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Monday 6 April 2020

Android 10 based LineageOS 17.1 Overview and First Impressions on POCO F1

LineageOS is a popular OS amongst custom ROM enthusiasts. LineageOS team recently announced LineageOS 17.1, which uses Android 10 as the base and dropped LineageOS 17.1 for quite a few devices including POCO F1, OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T and OnePlus 7Pro. We managed to install it on our device and here is the overview and first impression of LineageOS 17.1 on POCO F1. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309086,309087,309088"] LineageOS offers a clean bloat-free experience, you will find only a handful of apps pre-installed, most of which can be easily uninstalled/disabled. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309089,309090,309091"] LineageOS 17.1 is in the nightly stage, the maintainer rolls out update for POCO F1 every day. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309093,309094,309095"] LineageOS 17.1 offers all the Android 10 features such as system-wide Dark mode, Night Light and Adaptive Brightness. It has a reading more for long reading sessions which turns the display greyscale. Apart from these, LineageOS 17.1 also offers a few nifty gestures such as double-tap to wake, and double-tap to sleep. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309096,309097,309098"] LineageOS team has also adapted AOSP's ThemePicker app, so users have an option to select accent color, font style, icon shape, and others. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309105,309106,309107"] LineageOS 17.1 also offers a few customizations. [gallery size="large" columns="2" link="file" ids="309108,309109"] Similar to any ...