Please suggest somewhere else I should post this. I took an OTA update last night for Lineage4microG and my OnePlus8T just bootlooped. I tried downloading and manually side loading both the most recent and previous versions, but they keep failing with a kInstallDeviceOpenError. I am desperate to get back into my device without wiping the data.

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!lineageos@lemmy.ml appears to be the biggest Lineage community here

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Broad definition of “big” or “community”.

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You’ll probably get more help here: https://xdaforums.com/

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Latest build had issues with a few models due to a selinx issue.

Flashing an older build should work tough. Try flash a selinux-permissive zip from recovery maybe, that should let you boot.

Next week build will fix the issue I am sure, but you should join the lineageos reddit channel or the discord server.

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Thanks. I tried flashing the previous one available (the one I was using before taking this OTA), but it also wasn’t working. I’ll keep checking the site for the new build next week, and hope that one boots for me.

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It’s maybe the best if the next thing you do is backup your data. If you have access to a Linux shell on the phone, through adb, the recovery or something, you can make a copy of the data partition.

If you have adb access (not too rare for the installed recovery system to support it), turn ADB on, connect the phone to your PC, and download the data partition with the adb pull pathgoeshere command. Partitions should be under /dev, but details are device specific.

If you don’t have ADB but have a shell and you can run the dd command, you can use that to copy the partition to an SD card. Maybe to a USB storage if it supports that, but that’s questionable.

In old days there was a single data partition, but also there was a different place where the “internal storage” resided. Maybe there are now even more partitions, but I’m not that familiar with current android.

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If you don’t have ADB through the recovery, you may install one that supports it, or instead of installing you should be able to just boot it with the fastboot command. Be sure to use a recovery that is at least somewhat popular.

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I can’t quite figure this out. I can enable ADB from Lineage recovery, but I don’t know where my data is. I can ‘adb shell’, cd /dev, and I see a ton of shit but nothing seems like storage. I do ‘df -aH’ in /dev and it is like 5.7 Gigs free of 6. There’s no way that’s all my pictures and stuff.

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If your phone has a password on it then its data is going to be encrypted until you unlock the phone.

You can temporarily boot a twrp recovery image. It will let you put in your password and decrypt your storage.

You should be able to transfer the files to your PC with a cable then

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I couldn’t get twrp to boot :( Any twrp images for my phone are a few years old

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Damn you are now making me paranoid. I’m going to skip on this one and make backups.

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Do it. If I’d had nice backups, I could have wiped and done a clean install. Instead I’m praying this gets fixed so I do lose about a month of pictures and all my 2fa tokens :p

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