I Revived The Samsung Galaxy S6 With A Custom ROM

In the last video I showed how the S6 wasn't so great, but after installing Android 13 with Lineage OS, will it improve?

Music : I used alot ... just ask. But I did use two of Amynedd / Geowizard songs which are SICKK

Timestaps :

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - What's a rom ?
02:09 - Problems have just begun
05:15 - Making Progress
05:52 - Stuck in a boot loop
06:25 - Lineage OS 20 Installed
07:11 - Installing Google Apps
08:32 - Final thoughts

[Techsnowball]

As i mentioned before, I never rooted a phone before so I thought it would be fun to see me suffer :3

[AndroidGeeksOfficial]

You didnt install it correctly. Clean flash is mandatory to avoid problems.

[Redditscape]

As a former noob in the custom ROM you have to do a clean flash then install lineageos and nikgapps and then root with magisk and use integrity wizard you get banking🤓

[notmihnea]

great video, im sad you didnt do any research before but i hope the s6 will have a good life now.

[MobileMasr]

Every second of your video really made sense with me, I felt like I traveled back to 2016 where I was buying xiaomi phones to do this staff to make the phone better, thank you for your video, keep it going

[Rosquilliam]

This was so fun to watch. The headache and the feeling of successfully installing a new rom after thinking you may have bricked your brand new phone 😂.I used to install custom roms on my devices up until about 8 years ago. One of my best experiences was running Viper OS on my LG G4.

[amier]

0:14
Bro listened and delivered <3

+ Don't worry It's only hard and frustrating for your first time

[TimeTechPlus]

Have Lineage 21 on my S7 and yes.. it's perfectly usable as well in 2025

Of course the battery life is no good, but I'm still really happy to see it running well on Android 14

Might use it for a day someday to see how it fairs again, since the last time I did that was a month ago and it faired very well.. except for it's battery which was passable at best

[itzmmart]

I'm frieds with the developer of this rom and currently use it on my S6. Here are some stuff you missed on the installation process:

1: You shouldve done a wipe of the past os before installing the actual rom (select wipe on the twrp menu, then advanced wipe, and select everything exept internal storage and usb otg, then swipe to wipe)

2: Gapps need to be flashed right after the rom, otherwise it wont work. Install the rom zip, then the gapps zip and only then reboot.

3: Its not shown in the video but during the setup of the rom, you clicked something along the lines of "update lineageos recovery", thats why you didnt have twrp anymore, lineage os installed lineage recovery over twrp.

Steps to fix what you did and finally have a funcional phone:

1: Boot into download mode on the phone again and flash twrp again with the program you had on your pc (odin)

2: Boot into twrp and click wipe, then advanced wipe, then select system, data, cache and dalvik art cache, then swipe to wipe

3: Go into the install menu and select the rom file (if its still on the internal storage, if not, pass it to your phone with your pc again), then click add more zips, and select the gapps package (again, if not there, pass it though your pc), and then swipe to install.

4: after the procedure finishes, reboot and make sure NOT to enable "update lineage recovery"

[juskiii]

Very informative!! Found out this chennel yestarday and I love it!

[karlsse]

Should've used the guide in the XDA post for lineageos. It would've told you how to do it without listening to 10 hours of indians following a guide improperly

Also could've used the s9 rom port, to get a more complete experience with VoLTE so you can make 4G calls.

[TheRealNightShot]

Damn, you actually did it! Top tier Youtuber. Another comment helps you address all the issues you've faced, but don't worry, it only gives PTSD the first time you do it. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes routine.

Also the world of ROMs is huge and you may find other ROMs to be more stable or more feature packed, and they won't always be the latest Android version there is. It's all about the third party support. Custom Kernels are a thing, too, but look into those only after you're done with installing the ROM and making sure it's all good and dandy.

It's annoying, I know, but it's all worth it in the end, and I say that as a person who modified almost every device he owns.

[Alpointernet]

It was really fun to watch someone that didn't knew anything about this stuff while knowing what you were supposed to do.

[Aiuser-qn]

Good video, I remembered doing similar thing with my old redmi 4x, I just used orange fox instead of twrp, they are almost same. It worked very well on android 9 and 10 but laggy with 11 and 12. But I faced no problem with installing gapps.

[beatspopo]

perfect character development of that s6

kudos

[adibhasan]

this video is like watching myself from 7 years back

[mpfrau]

I'm subscribing because I feel identified with your struggle when I started with rooting/Custom ROMs but it is addicting lol

[RayyanRains-imvt]

Cant believe you did this for us True YouTuber

[thepro]

Ahh, the beauty of Android phones. Some time ago I installed a custom ROM on a Samsung Galaxy a50. The ROM was Google pixel UI like. And trust me after installing the ROM, the phone felt as smooth as butter. I didn't see a single lag.

[alexteles]

From my experience, when you flash a custom ROM you need to wipe several partitions, including the system one, after that just flash it normally, also the Gapps package should be flashed next before booting to avoid problems. Since the S6 is very old you dont need to patch vbmeta or flash a multi disabler (for Knox, etc). In order to get, for example, banking apps working again you need to root the phone, I personally use Magisk 28.1 (and Kitsune Magisk on my second phone because I use some very specific modules there) with Zygisk enabled in Magisk settings and Play Integrity Fix (these 2 are a must have). I've played with an A3 2016 and now it has LOS Android 13 and it's super fast now, i even installed a ZRAM module to use storage as RAM since the phone only has 1.5GB of physical RAM, you should try that on the S6, type Zram Swap Manager, thats the one i use, it's a Magisk module, flash it on Magisk like with PIF. Also if you want a dynamic speed booster app, i recommend FDE AI.