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Help with WiFi

Hello,
I own a Motorola Milestone (rooted, unlocked). Two days ago a weird thing appeared: when i try to activate the wifi, it goes into a Turning on - turning off - turning on etc. loop and i can stop it just if i activate the airplane mode, restart the phone and deactivate the airplane mode. It does not see any wireless network, i can't stop it and i can't connect to any network.
If i try to see the MAC in the wifi settings -> advanced, it writes 00:00:00:00:00:00 when it is in the loop mode. In the service menu, the MAC Address appears Unavailable.
I tried to reflash different firmwares to solve the problem, but no luck. I reflashed the original rom on it, but also: no luck. I tried everything possible with no luck.
In sys/devices/virtual/net/ i don't have any eth0 folder which i think that contains the network drivers.
I didn't drop the phone, i didn't drop anything on it. It appeared from nowhere. There aren't any other problems with the phone. The bluetooth works fine so, i don't think it's a hw problem (i found somewhere that the two hw modules are the same...it's possible that i should got it wrong).
How can i solve it?
PS: i wrote this here because i saw that this happened to different persons around the world but nobody gave an answer. So, i don't think it's phone related.

If this happened to me I would try this:
1: Nandroid backup+Titanium backup
2: Run WiFi Fixer.apk
if it won't help:
3: Try some other ROMs
btw I don't really understand how did you come up with an idea that this is "Milestone Android Development" thread...

1. I don't have any Titanium Backup or nandroid backup
2. WiFi fixer doesn't work
3. i tested CM7, FroyoMod 2.3.3, CM6, original sbf file...nothing works
I posted this here because the other Milestone threads are not read by most of you.

then RMA it.

After you try to enable wifi, paste kernel log (output from 'dmesg' or 'logcat -b kernel' commands) and main log (logcat) to pastebin.com and post links to it here for inspection.
Is your /pds/wifi/nvs_map.bin file in place?

Hello kabaldan,
I was waiting for your reply master.
The /pds/wifi/nvs_map.bin is there but i can see it only in terminal, with ls, after su. In default file explorer from CM7, the folder is empty.
Here is the output of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/Ngz9iaQU
I'm currently using CM7 RC15 (the last night build).
PS: I promise to donate as soon as i get my money from the company i'm working for.

sdiodrv_data_xfer_sync() transfer error! STAT = 0x108011
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Sorry to say that, but this is a hardware failure. The wlan sd card does not respond to commands sent to it.
You should send your phone for repair.

Bricked Jiayu G4T, Help Required

Hallo,
being new to this forum and also new to Android devices, please feel free to move my post into the correct section of the forum if I used the wrong one. The use of the search function is also not unknown to me, however I may not know all terms to be used (rookie) and english still is a foreign language for me.
Anyway, I have a serious problem with my brandnew Jiayu G4T phone and at least I need some help in sorting my thoughts and ideas after several days of browsing through the community.
What I know for sure:
Phone starts booting but stops on the third screen (1st: Jiayul ogo white, 2nd: Jiayu logo green falling in place, 3rd: Jiayu logo white fading).
I am able to boot into stock recovery and into factory mode (mostly chinese characters).
I have access to my phone by adb shell and can look into the directories.
The event occured after an overnight update with weird behavior of the phone (what happened is posted in the assumption section, it was still pretty early and I was clearly not fully awake.
I had the Xposed framework and XPrivacy installed and running. All other apps were pretty common.
In ADB my phone is listed as 0123456789ABCDEF (weird number)
What I do not know / Assumptions:
In /data I see plenty of files telling me that the data wipe from recovery was not successfull, the data belong to previously installed apps.
It seems that I was able to flash a new ROM, in system/app I do not see any of my previously installed apps. Superuser.apk is still present.
I also can access data however only after using su in shell.
I cannot delete the data using rm or wipe data being in [email protected] #, I have no idea why. Read only....
SP Flash tool told me that the flash of the new ROM was successful (red, pink, yellow progress bar followed by green circle). I think that is a good sign.
I also was able to apply ADB sideload for installing a new ROM and the phone told me I was successful. Not sure if this is true considering that my phone still is not booting.
After finding my phone in the morning mobile connections were both down, I think that an Android update was not successful and it might have happened that I restricted this very app with XPrivacy inadvertently.
The phone identifier seems to tell me that XPRivacy might still be active somewhere....
What I think about the next steps:
I think that getting rid of the old data might be the key for success, but I have no idea HOW....
Any thoughts from your side re highly appreciated,
Thomas

Tomcat117 said:
Hallo,
being new to this forum and also new to Android devices, please feel free to move my post into the correct section of the forum if I used the wrong one. The use of the search function is also not unknown to me, however I may not know all terms to be used (rookie) and english still is a foreign language for me.
Anyway, I have a serious problem with my brandnew Jiayu G4T phone and at least I need some help in sorting my thoughts and ideas after several days of browsing through the community.
What I know for sure:
Phone starts booting but stops on the third screen (1st: Jiayul ogo white, 2nd: Jiayu logo green falling in place, 3rd: Jiayu logo white fading).
I am able to boot into stock recovery and into factory mode (mostly chinese characters).
I have access to my phone by adb shell and can look into the directories.
The event occured after an overnight update with weird behavior of the phone (what happened is posted in the assumption section, it was still pretty early and I was clearly not fully awake.
I had the Xposed framework and XPrivacy installed and running. All other apps were pretty common.
In ADB my phone is listed as 0123456789ABCDEF (weird number)
What I do not know / Assumptions:
In /data I see plenty of files telling me that the data wipe from recovery was not successfull, the data belong to previously installed apps.
It seems that I was able to flash a new ROM, in system/app I do not see any of my previously installed apps. Superuser.apk is still present.
I also can access data however only after using su in shell.
I cannot delete the data using rm or wipe data being in [email protected] #, I have no idea why. Read only....
SP Flash tool told me that the flash of the new ROM was successful (red, pink, yellow progress bar followed by green circle). I think that is a good sign.
I also was able to apply ADB sideload for installing a new ROM and the phone told me I was successful. Not sure if this is true considering that my phone still is not booting.
After finding my phone in the morning mobile connections were both down, I think that an Android update was not successful and it might have happened that I restricted this very app with XPrivacy inadvertently.
The phone identifier seems to tell me that XPRivacy might still be active somewhere....
What I think about the next steps:
I think that getting rid of the old data might be the key for success, but I have no idea HOW....
Any thoughts from your side re highly appreciated,
Thomas
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This is your solution right here (hopefully)
1) If you have not installed the drivers, download, unpack and install drivers http://uloz.to/xwWU1vKw/mtk6589-driver-zip.
2) Download and unpack Stock ROM http://www.ejiayu.com/en/News2-1-100.html.
3) Download and unpack FlashTools http://uloz.to/x6U5ZDKs/spflash3-1316-0-150-zip, and Click on Flash_tool.exe.
4) Click button "Scatter-loading" and select a the MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt in ROM.
5) Turn off your phone and remove the battery!
6) Press F9 (or hit Download button) and connect your phone into the computer via USB data cable.
7) The process will start and a red progress bar will appear after color purple, yellow. And green circles display. Finish. You can now safely disconnect your phone and turn it on.

Egbert
jimmys01 said:
This is your solution right here (hopefully)
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This actually is a thread I found very early and unfortunately it was not working.
Honestly I assume that Isomehow lost root: How does this sound in the view of my observations and assumptions?
Thomas

Device isn't working properly after wiping...

So I have a problem with my Nexus 5. Yesterday I tried all kinds of different Lollipop roms and at the end of the day I sticked to Cataclysm. I liked it and my phone was all set up but I noticed there were a lot of unnecessary folders on my internal storage and a nested 0 folder (0 inside /0). I didn't like that so I thought about making a nandroid backup, storing it on my computer (together with my music etc.), wiping everything and restoring it by using TWRP and then eventually putting my music back.
So after I stored a backup on my computer, I started my device into recovery mode and chose the option 'advanced wipe'. Usually I would do a lot of research for everything I do but in this case I was a bit lazy to do that, I tried digging into the search results of Google concerning wiping but I gave up after some unsatisfying results. So I checked every box in the list, including data and system and went through with the wiping. So because my storage was completely wiped I didn't have a 'WRTP/BACKUPS' folder anymore. I made a backup from the stuff I had (which was only a few mb's) so I would have that folder again (otherwise I wouldn't be possible to locate my nandroid backup). I wanted to transfer my nandroid from my computer to my phone by connecting it through USB but for some reason the Nexus 5 didn't show up on my PC when it was booted in recovery (this sometimes happens for some reason)
I managed to do it by using 'adb push Cataclysm folder' in cmd. I went into recovery and restored my backup. My phone booted and I thought everything was as it should be. The wallpaper was black but that was logical because my internal storage was wiped, including my custom wallpaper. But then I noticed something strange, my status bar disappeared, sames goes for my navigation bar. I really have no idea what happened because I've restored nandroid backups before and everything went fine.
So then I put a clean version of Cataclysm on my phone and for some reason it asks me to insert a SIM-card into my device while it has one. I skipped that step and then it asked for my home Wi-Fi and I chose mine, then it checked the connection way longer than it would normally do. After I was done with all the steps my homepage entered my screen and guess what, my status bar and also my navigation bar were absent. It was like my cell phone was in immersive mode all the time. Then I tried flashing the KitKat factory image by going into recovery with my phone and opening 'flash-all.bat' on my PC but then it said '< waiting for devices >' while I enabled USB debugging... I opened cmd and typed 'adb decives' and mine showed up, so it was connected (although it now says 'unauthorized' when my phone is normally booted).
Then I flashed clean Cataclysm again and it again said I had to insert my SIM-card and it then again checked the connection with the Wi-Fi for a couple of minutes. When I was done with the installation I tried replacing the wallpaper with one from Lollipop but it didn't work although there was a preview available. There was again no status bar and navigation bar. I then opened chrome and went to this website and now I'm typing this on my Nexus 5 which has a permanent immersive mode now.
So I don't have much in my internal storage anymore, only a TWRP folder with backups, nothing more, not even a 0 folder if I'm not wrong. There's something wrong with my mobile connection and definitely something going on with my navigation bar and status bar. I hope anyone could help me with this because this is really frustrating becausr I tried to fix it for the last couple of hours, unfortunately without any result...
EDIT: I forgot to mention that when I was trying to figure out how to send the nandroid without being able to access my internal storage via my computer, I booted in recovery, went to 'advanced' and then to 'adb sideload' and tried that because I saw it somewhere on the internet. I somehow believe this contributed to the problem I have.
EDIT2: Now, when I try to power off my phone by holding the power button, it reboots the device instead, what's going on... And as I said, I have a black screen as wallpaper for some reason and I can't change this, but if I open my weather widget, the widget window shows up with my chosen wallpaper on the background, what kind of sorcery is this?
EDIT3: I wanted to download a terminal emulator from Google Play to do this but I couldn't get to 100% so I thought there was something wrong with the app on my device. I googled the apk and I wanted to download it from Zippyshare and when I clicked on the button 'download now', the phone showed the message 'no SD card', so I guess that's the culprit of all of this?
TL;DR My phone is acting really weird (no status or navigation bar, phone reboots instead of asking whether I want to have it shut down when I hold the power button, the wallpaper being strange, SIM-card isn't being recognised) after I wiped data and system and actually everything...

Reboot to bootmanager , flash a factory image , wipe , start over . Something must have gotten corrupted in your nandroid backup.
Regarding ADB not working , you also need to authorize the pc you are working from . You will get a prompt on your phone when connecting . If you dont , go to developer setting , wipe ADB credentials , reconnect the phone.
Also , adb push works fine for single files but it sometimes borks when you are pushing big/many files.
Edit : I hope you didn't wipe EFS as well ( though AFAIK TWRP doesn't wipe it on a advanced wipe) . If you did it's time to return it to stock and send it to LG/Google

Niflheimer said:
Reboot to bootmanager , flash a factory image , wipe , start over . Something must have gotten corrupted in your nandroid backup.
Regarding ADB not working , you also need to authorize the pc you are working from . You will get a prompt on your phone when connecting . If you dont , go to developer setting , wipe ADB credentials , reconnect the phone.
Also , adb push works fine for single files but it sometimes borks when you are pushing big/many files.
Edit : I hope you didn't wipe EFS as well ( though AFAIK TWRP doesn't wipe it on a advanced wipe) . If you did it's time to return it to stock and send it to LG/Google
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Thank you for reading my huge explanation. After hours of searching and trying a lot of things with my device I figured out how to fix it. Do you remember I said that when I tried to flash the factory image with 'flash-all.bat' that it responded with '< waiting for devices >' ? Well, after reinstalling the drivers countless times and trying to find the culprit I realised I was trying to flash it with TWRP being open, and not the bootloader... So after I was aware of that I finally managed to put stock Lollipop on my phone, then I wiped everything and flashed Cataclysm. It felt pretty satisfying to have a working phone again, it's a pity I had to start from scratch but on the other side, I now how a phone without any rubbish.
Regarding adb push, if I would like to ever push a rom or a big file onto my phone in case I would ever have a similar annoyance, what do you recommend me to do it with?
And what is EFS exactly and what happens if I would ever wipe that? Thank in advance!

Regarding ADB push / twrp MTP mode you jst need to remember not to try and upload the entire content of a sdcard backup or > 3-4 gigs. Big files rarely missbehave , but I screwed up my SD permissions when trying to restore my sdcard ( thousands of files and about 14 gb total).
EFS is a secure partition that stores your GSM/network id and profile - IMEI and so on. AFAIK it's pretty hard to erase but it is possible if you play around with format/repartition commands. Just follow the guides and instructions on this forum and it should be fine.
Corrupted or erased EFS = no network connectivity besides WiFi . And since tampering with it is illegal in some countries the only way to fix it is by RMA/warranty.
I'm glad you've fixed it - I'm not surprised it was a simple mistake , I've been there myself ( tried for an hour to flash a factory image unsuccessfully only to realize I had my phone plugged in a USB3 socket ) .
Don't forget to make a nandroid now that you are set up with your fav. ROM - it will come in handy sometime.

Niflheimer said:
Regarding ADB push / twrp MTP mode you jst need to remember not to try and upload the entire content of a sdcard backup or > 3-4 gigs. Big files rarely missbehave , but I screwed up my SD permissions when trying to restore my sdcard ( thousands of files and about 14 gb total).
EFS is a secure partition that stores your GSM/network id and profile - IMEI and so on. AFAIK it's pretty hard to erase but it is possible if you play around with format/repartition commands. Just follow the guides and instructions on this forum and it should be fine.
Corrupted or erased EFS = no network connectivity besides WiFi . And since tampering with it is illegal in some countries the only way to fix it is by RMA/warranty.
I'm glad you've fixed it - I'm not surprised it was a simple mistake , I've been there myself ( tried for an hour to flash a factory image unsuccessfully only to realize I had my phone plugged in a USB3 socket ) .
Don't forget to make a nandroid now that you are set up with your fav. ROM - it will come in handy sometime.
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I'll definitely make a nandroid, just in case. Thanks for the help and the clarification!

Try wiping your bum more thoroughly

[SOLVED] Wi-fi "memory" reset on every disabling!

Hello,
I got a little problem with my phone (so freak... I'm explaining)
I got a router before but now I changed it, because I switched to another operator. But it feels like the Wi-fi of my phone is not agree with that.
I "forget" the now inexisting router I had and connect to the new one...
...But I do this each time I turn off then on Wi-fi, and even after switching off the device with enabled Wi-fi!
For now I just have to remember one Wi-Fi router (and, thank you Kika Keyboard developers who made an extensive clipboard where I can store my password <3) but figure out what it will be when I'll have to save more passwords! So yes it's annoying. And I also already lost at leat 8 router passwords because of this strange cr*p.
Fortunately I got a Wi-fi retriever app but this is not auto connecting and this is no longer working!
That was the last point: even the router password retriever app is acting like I didn't connect to a new router since its last analyze!
So could you help me fix this annoying bug?
For now I got an hypothesis: I got XPosed and a device ID changer app.
And it contains an useless but impossible to disable option that is "changing the SSID"
Default configuration make your phone to display your SSID. But not with the local variable where your actual SSID is displayed! No, with the SSID you got when you installed the app. So you can connect to another Wi-fi and still got the same SSID (perfectly useless)
Rest of my theory is that messing up with SSID display may cause network state not to be saved properly. But this is only a supposition. And this is hard to figure it...
So to corroborate this theory, a subquestion: What is the local Android variable where SSID is stored? Tried %WIFI, %SSID but it doesn't work. And I didn't found it after a quick search.
Thank you in advance!
Sorry for wasting your time with so much text :/

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/124792/my-phone-stopped-remembering-wifi-passwords
There are also people conplaining this problem.
In the link pasted on the top, there is a possible fixes for some fortunate people... But actually this doesn't work for me.
-First, ro.secure.storage or ro.securestorage. thing does not exist on my device. I don't even know if it existed on my device.
-Second, there is something about /efs/ss_data, a file that also not exists on my device.
So I don't know if it's because Samsung built it differently or it has been removed. Keep checking...

After a check of my backups I saw that I got none of the file and property mentionned before.
So I'm unable to know where is the problem...

Atronid said:
After a check of my backups I saw that I got none of the file and property mentionned before.
So I'm unable to know where is the problem...
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If you're saying that you looked in build.prop but you don't see any lines that say ro.securestorage, you can add those lines if they don't exist. Just edit build.prop and type the line in at the bottom then save build.prop and reboot the device.
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Droidriven said:
If you're saying that you looked in build.prop but you don't see any lines that say ro.securestorage, you can add those lines if they don't exist. Just edit build.prop and type the line in at the bottom then save build.prop and reboot the device.
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This is what I did. Uneffective.
Why? Because I never got this prop before.
I checked my backups where the Wi-fi worked perfectly in case all of this would be due to the fact that this prop vanished because of a dark and random informatic process. And after checks I finally realized that I never had this prop...
Same thing for the file I mentionned before, located in /efs. I didn't lose it because I basically never got it.
So... This means that my device save Wi-fi informations by another way. And because I don't know this way, I cannot fix it...
(Device: Samsung Galaxy Core Prime SM-G361F AOG1 build.
Pre-rooted firmware, release date 23 February.
Latest Xposed Frameworks, Custom build by Wanam )

Atronid said:
This is what I did. Uneffective.
Why? Because I never got this prop before.
I checked my backups where the Wi-fi worked perfectly in case all of this would be due to the fact that this prop vanished because of a dark and random informatic process. And after checks I finally realized that I never had this prop...
Same thing for the file I mentionned before, located in /efs. I didn't lose it because I basically never got it.
So... This means that my device save Wi-fi informations by another way. And because I don't know this way, I cannot fix it...
(Device: Samsung Galaxy Core Prime SM-G361F AOG1 build.
Pre-rooted firmware, release date 23 February.
Latest Xposed Frameworks, Custom build by Wanam )
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If you got a different router but kept the same network name and password and didn't change anything on your device, that might be the issue, your device is probably looking for your original router because the information you originally saved was saved while the other router was in use.
Try backing up your apps, app data and settings but don't backup your wifi settings or saved wifi information. Then boot to recovery and factory reset and wipe cache and dalvik/ART. Then reboot the device, when it boots to system, try connecting and signing into your network again and see if it saves it correctly.
If the backups you are talking about are nandroid backups created in TWRP, you can also try doing an advanced restore in TWRP, you can restore just the data from your previously working backup without restoring everything else.
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Thank you, I'll try this out

Droidriven said:
Try backing up your apps, app data and settings but don't backup your wifi settings or saved wifi information. Then boot to recovery and factory reset and wipe cache and dalvik/ART. Then reboot the device, when it boots to system, try connecting and signing into your network again and see if it saves it correctly.
If the backups you are talking about are nandroid backups created in TWRP, you can also try doing an advanced restore in TWRP, you can restore just the data from your previously working backup without restoring everything else.
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Well, tried what you told me and this didn't end well...
I used to make a factory reset of my phone. The problem was fixed. When I connected to the wifi first time, now each time I disabled and re-enabled it automatically reconnected (auto-connect is miraculous lol)
Then I flashed data back with TWRP recovery (backup by Nandroid app because I got a classical TarFork error with TWRP 2.7.0.1...)
When rebooting to Android it spammed 1M layers of various program crash message box.
Then using TWRP I reflashed this time everything I got then rebooting to Android the bootloader freezed.
I thought my phone was dead until I realized I could boot to recovery again. So I flashed an older backup and lost some data (fortunately I backed up SMS and apk).
My device is safe now, but this misadventure taught me lots of things:
-When I did a factory reset data has been erased, but system still the same and it reworked. So maybe an app is locking my Wi-fi like this. But which?
-Nandroid backup app is NOT reliable. If your device isn't clearly identified your backups are corrupt. Gotta erase all Nandroid backups I made.

Solved. Bug due to a bad TWRP backup. Made a fresh install and everything is fine now.
Thread closed.

Experience & questions on Flashing unofficial lineageos17 & magisk on Doogee S68Pro

TL;DR, I'm having 'SIM not detected' issues and my laptop will crash if I open another tab, please help I've attached output of `locat -b radio`
SOURCES
https://sourceforge.net/projects/an...8-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_bvS.img.xz/download
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/tag/v23.0
open_gapps-arm64-10.0-nano-20211021.zip from https://opengapps.org/
https://unofficialtwrp.com/twrp-3-3-1-root-doogee-s68-pro/
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
I believe about two years back I had already installed an earlier build of LineageOs v17 Magisk v19 using fastboot. This was a trial and error kind of thing as I'm only a fanatic when I have to be. After a long time I finally had a working combination; sort of. Soon about every month or so, or after a couple of restarts, my SIM card would not get detected. Though different behaviors would occur, like 'Emergency calls only', 'No Service' or SMS suddenly not coming through. Since then one time or two a restart fixed the issue until the next month or so. I tried inserting the SIM in every order of events, wiping cache/ dalvik, switching airplain mode, resetting network settings, uninstalling magisk and so on. Then I read somewhere I can't remember about draining the battery capacitors(?) by turning the device on and off on an empty battery until there's no power left and the screen doesn't light up. So I did that and that worked! After a couple of times running into this issue on a fully charged 6300mah battery I downloaded 'generic battery drainer' from the GPlayStore and that app is still on my main screen. Apparently when the device shuts down as the app is draining it, the SIM is detected again when I power up after that, so no need too drain completely... I couldn't find answers anywhere and I like Lineage so much that I just accepted it :')
RECENT EXPERIENCE:
This weekend I decided to give it another try and went for LineageOs v18 but TWRP wouldn't go any further than 'Failed to mount /system/<something>' and I finally went for the above mentioned sources. I patched TWRP recovery using the Magisk app (though I get the impression that this was designed out of necessity, I kinda like being able to switch between Magisk like this). It took me a while to understand that using wipe and decrypting data in TWRP before flashing system (fastboot) has the result of adjusting the system partition to the size of system image when flashing, leaving no space for gapps. Then I flashed stock rom, started device and let it encrypt, then flash the new system image. This kept the original system size with enough space. System started up nicely after, except for: In magisk I got "abnormal state, other su detected". After much reading I could link it to the /system/xbin/su binary. Renaming this (scared to remove) fixed that and $PATH was even appended with ":/sbin:/sbin/.magisk/busybox:". And then, the SIM card issues started after my first couple of reboots :') When it works, so far it's only when I boot without magisk.
QUESTIONS:
Whenever I use the wipe option in TWRP that will also decrypt the device, I can wipe whatever I want. But as soon as system starts it's encrypting data again and I have to use adb for example. Isn't this a generic thing? I get confused about reading so much to use TWRP for this.
Can anyone shed light on the effects of what I'm describing with "draining the battery"? And how running the drainer app might have similar effects?
What is a better approach to configure the size of the system partition? Cause now it's basically twice as big as it has to be
Is the /system/xbin/su in the Lineage build? Is that the built-in root that was/ is/ will be deprecated?
And the GOLDEN question, how can I fix these SIM issues? My head is exploding with information trying to figure out what apps and processes are involved in this. As a logcat first-timer I managed to get the output of `logcat -b radio`, see attached file. This line caught extra attention "Failed getting samsung hardware radio", but I'm out of my territory.
THANKS in advance for any input,
greetings, from a little experienced flasher

RUNNING WITH MAGISK
Further inspecting the lines of logcat -b radio, it seams that ril-daemon isn't started when I'm booting with Magisk/ root, like in the previously attached file. Also getprop shows way fewer props with 'ril' in the value than starting non-root, though altering in count between boots. Reading this https://wladimir-tm4pda.github.io/porting/telephony.html and under RIL Initialization "RIL daemon reads rild.lib path and rild.libargs system properties to determine the Vendor RIL library to use and any initialization arguments to provide to the Vendor RIL" I'm wondering, can it be something as simple as a missing PATH or env value? Anyone have the same experience?

RUNNING WITHOUT MAGISK
logcat -b radio shows way more output and many more things happening. I get the impression that the issue is in or close to the application framework layer... I'm now, still hopeful, attaching two files of logcat radio output. One after boot, up to the login screen and one after login.
Between my post and now, I did however "Remove Telephony Subsystem" through setting => Phh Treble Settings => Misc features, (just trying things out as I read stuff) and I haven't been able to get SIM working again, also not after draining the battery as previously worked. Can this be related? How do I get it back (without reflashing)?

Finally some time to update again. As I have understood, Lineageos18 seems to have an extra level of complexity with the need for mounting system as rw and gets more complex if it is encrypted, so I'm still with magisk patched twrp and GSI Lineageos17.
My SIM still isn't working while booted as root, and I can at least determine that rild is not started and also not present/ available through the terminal. As to why and how to fix that, please let me know if you do! I read some places that PATH has to be inserted with the value of PATH from the non-root env in the init.environ.rc file. That did not make a noticable difference for me. I have not installed the magisk app. So far my SIM is working better than before in non-root/ normal system boot, even after restarts and switching to and back from root.
Some (trivial) things I found many questions and few answers about so far on my quest, in case it might help someone:
I could get rid of "too many symbolic links encountered" in the twrp terminal by setting PATH to just one bin location like '/sbin'. I also had this ld.config.txt error in the terminal (which indeed did not exist on my phone) and was able to trace it back to the /system/system/bin/dlinker64 binary trying to mount that file. I just renamed that and that resolved the error. Then I was able to use the terminal to edit the init.environ.oc file (I could not get adb to work in twrp mode). Not anything specifically, but I found this (among many posts on this forum) quite helpful https://www.didgeridoohan.com/magisk/MagiskInstallationIssues.