Want to thank the developers of the official Lineage ROM! Installation was smooth and I’ve been running the OS for the last two weeks without any problems. I had to change bootslots (fastboot --set-active=b && fastboot flash boot_b boot.img) and after that installation was a breeze. The first update came in last week and installed without issues. Been running without Gapps as well.
For others, I created a Whatsapp backup on my old phone, but restoring it is pain without a Google account. So I’ve documented it before (2 years ago) and used almost the same procedure this time (step 4 is manual this time) after installing WhatsApp:
- Problem: restore fails, the file date is 1970 and WhatsApp reports the size as 0kb
- Manually create the directory: Internal shared storage/WhatsApp/Databases/
- Place only two files in this directory, replace * with 12 or the number depending on your files/version
msgstore.db.crypt*
msgstore-2021-01-01.1.db.crypt* (the newest backup file) - Give Whatsapp permission to access contacts and media. On my previous Phone Whatsapp asked permission, this time I had to manually give permission through the Android settings because WhatsApp didn’t ask anything after running it.