I finally managed to install Lineage os on this HTC One (m8) thanks to the help of Lemmy!
Lemmy seems like a nice person, even helping with bootloader unlocking and stuff
I think Lemmy is a pretty cool guy. Eh helps support legacy devices and doesnt afraid of anything.
I have not heard a reference to this in like ten years.
Yeah I’m just getting warmed up. Maybe I’ll break out a Chuck Testa reference later!
Can you share the origin with the rest of us?
It comes from an ancient 4chan meme.
Yeah that Lemmy person definitely deserved a shoutout!
Jesus Christ that’s ancient wisdom.
sniffs
It still smells like corporate data collecting nonsense in here. And I think I know why.
Spoiler alert: it’s WhatsApp.
Allready deleted that app, if you scroll thru the comments you can see that it’s been replaced by signal.
Don’t forget to stay away from stupid keyboards!!
Some are basically key loggers
Most of them. Florisboard or Openboard.
AnySoftKeyboard is nice also
You’re making great progress.
Not tiktok music?
That doesn’t look like TikTok to me.
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- March 2014 to be exact!
Yep, and only 2GB RAM.
I remember always wanting an HTC One M8 because of the dual front facing speakers.
I had the M7. I loved those speakers.
Had the M7 too, absolutely loved it for 3 months. Right up until a desktop harddrive fell from a shelf right in the middle of the screen. Corner went through it like butter 😭
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M8 with Harman Kardon mod (fakes the model so the controls appear) is absolutely incredible. They really squeezed everything out of those tiny tweeters. And the IR Blaster is super handy.
I didn’t know there was an M7. If they sounded amazing on the M7, I can’t imagine what they sounded like on the M8.
My friend had one, it was so damn cool and those speakers were LOUD.
I never got to listen to them in person. I heard so many people praising the speakers at the time.
Mann I remember my M8. I still use it as an IR remote sometimes. Sadly the battery is pretty much completely dead so I can’t really use it for anything else.
Is it possible for someone to custom make a bigger battery+case for the HTC One M8?
I used to love my HTC phones 8 years ago. It’s a shame their later phones were such shit
I had an HTC 10 at the time, around its release date as that was the only phone with a Snapdragon 820 available at T-Mobile in my location. It was an ok phone but got better with a custom ROM+kernel. Shame about no dual front facing speakers on the HTC 10 because the single front facing speaker actually sounded great.
I’m head over heels in love with my M7! It’s so good, people would constantly ask to check it out.
WE DID IT!!
Awesome, friendly reminder for everyone who has HTC phones to get the unlock codes ASAP. They could shutdown their servers any day.
Also you don’t have to use them. I just have a few unlock codes for phones backed up, just in case I want to custom rom them in the future.
I have an M8 in perfect condition. I stopped using it when the HTC gallery bug corrupted a bunch of my photos.
What is this about unlock codes? How do I get them? Do I need to use them ASAP?
I don’t have the time to research and go through the steps to do this right now but I would like to use it in the near future.
I never got to try the m8 but the htc one m7 was my favorite phone of all time. Such a unique and simple all metal design. Incredible speakers for the time and most importantly it fit perfect in my hand. I really wish they was still around as a phone manufacturer.
Don’t mean to highjack topic. But Thank You Steve, for watching my dog while I was on vacation.
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Steve is a good friend.
Sucks they are killing off 3g in a lot of places this year which is taking out many devices of this generation
This phone supported LTE
I’m curious what android version is it?
It’s running android 10 and lineage os 17.1.
I loved that phone. I had the red version. Front facing speakers was fantastic!
Uhm, I highly recommend running WhatsCrap in the Work profile. Unlock it using Shelter.
Also, bad news maybe but that phone is insecure as fu*k. It didnt get updates forever and this means it will also not be private anymore if you get hacked.
LineageOS cant provide kernel updates or Firmware updates, thats simply how SOC devices work…
But good learning practice! Installing GrapheneOS is a breeze compared to LineageOS though hahahaa, I resized the partition of a Nokia phone once, to get a higher Android LineageOS in there.
It really was good practice, It’ll not be my main phone. That was more or less just a proof of concept or a bit of tinkering.
It really is a shame how phones are made. Firmware has to be signed by the vendors, so you CAN’T upgrade it. I mean, if there was a big community they maybe could handle the Kernel maintenance, but not the Firmware.
I highly recommend you getting a Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS. It has very long lifetime, even though Google kinda sucks when it comes to hardware features. Their a models seem to have actively crippled Cameras (comparing a Pixel 6a to a 4a, it is worse! Not to speak of a Nokia 7plus which is years old).
But they are the only good one poorly, as they fully support running a Custom OS on it, including all hardware features. Samsung actively blocks custom OSses from accessing those.
When the time to upgrade comes, I’ll probably get a pixel. But right now my main phone is holding up very well. Even though it’s allready 5 years old.
When using Graphene, is the camera app as good as the default Pixel OS? I seem to recall running the old AOSP, you didn’t get whatever secret sauce makes the Pixel phone’s camera so good.
They literally preinstall the required libraries, although their camera is okay, you can install the “AI knows everything better than you” PixelCamera, you can install the LineageOS “Aperture” from the iodeOS repo, and you can install Opencamera.
I think LineageOSses Camera is better for photos as it has this “take an image from a video” thing so it works instantaneous. GrapheneOS camera may have better quality overall.
Very cool. I loved the m7 and m8, front facing speakers desperately need a comeback
We need phones to have bezels again anyway. I’m sick of having to gingerly hold a phone in hopes of not accidentally touching the screen
Could use some ricing. Try iconify
Congrats bro!!! Welcome to the club 😎😎😎
