Moto G7 Plus

In 2021 I decided it was time to upgrade my mobile from the Samsung Galaxy S5 I'd been carrying since 2015. 

I considered the Fairphone and other options, but in the end realised that the Moto G7 plus was a cheaper option with reasonable features, and supported LinageOS allowing an upgrade from Android 9 to 11.

Before starting ensure that you have enabled developer settings, USB Debugging and allowed OEM unlocking

This was my process:

1. Unlock the bootloader
2. Temporarily booting a custom recovery
3. Copying the contents of slot a to slot b
   1. Boot into revovery mode

      C:\2TB\platform-tools>adb reboot bootloader
      

   2. select “Apply Update”
   3. then “Apply from ADB”
   4. On the host machine, sideload the package

      C:\2TB\platform-tools>adb sideload ..\copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip
      serving: '..\copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip'  (~47%)    adb: failed to read command: No error
      

4. Installing LineageOS and GApps (if you want it)

Here is a packet capture of my newly installed, first boot, without GoogleApps LineageOS 11. I block encrypted (port 853 DNS) to ensure I have better visability on what devices are doing.