by dbadmin | Oct 12, 2025 | Android 16, Custom ROM, LineageOS, News
TL;DR The LineageOS team has released LineageOS 23.0, bringing Android 16 to over 100 different devices. This release is based on the initial Android 16 release due to Google’s delay in releasing QPR1’s source code. LineageOS 23.0 includes updated versions of Aperture...
by dbadmin | Aug 24, 2025 | Android Customization, Custom ROM, Features, Privacy
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android used to be synonymous with freedom. If you didn’t like your phone’s interface or bloatware, you could simply install a custom ROM — the colloquial term for a forked version of the Android operating system. But that...
by dbadmin | Aug 15, 2025 | Android, Custom ROM, Features, Google, Privacy
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A few days ago, my colleague Calvin shared an interesting fact about GrapheneOS: The custom ROM allows him to set a duress PIN that completely erases the phone when he enters it, including encryption keys and the eSIM...
by dbadmin | Aug 1, 2025 | Authority Insights, Custom ROM, Google, google messages, News, RCS
Last year, Google began preventing devices that failed Play Integrity checks from sending RCS messages. Google Messages would simply drop texts, without delivering any errors or warnings. Messages now appears to be adding an explicit notice when security requirements...
by dbadmin | Jun 13, 2025 | Android, Custom ROM, Features, Google Nexus, HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority After recently reminiscing about my favorite camera phones, it occurred to me that my fondest time writing about and playing around with smartphones all happened in a rather short period of time — the early 2010s. Of course,...
by dbadmin | Feb 8, 2025 | Android, Custom ROM, Features, LineageOS
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Way back in the day, I used to be one of those people who was constantly installing new custom ROMs. I loved trying out all the different varieties of Android created by passionate teams and fans (or sometimes even a single...
