Definitely not as big as it used to be. Lineage, Graphene, and Pixel Experience are just about the only players left. Graphene doesn't officially support anything other than pixels actively supported by Google though.
Pixel Experience is dead btw.
Wow, super missed that. April 10th. I just had it on a Pixel 2xl not too long ago
I'd add DivestOS, a fork of Lineage
/e/OS?
It's still XDA.
GSI are dominant now, device specific Roms are rare these days.
what are GSI?
“Generic system images”
Since device manufacturers don’t support their hardware, Google has tried adding another layer of abstraction between hardware and the Android UI
Really?
I haven't seen any third party GSIs. What have you seen (that I clearly lack the google-fu to find, lol)?
Here you go: GSI List
Oh cool, thanks!
I have a couple devices on that list, may have to experiment a bit.
I see my N10 there 👍
Finally something to play with! Tyvm
Even if your device is not listed, it is still supported. Every phone launched with Android 8 or greater support project treble. Thus, it also supports gsi.
I've not been able to get the built in gsi loader to ever work, not even with an app.
From what I understand, 1+ is not doing something the expected way... Idk.
I still need to find TWRP and to backup stock partitions first.
DSU, do you have a OnePlus N10 or N20? It does not work. If it works on your OnePlus, please provide the extra/special steps you took other than tapping the app and selecting a gsi, then rebooting. Nothing happens on boot. No gsi. Just boots normally.
Both N10 and N20 do not support DSU because they launched with the Android version less than Android 12. But you can still install GSI with the traditional method. Check you VNDk version with this app and I can tell you which gsi's are supported by your device.
I'll get back to you. Busy atm, but definitely want to sort this out.
30
on both
currently A12, shipped A11
currently A11, shipped A10
Is it really that simple? I haven't ROMd in 5yrs/since A/B partitioning.
GApps incl?
Yes, you will have bugs. But those are fixable with toggles in the TrebleApp. And Gapps are included.
Last time I checked GSI's kinda sucked and had worse performance than native ROMs, is that still true? (Keep in mind this was 3 or 4 years ago)
No, it's not at least in my case. Actually GSI Lineage is a little bit faster due to less bloat than stock. But performance could be different for different devices.
Note: I experienced some bugs but all of them were easy to fix.
Awesome, what phone are you using?
I am using Infinix X6831
Never heard of that one, but great that you can get GSI's working on it smoothly
Yeah, it's an Asian brand. That's why you have never heard of it.
Craze of custom rom is almost over now due to manufacturers bullshit
Wasn't a craze, it was an attempt to make the devices usable in most cases.
Raises hand in cheap but very usable hardware that only gets one major update
Many of them are on Telegram. Try looking for the groups by device name.
I have two Xiaomi devices and use custom roms for both of them. While there are pages for them in the XDA forums, most of the new updates and developments of custom roms and kernels, at least for Xiaomi devices, happens within telegram groups.
To me it seems to be a bit more active than it used to be. Even my unpopular ultra budget Redmi from 4 years ago got a couple of A14 roms this year.
@Benjamin Telegram. They all moved to fucking telegram.
Which is ridiculous. Can't audit code.
Easy way to get accounts stolen, too.
@Benjamin oh there are other reasons not to use it
(full disclosure: that is my document, I maintain and update it)
My isp blocked that link. Never saw it. 🤷♂️
@Benjamin the wha-
okay here's an unshortened one
I usually share the shortened one because cryptpad links tend to be large
https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/XEUnUWO3EjIPdsCJj3e+eEAgwIJ0tvA6tkzDGyA8AUo/embed/present/
Oh man... Why... Arg
I do actually have an account there. How could I go about completely removing it?
And I need to look into Matrix... Totally clueless.
While you were typing this, I found another post by another user to the same document.
@Benjamin account removal can be done on https://my.telegram.org if I recall right.
Also...someone OTHER THAN ME linked this? That's rare
Matrix is currently in a bit of a weird place as funding is low. Its alright, but dont expect Telegram-level UX. Element is also re-making their mobile apps as part of Element X.
👀
Mastodon isn't Lemmy, is it? 🤦♂️
I found a link to a mastodon thread... And upon much closer inspection, I do believe that's you over there, too.
I'm apparently very ignorant on this. Lemmy... Mastodon... Matrix...
@Benjamin they're all connected :)
I'm writing to you from mastodon (hence all my replies start by pinging you)
Lemmy does format some things in lemmy-specific ways, but other than that all our posts can be viewed anywhere, and I can slap any lemmy thread into my mastodon UI to reply to whoever I want
Are you serious? 😳🤦♂️😓
I was on Mastodon originally, but the app I was beta testing was a Lemmy client, so I made a new account (my Mastodon creds didn't work)
Methinks I should find a new app. Arg.
No I am not saying accounts are portable, but the content is. Your mastodon app has no idea how to handle Lemmy, and your Lemmy app has no idea how to handle Mastodon
BUT the servers that you're signing up to? They know how to share the content between eachother. That is because they all use the ActivityPub standard to exchange posts and account data.
So Lemmy and Mastodon connect to the same content, but different log in servers?
Do I need to do anything to see those other people?
Oh boy, I've got a lot to learn.
@Benjamin its basically automatic e-mail in the sense that it doesn't matter what e-mail provider you're on but you can still contact each other across mail providers
Here you can substitute mail providers with social media platforms, and it happens ✨automagically✨, without anyone doing anything
To put this into perspective, I see hundreds of posts that aren't by people that signed up on wetdry.world on my home feed, and I can still interact with them, yet wetdry.world is my home.
Maybe the little explanation video on https://fediverse.info helps
Email. That helped immensely.
Gmail can mail Yahoo, but Yahoo can't directly see my Gmail account name, unless we directly interact first.
I think that sums it up.
So I can use either "CLIENT" to communicate across the Fediverse, but my credentials only work on the server I created them at.
I think I got it. I'm watch the link later👍
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