lineageos-fairphone/installation_guide.md

Ungoogle Fairphone

Created friday 05 june 2021

Install LineageOS on Fairphone

1.1. Save you Data and Unlock Bootloader (on Your Fairphone)

• Save all relevant data from you smartphone on your computer.
• Find IMEI number (Settings - About phone)
• Find serial number (Settings - About phone - Model and Hardware)
• enter them here and get your unlock code.
• enable Developer mode (press 7 times “Build number” (Settings - About phone))
• enable OEM unlocking with unlock code (Settings - System – Advanced – Developer options)
• enable USB Debugging (Settings - System – Advanced – Developer options)

1.2. Download and install dependencies (on Your Computer)

• install fastboot and adb (sudo apt install adb fastboot)
• Download LineageOS .img and .zip files here
• connect Fairphone via USB with computer
• Reboot bootloader (adb reboot bootloader)

1.2.1. Optional installation of GooglePlay Store

• If you can't abstain from the Play Store there exist a minimum Google installation, (pico) Open GApps.
• Download the favored version from here.

1.3. Prepare Phone (on Your Fairphone)

• start phone in Recovery Mode
• choose Factory Reset - Format Data/Factory Reset
• apply update - Apply from ADB

1.4. Install LineageOS (on Your Computer)

• adb sideload <lineagos.zip>
• optional: adb sideload <gapps.zip>

1.5. Apply LineageOS (on Your Fairphone)

• apply update

1.6. Lock the Bootloader again (on Your Computer)

• adb reboot bootloader
• fastboot flashing lock

Install Apps

2.1. Here you can download Apps which you can install via the computer on your phone (adb install example.apk).

2.2. Download F-Droid Store here.

2.3. Now you can install Apps like DeltaChat, NextCloud, Fennec, Tusky (...) through the F-Droid Store.

2.4. Dont forget to check again the predefined settings (additional install a privacy badger).

Remove Google-dependencies

3.1. enter new DNS: dns2.digitalcourage.de (Settings - Network and Internet - Advanced - Private DNS).

3.2. Check Privacy Settings and GPS (especially browser-settings from Fennec).

3.3. Switch off Print Service (Settings - Connected devices - Connection preferences - Printing).

3.4. Replace Google captive portal check with Kuketz. Therefore, connect your Fairphone with your computer and execute following adb commands:

• adb shell 'settings put global captive_portal_http_url "http://captiveportal.kuketz.de"'
• adb shell 'settings put global captive_portal_https_url "https://captiveportal.kuketz.de"'
• adb shell 'settings put global captive_portal_fallback_url "http://captiveportal.kuketz.de"'
• adb shell 'settings put global captive_portal_other_fallback_urls "http://captiveportal.kuketz.de"'

In order to test the settings, if they were correctly adopted, you can type in:

• adb shell 'settings get global captive_portal_https_url'