My understanding is that seamless upgrades work only for phones that ship with Android 10. Our phone shipped with Android 9 and hence may not be possible. However I could be mistaken.
I’m not sure. It seems like we have A/B partitions, which are required by seamless.
https://source.android.com/devices/tech/ota/ab/
Something to ask MediaTek and/or ODM?
You are right - we have A/B partitions. I was confusing Seamless upgrades with the new Project Mainline 
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Should have details soon.
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Looks like Mainline requires 10/Q, but I’m seeing reports that even devices like the Pixel2 support Mainline once on 10, so that might be another follow-up question for MediaTek/ODM once you get to Android 10 ROM time
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Just to add to this, I’m running wild and am currently running the Lineage OS 17 GSI as my daily driver. Haven’t been using it too long, but it’s been working fine for me so far!
I echo that a guide to go back to the stock ROM would be nice, just in case something does go sideways
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@robert has added a guide on how to revert to factory image. Let us know if any of you have comments/suggestions.
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That has got to be the most Painless return to stock flashing I have done in a long time. 
Thank you
I plan on using Lawnchair V2.0-2589 and a few Root level apps (ad-blockers, Mac Spoofing, and DNS reroute) to emulate the Pixel Experience GSI I had set up until I can wrap my head around the Mediatek IMS coding issues. It might take a while, I’m a Fitter not a programmer; smarter people then me are already working on it.
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To add to what you mentioned, there are some telegram groups exploring IMS (VoLTE) on Mtk GSI as well.
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phh’s latest Android 11 GSIs support VoLTE on Mediatek. Can some brave souls try them out 
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I tried flashing both the latest lineageos GSI (based on lineageos 18.1) and phhusson GSI image (based on roar) and I’m stuck in a bootloop. Going back to lineageos 17.1 GSI boots fine. Has anyone else tried and gotten it to work? I’m just going back to the previous version, for now.
Seems to work well enough, but I can’t confirm VoLTE
Can you share your steps to flash, and what GSI you used? Maybe I did something stupid 
phh GSI 11, latest release.
fastboot flash system system-roar-arm64-ab-gapps.img
Reset cache and data, and it boots in just fine for me.
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Interesting, I did the same thing, but with the FLOSS version (for anyone else, https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases/tag/v300.j , system-roar-arm64-ab-floss.img.xz . I reset the cache and data (and system between flashes) multiple times, and every time got stuck in a bootloop 
I’ll let someone else try before wiping my system again lol
EDIT: Because I can’t help but tinker with stuff, I reverted the phone to stock android then flashed the floss image I linked above, and it worked. Something must’ve gotten corrupted somehow before, no idea what, but at least it worked after a hard reset! Thanks to teracube for providing the details on reverting to stock android also!!
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You guys using Google Backup for backup and restore between flashes? Or an app like Titanium Backup? Looking for a time-efficient method regarding this. 
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SeedVault just started getting integrated into lineageos and the latest FLOSS release I linked to above: https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/seedvault-encrypted-backup-for-android
However, it’s still unclear the exact flow of backup / restore, but it’s probably the best option going forward!
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We could look into it. Google may have issues with it though.
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Thanks! While that’s a great-looking tool, I’m looking for something to back up my data before I flash LineageOS. Thanks for the suggestion though!
On another note, while this is an advanced user topic, I’m looking for a basic process to go from stock teracube android to LineageOS. Specifically, the backing up of data part. I read online that the /sdcard doesn’t get wiped on ROM flash. Is that true?
Finally, which package of gapps is included? In the past, I’d simply use the pico package, IIRC, but what does this LOS11 image include?
Thanks in advance! Happy new year! 
I didn’t look into backing up going from stock -> lineageos the first time, I had just accepted that I was going to reinstall some apps. I would assume most apps that are available on the play store that backup apps and data would work though, just reinstall the app after flashing the new rom?
I’m not sure why you want to flash the lineageos gsi then put gapps on there, part of the appeal (at least to me) about lineageos is that the gapps aren’t included in the rom. That said, take a look at https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps.html . There’s also microG , which is included in the FLOSS PHH rom I linked to above, that emulates the google services without including them in the device. Just another route you can go
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