Android is so stable that I am without resetting mobile. Until today … with a rom

After having transported from the start on Android, I can corroborate the gigantic change given on the platform: being unstable and open to errors to become a Mature system characterized by its stability. It is so stable that I did not remember a suspension during a forced restart. Until I saw again.

I still remember those moments when I played with my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and I was stuck in the restart after touching something. And what about Nexus 5, almost went to Rom per day, often because the previous one refused to start. It was a time when it was worth taking Android to the extreme because It was the only way to get all the advantages. It has stopped having a meaning, even the ROMs have lost a good part of popularity.

Google made an Android as powerful as stable

I carry in this system of the first versions, this Android 1.5 cupcake with which I was created and it already seemed super versatile in my old and expensive HTC magic. Compare this Android with the one now is almost like confront Peter Parker before and after the spider spider: they have the same basis, but not identical capacities.

Yes, Android has won super powers over the years and thanks to the countless versions that Google has launched. At the beginning, the evolution between an Android and the next was noticeable, there is practically no news in the user. And there is a reason: It is no longer necessary.

Google has produced such an effective, stable and capable system that is not necessary to introduce project changes with updates. This is particularly noticeable in the functioning of mobiles and tablets, because there is no commonly common problem:

• There is no forced closure of applications. Whether the legendary “FC” or “the XX application has stopped working” does not appear to me. Even in the mobiles that I analyze with development versions.
• The suspension of the system has disappeared. If they had given me a euro each time a Android mobile was frozen now, I could buy Tesla from Elon Musk. Well, maybe not so much, but almost.
• The restart loop no longer exists. After the suspension, forced restart arrived; With a “bootloop” loop or restart which frozen blood. It is something anecdotal in the current Android.

As it makes sense, there is always the possibility that some of the above problems appear. Even so, it is so strange that it can almost be excluded. This is a demonstration of the quantity of Android has evolved and the quality that Google has reached, especially because the variety of devices remains non -bardicable.

Brands have moved away from the Android root

Google modified the system at its base to extract the software management zones which then modify each manufacturer. It made marks CERASA in the most superficial layer of AndroidA plan with which Google gradually corrected what was characteristic at the beginning; like hangers and reset.

With the launch of Project Treble in 2017, Google modified the Android structure to separate its low -level implementation; Wake up the updates. Generic or GSI images have been a consequence of these triples: since the basis of the system is maintained among all the devices, the installation of a generic firmware regardless of the manufacturer. A miracle that also set the basics of stability.

Not all brands allow GSI images, but they cannot change the Android root for their own advantage. That Applications find a homogeneous base As much as there are thousands of types of devices; This has almost completely banished instability, a major achievement and which illustrates the maturity that Android has today.

Almost 17 years of Android, 23 key versions to date, tens of thousands of devices that have brought it standard and a clear evolution towards a completely mature system. And I have to recover the old days with a ROM.

The exception confirmed by the rule

The decision came to me with the experience of Pixel Rom of Android 12 in a Xiaomi Mi A3. This ROM was rooted with Magisk, had a few modules to be bad (sometimes it is the only way to extract the news from the applications) and the Google applications from Microg. Come on, it was not as stable as possible. Despite this, he endured a lot of time without the slightest problem.

Android behaves like a champion even on a modified firmware mobile, another sample of his maturity. And that there will always be space for the ROMs and for those who devote themselves to modifying the system: often They are the last salvation for the mobiles which, otherwise, would die. The community is another sign of identity of this system, a sign that has also actively contributed to its stability and its maturity. We can never thank you enough.

Cover image | Iván Linares

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