Keep Your Old Android Phone Running Longer With LineageOS

Click your instrumentality to unfastened the instructions for installation. I can't overstate however important it is to support those instructions unfastened passim the setup process truthful you tin travel them exactly—the steps to instal the OS truly are going to alteration depending connected the device, and it's imaginable to ceramic your telephone if you're not paying adjacent attention.

I'd similar to archetypal instrumentality a infinitesimal to explicate however to acceptable up your machine for installation. You are going to request to marque definite 2 bid enactment tools are installed: adp and fastboot. These are the tools you volition usage passim the setup.

This is simplest connected Linux: Just instal the 2 applications utilizing your bundle manager (you're a Linux user—you already cognize however to bash this).

Mac users should acceptable up Homebrew, which is simply a bundle manager for Apple's operating strategy that makes it truly casual to instal bundle similar this. I could constitute galore articles astir however to acceptable this bundle up—actually, I have—but the summary is that you request to unfastened the Terminal, which you tin find successful the Applications folder nether Utilities (or by searching for “Terminal” successful Spotlight) and paste the publication connected the Homebrew homepage there. I urge speechmaking up astir Homebrew first, but conscionable cognize that it's mostly considered trustworthy. After Homebrew is acceptable up connected your Mac, you'll conscionable request to benignant “brew instal android-platform-tools” and everything volition beryllium acceptable up.

Windows users, unfortunately, are going to person the hardest time. You are going to request to manually download the tools, store them somewhere, past alteration the situation variables. I urge following the instructions connected the LineageOS website for guidance connected however to bash this. Alternatively you could effort installing a Windows bundle manager similar Scoop, which volition marque the occupation easier.

Install LineageOS

Once this bundle is installed connected your computer, you're acceptable to bash the existent installation connected your phone. The nonstop steps are going to alteration depending connected your phone, and arsenic I said before, you should truly travel the documentation provided by LineageOS for your device.

Having said that, the installation mostly follows these steps: Enable developer mode connected your phone, crook disconnected the OEM lock, footwear into the device’s bootloader truthful you tin unlock it, flash an representation onto the device, footwear into betterment mode, and past instal the caller operating system.

This is mostly going to beryllium done utilizing the bid enactment connected your computer, but you volition occasionally beryllium required to interact with the instrumentality itself. It sounds similar a lot, but it didn't instrumentality maine much than an hr to execute connected my archetypal try.

Note that, astatine 1 point, you volition person the enactment of installing add-ons including Google Apps and Google Play. Do not skip this measurement if you privation the enactment of downloading apps from Google Play—you volition not person a accidental to bash this again aboriginal without restarting the full process. Again: The important happening present is going to beryllium to travel the instructions for your telephone to the letter. It mightiness instrumentality a while, but successful the end, you'll person an aged instrumentality with a full caller lease connected life.