Any users of Paranoid Android?

[pm]

I was wondering what you think of it - particularly with regards to stability, but also the UI.

For those who have no idea what Paranoid Android is, this is their website:
http://paranoidandroid.co/ (note that it's not ".com", but really is ".co").

I thought at first that this was some sort of heavily encrypted, super privacy conscious version of Android based on the name but it actually seems like it's really some sort of unified GUI version of AOSP. I think.

 

[gorcorps]

It's been a while, but it was my ROM of choice on my 1st gen Nexus 7. It made the tablet much smoother than stock which IMO was a clunky mess otherwise. I was a big fan of it then

 

[PowerYoga]

I used it for a while on my old s3. It's not a security focused rom if that's what you're asking, it's just their name.

 

[blankslate]

I thought at first that this was some sort of heavily encrypted, super privacy conscious version of Android based on the name but it actually seems like it's really some sort of unified GUI version of AOSP. I think.

There is such a version of Android being developed...

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...e-that-wont-get-you-beaten-with-rubber-hoses/

DarkMatter is a secure Android fork, but unlike Blackphone and its custom hardware, DarkMatter is a secure Android that runs on regular Android phones (including the Galaxy S4 and Nexus 5) and which, at first glance, looks just like it's stock Android. The special sauce of DarkMatter is secure encrypted storage that selected apps can transparently access. If the firmware believes it's under attack, the secure storage will be silently dismounted, and the phone will appear, to all intents and purposes, to be a regular non-secure device.

Hope that fits what you are looking for.


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[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I was wondering what you think of it - particularly with regards to stability, but also the UI.

For those who have no idea what Paranoid Android is, this is their website:
http://paranoidandroid.co/ (note that it's not ".com", but really is ".co").

I thought at first that this was some sort of heavily encrypted, super privacy conscious version of Android based on the name but it actually seems like it's really some sort of unified GUI version of AOSP. I think.

Tried it a few times, but I liked CyanogenMod more. AOKP, CM, and PA are the 3 big names in terms of AOSP-based ROMs.

 

[ControlD]

I have used it off and on with my Note 2. I like it, but the best AOSP based ROM I have used so far is SlimKat so I have been on that for quite a few builds now. Before that I ran PA and thought it was quite decent.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

I have used it off and on with my Note 2. I like it, but the best AOSP based ROM I have used so far is SlimKat so I have been on that for quite a few builds now. Before that I ran PA and thought it was quite decent.

I have essentially the same feelings but I've run both on my S3. I ran PA at first, then found Slimkat which I feel is a more, well, "slim" approach to the same concept. Seems to strip out everything that is not essential.

 

[kstu]

Another vote for slimkat.

 

[PowerYoga]

slimkat's nice. AOKP fell out of favor for me when they stopped development for S3 vzw so soon after it came out.

 

[ControlD]

Dirty Unicorns is another good one. I had some audio issues when using Google voice search but otherwise I really liked it.

 

[Darknite39]

slimkat's nice. AOKP fell out of favor for me when they stopped development for S3 vzw so soon after it came out.

I just upgraded my Verizon S3 to slimkat from 4.1.2 (kept due to the unlocked bootloader). I like it! It seems faster. It's the first time I've tried a ROM on my daily driver.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Slimkat user here on a 3.5 year old flagship. It works great, minor bugs are present due to closed source HTC kernels and drivers.

 

[soccerballtux]

I stick with stock and Xposed/BusyBox. I tried PA for a long time and it still has random bugs here and there. Documents not working, having to wait a week for a fix. Maps tiles being all mixed up. Factory reset, clean install, restore from apps and data backup not fixing issues. No, stock is where it's at.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

I stick with stock and Xposed/BusyBox. I tried PA for a long time and it still has random bugs here and there. Documents not working, having to wait a week for a fix. Maps tiles being all mixed up. Factory reset, clean install, restore from apps and data backup not fixing issues. No, stock is where it's at.

there's definitely some truth to your statement here. overall I'm moving away from romm'ing my phones right now, because I feel that it introduces more bugs. Custom roms are simply less used, so less tested than a stock setup. Therefore more bugs. Thats how I see it, at least. My next phone will highly likely be kept stock. But right now, slimkat is definitely serviceable and 99.9% bug free.

 

[pm]

There is such a version of Android being developed...

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...e-that-wont-get-you-beaten-with-rubber-hoses/

Hope that fits what you are looking for.

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Thanks for the link.

 

[jacktesterson]

Used it forever on my Nexus 4 and loved it then. Nothing was smoother and feature rich than PA with Franco Kernel on the N4 back in the day.