[ale] Ears of Bull

[Kyle Brieden]

Bravo, sir!  I've been curious about LineageOS.  Mind throwing a 
screenshot up into Imgur or something and sending the link to the 
screenshot to this list?

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 09-08-2017 12:28, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> My beloved HTC One M8 has a dying battery. This wouldn't ordinarily be
> a problem, but when it heats up and swells it puts pressure on the
> motherboard, which causes the phone to go into an endless boot loop.
> And the battery is _Not_User_Replaceable_
> 
> I now have a Usable Cell Phone. Steps:
> 
>    * Buy V20 H918 ( removable battery, removable SD storage ) from
> Swappa.com (Yay Swappa!)
>    * Downgrade software version from H91810K to H91810J
>       ( monster 2-hour tussle with Windows and LG-UP, max Propers to
> Mr. Lessenger for his gracious assistance )
>    * Use dirtyCOW exploit on MY OWN DAMN PHONE to gain root access to
> the device
>    * Install TWRP on the recovery partition (which ships on the H918
> COMPLETELY BLANK ) using dd(1) (!!!)
>    *  Make a nandroid backup of the Current Stock OS with TWRP
>    *  Use TWRP to install LineageOS and OpenGApps on the phone
>    *  Wait 25 minutes for LineageOS first boot code to run
> 
> And now all I have to do is transfer my Contacts and password file to
> the new phone.  Hurray.  This took me about a day of intense and
> stressful hassle to get through, spread over about 3 days of actual
> time.  When I want to install my own chosen OS on my PC, it takes me
> about 45 minutes plus some minor configuration time.  Huh. Go Figure.
> 
> I'd attach a picture of the LineageOS boot screen, but alas I can't
> put that through this server.
> 
> -- CHS
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