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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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I finally managed to install Lineage os on this HTC One (m8) thanks to the help of Lemmy!

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy seems like a nice person, even helping with bootloader unlocking and stuff

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 60 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think Lemmy is a pretty cool guy. Eh helps support legacy devices and doesnt afraid of anything.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have not heard a reference to this in like ten years.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm just getting warmed up. Maybe I'll break out a Chuck Testa reference later!

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[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah that Lemmy person definitely deserved a shoutout!

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Jesus Christ that's ancient wisdom.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 20 points 2 years ago

Unlike that infamous hacker known as 4chan

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

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[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Good point, I'm gonna uninstall it. I just waned to show someone that you dont need the playstore to install WhatsApp

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is shelter?

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alternative with the same option is “island”

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

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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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

sniffs

It still smells like corporate data collecting nonsense in here. And I think I know why.

Spoiler alert: it's WhatsApp.

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Allready deleted that app, if you scroll thru the comments you can see that it's been replaced by signal.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't forget to stay away from stupid keyboards!!

Some are basically key loggers

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Most of them. Florisboard or Openboard.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

You're making great progress.

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

WE DID IT!!

[–] Render@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I remember always wanting an HTC One M8 because of the dual front facing speakers.

[–] painfulasterisk@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I had the M7. I loved those speakers.

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[–] Darkbug@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

I loved my M8!

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My friend had one, it was so damn cool and those speakers were LOUD.

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[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago

One of the best Android phones ever made. Just seeing this photo made me happy and Nostalgic

[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] NotMelon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm curious what android version is it?

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

It's running android 10 and lineage os 17.1.

[–] 1984 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I had that phone, also with Lineage. It was great. :)

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't mean to highjack topic. But Thank You Steve, for watching my dog while I was on vacation.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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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[–] GuillaumeGus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

I need to get my old M8! One of my fave phone!

[–] qwewew@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I loved that phone. I had the red version. Front facing speakers was fantastic!

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

How does it work? Have you also tried the AOT for all your apps to help with performance.

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] theworstshepard@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Very cool. I loved the m7 and m8, front facing speakers desperately need a comeback

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[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm about to buy a Galaxy S4 and do the same.

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[–] Blaze@discuss.online 5 points 2 years ago

Well done!

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