Tag: lineage

Written by Ben

heimdall on Centos7

You want to flash a Samsung Galaxy Android device. You’ll need heimdall. It’s not available as a package for Centos7, so you’ll need to compile it. Expanded instructions It uses cmake, which I’d not tripped over before, and the build process is a good deal messier than I expected. As in literally, it leaves stuff […]

Written by Ben

wileyfox swift (crackling) squashfs fun

TL;DR It’s easy to get lulled into a false sense of security.  I bricked my Wileyfox Swift trying to install Lineage: with hindsight, should have tried harder to ensure I had a backout. I’d have tried using ‘dd’ to back up the ‘system’ partition, as the usual toolset (TWRP, adb, fastboot etc) don’t seem to […]