Okay, so I somehow ran across mention of an open-source porting of the loathsome Google’s Android datamining and espionage platform called LineageOS, which sounds interesting for all sorts of reasons. It seems worth at least considering the switch, so for the last cpl-three days I’ve been employing whatever Duck Duck Go-Fu I possess and researching this thing a little. As the inveterate and irredeemable tinkerer y’all know me to be, I’m as intrigued as I am intimidated. Some of the forum posts I’ve seen have been downright terrifying, frankly; since I eke out my meager living with my phone, it ain’t as if I can afford to wreck the damned thing.
But still…intrigued.
So my question is this: any CF’ers out there have any experience with Lineage, know someone who does, or perhaps can offer recommendations, predictions of doom, or other sage advice to Ye Olde Blogge Hoste? I ain’t exactly a doot-brained noob when it comes to cellphone hackery, having rooted one or two in the past, but I wouldn’t call myself any kind of guru either. What say ye, gang?
Hmmm, April 1 blog post?
I’d avoid those like the plague if I had a real product.
If the phone is important to you, $$$ wise, then I’d suggest doing it on a phone that isn’t as an experiment. Which requires a second phone, but probably only for a short period of time.
LineageOS is descended from CyanogenMod, one of the most popular custom Android ROMs back in the day. It’s about as stable as they come, although it doesn’t work on every phone. I’ve used it myself in the past on more than one different phone. You’d have to check the list of supported phones to see if yours is there, though.
But it requires you to root your phone, and you probably won’t be able to use it as an Uber (Lyft, etc) driver, because rooting your phone allows you to do stuff like spoof your location.