12 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

After a failed attempt to install LineageOS on my primary phone, I spent a good many hours last week trying to revive as much as I could. After that misadventure, I’m several steps behind where I wanted to be - Instead of a fully functional LineageOS device, I now have a phone that is barely stable and doesn’t quite have a rear camera. Mistakes are all mine though and in hindsight, I did see this coming. Was treading really murky waters not flashing in a stock OS in the first place. As with all things that go wrong, a bunch of factors contributed to this - incrementally. Since download speeds barely hit 0.5Mbps here, I was very selective on what firmware files I’d port in. And in that process, I failed installing the CP and CSC packages. All this leading to a quasi stable OS. Thankfully, I had some backups in place and there’s only a couple months until I get to purchase a Pixel 9 and install GrapheneOS on it. This whole process has, if anything, convinced me to institute a process to…

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