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Warning: The provided instructions are for LineageOS 22.1. These will only work if you follow every section and step precisely.
Do not continue after something fails!
Basic requirements
- Read through the instructions at least once before actually following them, so as to avoid any problems due to any missed steps!
- Make sure your computer has
adb
. Setup instructions can be found here.
- Enable USB debugging on your device.
- Make sure that your model number is one of the following (exact match required!):
- LM-G710AWM
- LM-G710EM
- LM-G710EMW
- Boot your device with the stock OS at least once and check every functionality.
- Remove all Google accounts from your device to avoid “Factory reset protection”
- LineageOS is provided as-is with no warranty. While we attempt to verify everything works you are installing this at your own risk!
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Warning: Your device needs a specific
firmware version before proceeding.
If your device is currently using a newer or older version than the required version, please up- or downgrade to the required version before proceeding with your LineageOS installation.
The required version is
Android 10, which may be lower than the LineageOS version you are about to install - this is not an error!
If there are multiple updates of that version (e.g. security updates), make sure to use the latest!
If you need to upgrade or downgrade your device, please search online for guides.
We are unable to provide specific instructions here and on our support platforms.
Checking the correct firmware
Installation on your device requires a specific firmware version to be installed before you continue.
- Firmware refers to a device-specific set of images that are included in, and updated by the stock OS
- LineageOS builds for this device require an Android 10 version of the stock OS to be installed prior to following the installation guide
- Please ensure that you are checking the Android version, and not the vendor OS version
- Being on another custom ROM, including unofficial builds of the same version of LineageOS, does not ensure that this requirement has been fulfilled
- Please re-read this section as many times as necessary to fully understand the requirements
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Note:
If you are unsure what firmware version you are currently on, we strongly recommend returning to the corresponding stock OS before following the installation guide!
Failing to install the correct firmware version prior to installation may result in failure to install LineageOS, unexpected crashes post-installation,
or permanent damage to your device!
Rooting your device
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Important: The device must be rooted before proceeding any further.
Installing Lineage Recovery using dd
- Download Lineage Recovery. Simply download the latest recovery file, named
boot.img
.
- Place the recovery image file on the root of
/sdcard
:
- Using adb:
adb -d push <recovery_filename>.img /sdcard/<recovery_filename>.img
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Tip: The file may not be named identically to what stands in this command, so adjust accordingly.
- You can use any method you are comfortable with.
adb
is universal across all devices, and works both in Android and recovery mode, providing USB debugging is enabled.
- Now, open an
adb -d shell
from a command prompt (on Windows) or terminal (on Linux or macOS) window. In that shell, type the following commands:
su
dd if=/sdcard/<recovery_filename>.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot_a
dd if=/sdcard/<recovery_filename>.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot_b
- Reboot into recovery.
- From the same shell, type the following command:
Ensuring all firmware partitions are consistent
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Note: The steps below only need to be run once per device.
In some cases, the inactive slot can be unpopulated or contain much older firmware than the active slot, leading to various issues including a potential hard-brick. We can ensure none of that will happen by copying the contents of the active slot to the inactive slot.
To do this, sideload the copy-partitions-20220613-signed.zip
package by doing the following:
- Download the
copy-partitions-20220613-signed.zip
file from here.
- Sideload the
copy-partitions-20220613-signed.zip
package:
- On the device, select “Apply Update”, then “Apply from ADB” to begin sideload.
- On the host machine, sideload the package using:
adb -d sideload copy-partitions-20220613-signed.zip
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Note: The copy-partitions script was created by LineageOS developer erfanoabdi and filipepferraz
- Now reboot to recovery by tapping “Advanced”, then “Reboot to recovery”.
Installing LineageOS from recovery
- Download the LineageOS zip file that you would like to install or build the package yourself.
- If you are not in recovery, reboot into recovery:
- Now tap Factory Reset, then Format data / factory reset and continue with the formatting process. This will remove encryption and delete all files stored in the internal storage, as well as format your cache partition (if you have one).
- Return to the main menu.
- Sideload the LineageOS
.zip
package but do not reboot before you read/followed the rest of the instructions!
- On the device, select “Apply Update”, then “Apply from ADB” to begin sideload.
- On the host machine, sideload the package using:
adb -d sideload filename.zip
.
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Tip: After the package is installed, recovery will inform you that reboot to recovery is required to install add-ons. In case you want to do that, please select “Yes,” otherwise “No”.
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Tip: Normally, adb will report Total xfer: 1.00x
, but in some cases, even if the process succeeds the output will stop at 47% and report adb: failed to read command: Success
.
In some cases it will report adb: failed to read command: No error
or adb: failed to read command: Undefined error: 0
which is also fine.
Installing Add-Ons
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Note: If you don’t want to install any add-on (such as Google Apps), you can skip this whole section!
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Warning:
If you want to install Google Apps add-on package (use the
arm64
architecture), you can download it from
here.
This add-on needs to be installed
before booting into LineageOS for the first time!
- Click
Apply Update
, then Apply from ADB
, then adb -d sideload filename.zip
for all desired packages in sequence.
When presented with a screen that says Signature verification failed
, click Yes
. It is expected as add-ons aren’t signed with LineageOS’s official key!
All set!
Once you have installed everything successfully, you can now reboot your device into the OS for the first time!
- Click the back arrow in the top left of the screen, then “Reboot system now”.
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Note:
The first boot usually takes no longer than 15 minutes, depending on the device.
If it takes longer, you may have missed a step, otherwise feel free to
get assistance.
If you are wondering about the next steps, continue, otherwise, enjoy your new LineageOS installation.
What next?
- If you are considering relocking your bootloader, see our FAQ about it.
- If your device is displaying a warning on every boot - there is nothing you can do about it but ignoring.
- Please do not use any methods to deinstall system apps. We are already shipping only a minimal set of apps and doing so can break your system. You are warned!
- We don’t support any methods for rooting and thus won’t provide support with it on any of our platforms
- LineageOS is Android. It supports apps the same way as any other Android device, but apps might choose to exclude you from using them. Please go back to your device’s quirks section and read about “Device integrity”.
After you’ve double checked that you followed the steps precisely, didn’t skip any and still have questions or got stuck, feel free to ask on our subreddit or in
#LineageOS on Libera.Chat.