. I didn't have wifi issues on any of the other roms either.
vo_danh said:
We're all here because we want better roms than what our phones came with...
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1. One that the phone came with, with a little tweaking. 4.1.2 deodexed and debloated. Best usability and battery life. Slows down with heavy games tho so i unlocked the BL.
2. KK debloated. 4.4.2 i think. better in many respects but I sorely miss the Jb camera. It was wonderful. Battery life had come down a couple of notches.
3. Currently running the Bliss rom (5.1). My earpiece and mic doesn't work with the latest update. lol.
Edit: Call issues in the Bliss rom have been fixed. It's a solid rom and deserves a strong recommendation.

Question about roms, completely lost

Hi,
I bought used LG G3 (failry new), and since I've got it, I can't stop fiddling with roms from XDA repository. Got the phone with android 5.0, but the battery included was pretty bad, 1% drop every minute or less. Bought new battery, 1% drop on every 3 minutes, seems fine, at least to me considering the screen resolution. That would be 4-5hrs of SOT. I wanted to try android 6.0, so I flashed D85530B_Europe.kdz. Was testing it for two days and it seems that the battery usage was worse, and I realised that some of important apps that I will use don't support 6.0, so I've decided to go back to stock 5.0. Since in the rom file repository there are TONS of roms, all with similar filenames, I've read somewhere here that I can go with UK Europe General D85520I.kdz, and so I did. Now I'm on 5.0 (UK Europe General D85520I), the battery usage seems ok, but now my GPS is not working at all. Using GPS Status app, it sees 19 satellites, but can't connect to a single one! My fault was that I didn't tested the GPS properly when I took the phone, but I did one short GPS test with HERE maps, and it was working pretty bad, it was offline 80% of the time, so I guess it is a hardware issue.
Now, can you help me to choose the most stable, fast and most friendly on battery rom? Doesn't matter if it's LP or MM, if it is working without issues. Also I wanted to flash CM, mostly because they say it is the best in terms of battery usage, but I'm afraid to brick my phone. I'm also interested in Fulmics rom. Can you suggest the most stable and bug-free custom rom for LG G3?
Please include the filename of the KDZ file, because I can't make a difference looking at the filenames, I'm still not sure how do you guys do it.
Also, if you know how I can fix GPS, including opening the phone, I would be happy to try, GPS is the pretty important to me.
Thank you in advance!
Cheers!
Pe11e said:
Hi,
I bought used LG G3 (failry new), and since I've got it, I can't stop fiddling with roms from XDA repository. Got the phone with android 5.0, but the battery included was pretty bad, 1% drop every minute or less. Bought new battery, 1% drop on every 3 minutes, seems fine, at least to me considering the screen resolution. That would be 4-5hrs of SOT. I wanted to try android 6.0, so I flashed D85530B_Europe.kdz. Was testing it for two days and it seems that the battery usage was worse, and I realised that some of important apps that I will use don't support 6.0, so I've decided to go back to stock 5.0. Since in the rom file repository there are TONS of roms, all with similar filenames, I've read somewhere here that I can go with UK Europe General D85520I.kdz, and so I did. Now I'm on 5.0 (UK Europe General D85520I), the battery usage seems ok, but now my GPS is not working at all. Using GPS Status app, it sees 19 satellites, but can't connect to a single one! My fault was that I didn't tested the GPS properly when I took the phone, but I did one short GPS test with HERE maps, and it was working pretty bad, it was offline 80% of the time, so I guess it is a hardware issue.
Now, can you help me to choose the most stable, fast and most friendly on battery rom? Doesn't matter if it's LP or MM, if it is working without issues. Also I wanted to flash CM, mostly because they say it is the best in terms of battery usage, but I'm afraid to brick my phone. I'm also interested in Fulmics rom. Can you suggest the most stable and bug-free custom rom for LG G3?
Please include the filename of the KDZ file, because I can't make a difference looking at the filenames, I'm still not sure how do you guys do it.
Also, if you know how I can fix GPS, including opening the phone, I would be happy to try, GPS is the pretty important to me.
Thank you in advance!
Cheers!
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OK, so what I'm thinking is that you won't care if its aosp, I recommend either crdroid 7, which is nougat and has exceptional battery life. You could also use Tesla N, which is what I'm using right now. The only reason I use it is because on OMS support and Pulse.
Sent from my G3 D852
viddy135 said:
OK, so what I'm thinking is that you won't care if its aosp, I recommend either crdroid 7, which is nougat and has exceptional battery life. You could also use Tesla N, which is what I'm using right now. The only reason I use it is because on OMS support and Pulse.
Sent from my G3 D852
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Thank you for your response, but honestly I don't understand all the terms you are using. What is AOSP? Where I can find CRDROID 7? Is it tested properly, means no issues with camera, bluetooth, gps, etc? Tesna N is also a custom rom? What is OMS and Pulse? Sorry for questions, as I've said, I'm lost with all the terms, kinda new with flashing Android.
Cheers!
Note with any roms cm13 and above that are aosp hence (custom roms) you will sacrafice 2 things. Your speakerphone, and your camera image quality. People you talk to on speakerphone will hear themselves echo when they talk to the point they cant stand it. The quality of your images will lower...when you send mms the quality on their side (the person you sent it to) will be lower. If your like me this is annoying that these simple things dont work correctly...dont get me wrong, they are excellent roms...cm13 based roms are quick snappy and really fast, and stable. I just wished everything worked...i am on fulmics 6.7...its a stock based rom that you can still mod to your liking...speakerphone works and has tbe stock camera...it is ported from the LGG5...i love it. And again...im not downing cm13 roms...they are great and these developers are awesome...it you want the best rom though were all functions work i would suggest fulmics definitly...another great one is xdaddebs 3.1.1. It is a heavily modded rom with the weight of aosp...super fast...almost went back to it the other day
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Lastest crdroid 7.1 and tesla 7 everything is working properly...like i said with these custom roms speakerphone will not work correctly and camera quality will be slightly diminished
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Most ppl dont use speakerphone...i however use it all the time
Thanks!
I will consider either fulmics or xceed kernel on stock 5.0, still undecided.
One issue stilll to solve is the non-working GPS, no idea can fulmics rom make it to work.
Cheers
Works for me...i would really suggest the 6.7 build though of fulmics...you download 6.6 then you install and then download the 6.7 file and dirty flash it through twrp
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Works for me...i would really suggest the 6.7 build though of fulmics...you download 6.6 then you install and then download the 6.7 file and dirty flash it through twrp
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Well, I was on Fulmics 6.7 for two days, testing it in detail, and sadly went to 5.0 stock today (restored the backup from TWRD). I really couldn't stand the stutter in 4K video, and GPS couldn't connect to any satellites at all. Except these issues, Fulmics is an amazing rom, stable, smooth and pretty fast.
So, should I stay on 5.0 (UK Europe General D85520I.kdz) or upgrade to some 6.0 rom (for example D85530B_Europe.kdz)? Really not sure is there any difference between any stock 6.0 roms that can be downloaded here, I can only make a difference related to the file name. If there is ANY 6.0 rom that is IDENTICAL to stock and WITHOUT bloatware, I would be happy to flash it, but still not sure is it going to be 100% identical like the stock (proper 4K without stutters, good GPS, etc).
Although I'm quite sick of searching and testing numerous roms, doing that for the past week, I'm willing to try one more rom and to finally start downloading apps and to start enjoying using the phone.
Thanks in advance!

Most stable ROM tab 10.1 picassowifi?

Hey guys and gals, so I got myself a tab pro 10.1 a little while ago, I flashed the latest lineage from their website, its pretty dam unstable and even slow, soft reboots all the time and performance can go from fine to ass in seconds out of nowhere,
I've seen quite a few ROMs around but truth be told I couldn't be bothered to keep wiping my tablet and trying them all, I am just after the most stable ROM with the best performance (more stability than performance) what can you suggest? Or is lineage the best there is? Happy to go to a lower version like 6.0 or 5.0 if needed for more stability
Any advice is appreciated,
Thanks guys !!
I have gone through many MANY ROMs on this device.
I have used for the past year or so this ROM:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/7-1-xsm-t520-liquiddeathos-n2awifi-t3577449
Development is stopped, but everything (that I used) works just fine, and it is so smooth...
Plus I love the pull up app drawer (like on pixel phones), Google Assistant is built in on long home button press etc...
One thing that doesn't work: The physical home button! Instead you have to use the power button on top. Took a bit of time to get used to it, but it is all about compromises, and this really doesn't bother me considering all the goodness in this ROM...
Thanks Mrbungle!! That ROM is fantastic! Its like a whole new tablet, its so stable and hot dam is the performance better!
Also I want to clarify to anyone else that may see this thread, the home button does work fine, it just doesn't wake the tablet from sleep, need to use the lock button, no biggie really
I use Lineage 14.1, but on a build back in June. That has been stable for me. The only issue is camera doesn't always load, and often records low volume, but I never use the camera on the tablet since I have a phone.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74559497&postcount=678

XZ1 Compact Fw's: PROs & CONs

Help me to create mini FAQ.
Stock
PROs:
CONs:
AOSP
PROs:
CONs:
crDroid [AlexKarimov]
PROs:
1 - Fast: Very responsive and loads quick. Example: stock used to delay when using google maps at all the wrong times. This ROM is lightning quick and I never miss a turn or exit.
2 - Stable: I've had only one or two random reboots but it's very rare.
3 - Customization: There is a high level of customization in this ROM. A LOT of options. At this point, I can't even tell you what I'm missing.
Bonus: Stock launcher is very nice. I usually upgrade to Nova for one reason or another but this has almost all the same features as Nova.
CONs:
1 - Data speed: I hesitate to put this here because I'm not sure if it's my ROM or incorrect APN settings(I don't remember stock so I've had to experiment). I've played around with different APNs and found one that works really good but data speed still seems a little slower than stock but only on Play Store for some reason.
Pixel Experience
PROs:
CONs:
LineAge OS 15.1
PROs:
CONs:
LineAge OS 16
PROs:
CONs:
I've had crDroid for about 2 months now, here's what I've observed:
crDroid
PROs:
1 - Fast: Very responsive and loads quick. Example: stock used to delay when using google maps at all the wrong times. This ROM is lightning quick and I never miss a turn or exit.
2 - Stable: I've had only one or two random reboots but it's very rare.
3 - Customization: There is a high level of customization in this ROM. A LOT of options. At this point, I can't even tell you what I'm missing.
Bonus: Stock launcher is very nice. I usually upgrade to Nova for one reason or another but this has almost all the same features as Nova.
CONs:
1 - Data speed: I hesitate to put this here because I'm not sure if it's my ROM or incorrect APN settings(I don't remember stock so I've had to experiment). I've played around with different APNs and found one that works really good but data speed still seems a little slower than stock but only on Play Store for some reason.
General Impression: I love this ROM! It has just about everything I want(minus a few tweaks that are in AEX) but any drawbacks I've found are very minimal compared with the benefits.
Thank you for this comparison. I've recently purchased a second xz1c and just loaded AEX on it, so I'll give some impressions in a few weeks on that.
AlexKarimov said:
I've had crDroid for about 2 months now, here's what I've observed:
Thank you for this comparison. I've recently purchased a second xz1c and just loaded AEX on it, so I'll give some impressions in a few weeks on that.
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Thanks for review! Together we can bring up neat comparision of xz1 FW's!
Stock fw
pro:
Good battery life and has ultra stamina mode. Also Sony stock apps and audio tuning if you are into that kind of stuff. With combining firmware bits you can get volte and fingerprint working in US T-mobile.
con:
September 2019 is the last security patch, since then multiple vulnerabilities have been found including bluetooth "Bluefrag" vulnerability.
Lineage OS 17
Overall very clean and snappy rom. It's currently my daily driver.
Pro:
-Android 10.0 and everything that comes with it:
Built in gesture navigation
Re-worked permission management
New launcher/recents menu
-average battery life
-stock camera
-passes safetynet check
-trebuchet launcher with app lock functionality
-very stable, so far I have had no random reboots or anything of the sort.
Con:(not a lot)
-does not have picture preview after picture was taken on back camera in stock cam
-stock cam cannot save to sd card
Thanks for sharing your findings! Would you recommend LOS 16 or 17 over stock fw? How stable is it and how's the battery life? I have stock oreo and don't want to update due to the complaints. I've experienced some lag and restarts lately but I wonder if the long process of unlocking bl and flashing custom fw is worth it.
moist_line said:
Thanks for sharing your findings! Would you recommend LOS 16 or 17 over stock fw? How stable is it and how's the battery life? I have stock oreo and don't want to update due to the complaints. I've experienced some lag and restarts lately but I wonder if the long process of unlocking bl and flashing custom fw is worth it.
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Big thanks also from me to MDomokos for sharing the experience.
I'm also very interested in answers for the questions posted by moist_line.
moist_line said:
Thanks for sharing your findings! Would you recommend LOS 16 or 17 over stock fw? How stable is it and how's the battery life? I have stock oreo and don't want to update due to the complaints. I've experienced some lag and restarts lately but I wonder if the long process of unlocking bl and flashing custom fw is worth it.
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Using LOS 16.0 for 2 weeks with 47.2.A.11.228 stock firmware. Working perfectly and no problems with any app (no GAPPS installed and only using openSource apks such as: Signal, Telegram, K-9, QKSMS, OsmAnd, etc...)
Battery life, better than with stock Android 8.0 ( i never used Android 9 from Sony, just when i updated firmware to reboot and install LineageOS )
Since i'm working from home, is true that my XZ1C uses wifi all the time, but anyways, 3 days of battery is awesome
moist_line said:
Thanks for sharing your findings! Would you recommend LOS 16 or 17 over stock fw? How stable is it and how's the battery life? I have stock oreo and don't want to update due to the complaints. I've experienced some lag and restarts lately but I wonder if the long process of unlocking bl and flashing custom fw is worth it.
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I've been using Lineage OS 17 by modpunk for the last three weeks and it's been very reliable. I have nano Gapps installed and get about 7% of battery used per hour with the screen on, and about 0.4% of battery drained per hour in stand by mode as reported by Franco Kernel Manager. Battery life for me is a bit worse than stock as there is no fine control over battery modes such as with stamina mode. I can get two days battery life with about 5 hours of screen on time, though I limit my charging to between 85%-15% which makes it a bit shorter.
I like the android 10 gestures as it frees up more space on the screen and I also like the new permission management for location. And I can't live without adaway which requires root.
I personally am happy with unlocking the boot loader and there is no significant difference besides when initially turning on the phone it shows a boot loader unblocked message. And the newer security patches are worth it in my opinion.
There is a easy to follow PDF guide that can explains all of the steps in the thread about DRM Key backups. https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-xz1-compact/development/devonly-exploits-temp-root-to-backup-t3795510
I'll link it here if I find it.
But I wouldn't recommend it if you are planning on selling your phone in the near future.
Edit:
Found the PDF https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78255334&postcount=382
Make sure to read all instructions thoroughly and donate to developers if possible.
Hope this all helped.

AOSP GSI or Android One

Hello everyone, I'm currently using HavocOS 3.9 but since it's batter isn't that good and sometimes whole system works awful (animation stutters, way longer apps loading times etc) I'd like to try something else. I tried all android 10 custom roms and every single one have some issues, now I'm thinking about trying out phhusson AOSP gsi, but I'm not sure if I should even try it since I have no idea what to expect, or I'll go back to Android One which has amazing battery life and good performance (at least for me) and despite all the bugs I think it's equal or even better to some custom roms.
Is someone using AOSP gsi and could share their experience? Or should I go back to Android One and just try to get rid of as many bugs and flaws as I can by myself?
Go for Pixel Experience Pulse ROM

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