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I used to run lineage, but every time there was a major version upgrade I had to reinstall, which was annoying. So I reverted to stock OS. Has that changed? Can it upgrade between major versions now?
I'm still pissed at Google for locking the bootloader on my Pixel 2. I bought the phone unlocked directly from Google, specifically so that I could install a custom ROM once Google stopped supporting it. But I sent the phone in to repair a broken USB port, and apparently it was Google's policy to send back a phone with a locked bootloader any time you get a repair. I can't even get a response from Google's support ab…
When you run out of uses for your smart phone you can always convert it to a wifi LAN camera using IP Webcam by Pavel Khlebovich and consume the output in VLC. I have been using an old phone for this purpose successfully for years.
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It was never a publicly stated policy and, anecdotally, they seem to have stopped doing it on newer phones. But one person escalated to a manager (because the first-level support staff didn't understand the difference between carrier unlocking and bootloader unlocking), and the manager stated that it was their policy. And, yeah, I agree that it's probably the worst of all situations. If I'd have known that a google r…
Are you in the US? It doesn't solve the issue that you now have to deal with, but if you paid for the "repair" service, I'd have considered cancelling the payment through my bank.
I just switched to LineageOS 18 w/ MicroG and oh my lord is this stuff still complicated. I'm fairly familiar with this stuff and yet still it took me many hours to set everything up correctly. To be clear, this is not the fault of LineageOS, this is simply the state of the FOSS Android environment and the fact that Google has no interest in supporting this setup whatsoever, to put it mildly. Not only is it complicat…
Have been on Cynogen/Lineage since 2012. Love the idea and the philosophy. Recently have been coming across safetynet issue. Will 19 address that? Also wondering what is the future of AOSP development, now that big companies are poaching developers (and effectively killing good projects like Magisk)
Safety net can be worked around using Magisk (including v24.3) by enabling Zygisk, downloading UniversalSafetyNetFix and MagiskHidePropsConfig, running the "props" binary from adb shell and selecting a known factory device fingerprint. and then adding the apps to the "DenyList". You also need to clear the data of Google Play Services and Google Play Store, and of the apps that detected root.
I love Lineage and used it as my main phone OS but since my carrier required in February for VoLTE to work, I can’t receive or make phone calls anymore.
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The button for per-app network disabling still exists in current GrapheneOS. Am I missing something?
Is that build based on Android 12 ? If so I might be wrong about no custom ROMS adding that feature back in. Maybe grapheneOS and some other ROMS made their own patches to fix it.
Their firewall is pretty simple though (per app enable disable). Does lineage support more complicated policies?
I tried Lineage on my Xiaomi 10T Pro a while back, but some of the apps I use the most (NFC pay/credit card double verification for online shopping, gasoline payment with a QR-code) just don't work with it, so I had to revert to a stock ROM. The developers seem to have a whitelist of acceptable Android versions.
This could be a Safetynet issue, which you can fix by rooting your phone and installing Magisk + the necessary module. It's not a perfect fix (Magisk can't make GPay work) but it works most of the time for me. My bank is fine with me running a rooted phone, so I can't tell you for sure if it'll fix your situation.
I just switched to LineageOS 18 w/ MicroG and oh my lord is this stuff still complicated. I'm fairly familiar with this stuff and yet still it took me many hours to set everything up correctly. To be clear, this is not the fault of LineageOS, this is simply the state of the FOSS Android environment and the fact that Google has no interest in supporting this setup whatsoever, to put it mildly. Not only is it complicat…
I eventually found out about LineageOS for MicroG [1] which is a variant of LOS with MicroG bundled which cuts out most of the fooling around, removes the need to root my phone and works with both banking apps that I've tried.