@turuncuOnNoiseApp 12 May 2022

Have you used custom rom on your Android phone? A while ago, I started using custom rom due to a problem with my smartphone. Until then, I used the Global Miui rom that was installed on my phone. Mi 8 is no longer supported by Xiomi. So my Mi8 phone will not receive updates. On this occasion, I started to research different reliable custom roms. First of all, the most reliable custom rom for me was LinesgeOs, which is a fork of Cyanogenmod. However, when I did deeper research, the following privacy-focused custom roms caught my attention. Among them, I chose e foundation rom /e/os, which I can install on my Xiaomi Mi8 phone. First of all, I would like to state that these custom roms are ungoogled. In other words, open source libraries are used instead of google libraries in rom. Google Play and other Google's applications are not installed. Instead, these custom roms have the applications and libraries of the Microg project installed. Instead of this google play, F-droid, Aurora store, App Lounge (it comes installed on /e/os). However, you should keep in mind that you may not be able to login to some applications with a rom with Microg installed. Like Netflix and some banking apps. However, if you are concerned about your privacy, you may want to consider giving up using a few apps. Or you can use it via a web browser. For example, you can use your bank's online transactions page. I don't use Netflix myself. Apart from Papara, Hepsiburada applications, I did not have any problems with other applications. But I can do my transactions on the websites of this application. If I need to briefly summarize why I prefer an ungoogled rom, the google apps that come with google apps have unlimited authority. And that's the fact that google is constantly sending data from our phone even when our smartphone's screen is off, and google can do everything we do with our own personal smartphone. That is, they can make calls, send and receive messages, access our email, sms, web history, call list. In addition to all this, most popular applications that we think are safe on google play have tracking codes. You can check which app has which viewers on the Exodus website. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ If you are using Aurora Store, you can check trackers and permisions before installing apps and games. It is your choice to download and use. However, if you do not prefer custom roms only for privacy, you can also choose to use the latest android version prepared for your smartphone, which is not officially supported by the company where your smartphone is manufactured. For example, LineageOs 18.1 is an Android 11 version. You can flash LineageOs to your phone, then flash the appropriate gapps file. In this way, you can use google play and other google add-ons and applications on your phone. Xiaomi official version supported for my smartphone is Android 10. The /e/os version currently installed on my smartphone is Android 11. If I want to install Crdroid Rom, I have the opportunity to use Android 12 version. If you want to use custom roms, I recommend you to choose reliable custom roms. For example, the official Lineageos rom you downloaded from Lineageos' own website. Because as unofficial roms are modified, malware may be installed. The roms that I will share below are accepted and trusted and loved by many users. Lineageos: https://lineageos.org/ Crdroid: https://crdroid.net/ Privacy oriented custom roms: /e/ : https://e.foundation/ Calyxos: https://calyxos.org/ Grapheneos: https://grapheneos.org/ LineageOS for microG: https://lineage.microg.org/ Ungoogled apps: Aurora Store: https://auroraoss.com/ F-droid: https://f-droid.org/ Of course, the choice is always yours. I wanted to share with you what I learned by reading and researching.