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I just got myself an old used Pixel phone as a daily driver, and I intend someday to flash it with a lineageOS. It already was somewhat tricky for me, at my ski

I just got myself an old used Pixel phone as a daily driver, and I intend someday to flash it with a lineageOS. It already was somewhat tricky for me, at my skill level, to successfully do this on "ordinary" devices (Nexus 7 and Pixel C tablet), and it seems like getting the Pixel to truly unlock is going to be an added layer of complexity.

ewoodrich 4y ago
Not sure if there is an equivalent for LineageOS but GrapheneOS offers an almost completely automated flashing process in Chrome via WebUSB and gives instructions for the actions you need to take on the phone itself when necessary throughout the process (on my Pixel 4a I just needed to press volume up and power to unlock the bootloader when prompted by the installer). The whole process was amazingly easy when I did it and took less than 15 minutes.