[Official] Lineage OS 14.1 for Moto E 2015 (otus)

Yeah! I wrote it a lot of times today. So by now you should know that CyanogenMod is Dead and Lineage OS took over it but while having the same codebase but with few tweaks. And we are busy promoting Lineage OS to bring it to life like CyanogenMod was once, or make it Even Better 🙂 

Install Lineage OS on Moto E 2015 (otus)

1) You Need to have a Unlocked bootloader and have a custom recovery like TWRP flashed. If you haven’t already done then there is an excellent article from XDA on how to flash TWRP and root Moto E (otus) read it here

2) Take a Complete Backup of your Device. This is the most important step as if you screw up something you’ll have a complete backup so you can restore to the previous state. Here is a video on How to Backup your android.

3) Download Lineage OS for Moto E 2015 From here.

4) Download Gapps for google apps from here. 

5) Copy the downloaded files to the internal storage of your Moto E 2015 (otus).

6) Shut down your Android device and then hold Volume Down and Power button simultaneously to boot into recovery.

7) Once booted into TWRP click on –>”wipe” then on –> “Advance wipe ” then select every other partition other than the Internal Storage then Swipe to format these partitions.

8) Go back to the home page of the TWRP then tap on –>”Install”, then navigate to the folder where you have copied the Lineage OS rom and the Gapps file which you downloaded before.

9) Select the –>”Lineage OS rom zip file” and then click on –>”Add More Zip Files”, then select the –>”Open Gapps Zip File”, then swipe to confirm the flash and wait until it gets completed. Have patience as it may take 5-20 minutes for installation. 

10) Once completed you can tap on the option which says –>”Reboot to System”, this will again take around 5-20 minutes for rebooting for the first time.

11) Now select your Language and configure your device like you would do when you have brought an new Android.

12) While configuring your google account if you are redirected back to the first stage of configuration then disconnect from the wifi and turn of your Mobile data and skip google account configuration for now and you will be good to go!

Links:-

Unlock bootloader and flash TWRP :-  http://bit.ly/2jAjARV

TWRP for Moto E 2015 (otus) :- http://bit.ly/2k4cfNK

Lineage OS for Moto E 2015 (otus) :- https://download.lineageos.org/otus

Gapps for Moto E 2015 (otus) :- http://opengapps.org/

I didn’t Install this as I don’t have an Moto E (Otus)  device and the Images may be different for you but the procedure will be 99% same below is the video where i install lineage OS on OnePlus 2 its just for reference. if you have any problem watch the video.