[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] PattayaGlock:
WOW!!!!

One 1 person stepped up to help!! Guess I am not in a Linux forum.!! For those that run into the same problem I had below, here is the solution I came up with:

This guide got me rooted with TWRP installed.

https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...r-flash-twrp-root-nandroid-efs-backup.931719/

If you are running Linux instead of windows be sure to run " adb start-server " before you start, nothing works well or at all if you don't. Depending on your set up you may need to prefix the commands with sudo, I had to to get the fastboot commands to work.

Here is the guide that got lineage installed for me, HOWEVER, it leaves out 1 very important step.......before you reboot, reinstall the twrp. zip file a 2nd time. If you don't lineage will install it's own recovery environment. Be sure you do this AFTER you install Lineage.

If you get an error70: not enough room in system file when installing Gapps don't panic. Here are the instructions to fix that:

https://xdaforums.com/android/help/fix-error-70-install-gapps-t3311779

I will mark this solved if I can figure it out. Hope this helps someone.

My original post is below.

Howdy!

So here is where I am....... I was a long time IOS diehard until I decided no more $1200 phones for me. Got my 6t in Jan and absolutely love it! I have been watching and waiting for an official Lineage + micro g to be announced and decided I would go ahead and unlock the bootloader. This is only my 2nd time to play around with an android unlock. I knew to make a backup. I use MX Linux and Mint so I did an adb back up.

As I was unlocking the bootloader I clicked ok, then read the next line of the instructions that said "this will wipe your phone".......would have been nice to see that FIRST as I would have made multiple backups.

I did have and adb backup but, it turns out my backup will not install. Everything is fine until it gets to the audio driver file then it locks up then fails. I have tried android backup extractor with the plan of deleting the problem folder, installing, then dealing with the driver issue........but I can't get extractor to work. This may be a separate post, but a link to detailed instructions for this would be nice as well.

So, what the hell, now is a good time to install lineage, right?!?!?!

Here is my problem......I know enough to do this, however, all of the guides I can find, including the ones on this site, are either written for windows or leave out MAJOR steps that a newbie just doesn't know. For example, the guide from this site I followed to do an adb backup NEVER mentioned "adb start-server" which turned out to be the command that made the difference between a 457mb backup file and a 12.5 G back up file!!!

Unfortunately, searches on the forums turn up instructions that have not been helpful for me.

Can someone point me to an installation guide for dummies?? I would rather have a guide that tells me each and every mundane detail( even if I know it already ) than have to google solutions like I did with my back up and unlocking.

From my understanding I can install micro G instead of GAPPS, but I can't seem to find a package to install. I only find individual files with very little instructions. I would like to use Micro G to see if I can kick google out of bed like I have done Microsoft. If this is unreasonable for my skill set, I will have to settle for GAPPS.

I use Linux, not windows. I have a oneplus 6T( with a fresh, blank install LOL)., and enough knowledge to know I don't wanna brick my phone, but not enough to follow the techie guides I have found.

**UPDATE** I found some detailed instructions and finally got twrp installed and rooted with magicz....

Thank you in advance!!

Glockdoc