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I have a Redmi Note 11, I am planning to install a custom ROM. This is the first time I'm about to do something like this.

How good of a reputation does the Paranoid Android OS have? Will I get good long term support? How functional is it?

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After years of ROM-ing phones, I recommend using LineageOS. They are going to have the longest support for a given phone. If your phone is available in their list, that means it is well supported with all functionality.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its not available for my device (Redmi Note 11)

[–] De4th69@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've already seen this page before.

The title says [UNOFFICIAL] and the rom isn't available in the actual LineageOS official website. Is this version really safe?

[–] De4th69@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm running the unoffical one on my Samsung S8 without issues since it's been released. Unofficial only means it's not supported and compiled from the LOS developers. They're safe and stable

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do the unofficial builds get regular security updates, though? Even if they do, I don't think it's the best idea to rely on two independent developers at the same time, I'd rather not have multiple points of faliure.

[–] De4th69@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes they do. At least the maintainer for the S8 releases them regularily. That's not something i would worry about. When the unofficials get a stable state they're fine and only get the latest patches from LOS. I'm running customs since 8 years and i never had problems.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

I hope they do the same for my phone. Any way I can check if it's being maintained? Thanks.

[–] open343@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As someone who has installed a lot of roms, I recommend staying with the stock one. It can be really useful on very old phones, but it is not necessary on most current devices. The two biggest issues I had were the lack of floating windows and the play integrity api issue. Also MIUI (without bloatware) is the most useful Android interface. Pure Android is nice and simple but not suitable for everyday use.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yup, you are right. Mobile banking seems to be really difficult on custom ROMs and overall it just brings too many issues. I will keep using the stock ROM for now (HyperOS). I have google play services disabled, all Gapps and Xiaomi bloatware apps deleted. I feel like that's good enough. RethinkDNS to block internet connection from apps that don't need it. I shouldn't let "perfect" get in the way of good.

Do you have any other suggestions to make my phone a bit less of a data mine?

[–] GrapinoSubmarino@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Love that song