Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro LineageOS 16 Installation Guide

The process of installing LineageOS 16 on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro is similar as for other Xiaomi models. Since an official development for this phone is not available in the market, we will let you know the process to install it. Many users have asked about installing LineageOS 16 on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro on Infofuge so we will be discussing this process.

About Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro

  • Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro has a 6.21-inch display smartphone with a resolution of 1080 x 2248 pixels.
  • The phone is powered by Snapdragon 845 Processor with 8GB of RAM.
  • It has a storage of 128 GB not expandable.
  • The phone has an attractive design with an expansive display and good rear camera of 12M.
  • Lastly, it has a Battery of 3000 mAh.

Full Specs

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.

Pre-requisite

As we have discussed earlier that LineageOs is not available for Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro. But we will discuss the method of installing LineageOS on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro.

  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

Advantages of installing LineageOS 16 on your Mi 8 Pro

  • 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 Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro 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

Instructions to install LineageOS on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro

  1. First, Unlock bootloader on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro.
  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 Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro

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