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Since we don't yet have a specific community for custom phone ROMs, let's discuss them here. Are you running a custom ROM? Which one? On what hardware? How is it?

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lineage OS on my pixel 5. I'm looking to set up my environment so I can build and sign my ROM that way I can lock the bootloader.

[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you ever built one before? I've looked into it and it's not a trivial thing.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and now you have me starting a build.... I was going to play games tonight so thanks!

[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Now you can return the favor. Can you point me at a step-by-step tutorial for building a ROM? I'd like to be able to choose what's included and what's not, etc. I don't really have any special use case, so do you think it's worth the effort to make my own?

No but I have compiled firmware for keyboards, managed to go completely off script and deploy Lemmy using a custom compose and unsupported proxy, and im half decent at using linux.

I like to joke that im the tech equivalent of 1000 monkeys with keyboards, eventually I figure it out :)

[–] vividspecter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not trivial but not as hard as I thought, at least last time I tried it. The absurd amount of disk space the build environment requires, along with the time to actually clone it it, is probably the most annoying part.