| 26 Aug 2023 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | that was what I meant | 19:40:28 |
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| 31 Aug 2023 |
@angryant:envs.net | In reply to @atemu12:matrix.org I can highly recommend taking a look at Fairphone Ended up taking the advice, placing a preorder for the Fairphone 5. | 14:54:30 |
@angryant:envs.net | Can't remember when I was last excited about ordering a phone. | 14:54:50 |
Atemu | AngryAnt: I'd wait a little for custom ROM support to be sorted out | 18:50:18 |
@angryant:envs.net | Absolutely. I’m going to spend some time working out what sort of a setup works for me with a dummy config in the out-of-the-box setup before I’m even considering rigging something with robotnix :) | 18:52:29 |
Atemu | What I meant is waiting before buying | 18:57:38 |
Atemu | Though I guess if you unlock the bootloader before usage, switching is feasible | 18:58:26 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | no, you can't switch between rom "flavours" | 19:10:58 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | system data isn't portable enough and things will break, since AFAIK they don't ship lineageos upstream | 19:11:25 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | * system data isn't portable enough and things will break, since AFAIK they don't ship lineageos downstream | 19:11:29 |
Atemu | Absolutely | 19:11:35 |
Atemu | Some parts are portable however such as apps, app data and other generic Android things | 19:11:58 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | oh, I thought you implied for "app data", but you meant "user storage" | 19:12:03 |
Atemu | App data is portable | 19:12:17 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | oh, no, in my experience the rom would bootloop | 19:12:19 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | like, vendor → lineageos would bootloop | 19:12:34 |
Atemu | Ah, I guess I never tried to go from anything other LOS | 19:13:03 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | or how I would phrase it would be: YMMV | 19:13:05 |
Atemu | Perhaps you'd want to exclude system apps in that case | 19:13:14 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | but also LineageOS derived to LineageOS will fail in my experience | 19:13:21 |
Atemu | Not in mine | 19:13:31 |
Atemu | I've ported app data between LOS versions and devices | 19:13:42 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | your mileage varied differently :) | 19:14:02 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | so, the gist of it is: have contingency plans! | 19:14:14 |
Atemu | Problem is that there isn't really an alternative? | 19:14:47 |
Atemu | Android backups suck | 19:14:50 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | exactly: there aren't | 19:17:28 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | titaniumbackup (root required) is what I've used to work around that situation | 19:17:44 |
@samueldr:matrix.org | but you can restore bootlooping data with that | 19:17:57 |