What can we expect with security?

Given the compromised found in Android recently and being something I've thought about quite a bit.

"Most" Roms seem to be very rarely updated and if you're using a provider like Straight talk you probably don't get updates anyways.

So, I'm quite curious how Security vulnerabilities are handled? I doubt the Roms are so different that they prevent these flaws from occurring. I'd have to imagine roms may very well introduce new ones.

My thoughts on what the community can do.
I'm not a developer and frankly I'm not into the loop as well as I can be. But, I typically use older phones that aren't getting the support the newer ones are. So, being in the loop of some stuff was never a big concern of mine.

Anyways, first off I'm curious about a security auditing group. A group that can go through the most popular roms of each phone and determine if there are any security concerns. Then this group can offer a label or signing of some kind saying the rom passed the inspection.
Roms like Hyperdrive that have a ton of unique tweaks. Well to me when you are adding and removing things I would naturally assume you probably adding security flaws about as much as you'd remove them.


Security and Privacy is a concern we all have. I imagine that's part of why many people switch to Roms as they remove certain privacy issues and security vulnerabilities.

But, honestly in the community what do we have that really tells us about the security situation of roms and what may be affected by recently discovered issues in Android itself?
Things can legitimately make a rom useless and even a concern to use if it's severe enough.
What about newer people coming in and they start using a rom that's affected?

Thoughts?

Verizon SIM, T-Mobile ROM, when should I expect OTA updates?

Sorry, i'm not sure how the OTA's work on the Nexus devices, so I have to ask (and haven't found the right discussions which talk about this)...

I have an ATT branded Nexus 6 which has been bootloader unlocked, OEM partition wiped, and flashed with the "for T-Mobile" LYZ28J image. I am using a Verizon SIM in it.

Since there are posts of T-Mobile pushing LYZ28K I was wondering, will get get this OTA? if so when (i.e. does it it matter than I have a Verizon SIM in there when it comes to OTA's? Or do I manually need to load it?

Do you expect the Huawei Smartwatch?

Huawei smartwatch offers one key benefit over most of the earlier Android Wear watches: the Huawei Watch has a 1.4in fully circular screen that doesn’t have any cut-out parts like the original Moto 360, and has a slimmer screen surround than the Urbane.

It's a little bit thick, at 11.3mm and while it does its best to avoid seeming like a big burly watch, instead being open to all genders and ages, it does stick out a little way from your wrist. This is the part you may not appreciate from Huawei’s own flashy images. The 'crown' on the side is just a plain button too. Perhaps it’s still a bit too early to expect a super-slim, long-lasting Android Wear watch.

It’s certainly a bit more upmarket than some, though. You can get the Huawei Watch with black, silvery or gold rims, and all of them look pretty good. The gold is obviously more contentious, but from the pictures at least it stays on the right side of gaudy. The version I saw first-hand was the silvery one.

Just like the Apple Watch, the Huawei Watch gets you loads of options, with leather, metal and rubbery ‘sport’ straps on offer. The strap style is the 18mm standard too, letting you switch out one from the standard set for something more unusual if that’s your bag. From a quick feel of all the official straps, Huawei is not holding back on quality for the sake of a few quid.

On the specs front the big upgrade of the Huawei Watch is a 400 x 400 pixel AMOLED screen. It’s round, it’s 1.4in across and gets you a pretty great pixel density of 286ppi. That’s a larger screen, with more pixels, than the LG Urbane.

It’s good, but it’s still not perfect. Right up close the pixellation is pretty obvious, perhaps a little more so than on the Apple Watch. We’re not at mobile phone-grade quality with smartwatches yet. And while OLED screens fit watches very well, many show up pixellation way more than an LCD of the same resolution would do. Still, it's a very good watch screen overall.

Elsewhere, the 300mAh battery is meant to last around 1.5 days, still pretty much the norm for one of these watches. It’s no Pebble Time challenger on that front. And it uses a Snapdragon 400, like some older smartwatches, so that’s no surprise either.

The Huawei Watch has pretty much the same core sensors as all the other top Android Wear watches. You get an accelerometer/gyroscope combo and a heart-rate sensor, which sits on the back of the watch face. There's no GPS.

The Huawei Watch isn’t cheap, with an expected price of at least £300, and that will rise when you start adding jazzier straps.

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Can we expect new rom for nexus 5

Hello devs, can i expect a note 5 or s6 rom for nexus 5 plzzzz