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We asked, you told us: Custom ROMs still have their place on Android phones
July 06, 2025
Installing custom ROMs onAndroid phonesserves several purposes. ROMs could offer more features above and beyond the software your phone packs by default. Using a current ROM could be essential if you’re using an aging device with minimal or no software support. Or, you could just be longing for something different.
However, judging by our reader opinion garnered by ourrecent poll, the majority of our readers never cared or no longer care about any of these things. See the results below.
Do you use custom ROMs on your Android device?
This was a fiercely popular poll, gaining over 7,000 responses across our site and plenty more across Twitter and YouTube. All three platforms produced some wildly different results, too.
Let’s start with our website. Just under 35% of readers currently use ROMs on their devices. 39.1% admit that they “used to” but no longer. Finally, slightly more than a quarter of voters say they’ve never used custom ROMs at all. Remarkably, this means that nearly three in four Android Authority readers have dallied with ROMs at some point.
On Twitter, we saw just shy of 5,000 votes. A much larger portion of voters (38%) on this platform have never tried ROMs, while 16.6% are currently running devices with them. This leaves just over 45% of voters who have abandoned ROMs, having tried them in the past.
Finally, we come to YouTube. The majority (46%) of our audience admits to never trying custom ROMs at all. 40% have tried them in the past, while 14% currently run a custom ROM. This stems from over 16,000 votes.
In conclusion, it seems the vast majority of our readers used to dabble with custom ROMs, but no longer due to improvements in software, trouble with Google’s new security features, or the general hassle. Just over one in five readers still use a custom ROM.
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