r/LineageOS • u/GroomedHedgehog • 20h ago

Prevent updates from overwriting ABL

I have set up LineageOS and Rocknix in dual boot on an Ayn Odin 2 Portal and just now a minor update (from the updater app, staying on 24.0) overwrote ABL with the LineageOS one, preventing me from accessing Rocknix again.

Is there a way to prevent LineageOS updates from overwriting the ABL bootloader? I'd rather not have to constantly mess with fastboot after each and every one.

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director 6h ago

We won't be doing this - but in the interest of friendliness to the community, I wrote support for a workaround.

https://github.com/OpenHandheldCollective/OpenABL/commit/28f811d1432ceeed93eb91f07610133b27308bab

This adds flashable zips to their releases. You can flash it same time as GApps, and it will persist the ABL image.

Should release soon-ish.

Note: This is a totally unsupported use case for LineageOS, so YMMV

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u/After-Peace-4734 14h ago

not really possible no