 So I'm super excited because today I did something that I always wished that I could do I've always loved how on Linux you have you know You get a copy of Debian or Ubuntu or whatever just really like you put it onto a machine and it just runs And it always bothered me that Android wasn't like that You had to get these custom ROMs for each device and different ROM images don't work on other devices And it didn't make sense to me because I'm thinking okay. You have a custom maybe boot Partition But then you have your system partition where Android is and you might think oh well You need the drivers, but the thing is your drivers on Android are all in different partitions There's a partition for the Bluetooth drivers as a partition for the other radio drivers everything's on partition So you would think you'd be able to just replace that system partition with whatever Distribution or ROM that you want Turns out you can and I'm not reading about this a while ago Starting back in I think 2019 Google was trying to make it more so Android was more like that and if it was Treble supported so pretty much all devices. I think it said from Android 9 on should be treble supported and and and That's awesome. So basically you can get a very basic generic Android image and put it on almost any device and it should just work and this is great because like I Like Motorola devices Motorola allows you to unlock the bootloader if you unlock the bootloader you can do whatever you want include installing a custom ROM But like I like linear Joe s thing is Some motor all devices they don't make it and you might have a similar device, but that's not gonna work on this device well And you can make your own lineage thing is compiling your building your own custom ROM You have to download somewhere between 100 and 300 gigs worth of files and then it takes Like all day, I guess to compile. I've never done it because I just I got me out of download 100 gigs worth of files I am done. I am not doing this But recently I read about it read about a couple weeks ago then start got about it And then today I went back to it GSI GSI is Generic system image for Android and there's different versions of it In fact lineage OS has a GSI so basically it's a very generic version of Android of and you can get the lineage Android lineage OS Android and put it on your device and I just did that with my device this morning And it worked it took me a little while to figure out But now I know how to do it almost any device even if the custom ROM isn't made for it You should be able to get one of these generic images and install it and you'll have little things so far but my fingerprint scanner work at the camera worked the only thing is my Camera that faces me the front-facing camera is up on the tile bar and like it's covering up some of the text Which is something that I could probably change But you'll have little things like that if the cameras in a different position on and you have one of the ones Where the camera is in the screen it the the since it's generic OS It doesn't know that that's where the camera is so the text might be behind it you have little things like that, but I love this concept of one image fits all and It's super easy to do in fact just test it out so far today I flashed the stock ROM then flashed the the lineage ROM the lineage DSI ROM back and forth I've probably done it like three or four times just to make sure I have all the steps written down and I plan on doing a video for you guys like that, but this is awesome. This is awesome This is the way it should be you shouldn't need I mean if you want a customer on that's Tailored to your device. Yeah, that's great But if it's not it's nice to have just a generic ROM that you can put in and then customize so like example one of the videos I watched where someone was talking about this he put on his device and The icons looked a little small because it doesn't know out of the box You know how big his screen is he just went to the developer settings and changed the resolution for his icons And made them bigger But and then I had the issue where the camera is over part of the notification bar there This is nothing. I don't care about little things like that if I can just have one image that works on all my devices So I'm excited about this I'm gonna be doing some videos on this at least with the devices I have hopefully that will help you because it took me a lot because my phone has a super partition on it Which is one partition that has other partitions in it and the instructions I were watching wasn't working I was getting a that the the system image wasn't large enough The system partition wasn't large enough for the image I was using and I tried a few different things in fast boot and twerp to resize them Didn't work because other than older devices did it differently But I finally figured it out and I'm gonna be doing a video on that But I'm just so excited that I wanted to share that with you So I'm gonna be doing again a lot of Android videos coming up I'm still gonna be doing some desktop videos. I'm gonna alternate back and forth but look forward to seeing a video on GSIs and like getting lineage running on pretty much any Device made in the last four years five years or so should work So and I'll show you how to check that. Anyway, this is just a little update talking about that So, you know what's coming up. I hope you're excited because I'm definitely excited. Please visit films by chris.com That's Chris the K. There's a link in description as always. Have a great day