General Available ROMs list guide

[YasuHamed]

any kernel with kcal ?

 

[damadikaz]

I flashed Arrow OS and If I'm honest It's way behind SparkOS and EvolutionX. CONS: Example1: I can't change the size of my icons on the home screen. Example: It's running android 13.0 compared to 13.2 on the other two. Example3: Dolby Atmos nowhere to be found. Example4: Can't disable icons in the top bar like NFC. Example5: No battery health info and no charging info on the lockscreen (wattage, mah, etc.). I'd probably find more with a bit more testing, but I don't like It I'm definetly switching back to SparkOS though there are some PRO's for arrowOS. Since It's so lightweight It has better scores in antutu benchmarks by about 100k and apparently better stability and battery life. That's about It really If you're wondering which Custom ROM to install currwntly, go for either SparkOS or EvolutionX. That's my recommendation. They're both very stock with neat extra features. If you game a lot (more or less just Genshin Impact on Ultra) than ArrowOS is probably for you. If you are a casual gamer (COC, CR, PUBG, COD, etc.) stick with the other two. If you want the newest features sooner get the one of the other two, because the build of android is 2 months newer.

ANTUTU SCORES:
Evolution X and SparkOS: both very close 560000
ArrowOS: 660000

Both results are rounded by about 2K just so It's easier to follow.
And yes these are the best most optimized and most reliable ROM's for POCOF4 out right now so choose between these. Can't wait for Pixel Experience Plus Official to come out. We'll see how that's gonna compare to these three.
Hope this helps anyone who's wondering which one to install.

Edit: I discovered a benchmark and gaming feature under battery settings in SparkOS and EvolutionX which when enabled lifts antutu score to 640000 on SparkOS and to 690000 on EvolutionX. Now It should be a no brainer get the SparkOS or EvolutionX.

PS: I switched to EvolutionX because of better battery life and I just installed Dolby Atmos through Magisk.

Is there any downside on any Custom ROM? like missing VoLTE, no double tap to sleep/wake, and stuff? Also how's root hiding situation right now? My last phone was so problematic, so I am pretty out dated about rooting & custom ROM scene in general.

 

[HARDWELL919]

Is there any downside on any Custom ROM? like missing VoLTE, no double tap to sleep/wake, and stuff? Also how's root hiding situation right now? My last phone was so problematic, so I am pretty out dated about rooting & custom ROM scene in general.

The only thing that's really a downside is no dolby vision support everything else you either have in the rom itself or you can get it via root. And I have zero clue about root hidding. I am fortunate enough that my bank app doesn't detect root. All the features will work as long as you flash the latest global firmware before flashing the custom rom. Hope this helps. I recommend either crDroid SparkOS or EvoX

 

[Atexor]

Is there any downside on any Custom ROM? like missing VoLTE, no double tap to sleep/wake, and stuff? Also how's root hiding situation right now? My last phone was so problematic, so I am pretty out dated about rooting & custom ROM scene in general.

VoLTE/WoFifi works (SparkOS), but maybe you will need to download "Advanced PDC tool" and switch mobile carrier from default to your country to enable it.

Hiding root is in-built feature in Magisk (use in-built Magisk hide and change package name). It worked nice on my old phone and works now. Just make sure that you click on the app you want to hide for her root, expand it and tick all marks (by default not always all are ticked, like for Revolut).

Double tap to sleep does not work for me on latest SparkOS (and it's common issue), but confirmed that worked on another POCO F4 phone (I'm dirty, he clean flash, maybe it's reason). On another ROMs I tested before it always worked.

 

[baggino]

Is Evox the only one with smart battery setting?

 

[Atexor]

Is Evox the only one with smart battery setting?

Start/stop charging on certain percentage? If so, it is available on SparkOS and - if I remember well - on CatalystOS.

 

[Dimon909]

But where is all roms ?

Spoiler

 

[gius0161]

been using since December SparkOS rom, I'm finding it good, excellent for daily use.
i needed the magisk module to activate call recording, which doesn't always work.
and you need to keep disabled "Mi Sound Enhancer" for bluetooth audio.

I've updated from December release to January release without clean and without problems.

 

[Vinc3nt.exe]

can use my lineageos, safetynet would get fixed in the upcoming update.

 

[urmanio23]

Is there any downside on any Custom ROM? like missing VoLTE, no double tap to sleep/wake, and stuff? Also how's root hiding situation right now? My last phone was so problematic, so I am pretty out dated about rooting & custom ROM scene in general.

I've not tested any room for F4 but from my experience with other phones, your loosing camera quality and general stability. My last time with a custom ROM was PE on a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Stock MIUI isn't perfect but I do like taking pictures here and there, with PE custom ROM I couldn't cause either the stock camera app sucked or gcam ports were buggy, to the point that taking a picture could crash the phone, had to manually force shutdown.

 

[11insomnium]

New A12/A13 Firmware Updates for our device
Has anyone tested it yet?

 

[timea]

Any Android 12 roms for this device?

 

[Vinc3nt.exe]

Add PIxelExtended, CalyxOS, LineageOS, PalyrimOS when ?

 

[baggino]

On which roms does 5g work apart from miui.eu?