https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/lineageos-18-1-brings-android-11-to-over-60-smartphones/
The Android community's biggest aftermarket distribution, LineageOS, is now up and running with Android 11. The new release is called "LineageOS 18.1," and builds for over 60 smartphones are hitting official servers for brands like OnePlus, Google, Xiaomi, Sony, Motorola, LG, and even some old Samsung devices.
New Lineage OS 18.1 contains, of course, all the Android 11 features from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), like a new notification panel with a persistent media player, floating "bubble" notifications, one-time permissions, new emojis, a new autofill system for the keyboard, and more. All the Lineage apps now support dark mode, and a fork of the FOSS "Etar" calendar app replaces what Lineage calls the "stagnant and largely unmaintained" AOSP calendar. The FOSS app SeedVault has been included as a built-in backup solution, and Lineage's screen recorder and music apps have been revamped.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @12:53AM (2 children)
Curious if LineageOS is disabling debugfs in the kernel like Google is requiring for their blessed version of android 11. This breaks the ability to control charging rate, charge level for initiating charging, and maximum level of charge using the Magisk module, ACC*.
If you have already installed an official lineageOS 18, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
*ACC can make your battery last *much* longer than fast charging it to 100% all the time.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 02 2021, @02:09AM (1 child)
Jewish tricks won't work unless you're a Jew. Do you have Jewish blessing? I remember when everything shat out by the ugly Jew Moxie Marlinspike was treated as gospel. What else, shat out by ugly Jews, is now treated as gospel?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @03:03PM
ETH is triggered because someone wants to extend the time their modern unrepairable glued together phone remains out of the landfill.
ETH also gets triggered every week when the supermarket ads arrive in the mail. And, don't get him started on 'two for' deals, or those 'stealthy' unannounced manger's specials.
Poor ETH, there is no safe space for him.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 02 2021, @12:56AM (5 children)
Coming from an Android 7.x (well, LineageOS 14.1) device this feels almost like an entirely new shell. I don't trust Android at all, especially in light of recent revelations about just how much data it sends back to the mothership, and am happy to report than LineageOS does basically everything you need it to if you're savvy.
The lack of GApps is a problem in some cases but the open-source F-Droid store has a pretty decent selection and I'm hearing about something called Aurora that's similar. The actual unlock/flashing process for the Pixel 4a is very easy too, which makes me a little suspicious as to why Google allows it but very glad they do. I haven't set a packet sniffer on the phone's traffic stream yet but am guessing it's a lot less over-share-y than Android.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @01:28AM (2 children)
Do you root your phone? Really curious if ACC (magisk module) works without having to build a custom kernel. I was just trying to figure out the android way to build kernels when I saw this news on SN.
> I haven't set a packet sniffer on the phone's traffic stream yet but am guessing it's a lot less over-share-y than Android.
If you didn't install google apps, this is certainly true. If you flashed all the gapps, it is probably pretty similar, but even if you need to use real gapps for some reason, there are packages that don't include as much spyware (e.g., don't include digital health [that probably reports all your screen time back to the mothership] etc.).
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 02 2021, @02:05AM (1 child)
You're bitches of the Jews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @06:35AM
Probably better than being Hitler's bitch. Like you. "Caught syphilis from some Charlie Chaplin wantabe" looks good on ya.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:15PM (1 child)
Is this a permanent 'divorce' re 18.1?, I know that you had the option of adding them on prior releases.
Not that it bothers me, I can live without their crap on one phone, unfortunately the only 'sort of' supported phone I've got has the wrong bootloader version (which was news to me...and I've not found any info on how to change it), so I can't try it at present,.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 04 2021, @01:31AM
The XDA-Dev thread offered the option of flashing a GApps zip, and there's something called "MicroG" that apparently provides an OSS version of the services, but the entire thing squicks me so badly I just do without. The thing only gets used for calls, SMS, playing music, reading PDFs, and some light web browsing on break, so...yeah. It's probably massively overpowered for what I do with it but that's a good thing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @01:02AM (1 child)
A lot of people use Windows on their PC, so it would be good if this Lineage ran Windows.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:17PM
Hey, you can run Qemu on Android, you want to run Windows, go for it....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @01:29AM
Who called for this color scheme, reddish-magenta color?
It's better than green, better than yellow.
I will buy him/her a beer
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Friday April 02 2021, @10:05PM
There's a few things I have regrettably come to want on my phone.
(1) Access to Facebook Chat. Currently I'm using Facebook Lite. Unfortunately my family has chosen it to coordinate family activities, and I'm not ready to disown my adult children.
(2) A distributed calendar program, that can read Google Calendar calendars. It has to be able to maintain some kind oc calendar consistency across multiple devices, which each happen currently to run GNU/Linux or Android/Linux.
(3) Audible notifications, with the option to choose what to be notified of. And, the ablity to tell me what a notification is about when I respond to the audio alarm. My current phone often won't tell me what I'm being notified of. I want notifications for meetings I've scheduled (using the calendar) and family messages.
I find my Android devices somewhat deficient on the calendar and notifications. My laptop seems to handle Google Calendar OK in the browser, but one of my Android devices is often hopelessly lost on the matter of schedule changes -- to the point I can hardly use it at all, even if I explicitly request it to sync.
And of course, my so-called disk space is nearly full on both phone and tablet, and I cannot remove apps that I never use.
How well does Lineage OS handle these things?
-- hendrik