If you device is supported I think that LineageOS is a great option. You can see if your device is support at the following link.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ By default the device is not rooted but it can be added although I personally do not have a need for it. The particular device you mentioned does appear to be supported and from looking over the information at the following page for the Galaxy Note 3 (T-Mobile)(hltetmo) the installation of 14.1 (based on Nougat) should be fairly straightforward. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hltetmo -- David On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 21:03 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > If you're rooted you can't do it in the usual way (over the air) - if > you go into System Settings > General > About Device > Software > Update > you get "Your device has been modified, software updates are not > available," > > According to internet advice you can upgrade a rooted Android phone > with Kies, a Samsung app normally used to sync your phone with your > computer. Unfortunately, you must install Kies on a Windows or a Mac > computer. Just as well - the last thing I'd ever want to do is sync > my > phone with my computer. > > My phone is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (now KitKat 4.4.2), > which > I have loved since I got it three or four years ago. I paid someone > $10 > to root it for me because I couldn't figure out how to do it myself. > Being rooted is great - for example, I uninstalled the texting app so > I > can no longer receive the spam text messages from the carrier (now > Metro > PCS). > > If anyone knows how to upgrade a rooted KitKat phone to Lollipop or > later, I'm all ears. And if no one here knows, maybe this could be > addressed at the next Clinic. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
