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What is Stock ROM? It’s Advantages and Disadvantages

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Hello guys, In this blog we know about What is Stock ROM? What are their advantages and disadvantages?

ROM contains default setting of your device. Which includes your device operating system. Some important codes of your phones Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and device radio. And some of the other setting to run your device.

What is Stock ROM?

Stock Rom is an operating system which set as default in your Android phones. These are developed by the manufacturers to attracts their customers. Every device contains their own unique and attractive features in their Stock Rom. It varies from brand to brand which specially designed by the manufacturers for every particular device. It is pre-installed in your device by the manufacturer at the time of buying your device. Some brands use google’s stock operating system while some used their own operating system to create a Stock Rom.

A Stock ROM based on the Android platform and its open source. Any developer can easily access the code and edit it, recompile it, and re-release it for another android as custom ROM.

It has limited customization and functionalization. But, If you want to use some extraordinary features, you need to switch to Custom ROM.

What are the advantages of Stock ROM?

Battery Life:- Consumption of battery of your device depend upon the weight of your ROM. And Stock ROM consumes lesser power rather than Custom ROM. Manufacturers of the device sets the processor speed at a required state. Which consumes lesser power of your device. And maintain the battery life of your device.

Premium Features:- Every Stock ROM comes with some of the premium features like app drawer, launcher, etc. Which increase it’s uniqueness from other devices. But by flashing a Custom ROM these premium features are not port.

System Updates:- Device carrier automatically sends the updates to the device. You didn’t have any need to check update at a regular intervals.

Bugs Free:- No one wants bugs in their programming. Every time manufacturers of the rom try to keep their programme bug free. They test the program before it’s release. Companies are mainly focused on creating a bug-free program. That’s why chances of having a bug in Stock ROM is become lesser.

Still in Warranty:-Stock Firmware does not crack warranty of your device. This is one of the biggest reason users doesn’t want to switch to custom ROM. Rooting is important for installing custom ROM and Rooting immediately void your device warranty. But now some manufacturers of the Android devices gives still warranty after rooting of the device.

Pre-Installed apps:- Stock ROM comes with a lots of pre-loaded apps and features. And it’s enough to attract customers. Every brand has it’s own unique features which increase it’s importance. Like:- live wallpaper, calculator, etc.

Disadvantages

System Updates:- When you are using a stock you need to wait a long for your manufacturer to send the update to get new and exiciting features in your device. And this is the most irritating process. After sometime they also stops sending the update. In that case you are stuck on the same version of your firmware.

Performance:- Manufacturer of a Stock ROM restricts its performane at a minimal state. Which limitise the performance of your device. Due to which, You have to face problems while doing higher level works on your device. Like playing higher graphichs game, etc.

Pre-installed apps:- It is the most unliked feature of Stock ROM. You can’t remove or uninstalled your manufacturer pre-installed apps and features. Which unwantedly fills your device storage.

Custom ROM vs Stock ROM

What is Custom ROM? Is it useful or not?

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Hello guys, In this blog we know about what is Custom Rom? And Their Advantages and disadvantages.

What is Custom ROM?

Custom ROM is normally developed by developers and hackers. It is a phone’s or device firmware. Which gives access to the users to customize, edit the code and recompile it to implement changes in their operating system. It gives new features to their users.

When you purchase a new android device. It comes with an pre-installed operating system which known as Stock ROM. It is created by its manufacturers. But a Stock ROM has limited features and functions which is pre-defined by its manufacturer. But you can explore more features by flashing a Custom ROM. It provides you the more features which is not able to operate in a Stock ROM.

Advantages:-

It has its own advantages which increase its importance for its users. So, Lets start seeing some of it’s advantages:-

Battery Life:- Battery Life is the Main Part Of Any Android Phone. You can increase battery life of your device by doing underclocking. If you didn’t want to use the higer performance of you device processor. You just need to lower the speed of your processor which consumes lesser power. More Light Custom ROM Consumes Lesser amount of Power

System Updates :- No one is want to stuck with the same old features at all the time with and older version of android. But it becomes frustrating to waiting for your manufacturer to send the update to get the new features. Some of the manufacturers doesn’t provides the latest version of Android and some manufacturers provides, but not so long. Custom ROM is the best solution for upgrading in latest android version. It’s also known as Firmware update. If your android stucks on Oreo (Android version 8.0). You can download and flash a latest ROM based on Pie(9.0).

Customization:- After flashing a Custom ROM you will see everything new in your android device. You can do changes in your device. like change your notification LED light colour, contrast and colour of your screen, change the function of volume up and down button and also other exiciting features.

Performance:- It highly increase the performance of your device. Manufacturers of the device restricts the performance of your device at a given point. They optimize your hardware’s clock speed at a minimal state. By using Custom ROM you can overclock the speed of your hardware. Which increase the performance of your device.

Disadvantages:-

It also have some disadvantages which increase the risk of damage of your device. So, Lets start seeing some of its:-

Bugs:- Maximum Custom ROM having some bugs. Due to bugs some functions starts working wrongly or even stops responding. Just like:- Dialer doesn’t open, face unlock doesn’t work etc.

Battery life:- It also effects your device battery life. Due to overclocking the speed of your processor is increase. And your device consumes more power. Due to which, battery life of your device is become low.

Voids device’s warranty:- If you want to flash a Custom ROM in your device you need to root your device. Which immediately void warranty of your device. If your device is bricked during rooting or flashing ROM. The manufacturer of your device will not be responsible for that. But some manufacturers also keeps the warranty.

Incompatibility:- If you flashing a incompatible ROM to your device there is a lot of risk of damage of your device. Your device starting taking too much time to process or may bricked.