[HLUG] Fwd: New year's update & Lineage 14.0 to 16.0 upgrade possible?

[Ceri Williams]

> ... step forward please ..

I can probably help out, although it may involve pacman ;)

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Hi Ceri

Your experience with flashing phones shows that it can be a lottery
sometimes, like any open source projects. The two Lineage upgrades I
undertook with a Fairphone2 and Google Pixel XL both went really easily,
although looking back on my notes from a couple of years back showed me
that installing on the FP in the first place was much more convoluted than
it should have been esp. for an 'open phone' such as this.

Yes a Rasp Pi event would be great, as we haven't tackled this before in
any big way. My RPi knowledge is very limited as mine hasn't been used for
a couple of years but hopefully there are others in the LUG keen to help
here ... step forward please ..

Julian

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 21:33, Ceri Williams <email-me at incoming-email.co.uk>
wrote:

> Happy New Year!
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 19:16, Julian Robbins via Herefordshire <
> herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping we can get more Linux and Open Source events going this year,
>> and am looking at getting something organised in a couple of months time
>> to
>> start with. If anyone has any topics they would like to see please let us
>> know and we'll see what we can do
>>
>> Perhaps something rPi-related, such as running Pi-hole or unbound along
> with privoxy or similar?
> Rolling the die for brick/bootloop/success when flashing phones is already
> limited to those devices that allow you to flash and a ROM that you can
> trust .. otherwise, you are better off with Google than risking your
> security ;)
>
>
>> On another matter, I have a phone running Lineage 14 that I need to get
>> flashed to lineage 16. But can I flash directly to 16, or do I need to
>> flash 15 on first? I would imagine it would not matter, but wondered if
>> anyone knows for sure or can shed any light on this?
>>
>> My Moto G4 Plus that was running LineageOS couldn't go past Nougat, so I
> don't know the answer to that. I looked for other official ROMs that
> provided Oreo to test at the time, but I couldn't get any of them to flash
> successfully. I ended up reverting to the original ROM as the Moto had Oreo
> made available to it and I needed the security fixes and also have to be
> running the latest or previous major Android release for work. My Huawei
> has been much better with timely security patches and OTA major updates (10
> is due in the next couple of months), plus Huawei pulled the unlock codes
> so I couldn't anyway. Good luck!
>
>
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