Every single Nokia smartphone comes with Android One onboard, which is as close as you can get to true stock nowadays. Not many companies offer a stock Android experience anymore.
If you used a non-rooted ROM and want to get back fully to stock, all you need to do now is re-lock the bootloader. Finally, you might want to relock your bootloader as well. The most common method is to use Fastboot with the command fastboot oem lock or fastboot flashing lock.
Thus it is important to unlock the bootloader before a ROM is flashed. The list may include distributions that come preinstalled on a device (stock ROM) or modifications of them. Firmware hacks usually take advantage of the firmware update facility on many devices to install or run themselves. Some, however, must resort to exploits to run, because the manufacturer has attempted to lock the hardware to stop it from running unlicensed code. The BIOS may be manually updated by a user via a small utility stock Android firmware program.
- I’ve got two choices left now, which is rooting my phone and hard resetting, and I would rather risk it rooting my phone since I got a ton of important 2fa on it.
- In plain english, the camera2 API is how GCam « talks » to the camera sensors on your phone.
- As I have been testing custom ROMs for many years, I never stay on a ROM for more than a week, so I’ve tried pretty much every custom ROM there is out there.
- The name is just NAND (a type of flash memory) and Android mashed together.
Android Go phones similarly use software that riffs on stock Android. 3) Hardware and Android compatibility issues- Not all devices and Android versions support all custom ROMs.