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    The death of ROMS

    I was wondering there seem to be less roms around than the early days. I have a nexus 5x with 6.0.1 I don't feel the need to use a ROM I did with my sony when they stopped updating it but now stock android is pretty good.

    I think that people aren't going through the hassle of installing a ROM anymore as good as some are.

    There will always be people that like to tinkerers of course.

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    Re: The death of ROMS

    Pure android on the nexus range is good and updated regular, a lot of the Chinese phones these days are good at first but when the updates stop thats when the roms play their part.

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    Re: The death of ROMS

    I think ROMs have a place as I run ROMs on 3 of my 4 android devices and all are ROMs that bring a version of an OS that is not officially supported by the manufacturer.

    Only my moto x is not rooted and got a custom ROM as vanilla Android is sweet.
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    Re: The death of ROMS

    Answered your own question ... android as supplied is much better now, and devices are a little less RAM constrained than they used to be
    (until software catches us to gobble all the ram again...)
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    Re: The death of ROMS

    While stock android is >>>>>> any carrier-meddled bloatware(looking at you Samsung) - I could still never stay completely stock, Root & Xposed provide far too many goodies to give up.
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