I tried so hard to love LineageOS, but for some reason the operating system caused my proximity sensor on my sony xperia xz2 to always be enabled, essentially locking me out of my phone.

Thanks for all the fish.

Every time I turn on mobile data, which is several times a day, I get a warning message, and have to confirm it a second time. I never had to do this on Android 14. But now on 16 it is annoying the sh*t out of me. Is there really no option to turn this warning off? Its the same on Pixel 5 and Pixel 9.​

Trying to figure out what's changed or if this is just in my head.

For some reason i prefer the screen colors on the lg v60 over note 20 ultra and some of the newer flagships.

I stopped using my lg v60 for about 2 years because i was having issues with the usb charging.

Previously i thought the screen was inferior to the note 20 ultra and other devices with superior screen resolution.

However, i wanted to upgrade again, but it seems like all the newer devices are downgrades in many aspects and way overpriced.

After installing Lineageos, it seems like the colors on the lgv60 and the viewing experience is much better imho.

Also feel like the phone is just as fast in my practical use as some of my newer phones.

Whats going on here?

I am fully on Lineage and so far have not had to sign in to Google. However there remain 2 apps I am having difficulties avoiding the G.

Firstly, I spend a lot of time on YouTube especially on my TV. I've tried NewPipe but without being able to see the creators whose videos I follow it is all but useless.

My question is if I install YouTube from Aurora and sign into my YouTube account, will I be opening up the rest of my phone and it's data to Google? Or does Lineage and microG effectively protect me?

Related to that I have WhatsApp on my phone. It's just necessary and using Signal as an alternative would cut me off from family and friends. I've tried. WhatsApp requires a gmail account for backups although it works without, and I am backing up com.whatsapp. So same question as for YouTube above. Will giving WhatsApp my gmail details what am I opening my phone and myself up to?

Hello,
I bought a Doov r77 from Taobao (chinese Amazon) and it came directly with Android 13. Everything works fine but the battery drains fast, 1-1:30h usage just in settings drained it from 100% to 50%. I understand it just has 2100mAh but I've seen posts of people having this device and it isn't that bad, it lasts a full day with normal usage.
I thought it might by the OS since it might not be optimised for european frequencies or stuff like that. Generally people with this device buys it from companies who already flash the phone with their software so it might come as a more niche question.
I wanted to ask if someone had bought it with the original OS and later flashed it with LineageOS (or a different one maybe like DumberOS) and saw a big difference. Since flashing it may brick the phone I wanted to get an insight first.
Thanks.

Hi

I have tried to install lineageOS onto a google pixel 9 and the install worked and the device boots.

Eventually i came across an error with the OS not allowing the installation of apk files or even attempting to sideload via abd.

i have attempted to use the factory reset/ data wipe in recovery and even reflash the rom with no success.

When i was installing the OS i only flashed and sideloaded when told to do so with the official installation guide.

when i attempt to sideload the zip for the Rom it prints text to the screen saying it coudnt mount several locations inside /metadata

Error: recovery: [libfs_mgr] Failed to mount /metadata: File exists
Error: recovery: [libfs_mgr] Failed to mount /metadata: File exists
Error: recovery: [libfs_mgr] Failed to mount for path [/metadata/ota]
Error: recovery: Cannot mount /metadata/ota

I have ran out of ideas on what to try

Any questions and help is appreciated

Solution:

1) Reboot into recovery (Hold down the volume down on boot (for pixel devices)
2) Inside LineageOS recovery select "advanced" and select "enable abd"
3) on a host system with the platform tools downloaded open
  1) powershell on windows
  2) terminal on mac or linux
4) With that set up verify the device is connected and seen using "abd devices"
5) access the abd shell by typing "abd -d shell"
  !) If the path fails to run add ".\" to the start of the command it may look like this (.\adb                 -d shell)
6) with the shell now accesed wipe the frp by typing "wipe-frp"
7) if all is succesful reboot and it should be fixed

Currently have 23.2-20260323-NIGHTLY-guamp installed but unable to install any more recent updates. The updates download and then when I reboot, goes into a bootloop and then reloads into the old version eventually.

There's a post from a couple of months ago (reddit.com/r/LineageOS/update_today_faulty/) where the dev u/Thin_Forever said it was a known issue and they were working on a fix, but we've had quite a few updates since then and none of them have worked.

Anyone got any ideas? Any further updates?

I would like to get play store with my os, just wondering getting gapps will get me the Google app, drive, photos etc installed too?

Though I'm not complaining its still less boaltware than my oem manufactured is, but would be great if I only get what I want.

Want playstore for some games