7h3 11th d4y 2025

So becouse LinageOS 22 was so annoying with it's rather needy drop down menu, I tried to downgrade it and failed! So in a last ditch attempt to salvage my last vestage of sanity, brain cell and usability from my phone; as a dog I returned to my own vomit. It turns out all I needed to do to get CalyxOS to install was use Sudo.. Duh! I only gave up the other day for want of that last ditch guess, though to fair it was a piss poor attempt, I hardly broke a sweat.

Also, also it turns out that that CalyxOS also also has the same *ucking annoying drop down menu debacle thingy goin on. lol.. Not so much "eat own vomit" but choke on it!

However it does seem a bit more solid and somehow less needy. This is the first time I've used an Android phone without the saftey net of CyanogenMod/Lineage, wow it's been years. I wonder if it'll be friendly?

7h3 12th d4y 2025

CalyxOS wasn't friendly

And as soon as my head hit the pillow I had a moment of recall. Last time every thing felt weird and needy in Android it was the 'Night Light' feature messing things up (I think? Or was that Redshift on a PC?) anyway.

CalyxOS wasn't friendly. It exhibited some of the same strange behaviour of LineageOS. To complicate matters I use mLauncer* with all the animations off. As an initial and working solution: Default animations are back on, somehow this has fixed the issue (I think?). The biggest problem was that the little square button at the bottom of the screen was utterly borked so I couldn't open or scroll through open windows at all. The Bluetooth dialogue and WiFi dialogue seem to be performing as they should.

I hope thats all sorted for now?

I quite dislike setting up phones. You never know quite wahts going to happen. I've never bricked a phone, mostly in part due to CyanogenMod/LineageOS, they have always for the most part been "Just works" distro's.

CalyxOS seems rather fine also; it has some sensible none intrusive defaults and that DEVICE-FLASHER.LINUX tool is kinda awesome albeit quite nerve-racking but it doe's seem like I've found a longer term OS for my peasant phone as long as it keeps getting updates I'll use it.

This and many more tales are abound when you only update you phone once a decade..

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