The word “ROM” stands for Read Only Memory. It means basically everything that you see on your device’s display acting as the operating system, which typically is stored as read-only memory, gets replaced when you swap the stock ROM for a custom version. The version of Android that comes on your device is pretty good, […]
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Custom ROMs for Xiaomi Redmi Note 3
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 smartphone is the larger brother to the original Redmi 3 smartphone. It comes with a display that is an extra half an inch larger (5.5 inches) and also in two variants. One of the variants is a single SIM, and the other is a dual SIM. Both the single and […]
Best Custom ROMs for Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is one of three Sony Xperia smartphones worth knowing about during the year 2016. It comes with some pretty impressive specs that put the premium in Z5 Premium, including a Snapdragon 810 system chip, Adreno 430 graphics processor, 3 GB of RAM and a 3430 mAh battery. While all of […]
Best Custom ROMs for Amazon Fire
The two most popular Amazon devices out there on the market are the Amazon Fire and the Amazon Fire phone. While you could argue the names could have been marketed better (especially the Amazon Fire), it is presumed that once you know that there is a Fire phone in existence that you would be able […]
Best Custom ROMs for Asus Zenfone 5
If you don’t have enough money to splurge on an expensive high-end smartphone from one of the leading manufacturers in the world like so many of us don’t, then the next thing you want to look at is the mid-rangers instead. One of the best mid-range phones from 2014 was the Asus Zenfone 5. What […]
Best Custom ROMs For Asus ZenFone 2
The Asus Zenfone 2 smartphone came out in the first quarter of the year of 2015. It was made famous due to becoming the first smartphone in the world to offer 4GB of RAM (although there were still some regions that only offered 3GB of RAM.) It was underpinned by a 2.3GHz 64-bit Intel Atom […]
Best Custom ROMs for Huawei P9 Lite
Sometimes people want something different when they look to buy a new smartphone. Many of those people looking for something different enjoy what the Huawei P9 has to offer. It’s known as being a great smartphone with unique specs, and yet if you buy one, you can probably rest assured no one else that you […]
Best Custom ROMs for Oppo Find 7
The Oppo Find 7 smartphone was the successor to the Oppo Find 5 and it did a pretty good job at picking up where its predecessor left off. It came with a 5.5-inch display (big for a smartphone screen back then) and was also one of the first smartphones out on the market to come […]
Best Custom ROMs for Xiaomi Redmi 3
The Xiaomi Redmi 3 smartphone is one of the most popular smartphones ever to come out for the Xiaomi brand. That said, it only saw one official Android software update arrive over the air, and that was the Android 5.1 Lollipop update. Over in Asia, they aren’t into software updates the same way we are […]
Best Custom ROMs for Xiaomi Redmi 3S
The Xiaomi Redmi 3S smartphone is a budget smartphone really popular on the other side of the world. What initially started off as a brand that was a blatant rip-off of Apple smartphones has now managed to flourish and almost be the next Apple for people around Asia. One of the ways they’ve managed to […]
Best Custom ROMs for Yu Yuphoria
The Yu Yuphoria is an exciting smartphone that comes powered by CyanogenOS. Before CyanogenMod was no longer a company—or making custom ROMs at all—they were such a big deal that even manufacturers were requesting to run it as a ROM instead of the real Android operating system. Yu was one of them, and that’s what […]
Best Custom ROMs for Nextbit Robin
The Nextbit Robin is the first smartphone released to make use of cloud storage, so no matter what amount of space you need, you aren’t relying on having the internal memory that comes with the smartphone. In past years many phones would offer expandable storage to tackle this problem, but most people found the expandable […]
Best Custom ROMs for Google Pixel C
The Google Pixel C is an Android tablet and laptop combination that offers something that looks similar to a Microsoft Surface with the way the keyboard is a detachable one. These kinds of devices are very cool for people like me who write a lot because the keyboard is always the first thing to go […]
Custom ROMs for Motorola Moto G4 Plus
The Motorola G4 is one of the best budget smartphones that money can buy. Motorola and the world know this, and that has resulted in a few extended versions of the Moto G4 come out. Along with the standard Motorola Moto G4 smartphone, users can now also buy the Moto G4 Play and the Moto […]
Best Custom ROMs for Motorola Moto Z
I love the Motorola Moto Z smartphone. Before I go into details about why that is, I’m going to go on a quick rant. I have an uncle who I like very much, but sometimes he can have some strange opinions. One of his opinions is relevant here because it has to do with design. […]
Best Custom ROMs for LG V20
I’ve never been a huge fan of most of the designs that LG produce, but I’m happy to say that I do not dislike what LG has done here with the LG V20 smartphone at all. It doesn’t look like a regular LG phone. From the front when I first looked at it, I actually […]
Best Custom ROMs for HTC One X+ (Plus)
The HTC One X Plus came with a 4.7-inch display, runs Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of the box, had an 8-megapixel camera and managed to become a really popular smartphone around the world. Like all good HTC phone’s, the software updates eventually came to an end, the hardware started to fall behind newer devices, […]
Best Custom ROMs for AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6
A custom ROM is available for most people to install regardless of their devices. It is just about finding the right ROMs to install for your device. There are new ROMs available for each device. Often these devices are split up into model numbers. We make that easy for you guys by finding out what […]
Best Custom ROMs for Barnes & Noble Nook HD
The Barnes & Noble Nook HD got recognition for being the lightest 7-inch tablet available in not just the United States but the markets right around the world. That’s a pretty big feat for a brand that is not one of the largest tablet makers in the world. Weighing just over 315 grams, the Nook […]
Best Custom ROMs for Barnes & Noble Nook HD+
The Barnes & Noble NOOK HD+ is a 9-inch tablet that started off running on the Android 4.0 software update out of the box. Since this isn’t a tablet from one of the largest manufacturers in the world, it didn’t receive many Android software updates after that. In fact, according to our sources, it hasn’t […]
Best Custom ROMs for Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4
The Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone was one of the most popular smartphones of its time. The Samsung smartphones were evidently ahead of their time too. It was Sammy who first starting using the AMOLED display. In fact, the Galaxy S4 smartphone comes with a super AMOLED display, and this device came out nearly four […]
Best Custom ROMs for T-Mobile LG G3
There is a paradox with custom ROMs and flagship smartphones that often get the best custom ROMs available. Most people install custom ROMs because they want to swap the stock version of Android for something that looks different and has different features. A flagship smartphone like the LG G3 handset is a handset that gets […]
Best Custom ROMs for Samsung Galaxy J7
The Samsung Galaxy J7 smartphone is a very popular smartphone to own. It’s equally as popular for customizing. With smartphones in general, there are two ways you can customize the device: one is with root access so you can install the root apps and the other is by installing a custom ROM so you can […]
Best Custom ROMs for Verizon LG G3
That lovely operating system that we know as Android is based on the Linux kernel that is a favorite open source OS for people to use on a computer. That makes Android also open source, and even though guys like you or me (or maybe just me) don’t have the skills to alter the code […]
Best Custom ROMs for OnePlus 3T
Many people who are into custom ROMs are also into the OnePlus brand name because it was one of the first ever manufacturers to come preloaded with CyanogenMod as the operating system. Yes, the original OnePlus One phone came with a custom ROM and not Android when people opened it out of the box. There […]
Best Custom ROMs for OnePlus 3
The OnePlus 3 smartphone is one of the best values for money that you can find. The OnePlus brand is famous for being the brand that gives people devices that have specs better than the price tag would suggest. The OnePlus 3 was only out for 6 months before the improved OnePlus 3T smartphone was […]
Best Custom ROMs for Sprint LG G3
Here on the web, many developers are waiting in the lurks to get a chance to update some code with something better than what they see. So when website owners like me want something changed, we then go to those developers and ask for them to do it. With Android, you can play the role […]
Best Custom ROMs for AT&T LG G3
If you were never one to understand why people are installing custom ROMs, then you might not know about this little thing called software. The software that runs on the mobile devices in your hands has a relatively short lifespan, and that sucks for many people who had no intention of forking out the money […]
Best Custom ROMs for T-Mobile LG G2 Smartphones
Part of the appeal of owning an “Android Phone” is that it runs Android for the operating system, and it usually gives people several software updates throughout the life of the phone. Those software updates might update it from one version of Android to another. Android brings out a new version roughly every year. In […]
Best Custom ROMs for Verizon LG G2 Smartphones
Part of the allure with Android as an operating system is that it is open source which means developers from all over the world can take the source code and alter it in a million different ways. Not only can they alter it when they have a few spare hours and install it on their […]