Can The Notch be 'Hidden' in Custom ROMs like AEX/LineageOS? - Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers

I didn't want to create a thread just to ask such a basic question but I'm not sure where else to ask. I'm thinking about buying this phone but I really dislike the notch and would prefer to keep it 'hidden' at all times.
Ever since my first Android device (2012 Nexus 7) I have always enjoyed flashing custom ROMs and tinkering with the software on my devices. My question is, should I decide to flash a custom ROM to the Pocophone, would it still be possible possible to hide the notch in something like AEX or LineageOS?
I have to assume not because the size of the notch on every device is different. But maybe the custom ROM teams could implement a feature to add an optional black bar at the top, with a setting to adjust the height (measured in Pixels) to match the height of the notch on the device in question.

P650SE said:
I didn't want to create a thread just to ask such a basic question but I'm not sure where else to ask. I'm thinking about buying this phone but I really dislike the notch and would prefer to keep it 'hidden' at all times.
Ever since my first Android device (2012 Nexus 7) I have always enjoyed flashing custom ROMs and tinkering with the software on my devices. My question is, should I decide to flash a custom ROM to the Pocophone, would it still be possible possible to hide the notch in something like AEX or LineageOS?
I have to assume not because the size of the notch on every device is different. But maybe the custom ROM teams could implement a feature to add an optional black bar at the top, with a setting to adjust the height (measured in Pixels) to match the height of the notch on the device in question.
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Actually I also hate notch. I owned whyred previously I've shifted to poco because of development pace and most of the developers here can build from scratch .IMO u should go for lineage it has always notch hide option and has least amount of bugs :good:

prabh98 said:
Actually I also hate notch. I owned whyred previously I've shifted to poco because of development pace and most of the developers here can build from scratch .IMO u should go for lineage it has always notch hide option and has least amount of bugs :good:
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Thanks, that is good to know that Lineage already has the option to hide the notch. One of the reasons I'm also considering Poco is because of the pace of development. (I miss the OnePlus One which had the best dev community ever!)
Does the option to hide the notch in Lineage work just as well as the one built into the stock MIUI ROM? And does it have symmetrical curved corners?

P650SE said:
Thanks, that is good to know that Lineage already has the option to hide the notch. One of the reasons I'm also considering Poco is because of the pace of development. (I miss the OnePlus One which had the best dev community ever!)
Does the option to hide the notch in Lineage work just as well as the one built into the stock MIUI ROM? And does it have symmetrical curved corners?
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Actually poco has large curves due to which curves are not symmetrical .notch works better than stock in lineage especially the notification icons are handled way better than stock

prabh98 said:
Actually poco has large curves due to which curves are not symmetrical .notch works better than stock in lineage especially the notification icons are handled way better than stock
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That's great. I was worried about not being able to see my notification icons so that's good to hear it's not an issue in LineageOS. I'm hoping to get the 128GB version of the Pocophone a bit cheaper on Black Friday.

Hi everyone.
I'm thinking about buying POCO F1, but I've searched several threads and I still haven't understood.
Is there any ROM that can disable the notch area? Like move the status bar below the notch so that we could have just a normal status bar?

vigilante7373 said:
Hi everyone.
I'm thinking about buying POCO F1, but I've searched several threads and I still haven't understood.
Is there any ROM that can disable the notch area? Like move the status bar below the notch so that we could have just a normal status bar?
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yes almost every linage based rom has this optuion now ..and i have it oof from last 15 days and now i think i have forgotten that my phone has a notch too..

im using miui. rooted, and i i stall the notif mode
so my notification icons will be show below the clock
the clock area on the left side of the notch becomes 2 lines
1st line for clock, 2nd line for notifications
heads up to the themes, apps & mods section of poco f1
there is a specific thread on that, and updated frequently

just like attachment

prabh98 said:
Actually I also hate notch. I owned whyred previously I've shifted to poco because of development pace and most of the developers here can build from scratch .IMO u should go for lineage it has always notch hide option and has least amount of bugs :good:
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I don't have any "Hide" option in the developer options of LineageOS [Official] - or do I miss something?

I can report that currently Havoc OS has that feature built in (in Havoc Settings). Check attachment.

Display bug after flash stock rom
i flashed stock rom on nonia 5.1 plus (nokia x5) and after that the device think that i'm whthout notch. the notch is cutting / hiding my screen .
I can see half of my wifi icon at the top because the other half is under the notch , like you cover the screen with something. Any help?

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Custom ROM usability

I've been eyeing this phone for a while and I'm probably going to buy either this or the Oneplus 5T. But since I apply custom ROMs to all my phones, I'd like to know a few things before I decide:
How much does installing a custom rom affect funcionality? I'm talking about:
-The wide angle camera (big selling point for me)
-Quad DAC funcionality
-Quick charging and battery life
-Other aspects
I am aware most of this stuff depends on the ROM you install, but I mean on a general level.
I've heard the LG ROM is quite bloated and I do enjoy the customization options I get from custom ROMs, but the stock camera and audio apps offer a lot of options I wouldn't want to lose.
Thanks in advance
You may want to take a look at the ROM development section here. There's not much going for this phone right now. This device isn't that open at the moment. If a custom ROM is what you want, go with the OnePlus 5T
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You may want to take a look at the ROM development section here. There's not much going for this phone right now. This device isn't that open at the moment. If a custom ROM is what you want, go with the OnePlus 5T
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But if you want a phone with great specs (much better than OnePlus) and be assured that development is coming, stick with the V30.
US998U just got bootloader unlock today.
Sent from my official open market LG US998 V30+

Stock or Custom ROM?

I bought my Redmi Note 5 (which happens to be my first Xiaomi phone) a week ago and I gotta say MIUI is much better than I expected. It's pretty fast and has a lot of features and the camera app is fine. I want your opinion: Is LineageOS or other custom ROMs worth it for this device? I have a pretty good amount of experience with custom ROMs but I was wondering if I would be missing out on anything if I switch to a custom ROM. Is the camera app as good as/better than the MIUI camera app? Does it have PROPER manual mode? Do I still get slow motion, portrait mode front and back, and other cool stuff? If not, can I flash a camera app for that? I have a billion questions that can be answered with your opinion and a link to a ROM you like, if any.
Thanks for your time!
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langster- said:
I would go for MIUI 10 , most of the roms here are just the same vendor rom with lots of bugs and then overlays on top.
Basic things are missing or broken like proper fingerprint reading/swiping, Gcam is rubbish and only kind of works, they have volume issues with both speakers and headphones, screen brightness problems, heating issues, wake lock issues, no mms with mobile data turned off, no treble support because they didn't bother fixing the vendor rom, fast charge issues, no voLTE and updates are few and far between.
Now recently we have Android P and it is rubbish, laggy broken no camera, no voLTE all the same vendor issues.
And LineageOS rom is broken with all the same problems and more.
Sorry to dissapoint but we really lucked out on developers with this device.
At the moment, things may change, but MIUI 10 has it all over every custom rom here.
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MIUI 10 is still in beta though, right? I guess I'll have to give it a month or so. I'm currently running MIUI 9.5.19 and the system update app says I'm good.
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Zambiemambie said:
MIUI 10 is still in beta though, right? I guess I'll have to give it a month or so. I'm currently running MIUI 9.5.19 and the system update app says I'm good.
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9.5.19 is for note 5 global so this forum is not for your device. You have to go note 5 pro forum (it's pro only in India, Chinese and global are both note 5 without pro)
jes0411 said:
9.5.19 is for note 5 global so this forum is not for your device. You have to go note 5 pro forum (it's pro only in India, Chinese and global are both note 5 without pro)
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That's weird. The XDA app landed me here ?
langster- said:
yes but it is stable beta and Oreo, i wasn't even considering Android Nougat in this conversation, it is just too old :laugh:
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MIUI 9.5 is based on Oreo 8.1 for me. And isn't MIUI 10 based on Pie 9.0?
See @langster-Posting -
Forum can rename itself in Bug-Forum - never see before . . . sooooo many Bugs concerning important Points (Wlan, LTE, Sound and and and)
Stay with Miui and look forward to Updates ...
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langster- said:
I would go for MIUI 10 , most of the roms here are just the same vendor rom with lots of bugs and then overlays on top.
Basic things are missing or broken like proper fingerprint reading/swiping, Gcam is rubbish and only kind of works, they have volume issues with both speakers and headphones, screen brightness problems, heating issues, wake lock issues, no mms with mobile data turned off, no treble support because they didn't bother fixing the vendor rom, fast charge issues, no voLTE and updates are few and far between.
Now recently we have Android P and it is rubbish, laggy broken no camera, no voLTE all the same vendor issues.
And LineageOS rom is broken with all the same problems and more.
Sorry to dissapoint but we really lucked out on developers with this device.
At the moment, things may change, but MIUI 10 has it all over every custom rom here.
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Using RR and have none of your named problems. No Wakelocks, though there is a Netlink problem happening randomly when flashing, but ez reconnect battery and it's fixed. Luckily I never faced that bug.
Also Gcam Mod is amazing, pictures are as good as in MIUI Camera.
RAM management is way, waaaay better than in MIUI, no crashes, no lags, no hot reboots.
Battery Life is the same, can't point out a difference.
No screen brightness & heating issues either. The sceen burn was a wrong driver in DarkAges Kernel, as far as I understood it.
Running in RR and can highly recommend to get rid of MIUI, then you can unleash the full power of your phone !
Same goes for Liquid Remix. None, really NONE of the problems discribed above occur. WiFi is superb, gcam works without a single hiccup, sound is great, battery life is even better than on MIUI.
I don't understand why so many people put so much hate on custom roms for Vince, you just have to search for the well maintained roms and not for the ones that gets an initial release and then be abandoned by the devs (aka the indian teenagers that clone complete repos and just put their name on it)
I'd rather prefer MIUI, ive tried almost every custom ROM. My internet connection keeps dropping, im unable to play Clash Royale and other online games, the connection drops. The only fix is to DEGRADE the connection type to 2G within the mobile network settings.
Pixel experience is good
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langster- said:
Agree I don't think the devs can figure these minor bugs out and even worse they all seem to be sharing the same buggy base crap and just putting custom roms on top of it.
I installed 10 custom roms and they failed in all the same "features"
And watch out for Dark Ages kernel unless you want to cook marshmellows on your phone while charging!
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it's the best of a bad bunch, yes.
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here you go install the latest liquid remix https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OLDYzHYUI_wZgbzzDc3vwYMJejPmUOk0/view
- the rounded corners! look how big they are ROFL, a joke or what?
- high battery consumption
- high RAM consumption
- unstable WiFi
- heating on normal use and charging
- force close apps (back button), dont work
- battery saver color dont change
- no mms with data turned off
- swipe fingerprint for notifications not working
- no fast charge
- speaker and headphone volume too low
please don't spread lies.
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i install latest, round corner not a big deal.
the rest i didnt face that issue what ur saying
no force close
mms fine
fp superb
fast charge
ram way better
battery superb
no heating issue in any rom
maybe ur phone didnt want custom ?
and hes not lying as i say maybe ur phone got something ?
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langster- said:
here you go install the latest liquid remix https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OLDYzHYUI_wZgbzzDc3vwYMJejPmUOk0/view
- the rounded corners! look how big they are ROFL, a joke or what?
- high battery consumption
- high RAM consumption
- unstable WiFi
- heating on normal use and charging
- force close apps (back button), dont work
- battery saver color dont change
- no mms with data turned off
- swipe fingerprint for notifications not working
- no fast charge
- speaker and headphone volume too low
please don't spread lies.
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I have it installed of course, otherwise I couldn't talk about it, huh?
- Rounded corners are okay, I like them. That is no bug, that's the decision of the dev.
- Battery is decent, 10+ hours of SoT.
- RAM is no problem, never under 1000mb free
- Never had ANY problem with WiFi. Check your router.
- Heating? What is heating for you? Never ever had more than 40°C, even when playing PUBG.
- Force close on back key works on smart bar. Use that.
- Fast charge works fine, see attached Screenshot.
- Speaker and headphone are fine, what the f* do you expect from a PHONE?
Well, I think you are the one spreading lies here, nearly everything you have mentioned above simply isn't true. Maybe you should switch to iOS if you cannot setup your android device properly.
End of Talk.
langster- said:
the top corners are so rounded it cuts off the clock, you can't see that or you don't want to see that ROFL
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i see a little bit black in top of round corner i know its not fitted but not big deal for me you can adjust corner by yourself by editing value and overall is fine and dont spread lies for what you are experiencing.
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Yeah, nice, a thread by you which is a complete rip off of blacksuans thread for pie. You are my hero for today. Applause. ?

Can we talk about how bad the Pie update on poco?

After i saw the pie miui update in system update, i immediately update my poco from oreo to pie immediatelly, thinking the update would make my poco even better, but no i was wrong, i ended up regretting udpating it, wished i stayed on oreo. Here's what the issues I'm facing on pie:
1. You can't disable the notch in settings anymore
2. 30-40% of the time when you use the home gestures to go home, the launcher is refreshing for some reason and it took me 2 seconds to wait my launcher to load
3. The recent apps animation is sluggish and not smooth compared to oreo animations
4. When you use the recent apps gestures then you immediately clicked on other apps, it doesnt go to the app immediately, but instead you must wait like 1 second, then you will able to click on other apps, in oreo it's instant, in pie its not, you must wait for it load 1 second for some reason
5. Performance is slightly worse compare to oreo, i can confirm this by playing pubg, i used to play pubg on HDR with ultra framerate settings on oreo as it is smooth on oreo, but on pie, i can feel its slightly has a lower framerate than on oreo. So now i have to play on smooth with extreme framerate settings in pubg on pie
6. We all know geekbench is a lie, yes i have a higher score on pie than oreo, but i can confirm that is BS. Pie on poco doesn't have a better performance than oreo on poco
7. Batterly is slightly worse than on oreo. When im on oreo, when i play pubg even with HDR settings, i can play a lot longer than on pie, i can truly feel im using a 4000mah battery when im oreo. But when im on pie, i feel like im using a 3000mah battery phone when im playing pubg. It drains the battery more than when im on my oreo
It's kinda weird why no one talking about this. As i assume you guys have never received the pie udpate or what?
Hi.
Finally somehas the same issues. I thought it is only my phone. I used it with xiaomi.eu developer rom but experienced the same lags. I dont do games. But I can confirm the same slowness when returning to homescreen. Sometimes it took 5-10 seconds to return to the homescreen. Now I am on pixel experience rom. The antutu score is much lower. But the overall experience is much smoother. Are you on the official 10.1 stable?
@w1040 - 1. is a nuisance, though natchonotch sorts it out
Aside from that, I haven't seen the other issues you list, though there wasn't really any user facing good stuff in the pie update - bit of a let down
mad.droid said:
Hi.
Finally somehas the same issues. I thought it is only my phone. I used it with xiaomi.eu developer rom but experienced the same lags. I dont do games. But I can confirm the same slowness when returning to homescreen. Sometimes it took 5-10 seconds to return to the homescreen. Now I am on pixel experience rom. The antutu score is much lower. But the overall experience is much smoother. Are you on the official 10.1 stable?
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Yes im on 10.1.3.0 stable. Im really dissapointed with the pie update, it makes poco experience slightly worse than on oreo.
thesoupthief said:
@w1040 - 1. is a nuisance, though natchonotch sorts it out
Aside from that, I haven't seen the other issues you list, though there wasn't really any user facing good stuff in the pie update - bit of a let down
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Why do i wanna install a third party notch hider rather than just using the built in notch hider in setings that is now sadly gone
Well, They still won't fit the notch.
Don't know what they're thinking anymore.
2, 3 and 4 are the worst parts, such a turn off to use miui. Additionally, discarding notification, you can only swipe to the right as to the left opens a menu, which is also annoying. The transparent theme is also annoying and UI as a whole feels sluggish. I was impressed by Oreo when I first got the phone, but really hate pie, so Im sticking to lineage OS as I like it way more.
1. nacho notch will do the trick. I read somewhere in fhe forum that google asked to remove the hide notch feature. Not sure about the veracity of the claim.
The rest of the issues is not present on my phone.
I'm so disappointed in this phone it was overhyped by too many sources. I'll just buy a used flagship next time.
My sd845 just for calling and messaging purpose, disappointed with poco software and the poco dev...
And everyone is forgetting no more full screen gaming.
And screen recording creates black bars on 3 sides with different widths.
So damn annoying.
The only stuff that goes full-screen now is YouTube just the inverse of what was the case on oreo, all apps were full screen except for YouTube.
Can anyone help me disable Screen Pinning? The worst problem I'm facing right now. I accidentally tap the pin and I have no idea how to get out. A nice popup tells me to press back and recents at the same time. But that doesn't work with full screen gestures nor with buttons - mirrored or not. The most frustrating update. Period.

Notifications disappear after a few seconds

I have notifications enabled but they disappear after a few seconds, is that normal behaviour?
MIUI version stable 10.0.5.0(ODTMIFH) Global version.
Yes. They disappear and then the clock appear.
antonioli84 said:
Yes. They disappear and then the clock appear.
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This is really weird, more coming from Android One... Why have a small notch if you don't take advatage of the remaining space?
I'm even regretting a bit of the purchase, seeing that Honor 10 doesn't have that behavior in addition to having already Android 9 Pie. I just hope that the roms like Pixel Experience or Lineage 16 stabilize fast, and in a month or two make the change of Rom.
It is very good mobile at a great price, but details such as these greatly impede the experience.
I did some reading about the lack of notifications. There are a lot of complaints about this, but I think they will come. If your phone is unlocked you can install a custom notification file, that will bring back your notifications. For notifications in the Official Stable version we will have to wait.
androidext said:
This is really weird, more coming from Android One... Why have a small notch if you don't take advatage of the remaining space?
I'm even regretting a bit of the purchase, seeing that Honor 10 doesn't have that behavior in addition to having already Android 9 Pie. I just hope that the roms like Pixel Experience or Lineage 16 stabilize fast, and in a month or two make the change of Rom.
It is very good mobile at a great price, but details such as these greatly impede the experience.
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My wife has the 8 Lite but I have a Poco and the notch os huge. Even being like that it's possible to adjust thing to put the clock and the three notifications icons there. The 8 Lite has so much space.

Question Activity check - are people using this device?

Hey folks,
Joining in on the aftermarket world after a few years. I recently got the nord 2 and there is some impressive work going on already
Just wanted to touch base with the community to understand the kind of enthusiasts who have this device.
Q; are you using stock OOS or Custom roms?
Q: would you all be interested in some fresh roms, say lineage 20/ aospa topaz, etc?
If there are even a few folks interested and have some time to test out some initial builds, lets talk!
My daily driver since 7 months. Using stock, rooted (Magisk + LSPosed). Switching back to my old OnePlus 7pro though, which I prepared for murena.io (privacy is a great thing).
For that reason I would love to see LOS coming to the Nord 2, because that means that we'll have Murena one day too, probably.
Been using it for nearly a year now. Will keep stock until it stops getting updates.
I would like to see a Lineage build for Android 14 and later for it. Will definitely use it.
Seems like a solid phone that will last me a lot of time.
Would definitely appriciate LineageOS for this device. The stock system is driving me nuts.
Use it as daily driver for about year. Stock oos 11 latest update, rooted through magisk, no TWRP, 0 problems.
I like it a lot. But android security patch became too old, so thinking to switch to LineageOS, Elixir or Pixel experience. Hope that the few bugs without resolve will be fixed very soon. Mostly reports about alert slider and stock cam. Not severe, one can live without the slider and use one of the gcam forks.
roldev said:
Use it as daily driver for about year. Stock oos 11 latest update, rooted through magisk, no TWRP, 0 problems.
I like it a lot. But android security patch became too old, so thinking to switch to LineageOS, Elixir or Pixel experience. Hope that the few bugs without resolve will be fixed very soon. Mostly reports about alert slider and stock cam. Not severe, one can live without the slider and use one of the gcam forks.
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There is a Lineage for the Nord 2???
exis_tenz said:
There is a Lineage for the Nord 2???
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Generic System Image (GSI) list
Notes about tinkering with Android Project Treble. Contribute to phhusson/treble_experimentations development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
You can find the AndyYan's build here among others.
Plz A pixel rom or best you can get. Go for it.
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Plz A pixel rom or best you can get. Go for it.
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The pixel is in the list as well elixir and much more GSI.
roldev said:
Use it as daily driver for about year. Stock oos 11 latest update, rooted through magisk, no TWRP, 0 problems.
I like it a lot. But android security patch became too old, so thinking to switch to LineageOS, Elixir or Pixel experience. Hope that the few bugs without resolve will be fixed very soon. Mostly reports about alert slider and stock cam. Not severe, one can live without the slider and use one of the gcam forks.
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With the ROM Derpfest from denniz the alarm slider works
dima_666 said:
With the ROM Derpfest from denniz the alarm slider works
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Wow, bro thanks. Didn't aware about this ROM. Is there some other issue with it?
roldev said:
Wow, bro thanks. Didn't aware about this ROM. Is there some other issue with it?
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Hi, I've been using it for about 2 months, so far I haven't noticed anything.
dima_666 said:
Hi, I've been using it for about 2 months, so far I haven't noticed anything.
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I think I saw it on 4pda.ru forum but was a bit outdated. Stability and security are essential for mi as I use my phone for work and biz ( as all of us ).
Just saw it published on July. Maybe need to contact devs. Unfortunately don't have enough spare time for hobby development....
Using stock and rooted rom, still on Android 11 though because 12 just plain out sucks.
I would very much love a good stable rom. I come from the Oneplus 3 where ROM support was just simply amazing. Most current roms are busted, suck when it comes to Camera quality or simply crash. Proper support for the Nord 2 is a wet dream at the moment.
dima_666 said:
With the ROM Derpfest from denniz the alarm slider works
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It partially works, something's broken because it would often just not switch profiles when the slider was used. It's a good rom but not as stable / smooth. Also, camera quality sucks because it doesn't have the proper drivers / app.
Eastw1ng said:
Using stock and rooted rom, still on Android 11 though because 12 just plain out sucks.
I would very much love a good stable rom. I come from the Oneplus 3 where ROM support was just simply amazing. Most current roms are busted, suck when it comes to Camera quality or simply crash. Proper support for the Nord 2 is a wet dream at the moment.
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Not so wet dream All GSI based ROMs are in advance states. Being this mediatek device and lack of some drivers make the things worse. Also there is not a lot of testing for this device... Imho.

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