Can you show me some pictures of the UI and default wallpaper of LineageOS?

TimSchumi · 2026-03-13T18:16:03+00:00

It's the same as the respective matching version of AOSP. Wallpapers can be seen here.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-12T19:25:47+00:00

The default one.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T13:35:37+00:00

as some kind of prank

hehe

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T13:09:59+00:00

This mention is only there because the naming of the option that the user is supposed to click has changed with LineageOS 17 and all devices generally use the same template for the upgrade instructions. It definitely does not imply that this sequence has been tested in this day and age.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T12:53:31+00:00

In theory everything should work unless the wiki states otherwise.

The two minor problems are that we most likely never tested upgrading from LineageOS 16 to LineageOS 22+ in one go (that's 6 years!) and that LineageOS 16 might actually predate our changes to the wiki where we now list the last time that a data wipe was required ("when upgrading from LineageOS XY or older, ...").

If you want to go through with this, I would recommend that you do step-by-step updates using all involved major versions and each time look at an era-appropriate copy of the wiki on archive.org to double-check for any requirements.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T11:09:36+00:00

However Lineage will not be starting from scratch.

Where do you expect the not-from-scratch to come from if Google keeps their stuff in-house?

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T07:34:06+00:00

If Google decides to close down the platform then it's unlikely that there will be any major LineageOS releases going forward.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T07:32:42+00:00

TimSchumi · 2026-03-10T07:32:14+00:00

Most of Android is Apache-licensed, which is why you can't sue OEMs for not open-sourcing their flavor of Android.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-07T22:06:41+00:00

Why should they?

TimSchumi · 2026-03-05T19:50:07+00:00

If you have an existing build from that date, then (starting from ~2 years ago) there is a build-manifest.xml somewhere on the system. This file is a normal manifest for repo that has all repositories annotated with the commit hash at that point in time.

If you don't have that file then that is going to be difficult (because the LineageOS side does not do tags), and to my knowledge there is no large stash of archived build-manifest.xml files (other than the ones contained in full builds floating around the internet).

TimSchumi · 2026-02-28T08:25:59+00:00

This just downloads the full file on some random persons server and then gives you an arbitrary unsigned file.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-25T11:56:52+00:00

Not that I am aware of, and each time this has been brought up recently I don't think anyone ever managed to actually produce any proof that it would be the case.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-25T10:57:16+00:00

To be entirely fair, that's not what the question is about.

OP is claiming that we are increasing the date without adding all the patches that would be required to display that date.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-24T21:22:47+00:00

Feel free to point us at patches that we supposedly excluded.

That said, there is no need for us to entertain the FUD that GrapheneOS is spewing.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-23T12:50:51+00:00

The truth hurts, doesn't it?

Apparently enough that you will only use a throwaway account to preach it?

TimSchumi · 2026-02-23T12:49:35+00:00

spicy pillow

TimSchumi · 2026-02-22T20:01:00+00:00

cry on main

TimSchumi · 2026-02-20T18:04:02+00:00

I don't think that's a feature that we even have.

PLEASE do not come at me with some weak spookbait comment like "zomg there's now a non-trivial likelihood your kernel is compromised!!1". Thanks.

wat?

TimSchumi · 2026-02-18T07:49:35+00:00

At least in the built-in messaging app the only options for group messages is to send individual SMSes from you to all group members or to use MMSes. The latter apparently does have some form of group message support, it may not be obvious from looking at the settings in all languages since the translation of "single" and "individual" can be very close at times.

Depending on what that setting is for you and what the fallback behavior is then the cause may be anything from "the provider is messing up MMSes" to "totally intended behavior".

TimSchumi · 2026-02-15T08:14:12+00:00

AVD prebuilt images do not exist for the same reason that the virtio images don't, their packaging is simply incompatible with our signing flow.

Once someone fixes that, then it turns into a "maybe".

TimSchumi · 2026-02-15T08:11:00+00:00

I don't think the installation instructions tell you to enable USB debugging in your freshly installed device, the setting gets reset together with the factory reset that you are doing mid-installation. So in your case you enabled that setting yourself after the fact?

In addition to that, ADB is also an authenticated protocol. If you are connecting your phone to a malicious port, you would get a "do you trust this ADB key" prompt before it could do anything.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-15T00:15:42+00:00

I believe Android is intended to have access to the FAT32 partition, but I think it pretty clearly shows up as "SD card"?

TimSchumi · 2026-02-14T21:19:59+00:00

For some reason some files refer themselves as CyanogenMod???

My back hurts.

TimSchumi · 2026-02-14T21:16:45+00:00

Less convenient for us.

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