Dekkia

Thanks.

As other people people already guessed this is needed because more recent versions of the Stock OS won’t let you install a Custom rom.

After you’re done the old stock OS will be replaced fully by lineageOS.

Normally LineageOS replaces the version of Android previously installed on the phone.

I don’t know why the process asks for Android 11 as a starting point. There are a couple of valid reasons why you might need this, depending on the device.

Can you share a link to the process description?

Please answer my question.

Please explain to me how this could be the first step towards something sinister. I absolutely don’t see it.

Oh yea, the freedom of

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not rebooting my phone.