Motorola Moto G7 (codename: river) launched in February 2019. The phone came out of the box with Android 9.0 Pie. In this tutorial, we will show you how to download and install Lineage OS 18.1 on Motorola Moto G7 (river) device. The Google-owned OS is open source in nature. This allows the userbase to try out tons of customizations and modifications onto your devices. For the starters, they could install themes, icon packs, and launchers from the Play Store. But this is just the beginning. There are a plethora of other tweaks that you could try out on your device.
All that is required is an unlocked bootloader, and then you could easily set your feet in the custom development. From installing a custom recovery like TWRP to gaining root access via Magisk, the possibilities are endless. Along the same lines, you could also try out a customized Android OS in the form of custom ROMs. And in this guide, we will be discussing just that. Today, we will show you the steps to install Lineage OS 18.1 onto your Motorola Moto G7 (river) device.
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The Moto G7 smartphone will come with a 6.4-inch display which is a big upgrade for the Moto G series smartphone, the Moto G6 series smartphones have a 5.7-inch display. The display of the supports 1080×2340 pixels of resolution and very small notch on top of the display. The phone powered by Octa-Core CPU on board along with unknown chipset. It will come with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB internal storage under the hood. The phone will come with the 16-megapixel main camera and 5-megapixel secondary camera on the back side. On the front side, it will have a 12-megapixel camera for selfies and video callings. It will have 3,500 mAh capacity battery inside the body. The Moto G7 will feature with a fingerprint scanner on the back side.
Lineage OS 18.1 with Android 11 Features
Among all the custom ROMs available for our device, Lineage has been among the oldest player. In its early days, it was known as CyanogenMod and now this ‘lineage’ seems to have been rightly carried forward. Based on the Android Open Source Project, you will be able to welcome a few handy customization options to your device. The ROM isn’t known to offer a plethora of features, rather it maintains an equilibrium with the stability front.
Hi Mohammad,
You guys have a very useful website. I used instructions I found here to update an old Moto g7 to Lineage 18 for a family member who couldn’t afford to buy a phone.
I have one question that you may know the answer to…. Now that I have installed Lineage 18.1, I know that I’ll get incremental updates that follow.
But what happens if they release a Lineage 19 for this model phone? Will that update come thru automatically, or do you have to go thru the installation process when there’s a major release of the OS?
Thanks