I finally managed to install Lineage os on this HTC One (m8) thanks to the help of Lemmy!
Lemmy seems like a nice person, even helping with bootloader unlocking and stuff
I think Lemmy is a pretty cool guy. Eh helps support legacy devices and doesnt afraid of anything.
I have not heard a reference to this in like ten years.
Yeah I'm just getting warmed up. Maybe I'll break out a Chuck Testa reference later!
Yeah that Lemmy person definitely deserved a shoutout!
Jesus Christ that's ancient wisdom.
Unlike that infamous hacker known as 4chan
If you're going to use WhatsApp ( and not Signal ๐ฎโ๐จ ), at least use it in a separate profile ( using Shelter ) so it doesn't scan your contacts ( and probably everything else )
๐น๐น๐น, awesome, welcome to the club ๐ป
Good point, I'm gonna uninstall it. I just waned to show someone that you dont need the playstore to install WhatsApp
What is shelter?
In Android operating system, work profiles can be enabled using Android's Admin panel ( I think that's what they call it ), which requires a Google account, in a degoogled Android, we use Shelter which can enable the Work profile, apps in work profiles are isolated/separated from the main one, and they don't have access to your main profile's data, unless you allow it, you can also freeze apps when you lock your phone, ( apps like .... Ahhm excuse me, I mean SPYWARE like Facebook, Tiktok keeps running in the background sending data and that might be a useful for that )
In CalyxOS you can set the VPN ( ProtonVPN ) to route all your traffic ( including the work profile ) thru the VPN tunnel, giving you extra layer of protection. ( I don't know if it's possible on LineageOS )
Personally I won't take the risk of using Big tech apps from Meta, especially Meta,Tiktok and Google even in the work profile, I consider these apps to be spyware, and what spyware does is bypassing your guards and firewalls, working in mysterious ways ( proprietary Software ), and finally gathering as much info as possible from the infected device ( in the background off course )
Your phone has a feature called Work Profile that can be used to isolate your personal and work apps from each other. Normally you need to sign in to a company-specified app like Microsoft Company Portal to activate Work Profile, but Shelter is a simple, open-source app that will do it instead.
sniffs
It still smells like corporate data collecting nonsense in here. And I think I know why.
Spoiler alert: it's WhatsApp.
Allready deleted that app, if you scroll thru the comments you can see that it's been replaced by signal.
Don't forget to stay away from stupid keyboards!!
Some are basically key loggers
Most of them. Florisboard or Openboard.
You're making great progress.
WE DID IT!!
I remember always wanting an HTC One M8 because of the dual front facing speakers.
I had the M7. I loved those speakers.
I loved my M8!
My friend had one, it was so damn cool and those speakers were LOUD.
I used to love my HTC phones 8 years ago. It's a shame their later phones were such shit
Mann I remember my M8. I still use it as an IR remote sometimes. Sadly the battery is pretty much completely dead so I can't really use it for anything else.
Awesome, friendly reminder for everyone who has HTC phones to get the unlock codes ASAP. They could shutdown their servers any day.
Also you don't have to use them. I just have a few unlock codes for phones backed up, just in case I want to custom rom them in the future.
One of the best Android phones ever made. Just seeing this photo made me happy and Nostalgic
I never got to try the m8 but the htc one m7 was my favorite phone of all time. Such a unique and simple all metal design. Incredible speakers for the time and most importantly it fit perfect in my hand. I really wish they was still around as a phone manufacturer.
I had that phone, also with Lineage. It was great. :)
I'm curious what android version is it?
It's running android 10 and lineage os 17.1.
Don't mean to highjack topic. But Thank You Steve, for watching my dog while I was on vacation.
I need to get my old M8! One of my fave phone!
Uhm, I highly recommend running WhatsCrap in the Work profile. Unlock it using Shelter.
Also, bad news maybe but that phone is insecure as fu*k. It didnt get updates forever and this means it will also not be private anymore if you get hacked.
LineageOS cant provide kernel updates or Firmware updates, thats simply how SOC devices work...
But good learning practice! Installing GrapheneOS is a breeze compared to LineageOS though hahahaa, I resized the partition of a Nokia phone once, to get a higher Android LineageOS in there.
Sucks they are killing off 3g in a lot of places this year which is taking out many devices of this generation
I loved that phone. I had the red version. Front facing speakers was fantastic!
How does it work? Have you also tried the AOT for all your apps to help with performance.
Depends on how you look at it. Before: startpage hast been stopped. Ok. Com.google.proesse.gapps has been stopped. Ok etc. After: pretty smooth sailing only gets pretty slow for web browsing but good enough to watch youtube on newpipe. And no I have not tried aot. In comparison to a xaomi mi 9t: quite slugish
The 2GB of RAM are really the bottleneck. I have a few other Snapdragon 800 / 801 phones like the Galaxy Note 3, LG G3, OG Oneplus and those 3GB make a world of difference.
Very cool. I loved the m7 and m8, front facing speakers desperately need a comeback
Ah, the wonderful M8. Loved that phone, used one for over a year.
I was the only person in my company capable of stripping them down for repair. Really not built to come apart
I'm about to buy a Galaxy S4 and do the same.
Well done!
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