Wait, which version of the S7 is this, international, or is it found in all versions?
Right, I keep forgetting that.
International. The one that uses the Samsung Exynos CPU. The Snapdragon version sold in the US is locked down much more, so I doubt that it has that option.
I need a lineage os encrypted update guide for dummyâs, Iâve been trying and failing.
So youâve encrypted the phone and are now trying to update it?
Thereâs not much of a guide to it.
- Download the new nightly on the PC
- Connect the phone to the PC, copy the .zip file to the root of the memory card
- Reboot the phone into recovery mode (I have the extra power button menu enabled in the developer options so I can select restart -> recovery, but you can also use the âpower + home + volume UPâ combination when booting from a complete shutdown)
- enter your encryption password
- select Install, browse to the .zip with the new nightly and swipe to flash it. That will update the OS, normally without losing your data.
@Steinwerks howâs your phone doing? Still on the stock ROM?
Havenât done anything yet⌠might be a few weeks, and there are a few things on my phone that I donât want to lose but might have to live without (a couple games mostly and some apps I use on a regular basis for work).
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Look in the Play Store for an APK extractor. Or on F-Droid if you want one that really is ad-free and trustworthy.
That will allow you to grab the appsâ original .apk files and put them somewhere on the phone or SD card. You can then copy them over to the PC and store those files there.
Once youâve flashed the phone, you can then put those .apk files back on your SD card, open them with the file browser and let that re-install them (you will need to go to Settings -> Security -> Unknown Sources to allow the phone to sideload those âuntrustedâ apps first, otherwise it will give an error).
As long as you donât need a Google account or a permanent connection to the Play Store to use them, they should work fine.
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The only apps I recall that required a connection were the ones you got from Amazonâs Free App of the Day, when they were doing that.
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PowerAmp checks for a Google account, or at least the paid version does.
I came across another app that checked for the Play Store as well, but I forgot which one that was.
That might be the source of the issue, since encrypting the phone TWRP does not ask for a password, so when trying to flash the update it gets a corrupted error. Iâm running the latest TWRP⌠Iâll mess around a little more.
Thatâs weird.
A factory reset will remove the encryption from the ROM, so that would allow you to update normally. But it will mean losing your data (unless you back it up and restore it afterwards).
Iâm running twrp-3.1.1-0-herolte and that allowed me to update just fine to Lineageâs Oct 10th build. Havenât updated since, Iâll grab the latest nightly real quick and see if it works normally.
EDIT : On second thought Iâll wait a couple of hours, the next nightly should drop any minute now.
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Uhhhg, face palm. So, LG G3 TWRP official stops at 3.0.2-0, I updated to an unofficial build (that stopped being developed and supported in January) and 1) blue color is changed to red, kind of cool 2) YES! Its now asking for the swipe (and later when I changed to pin #, it asks for the pin) BUTâ face palm- still doesnât work and the XDA forum confirms, they added some support but it didnât go all the way- so now it at least asks for info, but canât take it the rest of the way.
Looks like Iâm backing up my SMS and wiping- I want my updates more-so than encryption⌠the 801 snapdragon gets itâs ass kicked by encryption anyhow.
Stuck in a loop where I go into settings, factory reset, agree- reboots into TWRP, TWRP canât decrypt/mount storageâŚ
** update- go into TWRP, command line, type in ârecovery --wipe_data --set_filesystem_encryption=offâ flash ROM and Gapps again.
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