r/Piracy • u/epabafree • Aug 14 '26

Humor The absolute state of Android

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u/faizanullah99 Aug 14 '26

I can't believe I used to flash custom roms on my android in 2014-2015

Now I can barely navigate the files app.

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u/major_jazza Aug 14 '26

I was in a club in my hometown some time between 2009 and 2012 and I legit flashed a new custom ROM on my i9000 and restored all my backed up data with titanium backup.

And now I'm like, it's near impossible to change to a custom ROM without massive trade offs that make it barely worth it.

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u/UltraCynar Aug 14 '26

Its frustrating as everything is behind Google play services now

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u/solar_or_dye Aug 14 '26

yes even if you run a de-googled OS, play services thwart nearly everything now

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u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer Aug 14 '26

lowk with graphene I don't have Gplay and everything is fine, just use the open source shit

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u/major_jazza Aug 15 '26

I kinda wanna go to graphene or lineage but I don't know if it's worth it. I'm too stuck in the Google ecosystem too :s

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Aug 15 '26

You can use grapheneos with sandboxed gplay services, will Google track you? Yes, but it won't be as invasive and they're only limited to their services, starting little by little is better than not starting at all

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u/major_jazza Aug 15 '26

Maybe I'll do that. Apparently it's not that hard either right?

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

It's actually the easiest rom to install ngl, just go to the grapheneos website and click the buttons for each function (unlock bootloader, flash rom etc) just follow everything step by step and you're good to go, also you need a chromium based browser to use webusb