Depends. 1st you need to find out if your phone/manufacturer allows unlocking the bootloader. No unlocking, no custom rom, no lineage os. If it is supported, you need to find a lineageOS rom for your phone. There is an official lineageOS website where you can find compatible devices. If it’s not listed there (which is not unlikely), you can search the web for unofficial lineageOS roms or other custom roms. Be careful, some of your phone’s features might not work properly or at all but most custom rom developers provide you with a list of what is and isn’t working.
And for the installation part, it’s probably better to look up a full tutorial on the web as installing a custom recovery that you need to install the rom can be a bit tricky…
I’ve got a /unique/ device that I use to exclusively run a single specialist app. It’s 5 years old, and it does the job.
Well, did the job. But they dropped support for Android9. Can’t unlock the bootloader (technically I can, but any rom just bootloops) and the vendor stopped releasing updates in 2021.
Sure, it’s an edge case. But I’ve got perfectly functioning hardware, to run perfectly functioning software and 6 months ago everything worked fine.
Now it doesn’t, and I’ve either got to find replacement software, or hardware. And I’m probably just… not. Everyone loses. Hardware manufacturers don’t get a sale to replace broken hardware (and it wouldn’t have been long, the phone has been yeeted down the road at 70km/h more than once), software vendors lose my subscription, and I just have a shitty experience.
And why? Because of some way software is packaged. Who benefits from this?
How can I do this? I have an old Realmi stuck on Android 9
Depends. 1st you need to find out if your phone/manufacturer allows unlocking the bootloader. No unlocking, no custom rom, no lineage os. If it is supported, you need to find a lineageOS rom for your phone. There is an official lineageOS website where you can find compatible devices. If it’s not listed there (which is not unlikely), you can search the web for unofficial lineageOS roms or other custom roms. Be careful, some of your phone’s features might not work properly or at all but most custom rom developers provide you with a list of what is and isn’t working.
And for the installation part, it’s probably better to look up a full tutorial on the web as installing a custom recovery that you need to install the rom can be a bit tricky…
Thanks, doesn’t seem like my phone’s officially supported and I don’t feel safe about the custom roms. Maybe one day
This annoys the shit out of me.
I’ve got a /unique/ device that I use to exclusively run a single specialist app. It’s 5 years old, and it does the job.
Well, did the job. But they dropped support for Android9. Can’t unlock the bootloader (technically I can, but any rom just bootloops) and the vendor stopped releasing updates in 2021.
Sure, it’s an edge case. But I’ve got perfectly functioning hardware, to run perfectly functioning software and 6 months ago everything worked fine.
Now it doesn’t, and I’ve either got to find replacement software, or hardware. And I’m probably just… not. Everyone loses. Hardware manufacturers don’t get a sale to replace broken hardware (and it wouldn’t have been long, the phone has been yeeted down the road at 70km/h more than once), software vendors lose my subscription, and I just have a shitty experience.
And why? Because of some way software is packaged. Who benefits from this?
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/