Recent content by jtull89

I'm glad your phone's card reader is fine. I hope you didn't lose any important data.

Thanks. I guess I'll ask in the Carbon thread. :good:

I switched to my first custom ROM a week or so ago: Carbon. It works really smoothly so far. My only issue is that there is that I cannot use an FM radio app. I wonder if that's particular to this ROM or all AOSP ROMs for this device?

I was going to suggest it was a permissions issue or something, but then you said you can access the file outside of recovery for a few minutes. I wonder if that means there's an issue with the card reader driver that Motorola included in Oreo...?

Ah yeah, that makes sense. I was thinking I had to hide OTHER apps for that to work. Silly me.

I have unlocked my bootloader and installed Magisk on top of stock, and the only problem I've experienced is that one credit card monitoring app I use no longer works due to root detection. I think this is an acceptable loss, especially if I can switch to a ROM that gives me features that I want...

Thanks. Does installing the Gcam mod affect quality of photo or video in other apps, like Instagram?

Would you say that version is better than the stock Moto camera? That gives me some pause.

Would you say they're faster than stock, or is performance equivalent? Thanks.

Yeah, that can be very annoying. I understand Google's auto-backup is good for a lot of apps these days, though. In case you're interested, I think I saw someone say that OmniROM works quite well with the 32/2 version as well, but I don't remember where I saw that...

You're right. I have done that with my old phablet. I was just saying the encryption-friendly ROMs are the ones that interest me especially.

Yeah, that one. While a stolen phone with an unlocked bootloader could be flashed, no one should be able to inject ZIPs on a phone with an encrypted filesystem without flashing unless they have the password.

That would be very useful if I ever decide to take the plunge and unlock my bootloader. I'm personally interested in ROMs where encryption works; that way an unlocked bootloader wouldn't be a realistic security vulnerability, even if I did have real enemies. ;)

Hmmm, it sounds like I'll probably want to stick to stock to now. I also wasn't plan to use root, but I'll keep that in mind. Google Pay does start working normally again when you re-lock the bootloader, though? So an issue with a ROM is fixed by downloading an extra app? Odd. Is this a root...

Ah, so I would need to use Magisk or something to use Google Pay with an unlocked bootloader. It sounds like there isn't really anything of value lost if you unlock the bootloader and re-lock it later. Thank you.