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This is not practical for many phones and many people (even those who frequent this site) because you need to unlock the bootloader, which may be impossible, an
by the_pwner224 7y ago
This is not practical for many phones and many people (even those who frequent this site) because you need to unlock the bootloader, which may be impossible, and then port LineageOS, which is probably not too hard in the best case, but is not a trivial undertaking.
I tried building LOS from source recently for my OnePlus 7 Pro, which is mainlined into LOS. Installing build prerequisites was easy for me because I use an OS with a package manager and a large catalog of packages. Then, it started downloading the LOS git repos. After a few hours all 58 GB of the free space on my disk was used. I cancelled it and will just stick with the provided LOS builds. Time is worth something too.
- snaky 7y ago> and then port LineageOS All the privacy aware people should actually do is to check the list of officially supported phones on the LineageOS site before buying, then spend 15 minutes to read the installation instruction and follow it.
- IanSanders 7y agoYou can download prebuilt images for supported devices. Installation is not always a smooth ride, but once you spend 30 minutes you generally forget about it. Plus you get updates.
- the_pwner224 7y agoThe post I replied to was talking about installing LOS on cheap phones. But LOS mostly doesn't exist on cheap phones, unless you want to do the work of porting it yourself. My post showed that for many people just building LOS from scratch may be a big challenge - I gave up even though my phone is already ported and has official builds available.
- IanSanders 7y agoThere are some supported sub-100$ ones.