Is it just me who has experience with a handful of cyanogen mod and lineage-OS installs and still has to spend
hours every time again to get a new phone running?
In other words, the Android modding community is still a fascinating sociologic phenomenon.
This time it was a LG G6, with stock Android 10 installed.
LG forces you to accept multiple regulations that "statistic" data is send to them - more than the one that Google asks. This is e-v-i-l so you want a new OS without LG bloatware.
The
lineage OS wiki says there is no official port - so I was happy to find this thread.
>> What does our master mean with "Clean flash is mandatory"? <<
Finally I succeeded with these steps:
1- adb / fastboot as well as LG drivers were installed on the Windows 10 Laptop
2- Stock LG Bootloader prevents flashing new ROMs and has to be unlocked:
>>
https://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader.dev
>> Setup an account at LG as developer, send IMEI and Device-ID, get Email
>> fastboot flash unlock unlock.bin > success
- "Update your bootloader" was not neccessary (because G6 was already running And.11)
3- A TWRP recovery image has to be installed (stock G6 recovery does not suffice)
Lesson learned:
SkyHawk Recovery Project is just a UI on top of TWRP !
BUT: "It's a flasheable ZIP, no need to unzip" is
wrong > error "image is not a boot image"
> The recovery.img file has to be extracted manually out of SHRP_v2.3.2_h870-233920072020.zip
Then:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache .. reboot
4- Boot into Sky Hawk TWRP:
vol-down + Power buttons, Logo appears > Power button relased for 1 sec
5- Sky Hawk > Wipe data, cache, davlik > Ok
Advanced > sideload
6- On the PC connected via USB:
adb sideload lineage-18.1-20210408-UNOFFICIAL-h870.zip
after success: advanced > sideload again:
adb sideload RoarTheGapps_MINI-ME_20210407.zip
7- reboot > Lineage OS Logo appears - puhh
Took me the half day and I missed the MotoGP race .. f**k !