I personally have been using lineage os for some time now and I am curious how many others use F-droid and lineage os like I do
LineageOS on my Galaxy S8. This is such a great phone. Constantly ran out of RAM on the original stock ROM.
Lineage with MicroG, too. Been using it for years. I love buying phones for less than 100€ and use them until they are dead. OsmAnd, Syncthing, Keepass, NewPipe, DavX5, Neo- and Aurora Store are so good. Banking works fine after hiding Magisk but I can’t get Deutsche Bahn app to work, so I still buy my tickets offline. Not big of a deal. I really love my setup, it took some time to finetune, but it feels great to use a 95% FLOSS phone.
LineageOS MicroG on Fairphone 4.
How does lineageos work for you on FP4? I’m thinking of installing it too.
Everything works as expected.
“Downgrading” from a Samsung S22 Ultra 128gb to Pixel 7a, planning to run Graphene on it.
+1 for Graphene. I’m running it on a Pixel 4a 5g and have had no issues to date. All my banking apps work, although some with the gaps compatibility layer in a different profile.
I started with CyanogenMod on my Google G1 and have never stopped.
crDroid on Samsung Galaxy s10. Running it for 4 months so far and overall I’m really happy. Sometimes I get Problems with high Battery drain and I haven’t figured out what the root cause is. But a quick restart fixes the problem and it happens max once a week, so I can live with it.
CalyxOS (MicroG) on the phone and crDroid (No MicroG or Gaaps) on the Tablet
my banking app works on the phone and Aurora Store helps to get Google Play apps if needed
Is mobile banking that popular of a thing? Couldn’t you just go to the bank? Or for that matter you could just use the website
If the app wouldn’t work I would probably test other means like it’s mobile website but if it works, why not? I’m using a direct bank though which doesn’t have branches anywhere in my country while ATMs typically only allow withdrawing from my account
Apps are vehicles for persistent trackers on your device, whereas with a mobile browser you have more freedom to install an ad/tracking blocker. Also, if no one uses the mobile website anymore, the bank will likely shut it down eventually (there are several “fintech” banks that don’t have a usable website already. In this way, apps may lock you into the Android/iOS duality.
I use LineageOS for years now, it works great but I should finally redo my install with Magisk and MicroG, some things that depend on root permissions and Google services would be kind of nice even tho I don’t really need them. Still, once you got used to a custom ROM phones without one seem fucking unusable, all that bloat and shit is just plain terrible!
LineageOS with microg. Running now since over a year. The last upgrade from 18 to 20 was a bit of a hustle, as i had to upgrade my TWRP. So far i’m quite satisfied. The only thing that bugs me is, that i cannot use paid-apps from thr google store. I don’t always find an open source alternative fromF-Droidm.
I’m not sure if /e/ solves this problem i a better way. Was thinking about migrating to /e/. But, als LOS was running quite ok, i did not bother.
have you tried aurora store with sign in? it should work for paid apps
i’ve been using custom ROMs for a long time. In the last years i also replaced GApps with MicroG Currently i’m using LineageOS for MicroG
I do and did this with all my previous phones. Unfortunately, it comes with so many obstacles nowadays like non-working banking apps, that I’m unsure how the future of custom roms looks like. If I need to buy a new phone, I’ll pick one with good custom rom support and a cheap second one just for the banking stuff.
