I am not particularly keen on upgrading my phone to 16.0, LineageOS' newest, Android-9-based version. They claim that 15.1 is still supported in general, but upon closer inspection this holds true only for a few devices, and not for mine. Sneaky. This post documents the process of upgrading an And...

One day I ran my phone's battery down all the way to 0%, until it switched itself off. When I rebooted, of my hundreds of contacts only about a dozen were left (those stored on the SIM card I suspect). Of course my last backup was way too old, and I don't have any online accounts either. Ouch. But s...