Vivo Y95 LineageOS 16 Installation guide

Here is the Vivo Y95 LineageOS 16 Installation guide The process of installing LineageOS 16 on Vivo Y95 or on any other Android phone is similar to other Models. Since an official development for this phone is not available, we will let you know the process to install it. Many users have asked about installing LineageOS 16 on Vivo Y95 on Infofuge so we will be discussing this process.

About Vivo Y95

  • Vivo Y95 is powered by 1.9GHz octa-core processor with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
  • It comes with a 6.22-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 720×1520 pixels.
  • For the camera, it has a camera of 13+2MP for the rear and 20MP selfie camera.
  • Lastly, it has a battery of 4030mAh.

Full Specs

Read also – Vivo Y95 Battery draining problem fix and other problems fixed

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 Vivo Y95

  • 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 Vivo Y95 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.

Pre-requisite

As we have discussed earlier that LineageOS is not available for Vivo Y95. But we will discuss the method of installing LineageOS 16 on Vivo Y95.

  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 Vivo Y95

  1. First, Unlock bootloader on Vivo Y95.
  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 Vivo Y95.

Read also – Vivo Y95 Running slow or lagging problem fix

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