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
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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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!
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Yeah that Lemmy person definitely deserved a shoutout!
Jesus Christ that's ancient wisdom.
Unlike that infamous hacker known as 4chan
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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?
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Alternative with the same option is “island”
Shelter is FOSS, and I think is just a better app at this point.
No disrespect to Island, it works and it's free, but I do think Shelter is preferable.
I've been using insular which is basically the foss version of island
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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.
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I didn't know Shelter existed!!! Damn, thx for the recommendation, this has to be shilled more often imho
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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Allready deleted that app, if you scroll thru the comments you can see that it's been replaced by signal.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.
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You're making great progress.
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WE DID IT!!
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.
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One of the best Android phones ever made. Just seeing this photo made me happy and Nostalgic
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.
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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.
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.
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I loved that phone. I had the red version. Front facing speakers was fantastic!
I need to get my old M8! One of my fave phone!
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.
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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
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Sucks they are killing off 3g in a lot of places this year which is taking out many devices of this generation
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Isn’t this phone was originally shipped with Windows Phone 8? How do you managed to mod it out and install Android on it?
There might have been a windows version, but I definitely had an android one.
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Well done!
We use the exact same things in the home row bar or whatever that bottom folder is called. 🙌
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