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Comment by darklajid | Hacker News Reader

lineageos is awesome.

Unfortunately the camera app is quite a bit worse in my opinion (used it on the OnePlus One, 3T and haven't tested it with my 5). Guess some things are more important at this point..

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Is there no way one can extract the oneplus camera app and install it on lineageos? I'm also going to finally switch now, but I don't understand why there isn't some clever hacker that has done this yet. Is is impossible?

I use OpenCamera on a oneplus X with lineageOS. The camera hardware is not great, and definitely far from the 2017 state of the art, but it works ok.

I would like to use lineage OS but if I root my phone my work email will stop working. It is configured via Boxer app, is there a work around?

To gain root access you have to flash an optional zip file [0] after flashing LineageOS itself and the also optional OpenGapps [1]. If you don't do that, your Boxer app should pass these SafetyNet checks [2].

If you want both root and still full access to these SafetyNet-"protected" apps, you can try the alternative rooting solution Magisk [3] which specializes on bypassing these (imho arbitrary) restrictions.

[0] https://download.lineageos.org/extras

[1] http://opengapps.org/

[2] https://www.lineageos.org/Safetynet/

[3] https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk...

My bank app refused to install on a rooted phone. I used Magisk Manager to work around that. I guess it could work in this case as well. There is a 'hide root' option (or something similar).

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