I’m considering flashing my Xperia with this, since Sony officially supports it and my stock ROM stopped getting updates.
Any thoughts? Is there something I should consider before doing this? Do you have a better alternative? If so, why?
I’m considering flashing my Xperia with this, since Sony officially supports it and my stock ROM stopped getting updates.
Any thoughts? Is there something I should consider before doing this? Do you have a better alternative? If so, why?
LineageOS… the restrictions don’t sound great. I will need the Google Apps, esp. for banking and other work related stuff. No way past it. Some software seems a bit basic, like the camera app. Sony offers a nice one there. Just as an example. There’s other concerns. Small, but hey…
As to your request for contributing to OSM. That’s what we have StreetComplete for.
You really shouldn’t be using a personal device for work purposes or a work device for personal purposes. So I would try to get your job to provide you a device to do work related stuff on rather than doing it yourself. Also, I ended up switching banks, not because my bank app didn’t run, but primarily because my bank would not allow me to do everything from the website that I could do in the app. And I do not want any Google Play apps at all on my device. And so I ended up switching banks for that purpose to one where I could use the online website for everything.
Never saw the need to separate work and personal devices. I have a work and a personal profile on my phone. That’s enough.
I won’t switch bank over this.
But I agree, banks often have terrible websites.
I have a work phone and a personal phone. Latter LineageOS now GrapheneOS. Still some proprietary apps but not many.
You can just flash NikGapps after flashing the ROM (EDIT: I am not sure if the SONY’s flashing tool will allow you to do such things) to get Google services working. But if you want to pass the Play integrity and SafetyNet checks you will also have to root. It is a bit of a paradox that you have to root to pass these checks (maybe there’s a non-root solution I am not aware of, but I doubt that). For me the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module from chiteroman works well (Lineage OS v21). It just has to be updated once in a while.
On top of those severe restrictions of Lineage I don’t even like that you can’t move apps to the SD. I’ve tried formatting SD as internal storage. I’ve tried a dozen different SD chips on a dozen different phones with a dozen versions of Android. And EVERY one of them failed after a brief moment with some errors and corrupted the chip. Every attempt.
So I use them as external and on other Android devices I have no problem moving apps over to them. I don’t move all types of apps, but ones that are mostly referential like icon packs or reference apps, there’s no justification to not allowing it.