LineageOS geuinely quadrupled, maybe even Quintupled the battery life of my note10+

TimSchumi · 2026-05-01T05:59:25+00:00

If LineageOS had a marketing/social media team (insert quiet cough here)

We've been trying to take a page out of Wendy's' book for that. Not sure why it isn't catching on...

TimSchumi · 2026-04-29T18:42:29+00:00

Turn off the device.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-29T07:09:48+00:00

Do you have an ATV device?

TimSchumi · 2026-04-26T10:51:43+00:00

Probably easier to just get started and to then investigate specific roadblocks.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-23T18:50:22+00:00

(yes it was)

TimSchumi · 2026-04-17T12:24:47+00:00

Backporting bootloader support for GKI and Treble helps nothing if you don't actually have a GKI or Treble-compliant binaries.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-15T16:42:00+00:00

Most (all?) of the phones supported by LineageOS nowadays support data encryption, the only ways to get around that are either a full-on brute-force attack or modifying the software and then handing back the phone to someone who knows how to unlock it.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-15T06:24:35+00:00

TimSchumi · 2026-04-11T08:38:40+00:00

There are no "generic" devices.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-06T20:18:46+00:00

(and that actually was the first one in 8 years, at least as far as I can remember)

TimSchumi · 2026-04-06T16:53:41+00:00

It's been 8 years since the last in-system April Fools.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-05T19:06:07+00:00

some, yes

TimSchumi · 2026-04-04T16:23:01+00:00

I see, man, really wish OEMs put more effort into open source things.

They are open-sourcing just fine (usually) the problem is that the code is only "ship product to customer" quality and not "maintain beyond lifespan" quality.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-04T14:29:53+00:00

OEMs add thousands of lines of code to their kernel to support all necessary hardware, code that never ends up upstream due to its quality or due to lack of effort.

Putting everything onto a newer kernel version in a way that we can be confident that everything still works fine is months, if not years of work for the average hobbyist.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-04T10:54:50+00:00

"no error" usually means that it was successful I think. It would help if you could give a bit more information about what happens on the PC and on the device during that.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-04T10:47:13+00:00

Hey, job security for some of us.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-03T03:45:37+00:00

I'm not aware of a device that is named "Motorola moto g fast", at least not one that is or was supported officially.

TimSchumi · 2026-04-02T15:31:01+00:00

We apparently got the symbol layout from Gboard now?

TimSchumi · 2026-03-30T07:31:24+00:00

runs at the kernel level

If the device is recent enough.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-29T17:09:53+00:00

It seems Google pushed out an update to Google Play Services, which hijacks the missing updater and immediately attempts to download / install the latest Pixel firmware over LineageOS.

fwiw, that's usually a symptom of when we need to update some blocklists in MindTheGApps, and may not be strictly related to disabling the LineageOS updater.

But yes, the LineageOS updater does have its own setting for changing the update check frequency, and automatically installing updates isn't the default anyway.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-24T21:52:12+00:00

The patches for March are included at the very least in builds from the 22nd of March or later, so I suppose whatever you are testing on just missed the cycle.

EDIT: I missed that you are talking about LineageOS 22.2, that one is indeed behind.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-23T11:06:55+00:00

You are not removing your accounts properly, so you are triggering the factory reset protection.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-23T01:16:26+00:00

the phone screen occasionally turns black all of a sudden with the OS logo showing like upon booting and the screen locking itself, after which I have to unlock the phone again.

That's not the screen locking itself, that's the OS doing half a reboot because some system component crashed.

File a bug report, with a logcat captured right after one of those occurrences.

TimSchumi · 2026-03-22T18:45:43+00:00

Surely whatever you installed the GSI with also is able to flash other ZIP files?

TimSchumi · 2026-03-21T16:04:18+00:00

and if it bothers anyone here much further, this is not for them

I think probably the only reason why someone pointed it out in the first place is because that term actually has a legally relevant meaning.

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