MiniageOS Turns Your Pixel into a Dumbphone Without Sacrificing Camera Quality
MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS
MiniageOS is a set of scripts that builds a stripped-down version of LineageOS for Google Pixel phones, removing the browser, app store, and Google Play Services while keeping the camera quality and touchscreen. It hard-blocks chosen domains via a custom hosts file, enables grayscale and night mode, disables animations, and skips OTA updates to preserve modifications. The build process pulls the latest LineageOS and vendor updates, and after flashing, it temporarily installs the Aurora Store for app updates, then removes it. It also replaces the camera app with the Pixel camera app and disables machine-learning bloat. No root needed, and it significantly boosts battery life and reduces data usage.
This is meant to be repeated every few months or so. Running this script/flashing the image _is_ the update mechanism.
- 4thguy
As I read down the readme, I kept saying to myself "ok, that's reasonable," right up until I saw the 300GB free space requirement to build the image. Is that really what is needed to build an image for a phone or is this a one-off?
- a96
> Create a stripped-down "dumbphone" version of LineageOS for your Google Pixel without giving up the camera quality and touchscreen of a smartphone.
Dumb interface for smartphones, unrelated to dumbphones. Not that it was likely to be anything else. Pretty neat.
- LoganDark
> What will not work when using a phone running this build?
> RCS messaging
> (The points above apply to any phone with an unlocked bootloader, including ones running official LineageOS builds)
RCS really depends on attestation now? What the fuck?