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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 months ago by FutileRecipe@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
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[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight. It's a constant cat and mouse game to pass basic and device integrity, but as of recently a lot of us have been able to pass strong integrity as well which has been nice.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight.

That, I can see being more of an issue than an unmodified, trusted 3rd party OS. If I remember right, rooting makes the device fail Verified Boot:

It establishes a full chain of trust, starting from a hardware-protected root of trust to the bootloader, to the boot partition and other verified partitions including system, vendor, and optionally oem partitions.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/verifiedboot

[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Fair point. At least with stock rooted as I said there's ways around it and I can pass all play integrity checks and such.