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Maybe someone can help with Lineage and rooting (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all, I have been trying to revitalize a Galaxy S5. I installed Lineage 17 and while the performance is AMAZING and I mean that seriously, I can't figure out how to root. I got Magisk, but it's asking me to patch a file. I don't know what now. Prior to Lineage, I rooted the stock android with a rooting tool that was extremely quick and easy. Just sent a file in Odin while in download mode and it did the rest. But I'm fairly sure that same utility can't be used on Lineage as it's a whole new system.

What I would like is either help doing this, or if anyone knows a better rom to use that comes with root ability - and also the ability to move apps to the SD. For some reason, Lineage won't do this adequately, and stock android has no problem with it whatsoever. That's a step down in my opinion just because of dev's personal philosophy but whatever.

Anyway. Thanks if anyone can help.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh, yeah the extended storage mode is iffy. They're all iffy to be sure, and I've seen icons be faded upon boot also but immediately they catch up and show solid.

Ironically, at least in my experience it is better to leave the SD as external, and use developer options to allow moving app to external even if not in the manifest. It's all about what apps you choose to move, less about the performance. Like I said, I don't move apps that need to run realtime and read and write data regularly, but stuff like icon packs, books, stuff like that, really anything that loads data only occasionally.

Right now, my real phone is still iPhone, but I'm thinking I'll change to android eventually. But I use several android devices as additional pocket computers.

I can't fathom why lineage devs made it like, not feasible. That should be up to the user. I did try to integrate some SD cards as extended internal storage but it fails every time with some java error and reports the SD corrupted. Lol three brand new chips are not corrupted dumbass Lineage lol. Good ones, too! So yeah, they effectively wrote it off as not an option. That's the one problem I have at the moment that I strongly disapprove. Other than that, the performance is insane! Similar with Cyanogen.

I still want to try out stuff like ResurrectionRemix, Havoc, /e/ and maybe Rising. For now I'm content mostly with Lineage on this Galaxy S5 but I really want to get something working that will let me move apps to the SD.

Thank you for all the replies and your insights. Greatly appreciated!