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[Q] Most stable, bug free 4.2.2 rom?

As of right now there are many roms being worked on. I'm currently running AOSPizza which is fast and stable.
My question is, what 4.2.2. rom seems the to the most stable and bug free? (Working data, camera+camcorder, GPS, etc.)
It is very hard to keep track when the roms are constantly being updated.
Thanks in advance!

KayxGee1 said:
As of right now there are many roms being worked on. I'm currently running AOSPizza which is fast and stable.
My question is, what 4.2.2. rom seems the to the most stable and bug free? (Working data, camera+camcorder, GPS, etc.)
It is very hard to keep track when the roms are constantly being updated.
Thanks in advance!
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They all run differently for different people. Not sure why. Might be Gapps, previous fastbooted stock rom, or *insert reason here*. You just have to try them all and see what you like. PAC, Carbon, and CM10.1 are updated daily, so they can differ from one release to the next....so my best advice is to pick one you like the features of and stay with it, find a stable-for-you version, and try the nightlies with a nandroid on hand if you need it.

I've tried a few, and I am back on stock now. All of the 4.2.2 roms have bugs that I can't live with (battery and bluetooth.)
I have heard there are some worth keeping, but for me it is too much work to keep flashing roms all the time.

adamr240 said:
I've tried a few, and I am back on stock now. All of the 4.2.2 roms have bugs that I can't live with (battery and bluetooth.)
I have heard there are some worth keeping, but for me it is too much work to keep flashing roms all the time.
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Is there any reason besides bluetooth audio that you choose stock over one of the 4.1 roms?

Eruditass said:
Is there any reason besides bluetooth audio that you choose stock over one of the 4.1 roms?
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4.2.2 battery life can be bad. I'm down to 79% with minimal use (checked 3 emails) flashed a rom, been off charger for 9 hours now. One of the biggest battery leeches is Maps -- Yesterday it had 779 wakelock interrupts in a 6 hour period -- means it took my phone out of deep sleep for a second over 100 times every hour. Greenify seems to be helping but I need to do more testing with it. Oh, and disabled Greenify for Maps and had 37 wakelock interrupts in 14 minutes....Sometimes I wonder if its not Maps but the Google Now weather panel making Maps do GPS calls for updated location info for weather. My battery wasn't near as bad till I started using the Now widget over cLock weather panel.

Eruditass said:
Is there any reason besides bluetooth audio that you choose stock over one of the 4.1 roms?
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The pizza rom was great, but didn't allow me to use Google Voice as my voicemail.
The Mexico rom was okay, but it was missing something that i needed.
I quit flashing, it is too much hassle to set up everything.

Tempting Android N AOSP

Very tempted to update to Android N (Team FXP AOSP)
But I value my camera quality (Using DRM fix kernel, works great)
Knowing that the Xperia is never going to get android N, due to google removing the Z3's kernel from their source, would it be worth updating to AOSP, basically removing all the features that are so good?

You answered your own question, stick to stock if you want a camera that works 100% well. AOSP camera has never been good for any phone and the camera on Nougat barely works anyway.
Next best thing is Concept ROM, which still has a decent camera

I'm tempted to try Nougat AOSP. I don't mind losing the camera on Z3c that much since I prefer my camera on my G4. But I don't know how to install it. Is there a guide? That's up? Last time I checked Sony's site the guide was down.
Two qustions, how bad does the camera become, is it still usable for simple random snaps to send to friends on IMs?
What is DRM fix kernel?
TIA

Lol nougat barely works. I've been running it for days now. My opinion is nougat is excellent on z3c. I can upload a flash able zip with full Google apps if people are interested

mcgi5sr2 said:
Lol nougat barely works. I've been running it for days now. My opinion is nougat is excellent on z3c. I can upload a flash able zip with full Google apps if people are interested
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If that was a reply to me, I was referring to the camera

tomascus said:
If that was a reply to me, I was referring to the camera
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sorry pal.
camera isn't really use-able yet
everything else worked great

mcgi5sr2 said:
sorry pal.
camera isn't really use-able yet
everything else worked great
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Which android security patch is it on?
Battery life good?

BrotherZero said:
Which android security patch is it on?
Battery life good?
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I get a solid two days, and as a CoC player thats pretty dam good

mcgi5sr2 said:
I get a solid two days, and as a CoC player thats pretty dam good
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That does sound good. Get 6-8h SOT with SLiMM ROM. Do you know how much you get on this one?
Also could you do me a favour and check which Android Security Patch it got? It would be awesome if PA is up to date with that.
TIA

BrotherZero said:
That does sound good. Get 6-8h SOT with SLiMM ROM. Do you know how much you get on this one?
Also could you do me a favour and check which Android Security Patch it got? It would be awesome if PA is up to date with that.
TIA
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Security patch is September. Its built off the main branch of AOSP google sources. So security will always be uptodate

mcgi5sr2 said:
Security patch is September. Its built off the main branch of AOSP google sources. So security will always be uptodate
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Thanks, mate! might give this a try then. Shame abut the camera, but I guess ill found out how unusable is. Hopefully there is a fix soon.

Sony fix the AOSP camera if they wanted to?
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mcgi5sr2 said:
Security patch is September. Its built off the main branch of AOSP google sources. So security will always be uptodate
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Please could provide a link to the Rom Nougat 7.0

Can you please share the gapps, or tell me which ones you are using? I got cm gapps or open gapps from cm website (for 7.0) and my google play services keep crashing.
Thanks,
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Lol nougat barely works. I've been running it for days now. My opinion is nougat is excellent on z3c. I can upload a flash able zip with full Google apps if people are interested
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https://www.androidfilehost.com/user/?w=settings-dev-files&flid=73595
Is where I am posting all the builds I put together. So be warned that if it doesn't boot it was just a test version. AFAIK the latest ROM should boot fine without issue. GApps are already installed on all the flashable zip versions in that location

mcgi5sr2 said:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/user/?w=settings-dev-files&flid=73595
Is where I am posting all the builds I put together. So be warned that if it doesn't boot it was just a test version. AFAIK the latest ROM should boot fine without issue. GApps are already installed on all the flashable zip versions in that location
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Hey thanks. Quick question, you said you have been running nougat on your device and everything (but the camera) seems to be working. I just installed it last night (and my gapps are working as well now) and I already noticed a couple of bugs. First and most important, i can't hear the person on the other end of the line. It appears that my earpiece is not working. The person on the other end can hear me, but I can't hear that person. Second and minor issue, once i plug in my z3c to charge, the battery icon top right shows the charging sign as it should. However when i unplug, that charging sign doesn't go away. So far i have noticed these bugs, can you confirm if you are not facing these bugs (so I know its my device that is messed up).
Thanks,

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Hey thanks. Quick question, you said you have been running nougat on your device and everything (but the camera) seems to be working. I just installed it last night (and my gapps are working as well now) and I already noticed a couple of bugs. First and most important, i can't hear the person on the other end of the line. It appears that my earpiece is not working. The person on the other end can hear me, but I can't hear that person. Second and minor issue, once i plug in my z3c to charge, the battery icon top right shows the charging sign as it should. However when i unplug, that charging sign doesn't go away. So far i have noticed these bugs, can you confirm if you are not facing these bugs (so I know its my device that is messed up).
Thanks,
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Hi!
I'm using the latest AOSP for our devices, and facing thiese bugs too. ( 20160912 ). Sometimes I've got calling bug when I can't hear the other person on the line, but he can hear me. Just a restart solves it, but I've got thiese problem nearly evry tenth call time... And one more thing, while i'm on calling and my phone set to minimum volumes, everyone else could to hear my phones speak... or I can say it, what you're talking about. Like when i set the speak to a loudspeaker, as though it were the whole conversation. The speakers are very loud on minimum volume, and not too much louder on maximum settings. ( but, i think they are a known bug ).
Second, the cahrging icon. Yes I experienced it too, when you disconnect the charger from the phone, the icon remain the same, like when the charger plugged in.. And I think, something gping on the background, because my battery goes down nearly 30 percent by a night ( 8h ).
About the rom speed. I think, it runs very smooth / fine until more than five software parallel, ROM while fast. If more than five program run in the background, ROM start to tear, slow down. If you delete them from the memory, the system will be fast again.
I tried to take a logcat with "aLogcat" from playstore, but it's not working. I remember it from my previously phone age, i must convert it to system app... But now, I can't do this, because i did it with Titanium Backup, and now they not support andoid N..
Anyway, I think its will be a very good AOSP rom... ( without camera :/ )

I'm looking for a super stable ROM with good battery life. Which do I choose?

The title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for a super stable ROM with good battery life. Which do I choose?
I have a short list of things I need:
Lollipop or Marshmallow
Debloated
Good battery life
Stable
Bluetooth
I don't care about camera quality (though the camera should work if I want to use it...) so I am open to the idea of using an AOSP ROM if it can meet my requirements.
I'm using SLiM ROM version 4.8 (Android 5.1.1) right now and have a few problems with it:
If I reboot, I typically get stuck in a bootloop until I enter recovery and format the cache. Then it takes 10-15 minutes to start up.
I use Google Keyboard which can be very sluggish sometimes (not sure if that's the keyboard's fault or if it's the phone).
The stock camera app and snapchat both crash when I attempt to record video. This is usually fixed by a reboot... but only temporarily.
Sometimes I don't get notifications from Hangouts or the notifications are delayed (not sure if this is a problem with Hangouts or the phone)
Is there an updated SLiM ROM that's more stable? Or should I look for something different? I really liked using AOSP ROMs on my old phones but they typically lacked decent battery life.

Organized_Chaos said:
The title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for a super stable ROM with good battery life. Which do I choose?
I have a short list of things I need:
Lollipop or Marshmallow
Debloated
Good battery life
Stable
Bluetooth
I don't care about camera quality (though the camera should work if I want to use it...) so I am open to the idea of using an AOSP ROM if it can meet my requirements.
I'm using SLiM ROM version 4.8 (Android 5.1.1) right now and have a few problems with it:
If I reboot, I typically get stuck in a bootloop until I enter recovery and format the cache. Then it takes 10-15 minutes to start up.
I use Google Keyboard which can be very sluggish sometimes (not sure if that's the keyboard's fault or if it's the phone).
The stock camera app and snapchat both crash when I attempt to record video. This is usually fixed by a reboot... but only temporarily.
Sometimes I don't get notifications from Hangouts or the notifications are delayed (not sure if this is a problem with Hangouts or the phone)
Is there an updated SLiM ROM that's more stable? Or should I look for something different? I really liked using AOSP ROMs on my old phones but they typically lacked decent battery life.
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T'es there is SLIMM 3.1 on the forum. It's MM for mashmallow

I am running a stock ROM and hangouts doesn't send notifications for me either. It has nothing to do with your setup. I've tried hangouts on 3 different devices (2 HTC's and a Sony) and something has always not worked with that app on all those devices. Google needs to get their act together.

Try Sony Concept ROM, it is on Marshmallow therefore it has Doze and it is as stock as it can get which means it is debloated. Battery life is superb, no bloatware, camera is as good as stock, one of the most stable ROMs out there! Also it is still receiving OTA updates and becoming more and more efficient. As for the video recording bug in your Lollipop ROM, it persists in this Concept ROM I'm talking about. But you can fix it by renaming these files in /system/etc/firmware/
tzwidevine.b00 -> tzwidevine.b00.bak
tzwidevine.b01 -> tzwidevine.b01.bak
tzwidevine.b02 -> tzwidevine.b02.bak
tzwidevine.b03 -> tzwidevine.b03.bak
tzwidevine.mdt -> tzwidevine.mdt.bak
This works for KitKat (yes KK has that issue too, along with "There was a problem while playing... etc." error in YouTube), Lollipop and Concept ROMs.

Organized_Chaos said:
The title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for a super stable ROM with good battery life. Which do I choose?
I have a short list of things I need:
Lollipop or Marshmallow
Debloated
Good battery life
Stable
Bluetooth
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I really liked using AOSP ROMs on my old phones but they typically lacked decent battery life.
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If you are going to try the SLIMM 3.1, do 2 things to maintain good daily battery life:
1) Settings -> About Phone -> Status -> Charging Optimization: This is ON by default - you may notice less battery daily. This feature tries to maintain better battery life over the long run (i.e. battery lasts for more years). You can turn this feature off.
2) Location: Only turn this on when it's needed. Some users (including myself) noticed Google Play Services was draining battery randomly while Location was on.
I can see that there is a new SLIMM 3.2 out - I don't know if it addresses either of these 2 issues. Good luck!

marshalpear said:
[...] along with "There was a problem while playing... etc." error in YouTube), Lollipop and Concept ROMs.
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I forgot about that one! That has gotten so bad I don't even try looking at Youtube videos from Reddit or even the app.
I will definitely try the concept ROM and this fix. Thanks!

Your experience on Open Beta for OOS (Nougat)

Hi,
For the users on the open beta for nougat on the OP3 , I would like to know how is your experience? What's new on the build? It's is stable ? What do you're like or don't like on this preview of the 7.0 update.
Thanks in advance.

better than stock rom
i'm using this rom and everything is better in this rom compared to stock especially the battery life

I'm really enjoying it more than cm 14.1 cause of its little issue that aren't present on OB8

sometimes the lights on the buttons turn on until I touch the screen. Weird, don't know if anyone else has this bug

i didn't like the beta... i was missing all the customization of resurrection remix and i hated the system apps design (especially the the status bar that is not darker, but the exact same color as the action bar of system apps, which is too iphone-ish for me). but it does run smooth, battery life is in fact excellent , so objectively nothing wrong with it, just not my taste

Yes, the battery life is much better.

Poor battery life
Everybody saying about a good battery life, but here I experienced massive battery drain over previous RR rom. last day phone had a 6% drain/hour in idle state. I had to install "Nap_Time" to get idle state stable. Maybe it's an app bugging the wakelocks. Maybe because it's still a beta. Bugs are expected. Other than that occasional hiccups are presence. Overally smooth rom. Excellent low light camera experience. even better than 3.2.8 build

have been on OOS 8 beta for almost a week now... very impressed
excellent battery life.. havent encountered any issues or bugs.. runs as good as Marshmallow if not better

egyptshun said:
sometimes the lights on the buttons turn on until I touch the screen. Weird, don't know if anyone else has this bug
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Yeah, while watching a YT video or a film it's annoying.

My internal memory became only 49 GB after installing Open Beta for OOS (Nougat).i had clean installed it.I also wiped the internal storage in stock recovery.

I found call quality on ob8 were worse.

paradise220 said:
My internal memory became only 49 GB after installing Open Beta for OOS (Nougat).i had clean installed it.I also wiped the internal storage in stock recovery.
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Not normal. Mine in f2fs is 53,2GB

egyptshun said:
sometimes the lights on the buttons turn on until I touch the screen. Weird, don't know if anyone else has this bug
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Yeap same here its annoying
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Bluetooth has some issues

It's kinda unresponsive.. finger print scanner is slower now..
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Hi guys, i was trying to edit build.prop but while using different root browsers am not able to see system partition or reach root directory. Is there way to access root directory. I am on OOS beta 8 and rooted with SR 5 . Do i have to mount system partion in recovery then reboot then only it will be visible .

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Hi guys, i was trying to edit build.prop but while using different root browsers am not able to see system partition or reach root directory. Is there way to access root directory. I am on OOS beta 8 and rooted with SR 5 . Do i have to mount system partion in recovery then reboot then only it will be visible .
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No problems with Root Explorer here.

No Android pay for me, and my boot loader still seems locked. Not sure what to do about it other than wait for the stable version.

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I am one of the few it seems that had battery life tank after the OB8 was installed cleanly. I used to have around 75% left after a full workday on wifi and now I have 50% at best. I also miss the screenshot full page feature. I used it a lot.

Which Custom Rom is the best?

Which custom rom is better as a daily driver? I rarely play games so gaming doesn't really matter, I watch youtube and browse twitter and reddit.
I'm thinking of flashing dotOS or Havoc OS, but if there's a better and more stable rom, just let me know.
Thanks

I would suggest Harukey's Syberia pie rom, an excellent choice for a daily driver, i use it with the stock kernel it originally comes with, and not rooted; zero bugs believe me. And an excellent battery life, my device's battery has gone from 97% to 66% in 2.5 days of inconsistent usage. And stanby drain is almost non-existent. Cant vouch for any other rom, had problems with Havoc, and havent tried dot os as of yet. I'm sticking with syberia for atleast a few months for now.
Here's the latest iteration:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sy...toni-v2.3-20190309-0651-OFFICIAL.zip/download

dhrjbhtt0 said:
I would suggest Harukey's Syberia pie rom, an excellent choice for a daily driver, i use it with the stock kernel it originally comes with, and not rooted; zero bugs believe me. And an excellent battery life, my device's battery has gone from 97% to 66% in 2.5 days of inconsistent usage. And stanby drain is almost non-existent. Cant vouch for any other rom, had problems with Havoc, and havent tried dot os as of yet. I'm sticking with syberia for atleast a few months for now.
Here's the latest iteration:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sy...toni-v2.3-20190309-0651-OFFICIAL.zip/download
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thank you for the suggestion!

GameEaters said:
thank you for the suggestion!
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And I'm sorry, seems like I forgot to tell you about the only bug that I've come across, since that doesnt matter much to me. The auto brightness feature doesnt seem to work at all times, sometimes it will work, but half of the time it refuses to make an effect on the screen brightness, so be wary of that.
And btw, you could also look towards the Pixel experience rom, another great ROM for our device, and extremely smooth and bug free, and if my memory serves me right, auto brightness also works fine on it.
Here's the latest version of the PE rom:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-fSlX7jEI74tXOMSZAMcP7gZAIndU_Ie/view?usp=sharing

dhrjbhtt0 said:
And I'm sorry, seems like I forgot to tell you about the only bug that I've come across, since that doesnt matter much to me. The auto brightness feature doesnt seem to work at all times, sometimes it will work, but half of the time it refuses to make an effect on the screen brightness, so be wary of that.
And btw, you could also look towards the Pixel experience rom, another great ROM for our device, and extremely smooth and bug free, and if my memory serves me right, auto brightness also works fine on it.
Here's the latest version of the PE rom:
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Thank you for recommending this to me, it's really smooth (better than miui). Flashed it yesterday, autobrightness doesn't matter because I don't use it. Lawnchair was a bit glitchy, and ram management was ok, but i got 5 hours of sot from 60% to 5% which is good. Once again thanks so much for recommending me this awesome rom. I'll probably donate to the developers for their work.

Syberia +1

Havoc os with wolf hunter edition kernal

Havoc OS latest build

Pixel Experience Go rom is most stable rom ever

SyberiaOS is the best one so far! I absolutely love it.
The only thing I'd change is the default launcher, Lawnchair is indeed glitchy and I'm always scared to update because every time I had problems with this before & after the encryption so it isn't the cause.
Has anyone experienced bootloop after update? I didn't root the device, I always leave the update zip bc I every time I need to reflash again.

GameEaters said:
Which custom rom is better as a daily driver? I rarely play games so gaming doesn't really matter, I watch youtube and browse twitter and reddit.
I'm thinking of flashing dotOS or Havoc OS, but if there's a better and more stable rom, just let me know.
Thanks
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Ho for lineage os official, or syberia os

dotos is solid. no bugs on clean install and great battery.

ogjobat said:
dotos is solid. no bugs on clean install and great battery.
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How come you don't have any bugs on dotOS? I tried it twice, two different versions, I thought maybe my set up was faulty but every time I had to replace this rom with something else. It's unusable.
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locovibe said:
How come you don't have any bugs on dotOS? I tried it twice, two different versions, I thought maybe my set up was faulty but every time I had to replace this rom with something else. It's unusable.
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maybe try a clean install with the latest version?

I did and didn't restore my data. Soon after the installation I get numerous errors and hang ups. I won't try it again.
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amandeep0007 said:
Pixel Experience Go rom is most stable rom ever
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I'm testing right now the CAF ROM.
I miss so many added features from SyberiaOS (beautifully implemented One-Hand mode, scrambled lockscreen keyboard, more accessible power menu, choosing preferred overview mode, built-in status bar customiser and many more handy additions). WiFi seems a lot slower (and it is, just checked with fast.com) and it says it's been fixed on the project's offical website. Not. Loc on, BT off. No root.
I always choose smaller display size and on Pixel Experience ROM it looks less adjusted and even too small (items are too close to the edges, especially annoying on the pull-down status bar). SyberiaOS has more steps to configure this one, so "smaller" one doesn't look that small.
Except some nice touches like Product Sans and neat-looking lockscreen weather widget I don't see many advantages over SyberiaOS. I don't care about Pixel wallpapers and sounds - I always use the same wallpaper and sounds since Nokia N8 XD.
Still, the ROM feels nice, there are +2 pros just mentioned above, but they aren't a necessity, another +1 because of the recent founding in SyberiaOS (on Pixel Experience camera does include location which is a must for me, but same as SyberiaOS doesn't display Model & Maker), +1 for built-in Google apps, +1 for seamless encryption, +1 boots faster, but it may be subjective (although RAM usage is 1 GB less of what SyberiaOS uses) and possible +1 for smooth updates. We'll see.
I'll stick with it for some time and see how's it going.
@RohanHasabe8 check this out and thank you big time!

ogjobat said:
dotos is solid. no bugs on clean install and great battery.
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Which version do you mean, official or unofficial?

Lineage OS is the best rom . I am on LOS 15.01 oreo 8.1 rom no bugs and a lot of updates.
Also lot of privacy settings like trust. Normal drain of battery and it is official and still supported.
:good::good::good:for the devs who work hard!

Guys i flashed the PE normal build today and am unable to root it i installed magisk several times but manager keep saying magisk is not installed and ya i am using latest orangefox recovery i.e 9.0 .

Droid King said:
Guys i flashed the PE normal build today and am unable to root it i installed magisk several times but manager keep saying magisk is not installed and ya i am using latest orangefox recovery i.e 9.0 .
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In this case you have to change kernel. Try f.e. gabriel or wolf kernel.