Murena

Reader supplied reviews for Murena Average rating 9.0 from 11 review(s) What are your thoughts on Murena? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 1.14 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 1.13 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-08-10 Votes: 49 Over all good OS. Works well even on outdated devices like Mi5. Considering android's support mess (or rather lack of support) recessive regular updates. UI piggybacks on Trebuchet and can glitch a bit if the phone is under load (probably only noticeable with 3GB of ram). Governor doing its best but sometimes it's not enough to overcome android's bloat and background apps or services can crash. And this is without gapps installed. To be fair it's not claiming to be a streamlined version of android and as far as I can see the memory usage is on par with LineageOS. The real star of the show for me is the App Lounge. Preinstalled app manager (auto updates work without rooting or sideloading apps via adb) combining anonymous google play access, automatically updated F-Droid apps and a library of useful web based applications. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.12 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-26 Votes: 40 I've been using it as my main phone OS for few years now with no major issues. Sometimes some odd application refuses to cooperate properly with the OS claiming it is a rooted system, but I did manage to convince few app suppliers to allow e/OS and now most of these apps work fine. It does great job in replacing google services. I tried LineageOS before using e/OS and regularly experienced issues. Not here. Otherwise it is a solid Android experience with a lot of customisation that can be added. Personally didnt like the original launcher it ships with, and find Fairphone2 launcher (available from F-Droid) to be much more user friendly. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.9 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-04-11 Votes: 0 Fine, but support for legacy devices is lacking. This is a pretty solid Android custom ROM with all the bells and whistles you come to expect, except without any Google services. One complaint I have is that once the device you install the OS on becomes unsupported, it becomes practically unusable. It's also quite hard to use this as an actual day-to-day phone, seeing as most apps rely on the bare minimum Google services being installed, and getting those to work on this phone is a pain. It also doesn't do anything special to stand out from other Android custom ROMs, and that's kind of disappointing. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 11 reader reviews of Murena...