How to install Graphene OS in bulk?

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Appriciate every answer <3

itsjpb

[deleted] can you elaborate on your question a bit?

de0u

[deleted] Certain parts are very manual, such as putting the device online so it can enable OEM unlocking; enabling OEM unlocking; rebooting to bootloader; confirming bootloader unlock; confirming bootloader lock. Those seem irreducible in terms of time.

The flashing itself takes a while. Maybe that could be sped up or parallelized, but connecting multiple devices to one computer via a USB hub might increase the rate of flashing failures.

Maybe lots of flashing stations? This isn't like bulk-copying USB thumb drives.

Google likely has ways to do it quickly, but they have privileged access to the platform.

GeorgeSoros

itsjpb dude prob wants to download gos on multiple phones at same time and see if there's a shortcut

itsjpb

GeorgeSoros wondering what their scale is like mostly. 10 or 300, ya know ?

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de0u Can u please explain didn't get how i do it the right way.

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itsjpb 10 is fine. Kind regards.

de0u

[deleted] Can u please explain didn't get how i do it the right way.

I'm not sure I understand the question.

If you have 10 devices to install, I think it makes sense to just install them however you installed the first one. I don't believe there is any relevant trick.

If you were installing 1,000 devices it might be worth some up-front experimentation to maybe chop 5% or 10% of the time off.

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I once had an shipment of 50 devices (6th and 7th gen mixed) and my solution was to just ask my buddies to do it with me im parallel.

N1b

I can imagine the CLI process is faster in bulk since you only download the cutrent GOS image once and can copy it to many installation devices (if you install on the same models). It might be possible with the web installer if you keep the tab open to work with one downloaded image, but you would still download the same film separately for each installation computer.

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de0u Yo installing 10 devices one at a time will be taking way longer than just installing GOS on all of them @ once.

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[deleted] as @de0u said flashing GrapheneOS is not an automatic process and requires manual input. Unless you have for example 10 PCs where you can simultaneously connect all devices and skip some waiting, you are likely to make mistakes in the process resulting in faulty installations.

other8026

Has anyone suggested using half of the phones to flash GrapheneOS to another phone, then when finished do the same for the other half?

de0u

other8026 Has anyone suggested using half of the phones to flash GrapheneOS to another phone, then when finished do the same for the other half?

That could work! I guess it depends on what one is trying to optimize. For example, that approach would download the system image once per phone, which might be troublesome if one has a slow-ish network connection, whereas downloading once onto one device and flashing N times might be faster. There are multiple resources involved (human attention to push buttons for some phases; network throughput; devices for flashing), and which strategy to take depends on which resources are being optimized.

Edit: if the devices are used, perhaps the number of high-quality USB-C cables might be the limiting resource.