LineageOS has now gone to Android 11, and like most users, I went ahead and upgraded to it. But then I started hitting lots of problems. Predominantly on location.

Android 11 changed the way location is requested and this breaks functionality in multiple apps. Ones I have noticed this issue with:

• Just Eat
• CityMapper
• Google Maps (yes, surprisingly Google's own app had trouble with locking on)

Other location apps may have also had the same issue, but I didn't check those.

Waze did not have any issues locking on to location or tracking movement

Some non-location apps also broke. Fenix 2 (a Twitter client) and WeChat both stopped working and would not install off the Play Store, presumeably because of API differences.

I installed Plume instead (which I had previously purchased) and that installed and functioned happily.

WeChat I sideloaded by getting the apk from a mirror. That functioned okay, but could not log into Web WeChat

I decided to clean wipe and downgrade back to Android 10 (Lineage OS 17) to at least get things working again.

I formatted my SD card for Portable Storage, then took it to my laptop and saved the LOS flash zip, Open Gapps zip, and the latest Magisk.

I booted into TWRP Recovery and wiped, data, cache, system, ART and internal storage.

Switching to external storage, I then flashed LOS, OpenGapps, then Magisk.

I rebooted and let the OS do its thing until I got the welcome screen -- that's a good sign. I went through the setup but opted not to setup my Google Account yet.

Once through to the home page, I went and unlocked Developer options and enabled ADB, Local Terminal, Force Allow External Storage, and Force Close on Hold Back.

Then I plugged my phone into my pixelbook, allowed the debug connection and started up scrcpy which allows me to copy-paste text to and from the device.

I installed TitaniumBackup and the pro key so I can batch move apps to/from the storage.

The SD Card is still setup as Portable. So I formatted it as Internal. This took a few attempts as it kept erroring.

I went into Play Store and installed a few apps. A couple installed file, but the other errorred with a message:

"App requires external storage"

This was weird, I never saw that before, but checking around, I found this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-requires-external-storage.4098673/ which describes fixing the storage permissions. I ran this:

adb shell
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0

I reinstalled the apps again, and there were no errors. Fenix 2 installed happily this time, enhancing my suspicion of some API change breaking it on Android 11.

Also found out that Strava required Google Maps so I also had to install Google Maps.

WeChat finally did install, but was then told by the app that my account cannot use Web WeChat, and I should use WeChat for Windows or Mac..... and I'm running Linux, so both of those options are not feasible.

However, I did find this: https://github.com/qo6xup6/ubuntu-deepin-wechat which is a Wine wrapper around the Windows WeChat app. This seems to work well, although I did have to update the client using the instructions on the README.md

FitBit refused to pair with my Ionic (again -- it always seems to have this trouble whenever I have to reinstall the app). I eventually resorted to factory resetting my Ionic, and re-setting it up again. It worked this time, although the pairing took a few attempts.

Surprisingly, I was then able to add my Curve card to FitBit Pay, and the SMS verification worked.

All in all, it took me from around 7am to 12:30 pm to reflash, reinstall, and setup all the apps again, and reboot to make sure the apps still worked. So around 5 hours.

Warmer walk than yesterday, at 8degC, but still felt cold.

Forgot to log this walks yesterday, but yesterday morning the entire area was covered in fog and at 7am you couldn't see more than 50m in front of you. Within 30 minutes, however, it had started to clear.

As for the walk, it was freezing cold at only 3degC at 4pm so my feet were beginning to go numb, even after only a 30 minute walk.

Evening walk, wasn't dark, but getting there. Cold as heck again.

Yesterday it rained all day so I spent my normal walking slot doing a FitBit workout.

Today it was pretty cold again.

Hit the 200 day mark in exercising while in quarantine. Although, strictly speaking, I've passed the 200 point already, just forgot/didn't bother to log it.

Today's walk was cold and dark, and absolutely freezing. Went out with a wooly had and gloves and STILL felt the cold.

I've been rather lax again with logging my walks.

The temperature has really dropped in recent days and it's been absolutely freezing when doing my afternoon walk, not to mention its getting darker a lot earlier than before.

A very short walk due to heavy rain.

In other news, I found my replacement to Revolut -- Curve.

Curve seems to be different. It's not a bank of its own, but lets you put debit/credit cards onto your account and when you use the Curve card, the transaction goes onto the default card you have set on your account. And you can move the transaction from one card to the other (only once per transaction though).

Plus Curve supports FitBit Pay, meaning I can use that instead of Google Pay which has now broken again due to my device being rooted.

Day 140 in quarantine. Wow...

Later walk than normal, but still comfortable walking weather, no rain, not too much wind, a bit colder than it's been though.

Another grey and rainy day. Found out that even though I didn't renew my FitBit Premium subscription, some videos on the FitBit app are free to view, so I checked out one of their abs and core videos. At only 15 minutes it wasn't long, so I thought "oh, it can't be effective then"

My abs and core begged to differ with me afterwards...

Been a warm day, but on-off raining.

My FitBit premium subscription has now expired and I won't be renewing it for now.

25degC, but a bit cloudy and humid. Muggy as I did my walk.

Spent today's walk going up to Sainsbury's shopping and then walking back.

My office contacted me saying there's a Summer clean up and if I wanted to come in to pick up things or stuff, I can.

I've picked a day next week.

23degC today, and a nice hot day. Did my long walk and now hot and sweaty -- but feeling good.

Another nice warm day. Not too hot, and a comfortable walk.

Another nice warm day. Cooler than yesterday, but still quite warm.

Mid 20s today and a scorcher of a day for a walk.

A much brighter, sunnier day today. Great for a walk. Low 20s degC.

A cloudy day with ominous clouds in the sky. Going to take my chances and head out for a walk....

A cloudy day, but still warm enough to do a walk, without any unwanted attention from flies.

A warm day, not too hot, and not swarmed by flying ants today. A nice, relaxing walk.

Another nice hot day. Went out to walk, and found all the flying ants had come out and were swarming literally everywhere. I ended up with them landing in my hair and on my neck. Good thing I wasn't running, there'd be a big chance I ended up with some of them in my mouth.

Flipped around today, no workout and just walking today.

Went a different route to see how long it would be and it turns out not too much longer than my shorter route, but with more hill work.

Day 101 of quarantine training. Cloudy day, 19 degC. FitBit workout done, was legs day and, boy my legs are burning.

Will probably head out for a walk to cool them down in a bit.

Hit day 100 in quarantine and my FitBit Premium trial is coming up for renewal soon. Still uncertain whether I should renew or not....

Did another FitBit coach workout and walk in again, ~20 degC temperature.