YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE SOLELY YOURSELF FOR ANY ACTIONS YOU DO WITH YOUR DEVICE !!!
Please note - I won't explain any single aspect (e.g. how to install 'fastboot' on your PC or troubleshoot USB connectivity issues under Windows). Search the net and consult the search engine of your choice or look here in XDA, there is plenty information available.
Pre-Requisites
- Get familiar with the hardware keys of the Motorola Moto G (falcon) device, especially how to enter fastboot mode (switch phone off hold power + volume down together for about 3 seconds) and recovery mode (in fastboot mode, switch with volume down key to the reboot recovery option and select with volume up key)
- Have fastboot and adb installed on your PC and make sure, you can connect via USB to your device in fastboot mode and via adb
- Download the most current .ZIP file of this ROM and place it to your phone's internal memory
- An unlocked bootloader (read the warnings carefully and backup your data!
- Your bootloader must at least be on version 41.18 (find out via fastboot getvar version-bootloader) - if your bootloader is below that version, the ROM will refuse to install. In that case, you need to upgrade the BL first. See e.g. here for more info. (I currently do not find the link, which I have used some years back, but the provided link should be helpful, too)
Install TWRP recovery
If you come from stock ROM and have just unlocked your boot loader, this is the next thing to do. If you have already a working custom recovery on your device, there is no necessity to replace it.
However - I recommend to use the
TWRP recovery. The following instructions are based on TWRP.
NOTE: There have been reports of encryption issues in this thread, when using TWRP 3.3.x, which disappear, when TWRP 3.2.1 is used - I myself use the TWRP 3.2.1, as higher versions have mainly been developed for higher Android versions. I can't technically confirm or prove the situation, but based on the reports and the fact, that I myself did not encounter ANY issues for my own device with TWRP 3.2.1, I recommend this version
To install TWRP, download the
TWRP.img file (Note: replace "TWRP.img" in the following instructions with the real file name) from this section to your PC, get it into 'fastboot mode', connect the device via USB to your PC and enter the following command on your PC:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img
Afterwards, directly boot into 'recovery mode' (see above) - I recommend not to boot the phone's Android system after having flashed TWRP. Once TWRP has been launched, you may decide to reboot your phone and install the ROM at any time later. But the first boot after flashing TWRP should be TWRP in recovery mode.
Advanced Wipe
ONLY perform the steps described here, if you come from Stock ROM or a different Custom ROM!
Boot into recovery mode. In TWRP, choose "Wipe", "Advanced" and specify "Dalvik", "System", "Cache" and "Data" to be wiped.
Make sure
NOT to wipe "Internal memory" (or "SD Card", if shown). Swipe to confirm the deletion and get back into the main menu.
GApps (only for build variant A - do not flash on build variant B!)
You have the choice: a. Use microG - b. Flash GApps - c. Neither of those (obviously, you
cannot combine those options!)
'microG' is installed simply by installing the respective apps, no flashing necessary. If you wish to have GApps, they need to be flashed together with the ROM. Download GApps in that case only from
opengapps.org and put the .ZIP also to the Internal memory of your device. Choose ARM as platform, Android 7.1 and the flavor of your choice. I strongly recommend "pico" for two reasons:
1. The Moto G has not much internal memory (8 or 16GB) and no SD card and GApps are notoriously known to waste a lot of space
2. It leaves you the most freedom to only install, what you really need; you can later download and still install all the Google products you want from the play store, so you do not need to live with pre-installed Google stuff you have no use for.
The 'microG patch' in this ROM has no negative impact on installing Gapps.
Install the ROM
In the TWRP main menu, choose "Install". A file manager appears to let you navigate to your internal memory (path
/sdcard).
Choose the .ZIP file of this ROM and swipe to flash. If you update from a previous version of
this ROM, you don't need to perform a wipe. If in that case, you had GApps already installed before the update, there is no need to flash them again. They will be automatically restored during the flash process.
If you come from a different ROM (or stock firmware), make sure that you have performed the Wipe steps above. If you want to install GApps, flash them directly after the ROM, do not reboot in between. (Note: If you wish to get rid of previously installed GApps, navigate to TWRP's file manager in the Advanced section of the main menu, go to path /system/addon.d and delete the file 70-gapps.sh, before flashing the ROM update)
When finished flashing, return to the main menu, choose "Reboot" and then "System", which will cause your phone to boot into Lineage OS 14.1 -
be patient, the first boot after flashing a new ROM takes quite long!
I am currently on A10, Superior OS.
