There are no nearly custom ROMs for phones with mediatek processors AFAIK because the drivers are not open-source. Either that or there is a legal issue with modifying and redistributimg the modified drivers.
Jiří Král
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link Englishfedilink 1·arrow-up 23 days agoedit-2
link Englishfedilink 4·arrow-up 23 days agoedit-2 There are plenty of custom ROMs for phones where the chipset drivers are open (usually Qualcomm) and the phone has unlockable bootloader. If these 2 conditions are met in many cases the community is able to do better job of keeping the phone up to date with newer Android builds than the manufacturer itself. My phone would be stuck with Android 12 if I did rely on the manufacturer, but thanks to the community I run Android 14 with security patch from this February and Android 15 is also available. The problem is of course that most users aren’t going to flash their phone with a new ROM on their own anyway even if it is possible the ARM ecosystem unfortunately relies on the hardware manufacturer to keep the drivers and everything up to date (to work with the latest OS realease) and not on the OS distributor like most x86 ecosystem does, so you are lrobably right ARM is kind of cursed in this way. I know there are also drivers on x86, but the whole nature of things much more open. Correct me if I am wrong.
link Englishfedilink 10·arrow-up 2 months agoedit-2 AFAIK you have to give the app location access for it to be able to scan sourrounding networks and see the SSIDs (At least that’s how it works on the newer Android versions circa around Android 10 or 9). For bluetooth you have to enable at least the nearby devices permission. If you do these things then it makes sense that the app can track your location.
link Englishfedilink 2·arrow-up 2 months agoedit-2 I think the Kiwi browser has it. EDIT: Or had it when it existed. I don’t see it on Google Play anymore.
link Englishfedilink 4 months ago2·arrow-up Interesting to see that vast the majority of the people here use LineageOS.
It’s the more stable and bug-free ROM in my experience.
link Englishfedilink 4 months ago0·arrow-up I am using Google wallet. It works with the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module. You just have to update it from time to time.
link Englishfedilink 4 months ago2·arrow-up Lineage OS 21 (Android 14) on Poco X3 NFC.
The kernel is open-source AFAIK, but anything built on top of it is part of AOSP which is licensed under Apache 2 and allows for proprietary modifications to be redistributed. To be honest I don’t know how this licensing stuff works exactly.