LG G7 ThinQ LineageOS 16 Installation Guide

Here is LG G7 ThinQ LineageOS 16 Installation Guide. Many users have asked about installing LineageOS 16 on LG G7 ThinQ on Infofuge so we will be discussing this process. Since an official development for this phone is not available, we will let you know the process to install it.

About LG G7 ThinQ

• LG G7 ThinQ is powered by 2.8 GHz Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Processor with a RAM of 6GB and ROM of 128GB.
• It has a Display of 6.1-inch display with 1440 x 3120 pixels resolution.
• Also, the phone comes with Android 8 installed.
• For the camera, it has 16 MP + 16 MP dual cameras for the rear and 8 MP for the front camera.
• Lastly, it has a non-removable Li-Po 3000 mAh battery with a quick charge.

Full Phone Specifications

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What is LineageOS?

• Lineage OS is an open-source operating system which can be used in Android Smartphone, set-top boxes, and computers.
• This operating system is the successor of the open-source operating system or custom ROM CyanogenMod.
• It was forked from CyanogenMod\’s source code when it announced as discontinued.
• Lineage OS was launched in December 2018. The development builds now covers more than 185 mobile phone models.
• Furthermore, Lineage is one of the most popular Custom ROM with over 1.9 million active installs.

Advantages of installing LineageOS 16 on your LG G7 ThinQ

• It has a Privacy Guard to control the permissions installed apps can use, which gives the same experience as iOS provides.
• LineageOS provides a Pure stock Android for your LG G7 ThinQ which is always up-to-date. Furthermore, it is the main reason why Android users install a Custom ROM.
• Superuser
• The AudioFX app installed in the OS provides which can be used to equalize audio controls.
• Lastly, it has profiles option which can be founded under Settings > Users.

More advantages of installing LineageOS

Pre-requisite

As we have discussed earlier that LineageOs is not available for LG G7 ThinQ. But we will discuss the method of installing LineageOS on LG G7 ThinQ.

1. Charge your phone up to 80% to 90%
2. First of all backup your phone to prevent it from loss.
3. You can use Titanium Backup to make the backup successfully.
4. Now make sure you have FRP and Unlocked Bootloader.
5. In case if you want to roll back to EMUI 8.0 later you should backup system partition.
6. Download the ADB Fastboot tool on your computer

Instructions to install LineageOS on LG G7 ThinQ

1. First, Unlock bootloader on LG G7 ThinQ.
2. Second, Now go to the recovery and perform “Wipe data/factory reset” & “Wipe cache partition”.
3. Third, Connect your phone to computer via USB Cable
4. Now you can flash the system image using Fastboot mode.
5. You have to move the system image into ADB Fastboot extracted folder.
6. Now open the ADB Ffastboot folder then open the command window.
7. Type following command to flash the system image – Fastboot flash system system.img
8. To boot into stock recovery using following command- Fastboot reboot
9. Now perform a factory reset and enjoy LineageOS on your LG G7 ThinQ.

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