Hi there!
I have a Samsung S20 5G. I just got a new job recently and I was trying to set up a professional profile with Microsoft InTune to have Teams, Outlook, Edge, etc. to have access to my messages and intranet on the go. But, I found out my OS was out of date and didn’t have the latest security updates, and therefore the professional profile couldn’t be completed.
My options are:
- Buy a new phone ($$$$$)
- Keep the phone and Install LineageOS (MS InTune and professional profile might not work?)
Have any one of you had to create a professional profile on Lineage and succeeded? What has your experience been on Lineage?
By the way, I’m not trying to de-Google my phone. I’m just trying to extend the life of my phone and I read that to create a professional profile or for your banking apps to work, you need to install Google services a certain way when Installing Lineage. Have any of you tried this?
Also, I originally bought this phone (used) because it claimed to have e-sim functionality which is great for travelling. However, the Canadian version of the factory OS disabled that feature. I had to replace it with a U.S. image for the same model and that unlocked it. Will Lineage OS prevent me from using e-sims?
Please let me know your experience.
Honestly I switched to Lineage a few months ago for the same reason, and so long as you install gapps (iirc that’s the spelling lol) properly or the microG signed builds (on my device I was able to find the lineageOS build with microG integrated) you shouldnt run into any problems.
I didn’t use gapps so my install uses the Aurora client for google play apps, which some apps just won’t download at times but generally I’ve been able to do everything I would reasonably expect a stock android device to do
Nice! Do you have a link for the procedure? I found a couple here:
This one from the official LineageOS page for GApps
And this LineageOS for MicroG fork
But there’s also Open GApps
So here https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ you’d follow whatever steps for your device, but what I did for mine was replace the official OS files with the files from here https://download.lineage.microg.org/.
Edit: I typically wouldn’t recommend GApps unless you really, really like deep Google integration. From my understanding GApps basically turns Lineage into stock android but with a newer android ver, while MicroG is faux google that pretends google play services exists for those apps that require it (I don’t think there’s too many that don’t just expect a non-rooted device)
Ah interesting!
If I go with MicroG, will I still be able to use Google apps like drive, photos, maps, etc?
You shouldn’t have any issues, no. I’ve been able to use Google Maps myself since alternatives are garbage, but I don’t see any reason the other cloud services wouldn’t work
Nice. Thank you so much for your advice!
I’m going on vacation soon so I won’t do the switch until I come back. But I’ll follow your instructions and see how that goes. I’ll try to keep you updated if I remember lol 😅