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?

  • open343English
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    5 months ago

    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.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      5 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?

      • open343English
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        4 months ago

        You don’t need anything extra to block internet connections for applications. You can directly block them from the app information itself. I think what you’ve done so far is very good and sufficient for phone internal use. The important part now is the browser section, and I think you can handle that too.

        • maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I am aware of that feature, but I can’t do the same for a few essential system apps that constantly ping chinese IPs for whatever reason.

          As for my browser, I mostly use Tor browser for browsing/reading and Mull for downloading and streaming.

          Am I being too paranoid? lmao

          • open343English
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            4 months ago

            Mull is dead on performance and I think you’re being very paranoid

            • maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Wdym by dead on performance? works fine for me.

              And yeah, I feel like I’m nailing my feet just to avoid walking into a trap here lol. I should relax, I’ve minimized a LOT of data collection already.

              Any good browser suggestion you have?

              • open343English
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                4 months ago

                For daily use, Mull is not suitable.