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I only soft-bricked it five times! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I'm still wrong. Idk, it's just a meme.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well, GrapheneOs is a bit easier. GOS uses a WebUSB installer, which does a lot of the work for you.

LineageOS requires things like ADB and Fastboot. In my case, however, it was a Samsung device, so I had to install Windows and then mess around with Odin.

I also ended up soft-bricking the device by trying to sideload the OS before it had finished downloading.