Thanks for the log - At the moment, I can't really judge - the "I" (info) messages seem to be that, info only. Btw org.codeaurora.ims is a different, unrelated app. The "E" (error) message seems to give some indication. As indicated in my other reply, please try force-stopping, cleaning the download space and re-logon with a different anonymous account.
Don't "update" Google Play Services! This ROM comes with microG, which spoofs the existence of G* play services, but you can't "update" those, and in fact you don't really want to (if you understand the technical background).
very helpful read, and good refresher on privacy in the OP, thank you for reminding!
Believe me, I tried many things (notably booting on a/b slots) and either I was stuck in the recovery with a message telling me to wipe, or I was stuck at the moving boot logo (for >24hrs).Question: What exactly happened, could be observed by you? I sometimes observe the following behavior on my phone, when I flash my builds to test: The boot animation normally is pretty slow, but lasts short - sometimes after a new flash, the boot animation has normal/fast speed but seems to run "forever". I don't really wait in that case, but simply press [power]+[vol-up]+[vol-down] to shut it off. Then I normally enable the device again and it boots fine.
In that specific state however, after the above force-shut-off, if you launch fastboot to switch from a to b or vice-versa (hoping to boot the last version), it will tell you after boot that /data would be corrupt. Ignore that and switch again to the previous partition and simply boot. Don't ask me, why - but that is, what my device sometimes does... - anyways, don't immediately give up, when the system tells you /data would be corrupt, spending some time playing around is worth the effort ...
In Aurora you can long press on "Play Services" and choose add it in the blacklist. This way you're sure you won't upgrade it by mistake.
Unfortunately, I have no good advice then. But taking "ages" after downloading the ROM to write to the partitions isn't really a good sign.
It's been long because I was scared, but it all worked nice in the end.
First things first, I have been using your builds for the OnePlus 7 Mclaren edition for a while now and have to admit, very few others take the time to consider privacy as much as yourself, for that I take off my hat to you with huge thanks.
. Unfortunately you don't need a 5g modem to be tracked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protocol_security_vulnerabilities
I understand these things track us on a daily basis, but I thought the 5G element increased the pin pointing by some silly percentage, example if You were in a city bar, 4G could show you were in one of the buildings on that street but not able to confirm if you were in the bar or one of the buildings next door, where 5G would show you in the bar and which bar stool you were sat on.
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You are an optimist
(I did get the sarcasm, don't worry), but the EU commission president does not have her nickname "Zensursula" for no reason...Ha ! TIL, thanks for that one.
Have run the update for a few days now, as per the norm with your builds it comes without issues
Don't "update" Google Play Services! This ROM comes with microG, which spoofs the existence of G* play services, but you can't "update" those, and in fact you don't really want to (if you understand the technical background).
