Android out by WuMing2 | tildeverse BBJ

>0 WuMing2 @ 2026/09/04 13:19

IRC is complicated because of my TZ. Mailing list apparently has not much use. Here too but I like it better. Fond memories of BBSs.

New to Android. Not to UNIX and UNIX like desktop.

Anyone willing to explain the practical difference between rooting Android and flashing Android? I explain.

I have an old Samsung Galaxy phone. Want to try Sailfish OS. Original procedure from 2022: TWRP, Lineage OS (LOS) then Sailfish OS.

I have read about Odin to flash partitions with firmware images. Then came Heimdall. Then samloader-rs, built on the latter, as part of instructions to install newer LOS.

Do I still need TWRP with Heimdall/samloader-rs and LOS recovery? Do I still need rooting?