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by cookiecaper 3463 days ago
You're probably better off using a stock Android derivative built for OPO. There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers.

I used to use CM on everything but over the last few years I've been plenty happy with pure stock Android (+ root). Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.
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dispose13432 3462 days ago
>There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers.

I personally stay away from there.

For root level access, I'd prefer relying on a project with actual reputation on the line, and has periodic spot checks.

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cookiecaper 3461 days ago
If you have a popular device, that idea is fine. If you don't, I'm not sure if you're going to have much of an option moving forward. Less common devices frequently have phone-specific builds of popular distributions like CM published by a developer-user on xda as their only non-default option.

Even CM's support for a wide range of hardware was mostly bankrolled by Cyanogen Inc, which will now no longer be funding them as they rebrand under LineageOS. It's unclear whether any but the most popular phones will continue to see support from a group that has "actual reputation" on the line or not.

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dispose13432 3461 days ago
They had a lot of phones before Cyanogen Inc.

They were the base Mod behind others (like Open Kang)

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dispose13432 3463 days ago
>Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.

Privacy guard still beats whatever stock rom has.

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realstuff 3463 days ago
Do you have one in mind that you recommend?
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