Hi, I tried to find the relevant information and learn about rooting, flashing etcetera…, but I’m far from an IT-specialist. So now I’m drowning in all the information. Can anyone tell me how I, step by step, should install Lineage on my FP2? That would be great! tnx btw I already know where to fi…

Make a backup. Make a backup. Make a backup. :wink: Than continue with the points mentioned above.

Btw, one of the easiest ways to install it is with FP Open installed - at least that’s how I did it. Download the file onto the external SD card of your phone. Start into TWRP. Perform a full backup of your system to the external SD card. Wipe the phone. Install the downloaded image of Lineage. Re…

Tnx all!! I’ll let you know if it all works out :smiley::smiley:

If you have doubts, you can at any time ask questions at the community chatroom: :slight_smile: https://chat.disroot.org/#/room/%23wearefairphone:matrix.org

Shouldn’t you first make sure TWRP is working, for which you first need to root the phone. Or am I missing something?

Is the download link for Lineage OS down? EDIT: link is up again: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=889764386195904774

No, you don’t need to root the system for TWRP recovery to work, :slight_smile:

Again tnx for the comments! I tried to get everything to put it into a step-by-step procedure to be sure. Right now I’ve got FP OS Open 16.07.1 on my phone. I don’t have any personal information, like contacts, photos or apps I want to keep. My phone contains primarely the apps from the FP OS Open. …

[image] dupdup: Do I need to backup in this case? No, Lineage OS can be used out of the box and anything you’ll need you can get from F-Droid. (F-Droid is not pre-installed, but a browser is ;)) [image] dupdup: If I don’t need to backup to keep personal information etc, do I still to bac…

This totally worked, very straight and simple. Thank you Paul! Btw. I updated my modem drivers to those from FPOS 17.04.08 prior to installing Lineage OS as recommended in this thread Porting LineageOS to FP2 . For this purpose it contains a flashable zip file to be used with recovery. Very conveni…

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