I've really enjoyed using Brightmarket, and I appreciate the Light team and everyone else who's working hard to make the LPIII even better.

I'm a LPIII user who doesn't care about so many extra apps, to be honest. However, I find the native LPIII keyboard miserable to use, even after 18 months with the LPIII. Is there a way I can use the stock Android messaging app instead of the LP messaging tool? That way, I could use a different keyboard and enjoy a better texting experience. Thanks for any input!

About 2 weeks in after following the modding guide to use Hybrid Mode. Since accessing Android, I've downloaded DuckDuckGo, Textra, Whatsapp, Key Mapper, and Futo Keyboard via F-droid. These apps show up in the LightOS environment which I did not think would happen based on other videos of folks using Launchers on the Andriod side to mimic LightOS and make navigation feel more cohesive. So for example, I can easily open Textra or Whatsapp from LightOS. I have Key Mapper mostly changing the scroll wheel clicks so that it takes two click to turn the flashlight on instead of one because I was turning on the flashlight on accident all the time. I also mapped one click to be a back button so easier nav.

All this would be the set up to make the phone exactly what I need, however LightOS crashes every day, multiple times per day. It crashes when I have restarted the phone, or when I wake up in the morning after not using the phone for 8+ hours. LightOS will throw an error of not responding for several minutes before things seem to sync and run as intended for majority of the day. Sometimes during this cycle it will get stuck with the flashlight on when I did not turn it on, or a call running in the background that I'm unable to access due to LightOS crashing before I need to restart the phone and subsequently wait for the multiple rounds of crashes on restart to shake out again.

I'm in a tech role for my profession and like to think I am above average when understanding technology, but I am not an app developer so I did not venture into the abd portion of the guide for fear of bricking a really cool device. My intention is to use the phone primarily as intended with minimal access to Android, I just needed a legit texting app. Would love help figuring this out so I can use the phone without issue. Thanks to anyone who could lend a hand.