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My old Oppo Find 7 served me really well for 5 years. But Oppo stopped updating Android a long time ago, so I switched to Omni ROM. But updates stopped a year ago as well, and I had to fight with more and more demanding applications. So I switched to another China-Phone, Xiaomi Pocophone F1. […]

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My old Oppo Find 7 served me really well for 5 years. But Oppo stopped updating Android a long time ago, so I switched to Omni ROM. But updates stopped a year ago as well, and I had to fight with more and more demanding applications.

So I switched to another China-Phone, Xiaomi Pocophone F1. I gave MIUI 10 a try, but I decided to switch for the following reasons:

  • No interest in the full stack of Google applications
  • Need the ability to modify my hosts file for global ad blocking
  • Nontransparent permission management

So here are the steps I took to install Lineage OS on the phone instead:

  • Unlock Bootloader
  • Install TWRM (watch out: As soon as you boot back to MIUI, it will be removed!)
  • Install Vendor Firmware (watch out! Only 9.x works, not 10.x)
  • Install Lineage OS
  • Install Open GApps Pico
  • Install Magisk (also provides root, SuperSU did not work)
  • Download your favorite ad-blocking hosts file. Use TWRM and mount system, then copy the file to /system/etc.

Biggest downside of using Lineage: Fortnite does not work any more!