A friend is experimenting with LineageOS, and it's about two years since I started to use it, so I thought I'd review the apps that I'm still running frequently.
My Nexus 6P is jolly good, but its battery has become increasingly unreliable. So I now have a new shinyphone – also running LineageOS. This post covers all the gory details of getting it set up.
Every so often, after a LineageOS upgrade, the device starts to complain on reboot about a "Vendor Image Mismatch": the underlying Android code has become outdated. LineageOS doesn't fix this itself; this is firmware which the operating system can't change. Less forgivably, the LineageOS documentation doesn't appear to mention the problem. Here's a step-by-step guide to dealing with it, using the Linux command line.
I've been running a wireless network receiver while out (mostly driving) with the smartphone, logging beacons and locations.
Part 2 of an occasional series.
Since I have a bunch of useful things on servers at home, I was interested in using OpenVPN on the phone to get at them.
Because I knew I was going to be using Termux quite a lot, I got a bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone. It turns out to be really rather good.
I've replaced the fairly basic Maps program I was using on my shinyphone with Osmand+.
I've finally found a smartphone that falls within my parameters for the three Ps: price, performance and paranoia.