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/*
* Your probably long expired warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you
* and point my finger right back at you.
*/
Installation Instructions
Make sure you have a second partition on your SD card formatted to ext4 before flashing!!!! This can be created with either CWM recovery or with TWRP. gparted on Linux should also work. If you "SD card not supported" try repartitionning. If you get "Encryption unsuccesful" then you need to format the second partition as ext4 (or f2fs, your choice).
If on a BML rom (stock-based GB)...
1. Reboot to recovery
2. Make sure your version of CWM is at least 5.x
3. Install zip. It will reboot a couple of times, don't be worried.
4. If you want gapps, reboot to recovery, wipe data+cache and install gapps.
5. If you want root, flash SuperSU whenever
If on an MTD rom (CM7 and all ICS+)
1. Reboot to recovery
2. Wipe data, dalvik/art cache, system, and cache partitions
3. Install zip
4. If you want root or Gapps, install them now.
The first boot can take several minutes. Be patient. If it takes 10+ minutes, pull the battery and reboot to recovery.
Things to Take Note Of
I actually have a T959P, not a T959V... It was released by Telus in Canada. It is a very similar device (I can run ROMs for the T959V with limited problems - ie sometimes I get wakelocks and the gps never works), it has a different GPS chipset and also uses different cell bands (but I can still use your guys modems but I lose access to the 850Mhz band). I have created a build specifically for the T959V as best as I can guess.
Bluetooth only enables from the notification pulldown, not when you go directly to settings. It does work just fine afterwards though
If you're coming from either the last Lollipop build or the initial pre-release Marshmallow build, there is a bug in TWRP that will prevent flashing anything but the ROM. To get around this, please flash the Marshmallow zip, then reboot to recovery, and then follow the typical instructions.
If you decide to install gapps at a later date (ie after you've installed the ROM), you must do a factory reset first - otherwise you will get force-closes upon bootup
If you come across a bug, feel free to let me know by posting in this thread. I will not be working non-stop on this project, but will try to fix bugs that affect me as this is still my main phone (out of choice, not necessity).
This build is very close to the official omni source code. This means that the recovery is TWRP and there aren't any added "features"
In order to get it rooted, you need to install SuperSu.
Gapps eat up about an extra 30MB of RAM so they slow down the device - tread carefully.
Backup Backup Backup! I'm not responsible for you losing any data.
Working
Taking pictures
RIL
SMS
Data
Recovery
Bluetooth
Wifi
Vibration
Video Recording
Automatic Brightness
Encryption
Compass
GPS
Headset Buttons
Semi-Working
Powered-off charging animation - works at first, but then stops working. Seems to be an Omni problem, but it still charges...
What doesn't
SElinux is currently in permissive mode. Will not be going to enforcing, this would require a data wipe as well
What's been removed
TV-Out - It was removed upstream plus I think binary blobs would need a ton of shimming in Lollipop+
Everything else is not tested!!!
XDA:DevDB Information
Unofficial Omnirom 6.0 for Galaxy S 4G, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S 4G
Contributors
xc-racer99
Source Code: https://github.com/omnirom
ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Based On: OmniRom
Version Information
Status: Beta
Created 2016-01-11
Last Updated 2016-05-12
Thanks Time!
Thanks Time!
This would not have been possible without the following people:
Thanks to humberos for bringing Lollipop to the first-gen Galaxy S series. This would not have been possible without his work.
Thanks to FB and Dao for their work on the CM-11 device tree. I used several of their fixes.
Thanks to noiphonehere for his device trees and kernel, most of my work was based off of his.
Thanks to the OMAP4 AOSP team for their work on porting CMA to a 3.0 kernel.
Thanks to bhundven and the other members of teamacid for their work on the aries kernel.
Thanks to all others that have helped get this phone to where it is today!
Thanks to vcmerritt. A name you're probably not familiar with, but he was the only one to create something for the T959P and without him I'd still be on stock...
Build your own!
Follow the instructions at http://docs.omnirom.org/Setting_Up_A_Compile_Environment using the android-6.0 branch
Before doing a repo sync, put the galaxy_s_series.xml file from the Downloads folder in .repo/local_manifests folder of the source tree (create the local_manifests folder if necessary).
After syncing the source, open a terminal and in the directory where you downloaded the source code type "./device/samsung/aries-common/patches/apply_patches.sh" to apply the patches necessary to have a working build. Then run "source ./build/envsetup.sh" and then "brunch galaxys4gmtd". For future builds, only the envsetup and the brunch parts are necessary. Please note that you will have to re-run the apply_patches.sh script after each time that you run repo sync. (Note: the patch script no longer runs automatically)
You should be able to use my trees for other first-gen galaxy S devices. You will need to apply a patch similar to https://github.com/xc-racer99/andro...mmit/fe6bc6b82881a12fc4a5647812f3cf0f52f79c6a to your device tree (if coming from Omni 5.1). I haven't done anything to P1 trees and may have broken the kernel for it...
Changelog
2015-12-20
Initial pre-release - many bugs
2015-12-26
Second pre-release - fewer bugs, but still plenty
2016-01-07
Initial actual release. Quite stable with minimal bugs
2016-01-23
Updated Omni Source code
Fixed Google Play (and other apps) download error (I think...)
New bootanimation - Its the new Omni one - it doesn't fit on our screen the best but it doesn't have one section lit up all the time so the screen doesn't burn in like the old one
Freed a bit more RAM
Improved zRAM performance by using LZ4 instead of LZO
Added T959P build
Changelog for 2016-02-04
Updated Omni source code - includes Feb security patches thanks to the Omni Team
Brought kernel defconfigs inline with upstream kernel/common (well, as close as possible without breaking things
More work on selinux - but its still in permissive mode
Added download mirror thanks to @FBis251
md5sum for the T959V - 975730824b335d9521d1201d4dac82b7
md5sum for the T959P - b209b78d3bc5dd4c5f5a7224a9d780c4
Changelog for 2016-02-29
Updated Omni source - plenty of new features
Low-resource spinner from LegacyXperia (means that the loading spinner isn't the only thing using the CPU)
Miscellaneous performance tweaks (see github if interested)
md5sum for T959V: a7aa8cca3259208eafba7c2cccecdbfd
md5sum for T959P: 879256c93a0e58de0fb9c9e1be91e0e9
Changelog for 2016-04-02
Security fixes in the kernel
Freed roughly ~4MB of RAM in kernel
Updated android drivers resulting in better multitasking
OpenDelta updating system removed as we weren't using it (it used ~3MB of RAM)
Recents menu now has less lag when opened
Selinux contexts have changed. It could likely be put to enforcing now but this would require a complete data wipe so its still permissive
Live Wallpapers removed - we're low-ram
Bootanimation now fits the screen better
PowerHAL removed - it was broken and has been for a while...
Misc other changes - if you didn't notice problems, you won't notice the solutions
Known bug - Camera on T959V is broken...
md5sum for T959V: 247a721f4c27c5191a2a460e4c72ba3b
md5sum for T959P: d15339d8aa10f765155bdd8d1bb0c5f5
Changelog for 2016-04-08
Fixed camera on T959V
Security patch level of April 2, 2016 (latest to date)
Headset buttons fixed
T959V md5sum: 2b1560b99402c73275d1f69b3ceb9a22
T959P md5sum: e102cce0d624383fb85a32321c98c645
Changelog for 2016-05-09
Uses CMA kernel by default
Performance Control can now modify voltages
Systemless SuperSU is now supported
WebM playback is now working
EFS backup in TWRP now works
Data on boot should now work - no need to toggle airplane mode anymore
md5sum for T959P - 118789dd68760d9fd18cc961398bf346
md5sum for T959V - f9375a8d9792c3a0d222c113213c014d
Changelog for 2016-06-07
Security patch level of June 1, 2016
Microphone mute now works when in call
Battery now charges to 100% and should read properly after a system crash
Standby times should be improved
Slightly less RAM - but should result in better graphics performance
CMA crashes fixed (at least, I haven't crashed once since I started testing the patch a week or so ago)
PowerHAL is back - CPU is boosted when turning screen on to avoid delay
md5sum for the T959P: eeed77fb84189e84f2264e32d18ce454
md5sum for the T959V: b6457319d248029429183c342514b072
Changelog for 2016-08-02
First unified build (ie it works on both the T959P and T959V)
Screen recording now works in portrait mode
MMS should be able to be sent when data is disabled (will still use data though)
Default Camera app portrait photos are no longer square
SuperSU systemless updated to 2.76
Slightly less audio latency with UI sounds (and some sounds have changed)
Data should also be working on boot
Slight changes to battery and graphics config
Security patch level of August 5, 2016 (I'm a time traveller...)
md5sum: df587e0bd69552e0ece4b4ba3e214f45
Source, Downloads, Misc Notes
Main Source
http://github.com/omnirom
Device Specific Source Code
http://github.com/xc-racer99/android_device_samsung_telusgalaxys4gmtd for the device tree (see android-6.0-t959v branch)
http://github.com/xc-racer99/android_device_samsung_aries-common for the common device tree (see android-6.0 branch). The patches folder holds all the necessary patches along with a script to apply the patches.
http://github.com/xc-racer99/android_kernel_samsung_aries for the kernel (see android-6.0 branch)
http://github.com/xc-racer99/proprietary_vendor_samsung for the prop blobs (see android-6.0 branch)
Downloads!
All builds are found at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7vXjzo0Hj-iOGJ4dmdCd09OZmM&usp=sharing. As well, recent builds are mirrored on https://files.fernandob.com/#xc-racer99/Omni6.0
Gapps
Gapps cause the first boot to be very, very laggy. Things do improve after that. The best way to get through the Setup Wizard (IMO) is to skip everything possible (ie connecting to Wifi, settings up a Google Account, etc) and then reboot. You can manually add a Google Account later in Settings. While any (small) Marshmallow gapps should work, I have had success with OpenGapps pico package from www.opengapps.org (untested on recent builds).
SuperSu
SuperSu can be found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/supersu. If on May 2016+ builds, systemless 2.71 works (other systemless versions may work, untested). If you're on an older build, you need to either force system mode (create a file in /system or /data called .supersu with the contents "SYSTEMLESS=false") or use an older version (ie version 2.52 or earlier). August 2016 build updates the systemless to 2.76.
Woooow thanks
As you suggested, Gapps caused lots of problems...made the ROM very slow and laggy, lots of FC's, lots of random reboots, etc. I re-flashed without Gapps. Was able to restore apps with TB and root with SuperSu. The basics...calling, browsing, messaging, camera...are working fine. Haven't taken it for a ride yet, but GPS test picked up 5 satellites and I haven't even taken it outside yet. If I desperately need another app, I guess I can find the .apk somewhere. Since I did a TWRP backup, maybe next week I'll try the pico gapps again and see what happens. At any rate, wonderful work.
Update: Took it out for a spin this afternoon....GPS works fine.
Been running the 1/7 for a few days. loving it so far
New Build Uploaded!
Alright, I've uploaded a new build
Changelog for 2016-01-23
Updated Omni Source code
Fixed Google Play (and other apps) download error (I think...)
New bootanimation - Its the new Omni one - it doesn't fit on our screen the best but it doesn't have one section lit up all the time so the screen doesn't burn in like the old one
Freed a bit more RAM
Improved zRAM performance by using LZ4 instead of LZO
I've also uploaded a T959P build as I had a request for one. Let me know if you guys find any more bugs.
New build flashed fine although I had to re-flash the SuperSU zip...no problem since I already had it on my SD card. I'll let it rest up for a day or two and then I'll try to flash the pico-gapps and see if it
will run smoothly....good job.
DickyG said:
New build flashed fine although I had to re-flash the SuperSU zip...no problem since I already had it on my SD card. I'll let it rest up for a day or two and then I'll try to flash the pico-gapps and see if it
will run smoothly....good job.
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Sounds good. Do note that when/if you flash gapps, you will need to do a complete data wipe first, otherwise you will get force-closes like crazy.
I've always just reflashed SuperSU manually and never relied on the script to restore it so I can't help you there.
Tried to install over MTD SlimSaber with TWRP 2.7.0.0, kept getting Status: 7 error with updater.sh script.
Any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
SuccubusInc said:
Tried to install over MTD SlimSaber with TWRP 2.7.0.0, kept getting Status: 7 error with updater.sh script.
Any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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Hmm, going back to to stock with a OneClick/Heimdall/Odin will work for sure.
Alternatively, check if there is an omni.cfg file on your SD card. If there is, delete it and try again. Also, if you can get me the exact wording of the error output that would be great, along with the omni_mtd.log file from the SDcard.
xc-racer99 said:
Hmm, going back to to stock with a OneClick/Heimdall/Odin will work for sure.
Alternatively, check if there is an omni.cfg file on your SD card. If there is, delete it and try again. Also, if you can get me the exact wording of the error output that would be great, along with the omni_mtd.log file from the SDcard.
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I will Heimdall One-Click back to KJ6 and reflash the ROM after checking for the omni.cfg, and will quote the output and the log if I get another error.
I'll be back by 5:00pm PST. I have school to take care of.
UPDATE:
Tried again after a full wipe [not a restore to stock] and got this:
Installing '/sdcard/omni-6.0.1-20160123_galaxys4gmtd-HOMEMADE.zip'...
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found.
assert failed: run_program("/tmp/updater.sh") = = 0
E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/sdcard/omni-6.0.1-20160123_galaxys4gmtd-HOMEMADE.zip'
Error flashing zip '/sdcard/omni-6.0.1-20160123_galaxys4gmtd-HOMEMADE.zip'
Updating partition details...
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Is there any kernel/recovery you recommend for flashing after restoring to stock?
I've tried before on AntonX Voodoo Lagfix recovery and got a similar error.
SuccubusInc said:
I will Heimdall One-Click back to KJ6 and reflash the ROM after checking for the omni.cfg, and will quote the output and the log if I get another error.
I'll be back by 5:00pm PST. I have school to take care of.
UPDATE:
Tried again after a full wipe [not a restore to stock] and got this:
Is there any kernel/recovery you recommend for flashing after restoring to stock?
I've tried before on AntonX Voodoo Lagfix recovery and got a similar error.
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I typically used the Blastoff kernel, but I have my own one-click as I have a Canadian variant.
Also, the omni_mtd.log will tell which part of the updater.sh failed. Another thing to check is if you have a second partition on your SD card. This ROM requires one as /data is put there.
xc-racer99 said:
I typically used the Blastoff kernel, but I have my own one-click as I have a Canadian variant.
Also, the omni_mtd.log will tell which part of the updater.sh failed. Another thing to check is if you have a second partition on your SD card. This ROM requires one as /data is put there.
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I'll try out Blastoff if I can find it. But it probably failed because I did not partition my sdcard. I'll see if that helps later.
Thanks a lot.
xc-racer99 said:
I typically used the Blastoff kernel, but I have my own one-click as I have a Canadian variant.
Also, the omni_mtd.log will tell which part of the updater.sh failed. Another thing to check is if you have a second partition on your SD card. This ROM requires one as /data is put there.
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Hey, xc-racer99, after about four assorted blind attempts at installing your work, I flashed back to stock/AntonX kernel with Heimdall and full wiped, then used CWM to create a 4GB partition on my sdcard. The ROM installed through CWM, then TWRP without an error and booted up after fifteen minutes or so of OMNI animation, and is running on my SGS4G without any issues. The only noticeable lag was for the first five minutes after the initial boot. Now my device is gliding smoothly after a few tweaks in the performance settings and turning off background processes. Thank you so very much.
Next time, I'll read the entire post before blundering through the install process with the assumption that I know what I'm doing [as usual].
Sorry for the trouble, if indeed I was any.
xc-racer99 said:
Alright, I've uploaded a new build
Changelog for 2016-01-23
...
Fixed Google Play (and other apps) download error (I think...)
...
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I tried Pico gapps and the store works perfectly for me now. Thanks!
New Build Uploaded!
Changelog for 2016-02-04
Updated Omni source code - includes Feb security patches thanks to the Omni Team
Brought kernel defconfigs inline with upstream kernel/common (well, as close as possible without breaking things
More work on selinux - but its still in permissive mode
md5sum for the T959V - 975730824b335d9521d1201d4dac82b7
md5sum for the T959P - b209b78d3bc5dd4c5f5a7224a9d780c4
Still the same bugs present - headset buttons broken (have been on all 3.0 kernel-based ROMs for the Galaxy S 4G), laggy 720p recording, broken webM playback, microphone mute in calls, and bluetooth tethering.
Download link is the same as it always is. Also, thanks to @FBis251, we now have a mirror. It is located at https://files.fernandob.com/#xc-racer99//Omni6.0
Wooow...thanks
xc-racer99 said:
Changelog for 2016-02-04
Updated Omni source code - includes Feb security patches thanks to the Omni Team
Brought kernel defconfigs inline with upstream kernel/common (well, as close as possible without breaking things
More work on selinux - but its still in permissive mode
md5sum for the T959V - 975730824b335d9521d1201d4dac82b7
md5sum for the T959P - b209b78d3bc5dd4c5f5a7224a9d780c4
Still the same bugs present - headset buttons broken (have been on all 3.0 kernel-based ROMs for the Galaxy S 4G), laggy 720p recording, broken webM playback, microphone mute in calls, and bluetooth tethering.
Download link is the same as it always is. Also, thanks to @FBis251, we now have a mirror. It is located at https://files.fernandob.com/#xc-racer99//Omni6.0
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Finally got pico gapps to run...the initial setup took quite a while but now that it's settled in, no problems. It's also interesting to note that Link2SD is running fine while it seems to be a major problem for other Lollipop & Marshmallow ROM's on other devices.
Introduction
This is my personal build of LineageOS 18.1 for Pixel 4a with the microG patches applied. If you do not want / need to use microG, it may be a better idea to use the official build available here: https://download.lineageos.org/sunfish. This build is exactly the same as the official build except for the microG patch.
For discussion about the official build, please use the other thread instead: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-official-sunfish-lineageos-18-1.4255751/
Installation
Before installation, make sure your phone is updated to Android 11 firmware on both of the slots.
Whether you are installing the ROM for the first time or updating the ROM, please make sure you reboot to recovery again after `adb sideload`-ing the ROM before installing add-ons such as Magisk and GAPPS.
1. Download `boot-XXXX.img` (this contains the recovery needed for initial flashing)
2. Download `lineage-18.1-XXXX-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip`
3. Reboot your phone to fastboot mode
4. Run `fastboot flash boot boot-XXXX.img` from your PC
5. Reboot your phone into recovery mode (`fastboot reboot`, then press volume up immediately)
6. Erase data
7. Select Apply Update -> Apply Update from ADB
8. Run `adb sideload lineage-18.1-XXXX-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip` and wait for installation to finish
9. If you do not need to install any add-ons (e.g. Magisk or GAPPS), then just reboot into system
10. Otherwise, if you do need to install add-ons, reboot into recovery again (this puts your phone into the recovery of the newly-installed system), then install the add-ons using sideload. If you want to use GAPPS, they must be installed here before you boot into system for the first time (this doesn't apply to microG).
11. Enjoy
Updating
1. Download the newly released zip and reboot your phone into recovery
2. Select Apply Update -> Apply Update from ADB
3. Run `adb sideload lineage-18.1-XXXX-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip` and wait for installation to finish
4. If you did not have any add-ons installed before update (e.g. Magisk or GAPPS), then just reboot into system
5. Otherwise, if you did, you need to reboot into recovery again at this point before rebooting to system and re-flash every single one of the add-ons you had before. If you do not re-flash them before rebooting to the new system, the boot will fail and your phone will switch back to the old system automatically.
6. Reboot and enjoy.
Note: You don't need to update official firmware manually while LineageOS is installed by flashing latest official factory images. This LineageOS build now ships with latest official firmware updates which are tested to work with the ROM. Please avoid flashing the firmware manually while LineageOS is installed to avoid unnecessary issues.
Known Issues
- Use Magisk v21.4 or later if you want Magisk
- Some applications require microG to be installed in system partition to function, in which case you can consider using the Magisk microG module
- The eSIM manager only works with either GAPPS or microG installed. Without them, you can use eSIM, but you will not be able to add / remove / rename / disable your eSIM. The eSIM manager will also crash once or twice on first boot without GAPPS or microG, but after that it won't crash anymore (the system automatically disables it until you install microG or GMS)
- Disabling / Enabling eSIM may hang even with GAPPS or microG. However, rebooting normally fixes the issue and makes your action effective.
- I provide no guarantee for SafetyNet status or compatibility with any app that requires SafetyNet. Google has been tightening its SafetyNet verification and there is really not much we can do about it, and frankly most apps that require SafetyNet should not have done so in the first place. If you need SafetyNet, you are on your own.
Downloads
Note: This build has compatibility issues with MindTheGapps (just like the recent LineageOS weekly builds). It will be fixed in newer official weekly builds, but since this build is for microG users, I am not going to upload a new microG-patched build just to work around a GAPPS compatibility issue.
20210610: June 05 security update; sorry for the delay, LineageOS had some issues while merging this month's ASB.
This update also fixed some long-standing bugs, such as the initial crash dialog of the eSIM manager (when GAPPS or microG is not installed), and the extraneous battery percentage option in settings -> battery. Read the LineageOS changelog for the full update.
- boot-20210610.img: https://mega.nz/file/TVolEYKL#MrJH-AVk37JDc_iKCVJ2lFGgFLG9czrE4FnJokbjnqI
- lineage-18.1-20210610-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/uYw30SxT#CwWc0GwqMYoAT54TJqPK2U7M8Y3OzhbpPuvejkOB65o
20210507: May 05 security patches
- boot-20210507.img: https://mega.nz/file/rcJVHQYZ#KjFu84Wnqdx4Rq0fd6TZUlJuaD-RXFXmMCJM4V4z0Tc
- lineage-18.1-20210507-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/jYBTESqZ#ZRc7CkUt8aUYgZRLpF6S1_LHdUXwcUOKPsCBorcYZ1w
20210410: April 05 security patches
- boot-20210410.img: https://mega.nz/file/eYggCKba#l7QJUMkvyEBtyptVMmWVbXochJKmY__X4VIwTla1KqE
- lineage-18.1-20210410-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/bUpQhAQJ#uTe-2nHLKYsfFBKuJg0VAYISUCGMTbIpaC9qjEHFZ1c
20210308: March 05 security patches and official firmware / binary updates.
- boot-20210308.img: https://mega.nz/file/WIZxjAwA#P77ZdJ2YEed5WWmlijKcyRMLJ30KG36eL0mhQGjZWjI
- lineage-18.1-20210308-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/eRBTkYzC#iNZUA84XR80V1so7YvjQ7TyJuZKGY9BZf-MGRtgQOH8
20210222: Updated sources; Removed some non-functional LiveDisplay features; Switched to using Google's wifi_ext HAL; Reserved more space in system partitions for potentially larger GAPPS packages
- boot-20210222.img: https://mega.nz/file/KVxRDY6L#7l7oejw-XEd_m1BUdp0_Z2TyHVLE2KkaGQ6g7Op7dpk
- lineage-18.1-20210222-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/mUgzGSbC#88q95qVsI-7RJsecM8L2MHZ6EwNXrs54Xk6yi428rjU
20210207: Updated LineageOS source; Applied 2021-02-05 security patches; Added support for glove mode; Enabled support property for Google Assistant; Optimized vibration
- boot-20210207.img: https://mega.nz/file/aZxlDKgC#_9VR2ruCYUqmX8gLCBKX1KSMAsBYFDsLA6utk5EjB-g
- lineage-18.1-20210207-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/yZpFQQRJ#PZlNYzI2t2fZdf1T3v6pMRi1zJe7J26f-Eu_Pohm7p4
20200118: Updated LineageOS source; Attempted to fix GAPPS bootlooping issue
- boot-20210118.img: https://mega.nz/file/ONYSRLKC#FhRYEhfsBndqcrJrhd1F4Tv3uu3UZNDYnQe3EcrMyC0
- lineage-18.1-20210118-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/3VRgwZQQ#ynCPIDbW42hXvBWp8MoG-R9eEEzvnaQ649ULZM8lrAc
20210109: Updated LineageOS sources and updated build fingerprint to January.
- boot-20210109.img: https://mega.nz/file/qU5T2CLY#A7dkDfRS0gUaKzphT2_mm0IHW9_-3cIR76yvNV1Cs4A
- lineage-18.1-20210109-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/GNwyxb4S#UGHclk8p60QuRWrGl3LI-Hur9X_VKF46tBNfuD0Z9-o
20210107:
1) Synchronized LineageOS updates and AOSP Jan 5 security patch
2) The ROM now ships with latest official firmware, so you won't need to worry about updating firmware separately (you still need latest official firmware when installing the ROM for the first time though)
- boot-20210107.img: https://mega.nz/file/OYRnwaII#3Ipj99mG5tpXouRRKMqWDJmimH8U2q5mZ5LKj8ZEmdo
- lineage-18.1-20210107-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/aEBTFAwK#EM3fKYQG4Y2najLhRkZlPqDwPSwkV-yfsSlH7Za7UYM
20201229: Synchronized LineageOS updates and fixed biometric authentication (fingerprint) in third-party applications.
- boot-20201229.img: https://mega.nz/file/yMow3aDb#ByY4yG6LeAquqBd2vu2UnZUz2xukHYjWbIfXnlkT_XM
- lineage-18.1-20201229-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/SA5WDAZQ#fMRB9w4LLSxSAGxHOtEmN9gRBTmrnF8ozKawM34cIxU
20201227:
- boot-20201227.img: https://mega.nz/file/6cI3lKKK#p8Nq3jUOsOoPDeV6yPj4hQtXGIHu8-D54_g3gkzdi0w
- lineage-18.1-20201227-UNOFFICIAL-petercxy-sunfish.zip: https://mega.nz/file/SdQnTaBa#83JjZojOS9JCRdYOng6Y0LLoUl8StAdrwsTbCSqAMhs
Sources
Device Tree: https://github.com/PeterCxy/android_device_google_sunfish
Kernel: https://github.com/PeterCxy/android_kernel_google_sunfish
Thanks: DirtyUnicorn sunfish contributors, SuperiorOS sunfish contributors, LineageOS coral contributors and the LineagOS community.
After some trial and error I got it up and running. After booting the ROM I returned to recovery, factory reset then side loaded Razorloves micro gapps.
Thanks for the build
Nice! Appreciate the work you've done on the trees!
@PeterCxy what vendor do you use? Can I clone it? Or should I extract myself?
Gave this a shot, everything seemed to loadup fine. Wasn't able to get call screen to show up tho, I flashed razorloves gapps, anything to do to get that to work?
ny-hardcore said:
Nice! Appreciate the work you've done on the trees!
@PeterCxy what vendor do you use? Can I clone it? Or should I extract myself?
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I pushed the vendor blobs I extracted on my GitHub at https://github.com/PeterCxy/android_vendor_google_sunfish, but you can also extract it yourself as I have also pushed my full sunfish-proprietary-files{,-vendor}.txt
This is amazing, thanks @PeterCxy
Where the instructions state to be on A11 on both slots does that mean I can do a flash-all with the latest A11 factory image? Currently on LOS 17
xeropressence said:
Gave this a shot, everything seemed to loadup fine. Wasn't able to get call screen to show up tho, I flashed razorloves gapps, anything to do to get that to work?
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Unfortunately I have zero clue about this, and I don't live somewhere Call Screening is supported in the first place. This would probably need to be figured out by someone other than me :/
EggZenBeanz said:
This is amazing, thanks @PeterCxy
Where the instructions state to be on A11 on both slots does that mean I can do a flash-all with the latest A11 factory image? Currently on LOS 17
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Yes you can, but that flash-all script only flashes it on one slot, so to guarantee you have A11 on both slots you'd still need to manually switch the slot and execute that script a second time. The reason why you need A11 on both slots is that the recovery installs the new ROM to the inactive slot, so if the inactive slot is not also on A11, the ROM will probably not boot properly.
PeterCxy said:
Yes you can, but that flash-all script only flashes it on one slot, so to guarantee you have A11 on both slots you'd still need to manually switch the slot and execute that script a second time. The reason why you need A11 on both slots is that the recovery installs the new ROM to the inactive slot, so if the inactive slot is not also on A11, the ROM will probably not boot properly.
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Thank you
EggZenBeanz said:
This is amazing, thanks @PeterCxy
Where the instructions state to be on A11 on both slots does that mean I can do a flash-all with the latest A11 factory image? Currently on LOS 17
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You could just sideload the ota after booting the factory image as well.[/QUOTE]
10 hours so far and everything is smooth, great ROM, but I've noticed the battery consumption is less on SuperiorOS, need couple of days to confirm.
xeropressence said:
Gave this a shot, everything seemed to loadup fine. Wasn't able to get call screen to show up tho, I flashed razorloves gapps, anything to do to get that to work?
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Considering call screen doesn't work on other Lineage pixel ROMs, this wouldn"t be any different.
Thank you very much @PeterCxy
I flash-all latest december 11 images and --set-active= slot to other partition and re flashed again. Following the instructions I now have LOS18 with micro-g running. Awesome! I would be interested in any builds with micro-g patches even when/if sunfish goes official LOS
Biometric/fingerprint unlock is not available in any apps like Bitwarden, wirex etc. Has this feature been removed in A11?
I have a working fingerprint and pattern unlock working on the phone, just no options in any usual apps
EggZenBeanz said:
Biometric/fingerprint unlock is not available in any apps like Bitwarden, wirex etc. Has this feature been removed in A11?
I have a working fingerprint and pattern unlock working on the phone, just no options in any usual apps
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Do you have Play Services on it? I assume they use the Biometric API for that feature. And I assume that requires Play Services. Or a locked bootloader, some Trust Zone thing... basically it probably isn't designed to work on a ROM that doesn't have some integrity check or secure thingy access.
info:
Login with Biometrics on Android | Android Developers
In this codelab you will add biometric authentication to your app as part of your login process. You will not replace your current login process – users can still log in with their account password. Instead, you will augment your login process, giving users the convenience to not have to...
developer.android.com
jawz101 said:
Do you have Play Services on it? I assume they use the Biometric API for that feature. And I assume that requires Play Services. Or a locked bootloader, some Trust Zone thing... basically it probably isn't designed to work on a ROM that doesn't have some integrity check or secure thingy access.
info:
Login with Biometrics on Android | Android Developers
In this codelab you will add biometric authentication to your app as part of your login process. You will not replace your current login process – users can still log in with their account password. Instead, you will augment your login process, giving users the convenience to not have to...
developer.android.com
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I don't use play services, but biometric unlock like autofill I think doesn't rely on play services, its part of AOSP? Both my Tab S5e and previous pixel 4a builds were LOS17 with no google services or microg installed and I have Biometric support in all usual apps
jawz101 said:
Do you have Play Services on it? I assume they use the Biometric API for that feature. And I assume that requires Play Services. Or a locked bootloader, some Trust Zone thing... basically it probably isn't designed to work on a ROM that doesn't have some integrity check or secure thingy access.
info:
Login with Biometrics on Android | Android Developers
In this codelab you will add biometric authentication to your app as part of your login process. You will not replace your current login process – users can still log in with their account password. Instead, you will augment your login process, giving users the convenience to not have to...
developer.android.com
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I noticed the same issue with bitwarden, never had this issue before
EggZenBeanz said:
Biometric/fingerprint unlock is not available in any apps like Bitwarden, wirex etc. Has this feature been removed in A11?
I have a working fingerprint and pattern unlock working on the phone, just no options in any usual apps
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hmmm it's also not available in my Keepass2Android. I'll look into this later -- I don't think fingerprint support is part of Play Services.
EggZenBeanz said:
Biometric/fingerprint unlock is not available in any apps like Bitwarden, wirex etc. Has this feature been removed in A11?
I have a working fingerprint and pattern unlock working on the phone, just no options in any usual apps
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It might be an issue with the LineageOS source tree when I last synchronized. I checked some of my other devices with LOS built on the same date and they all don't have the fingerprint option available in apps.
PeterCxy said:
It might be an issue with the LineageOS source tree when I last synchronized. I checked some of my other devices with LOS built on the same date and they all don't have the fingerprint option available in apps.
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I came from this build, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lineage-18-android-11-for-pixel-4a-sunfish.4199889/
And there it worked fine
I first installed with MicroG, then went with Gapps, and neither work
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Disclaimer:
Not responsible for any injuries you do to yourself or your device being damaged caused by this ROM.
Big thanks goes to @Steel01 for all the hard work and the Sources.
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.
All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit out Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a full list of changes & features.
Hi Everyone
After some months of learning how to build my own Roms and how to edit the proprietary files of this Device i was able to build my first edited version of LineageOS 15.1 with HW Acceleration and the Camera working.
Its a slim an snappy Rom for everyone that´s looking for a monthly updated Android 8.1 Rom to keep this unique Device alive.
This first release is really basic because i deleted everything that doesn't work right.
My plans for this Rom are to keep it updated in case of Security Patches and add some Features here and there as i still learn how this Device and Android is working in general.
Also the official release of LineageOS 16 will end the development of this Rom for the reason i don't want to rival the official contributors of this Device.
Little FAQ to this Rom:
Do i need to Wipe my existing Rom even its LineageOS 15.1 based ?
Yes because i use my own Release Keys for this Rom you need to Wipe your existing one.
Is this Rom compatible with every Shield Tablet ?
Yes this Rom is working with every Shield Tablet
I have a Shield LTE Version and after flashing this Rom i cant connect my device for Data Transfer with my computer anymore.
For some Reason i still didnt found out on LineageOS 15.1 there is no Drop Down Menu for this Device to change the type of connection.
To change it go to Settings > Connected Devices > USB
I found a Bug with this Rom i didnt had on any Rom before what should i do before i post it here ?
Before you post any Bugs and Errors here make sure you installed this Rom correct as i told with a full wipe in your recovery first and if there are modifications installed like Magisk
Moduls or Xposed or you changed this Rom in any way, you should reinstall it fresh first to take a look if the issue still occurs.
If yes post a detailed report of the Error with a Logcat.txt File
Can i install and use Apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime,.. and watch content in HD again with this ROM ?
As this is a Problem with the Widevine Services and this Device itself this Rom doesn´t change anything on that. If you want to use the Netflix App for example you still have to use the liboemdecrypt modul on Magisk and its SD only
Thanks goes to:
@Steel01 and the whole LOS Team for doing all the hard work to keep this Device alive
@Artemka2008 for figuring out the OMX fix
@Triodexe for uploading his work on his Github so i could figure out how to edit the vendor files
@john_matrix for teaching me how to set up my build enviroment and being really helpful when i´m stuck with errors
Requirements:
Bootloader Unlock
Bootloader Version 4.00.2016.04
Custom Recovery installed (use Version 9.5.0_9-0 of TWRP or Lineage Recovery)
Instructions:
Download the latest build and gapps if needed (8.1 / arm / pico)
Reboot to recovery and wipe your existing Rom
Flash the latest build and gapps
Reboot
Downloads:
Builds : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=325335
Root addon : https://download.lineageos.org/extras
Google Apps : http://opengapps.org/
Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0
Whats working now:
HW Acceleration
Snap Camera
Whats still not working:
Nvidia Games App (Deleted)
Console Mode UI (Deleted but HDMI still working fine)
Encryption (will lead to a Bootloop if tried)
Screen Mirroring ( In App Cast like on the Youtube App still working fine)
Contributors:
@Steel01
Source Code: https://github.com/LineageOS
@Scavenger87
Device: https://github.com/Scavenger-87/android_nvidia_device_shield-common
https://github.com/Scavenger-87/android_device_nvidia_shieldtablet
Vendor: https://github.com/Scavenger-87/android_vendor_nvidia_shield
ROM OS Version: 8.1 Oreo
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.96+
Version Information:
Status: userdebug
SELinux: Enforcing
Security Patch: 5.10.2021
Build Signature: Own Release Key
Created 14.05.2021
Last Updated 18.10.2021
Scavenger87 said:
View attachment 5308899
Disclaimer:
Not responsible for any injuries you do to yourself or your device being damaged caused by this ROM.
Big thanks goes to @Steel01 for all the hard work and the Sources.
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.
All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit out Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a full list of changes & features.
Hi Everyone
After some months of learning how to build my own Roms and how to edit the proprietary files of this Device i was able to build my first edited version of LineageOS 15.1 with HW Acceleration and the Camera working.
Its a slim an snappy Rom for everyone that´s looking for a monthly updated Android 8.1 Rom to keep this unique Device alive.
This first release is really basic because i deleted everything that doesn't work right.
My plans for this Rom are to keep it updated in case of Security Patches and add some Features here and there as i still learn how this Device and Android is working in general.
Also the official release of LineageOS 16 will end the development of this Rom for the reason i don't want to rival the official contributors of this Device.
Little FAQ to this Rom:
Do i need to Wipe my existing Rom even its LineageOS 15.1 based ?
Yes because i use my own Release Keys for this Rom you need to Wipe your existing one.
Is this Rom compatible with every Shield Tablet ?
Yes this Rom is working with every Shield Tablet
I have a Shield LTE Version and after flashing this Rom i cant connect my device for Data Transfer with my computer anymore.
For some Reason i still didnt found out on LineageOS 15.1 there is no Drop Down Menu for this Device to change the type of connection.
To change it go to Settings > Connected Devices > USB
I found a Bug with this Rom i didnt had on any Rom before what should i do before i post it here ?
Before you post any Bugs and Errors here make sure you installed this Rom correct as i told with a full wipe in your recovery first and if there are modifications installed like Magisk
Moduls or Xposed or you changed this Rom in any way, you should reinstall it fresh first to take a look if the issue still occurs.
If yes post a detailed report of the Error with a Logcat.txt File
Can i install and use Apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime,.. and watch content in HD again with this ROM ?
As this is a Problem with the Widevine Services and this Device itself this Rom doesn´t change anything on that. If you want to use the Netflix App for example you still have to use the liboemdecrypt modul on Magisk and its SD only
Thanks goes to:
@Steel01 and the whole LOS Team for doing all the hard work to keep this Device alive
@Artemka2008 for figuring out the OMX fix
@Triodexe for uploading his work on his Github so i could figure out how to edit the vendor files
@john_matrix for teaching me how to set up my build enviroment and being really helpful when i´m stuck with errors
Requirements:
Bootloader Unlock
Bootloader Version 4.00.2016.04
Custom Recovery installed (use Version 9.5.0_9-0 of TWRP or Lineage Recovery)
Instructions:
Download the latest build and gapps if needed (8.1 / arm / pico)
Reboot to recovery and wipe your existing Rom
Flash the latest build and gapps
Reboot
Downloads:
Builds : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=325335
Root addon : https://download.lineageos.org/extras
Google Apps : http://opengapps.org/
Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0
Whats working now:
HW Acceleration
Snap Camera
Whats still not working:
Nvidia Games App (Deleted)
Console Mode UI (Deleted but HDMI still working fine)
Encryption (will lead to a Bootloop if tried)
Screen Mirroring ( In App Cast like on the Youtube App still working fine)
Contributors:
@Steel01
Source Code: https://github.com/LineageOS
@Scavenger87
Device: https://github.com/Scavenger-87/android_device_nvidia
Vendor: https://github.com/Scavenger-87/android_vendor_nvidia_shield
ROM OS Version: 8.1 Oreo
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.96+
Version Information:
Status: userdebug
SELinux: Enforcing
Security Patch: 5.5.2021
Build Signature: Own Release Key
Created 14.05.2021
Last Updated 14.05.2021
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Thank You for breathing new life into this great little tablet!
Thanks for keep this device alive!
Any ideas why clash of clans will not work on this ROM? Installed COC from Amazon App Store right after flashing this ROM and the game closes with no error right after it fully loads at the loading screen. Tried Lineage OS 16.0 and had the same exact issue using the google play store version with pico opengapps. I just want to use a smooth running ROM and play clash also QQ. Clash ran like trash on the stock 7.0 rom even after doing everything possible to make the tablet smoother.
Thank you very much and nice job Scavenger for keeping our tablet up and running!
Tried this ROM and was very happy to finally see one above Nougat on my shield tablet k1 that has 1080p 60 FPS videos playing smooth with no artifacts and doesn't crash. Also super smooth. Very nice, congratulations and many thanks.
However after I rebooted to recovery and flashes magisk it got stuck forever on Nvidia logo
Wiped everything again, reinstalled (ROM and gapps) and it booted without magisk. Tried flashing magisk again, same problem
I never had this issue with magisk before on this tablet (and I've tried several ROMs).
Anyone else faced this issue? Any advice?
@ogremalfeitor How do you tried to install Magisk? Refer https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
What would be the right way to install it?
@Scavenger87 Besides your LOS build we find also a recovery.img at androidfilehost.com - do we have to patch this one with the Magisk app? I never tried the LOS recovery before.
marrol said:
@ogremalfeitor How do you tried to install Magisk? Refer https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
What would be the right way to install it?
@Scavenger87 Besides your LOS build we find also a recovery.img at androidfilehost.com - do we have to patch this one with the Magisk app? I never tried the LOS recovery before.
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I tried many ways.
Usually with the latest magisk versions I rename the APK to ZIP and install it via TWRP (you can't do that with normal APKs but magisk one is special). This method has worked for me with other ROMs. From then on, when there are Magisk updates, I use the magisk manager app.
Meanwhile I tried dumping the boot partition from TWRP and use the manager to patch it, then flash it via fastboot. Same problem. If I then flash the unmodified boot image back, the system boots fine.
I'm now trying everything again, with the 3.5.0_9-0 version of TWRP (I had 3.4.0 installed). Also I was using aroma opengapps (costumizing what I want), I'm now going to try with pico as said in the first post. Will post back results.
ogremalfeitor said:
I tried many ways.
Usually with the latest magisk versions I rename the APK to ZIP and install it via TWRP (you can't do that with normal APKs but magisk one is special). This method has worked for me with other ROMs. From then on, when there are Magisk updates, I use the magisk manager app.
Meanwhile I tried dumping the boot partition from TWRP and use the manager to patch it, then flash it via fastboot. Same problem. If I then flash the unmodified boot image back, the system boots fine.
I'm now trying everything again, with the 3.5.0_9-0 version of TWRP (I had 3.4.0 installed). Also I was using aroma opengapps (costumizing what I want), I'm now going to try with pico as said in the first post. Will post back results.
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No luck, same problem
Root addon from lineage os works, but fails safety net check pretty badly and does not support modules like Magisk...
@Scavenger87 do you have any advice to get Magisk working with this ROM? Are there any place logs are generated when the tablet is booting on the nvidia logo where mine is getting stuck? Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I have a question.
What should i Do with
Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0
I have installed the Rom and the Gapps. And IT runs, on My K1
summerstyle said:
Hello,
I have a question.
What should i Do with
Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0
I have installed the Rom and the Gapps. And IT runs, on My K1
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It's just there for people that might have an outdated stock firmware. If it worked for you without it, you don't need it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
ogremalfeitor said:
No luck, same problem
Root addon from lineage os works, but fails safety net check pretty badly and does not support modules like Magisk...
@Scavenger87 do you have any advice to get Magisk working with this ROM? Are there any place logs are generated when the tablet is booting on the nvidia logo where mine is getting stuck? Thanks in advance.
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Maybe we have to patch boot.img from NVidia Stock Recovery 5.2 and flash this one?
ogremalfeitor said:
It's just there for people that might have an outdated stock firmware. If it worked for you without it, you don't need it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
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This is a separate blob update. What for do we need this?
marrol said:
Maybe we have to patch boot.img from NVidia Stock Firmware 5.2 and flash this one?
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That's not it. The boot.img is unique to every ROM. It contains the kernel and the initial ramdisk (initrd, if you're interested in details search for that and there are a lot of interesting articles explaining the boot process of Linux and derivates like Android).
I know magisk modifies the initrd to sort of "inject" itself during that early boot process, but it doesn't make the system hang with other ROMs, hence before assuming it's a bug in magisk I'd like to know if anyone has any idea or if the ROM is missing anything that could cause this?
marrol said:
This is a separate blob update. What for do we need this?
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I believe it has to do with outdated bootloaders, which will be the case for people who never used recent stock firmwares, and it's there should you have problems (but don't confuse bootloader with boot partition or boot.img that I mentioned in another post). I think the script in the Zip detects it when you flash in twrp and gives an error if necessary but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have try to installed the Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0 in TRWP. It doesnt work. A Error Shows and it cant installed.
Well meanwhile I went on and started using this ROM without magisk. Started to have crashes here and there not long after, like most (if not all) ROMs for my tablet above android 7... until the video started to get corrupted in YouTube Vanced too which is a deal breaker for me.
Guess this is not the one ROM to solve my problems with this tablet after all, but still it's a great effort. Hope others enjoy it and thanks to the dev for sharing.
Hi everyone after a little vacation and some testing out of your reported issues this is what i found out so far:
Hworangg said:
Any ideas why clash of clans will not work on this ROM? Installed COC from Amazon App Store right after flashing this ROM and the game closes with no error right after it fully loads at the loading screen. Tried Lineage OS 16.0 and had the same exact issue using the google play store version with pico opengapps. I just want to use a smooth running ROM and play clash also QQ. Clash ran like trash on the stock 7.0 rom even after doing everything possible to make the tablet smoother.
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I installed that game on a Tablet with LOS 14.1 and LOS 15.1 and in both cases the Game crashes because it run out of memory. I did a quick test on my Rom with adding ro.config.low_ram=true to the build.prop which activate the Go Version of Android and decreased the usage of Ram this way .
The Game runs but it started to get really sluggish after around 30 seconds.
It seems this Game just needs more than the 2GB Ram this device can offer.
ogremalfeitor said:
Tried this ROM and was very happy to finally see one above Nougat on my shield tablet k1 that has 1080p 60 FPS videos playing smooth with no artifacts and doesn't crash. Also super smooth. Very nice, congratulations and many thanks.
However after I rebooted to recovery and flashes magisk it got stuck forever on Nvidia logo
Wiped everything again, reinstalled (ROM and gapps) and it booted without magisk. Tried flashing magisk again, same problem
I never had this issue with magisk before on this tablet (and I've tried several ROMs).
Anyone else faced this issue? Any advice?
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After trying to flash many Versions of Magisk starting by 21.4 over 22.0 and the actual 23.0 via the TWRP Recovery Version (9.5.0_9-0) i mentioned in the Start Thread and trying to flash it with the Magisk App i also wasnt able to install Sucessfully Magisk without running into a Bootlop which is really a Bummer.
I dont know why this happends and i check my Kernel Logs i pulled with TWRP but for the moment we have to use the SU Addon by LOS.
Maybe it has something to do with that my build is signed with a personal key i will check that out.
summerstyle said:
I have try to installed the Firmware Update : N/Stock 5.0 in TRWP. It doesnt work. A Error Shows and it cant installed.
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Thats just the Blob File that needs to be flashed when the Bootloader isnt updated to the latest Version (4.00.2016.04)
ogremalfeitor said:
Well meanwhile I went on and started using this ROM without magisk. Started to have crashes here and there not long after, like most (if not all) ROMs for my tablet above android 7... until the video started to get corrupted in YouTube Vanced too which is a deal breaker for me.
Guess this is not the one ROM to solve my problems with this tablet after all, but still it's a great effort. Hope others enjoy it and thanks to the dev for sharing.
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On some rare ocassions you get those same green artefacts on videos like you get with the LOS 16.0 Rom but at least in my case it happends once a week or so and it seems it have something to do with memory managment again.
My guess is that the tegra drivers arent working really well with Android Versions above Nougat (7.0) and this leads to a memory leak but like i said its just a guess by me maybe @Steel01 can say more about that.
I try to optimize the memory management in the future builds if possible.
Hi Everybody
I think its time to give you a little update of my work on this build
After i got a good example of the problems with the ram management of this device i was looking for a solution last few days and i began testing with the Android Go Settings as i mentioned in the last Thread.
With that settings i was able to start that Game mentioned by @Hworangg and i even was able to play it a bit as you can see on one of the added Screenshots below. But you could also see this Game is a real RAM Hog with needing up to 484MB at the last session i played but it is kinda playable you just have to stay in that Game and turn off every notification as it might crashes otherwise. Speaking of crashes while the GO Settings really helping on reduce the usage of Ram by the System itself and let the device take more Memory Pressure it also leads to freezes where you often have to Hard Reset the Tablet because it seems to not close the Main App when its in a Out of Memory Situation. This is something i have to invest more time and research even after i played a lot with the Dalvik VM Settings.
I also found out that my Personal Key Signature is the reason that the install of Magisk is leading to a Bootloop. Here i also have to figure out why this is happen and if its even possible to install Magisk on a Signed Custom Rom as you change out the BOOT.img on this Device to achieve that and it seems the Magisk installer isnt able to resign the File with my Key.
TLDR:
I was able to set up my Build to use the optimized Android GO Settings to withstand more Memory Pressure so that Games like COC and heavy Browsing Sessions with lots of Tabs and Sites with a lot of Pictures doesn't crash that soon but it lead in both cases to a freeze of the whole Device.
The Magisk installer does not work when i sign my build with my own key.
For this Reason i decided to release a another Build for you to test with this Settings as a Nightly Release before i release my next Regular Build when the next Security Patch is out
You find it here : Nightly Build and i´m curious about your opinion.
Flashed the nightly onto a freshly wiped K1 along with opengapps and Magisk 23 using patched boot, no problems there. Video playback - Netflix played about as well as it could with level 3 widevine, with Jellyfin no obvious visual problems streaming 1080p over lan. Got hard freezes when running memory heavy apps (firefox, manga reader, 3d unity games) but it was expected.
Ended up downgrading back to factory stock Lollipop as the memory management is best there, even better than stock Nougat. But will keep an eye on your builds because the K1 could still be a great little tablet if the memory issues in newer versions of Android was fixed. Thank you for your hard work
I am deleting this guide since M12 will soon recieve an unofficial build of LineageOS 19.1. Don't ask when, as I'm not the lead developer but I helped with it
Update 1: I figured out how to make script run on boot. Instructions revised. If you followed earlier check them again
Update 2: Magisk 24.1 is now stable. Instructions revised.
Update 3: I contacted phh and he implemented the script inside his trebleapp. Instructions revised and modified trebleapp is attached. NOTE: GSIs newer than 7/Feb/2022 will include this workaround by default.
Update 4: This guide is now unnecessary now that unofficial LineageOS is very close to release
Achievement unlocked: flashed GSI with FBE enabled!
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In short, I've successfully done flashing of @phhusson's latest version of Android 12 GSI (which is v402 as of today). To do this, I needed to modify the multidisabler script so it won't disable FBE, format the userdata using the stock recovery, flash TWRP, resize tmpfs to proper size, push GSI image into tmpfs and flash it using TWRP. I used the securized image with vndklite variant, since there was no securized images for regular vndk releases (but it seemed that vndk was working better for me, at least I have no USB connection anymore where with VNDK I was able to have USB debugging). Maybe I'll try re-flashing it once I'll patch the regular images and securize them (since I'm on *nix, I can just mount them and modify their contents) and take an approach of finding how Samsung ROMs are working OK. For now, I need to take a break from all bootloops I had in the process of FBE flashing .
Anyway, the goal of this experiment was to use GSI ROMs as a daily driver and having FBE disabled could otherwise cause a serious problem on device loss.
So, onto the list what's been tested (that wasn't noted before):
Screen locking – it seems that the workaround for the screen is not applied before unlocking the phone, probably because the app is not running yet. This might work with the script used as postfs module.
EDIT: I've found some notes in the Magisk documentation that both post-fs data and late_start services are run after data is decrypted, which basically means applying this workaround using Magisk seems to be pointless for now (maybe not after PPH app will stop providing the workaround)... Probably the best option would be patching the ROM itself, either with flashable ZIPs or directly before flashing it (most GSIs can be mounted under Linux and tweaked).
Adaptive brightness – not working, since all virtual sensors are not working for now. Might be easy to fix through as I've found some stuff in the official ROM that I had an idea to experiment with putting them into GSIs (as a Magisk module, to avoid a breakage).
USB – as I said, a data transfer via USB is not working for me for some reason. It worked for me once I had VNDK Android 12 GSI installed (same version).
Booting with stock kernel – I had some successful attempts doing that, but it further was a cause of a bootloop, at least once I had installed Magisk. Therefore, I'll recommend patching the Magisk the way as in tutorial (after patching the kernel) to have everything working for now.
For people who wants to play with stock images but don't know how: you can use simg2img, lpunpack and Linux to extract and mount the official ROM image in approach of finding there some tips like in initrc services why some stuff is working fine on Samsung while it doesn't on GSIs. Maybe I would tinker with it a bit, trying to export a few services and libraries in an approach to create a Magisk module with all stuff needed to have a fully functional GSI, but I'm tired of modding for now, especially when this is my first Samsung phone I had to deal with.
Edit: Typo fixes, added additional text formatting.
Amazing work. If you need testers feel free to PM me. As a sidenote, poking in sysfs led me to believe that android is sending the info needed to read the proximity but the kernel is sending garbage which gets interpreted as the sensor not being triggered. Also phh should have added the workaround into his trebleapp starting from phh AOSP 12 v401, so aside from installing magisk no post install workarounds should be needed.
Attached is a photo of what cmd_result reads when a whatsapp voice message is played which reads proximity to play the message in the earpiece and turn screen off when proximity is triggered
ap4ss3rby said:
Also phh should have added the workaround into his trebleapp starting from phh AOSP 12 v401, so aside from installing magisk no post install workarounds should be needed.
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Unfortunately, the commit was reverted as of master branch, so we should prepare for it to stop to work unless phh will work on it before releasing an another version. Also I wrote that the workaround didn't seem to apply itself before unlocking the phone (FBE encrypted) the first time and therefore decrypting sensitive data after boot. For now this makes it an requirement when using PHH app to unlock the phone before it sleeps so the touch is going to be responsive.
Anyway, it seems that even Magisk (v24.1) is not capable of running the services before data is decrypted, so now I have no idea how to bypass that in other way than patching the ROM itself and creating the `initrc` service... Anyway, this is also a hint that what samsung is doing starts before basically everything, so no APK file nor script is going to really fix it since they are meant to start after data is decrypted...
SB3P said:
Unfortunately, the commit was reverted as of master repo, so we should prepare for it to stop to work unless phh will work on it before releasing an another version. Also I wrote that the workaround didn't seem to apply itself before unlocking the phone (FBE encrypted) the first time and therefore decrypting sensitive data after boot. For now this makes it an requirement when using PHH app to unlock the phone before it sleeps so the touch is going to be responsive.
Anyway, it seems that even Magisk (v24.1) is not capable of running the services before data is decrypted, so now I have no idea how to bypass that in other way than patching the ROM itself and creating the `initrc` service... Anyway, this is also a hint that what samsung is doing starts before basically everything, so no APK file nor script is going to really fix it since they are meant to start after data is decrypted...
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I guess for now we have two options:
A: Build custom kernel/vendor specifically for GSIs that correctly reports sensors as GSIs expect them to
B: Fix GSI issues through Magisk services implementing various workarounds in scripts. (an example is the touchscreen sleep/wake issue)
ap4ss3rby said:
Attached is a photo of what cmd_result reads when a whatsapp voice message is played which reads proximity to play the message in the earpiece and turn screen off when proximity is triggered
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Also that's interesting those virtual sensors are still present, I personally thought that Samsung made it the way there's an virtual device create as on Linux and there's their proprietary software running somewhere in the system that uses the camera as an input and calculates it to provide the data... On the other hand, when I think about that logic, even some (if not all) virtual devices on Linux (e.g. v4l2loopback) needs to have their module loaded with the kernel to work. I'm glad at least there's no need to reinvent the wheel and no one really needs to recreate the entire algorithm for it if it's going to be in the kernel sources...
ap4ss3rby said:
I guess for now we have two options (...)
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I feel like the B option is worse than patching the GSI ROMs, either via flashable ZIPs or on your own... This is because I couldn't find anything in docs that would let me run services before /data is going to be decrypted... Personally, I've made myself a such service using the statically-compiled Linux ARM binary (non-NDK, using GNU libs – yes, it is still runnable on Android as well) – it applies the workaround for now both when screen is turned on and off (I had no idea on which event it should really run, so I made it to run on both just to be safe) by watching the file changes based on (AFAIK) filesystem events – so it has a major advantage over your script, as it won't run in endless loop, yet watch the file responsible for brightness to change and then do its job. But even with that, TSP doesn't seem to make touch available immediately and it is still expected to be revived after 1-2 seconds.
Also, as of the methods of applying these workarounds, the other way could be modifying the ramdisk (maybe with the help of Magisk, which I believe has documented how it's actually doing it itself and how others could modify the root and init as Magisk does to load files before the OS will properly initalize itself. Yet I don't like an idea of messing myself with the boot partition, at least for now...
Debug info: I tried flashing stock to grab logs from the touchscreen driver. The logs attached here do not appear at all on an unpatched GSI (I.E flashing the GSI as is without any touch workaround).
ap4ss3rby said:
Hi, I installed LineageOS 18.1 GSI on my M127F. I want to share my guide to installing this GSI.
Code:
DISCLAIMER:
By following this guide you accept that you
may do irreversible damage to your phone.
If something breaks the responsibility is
yours only. If you want stable software that
is guaranteed to work 100% don't follow
this guide.
I assume you are running a fully stock system and and locked bootloader and firmware U3/U4.
Installing TWRP and custom kernel
Enable Developer Options by tapping on software information > build number 7 times
Enter developer options then toggle OEM Unlocking on.
Power off your phone.
Hold Vol Up + Vol Down then plug in your phone to enter download mode
THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA AND VOID YOUR WARRANTY. Follow on screen instructions to unlock your bootloader. THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA AND VOID YOUR WARRANTY
After this you want to download and install attached Orangefox recovery using odin. After odin is done flashing enter recovery
Format data (not wipe) in recovery
Enter terminal and type multidisabler twice
Reboot to system and verify that under security encryption is disabled
Download TWRP and custom kernel for your phone
Reboot into recovery and locate the downloaded twrp image
Select recovery.
Reboot into recovery
Install kernel, then wipe cache and reboot. You should now see that it is complaining about some internal issue. This is normal.
Installing the GSI
Download your favorite ROM from the list provided below. You want to install an arm64 a/b image.
Extract the image file
Reboot to recovery.
Select install then install image
Locate the GSI image
Select install system
After that is done return to recovery and select factory reset.
Reboot then do setup (if applicable) then download attached magisk and phh trebleapp. If your phone is stuck on bootanimation check under to fix it.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT LET THE SCREEN TURN OFF OR YOU WILL HAVE TO REBOOT TO MAKE TOUCH WORK AGAIN.
Install attached magisk
Open magisk and click on install then direct install
Download and install the attached phh-treble app apk.
Touch should now work. Enjoy your GSI.
Extras
Magisk 24.1
Open Magisk
Go to settings
Update Magisk Manager app to version 24.1
Relaunch Magisk then install magisk
Choose direct instal
Migrating to patched trebleapp
Download and install attached trebleapp
Open your root file manager
go to /data/adb/service.d
Delete the script you added earlier
Tips in case things don't work
In case after rebooting to the GSI the phone bootloops:
Download stock image from wherever you download your firmware (I use a python program called samloader)
Extract the AP of the downloaded firmware
Find userdata.img.lz4 and create a .tar archive only containing this file
Reboot to download mode
In odin select AP then locate the newly created .tar archive Then click on flash
Reboot
Continue from step 7 under the "Installing the GSI" portion of the guide
To revive the touchscreen using ADB:
In case you didn't grant adb root access but installed magisk, run adb shell then su. A root access for the app shell will appear. Grant root permission
Plug in phone to a computer with ADB
adb shell
su
cat /sys/class/sec/tsp/cmd_result
echo check_connection > /sys/class/sec/tsp/cmd
What works:
Boots
RIL
Fingerprint
Main rear camera
Front camera
Sleep/Wake (workaround in steps above, may need to sleep wake several times before it works)
WiFi
Flashlight
Rotation
Magisk 24
90Hz (M12 only. A12 doesn't have 90Hz refresh rate)
LineageOS 18.1
LineageOS 19
CAOS (GApps variant available)
phh AOSP 11 v313
phh AOSP 12 v400h
Untested
GPS
Flashing GApps. (I use fdroid and aurora store on LineageOS and CAOS has built in GApps)
USB-OTG
A127F
M127G
If I didn't list it under broken or working I didn't try it or forgot to test it.
Broken
Double tap to wake. Touchscreen turns off and I have no idea how to keep it alive while lcd is off
MTP
Virtual Proximity. Screen will stay on in phone calls and WhatsApp will always play voice messages through speaker
Flashlight brightness. Flashlight will always stay on weakest brightness with no way to adjust.
Adaptive refresh. The framerate you set in phh addons is what you get. Be prepared for slightly reduced battery.
You tell me (even though I probably don't have the solution)
Bugs
You may need to wait a little bit before touchscreen responds or sleep/wake several times before screen responds after turning the screen off
Credits
@physwizz for kernel, TWRP and orangefox
@phhusson for implementing workaround in trebleapp as well as GSI list
me for touch workaround
Links
Kernels and recoveries: https://t.me/a127f_res/113
GSIs: https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Generic-System-Image-(GSI)-list
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Great guide.
Well done
Thanks for the great guide. Unfortunately, I don't know how to resize tmpfs. Can anybody tell me how to do that? I only have 4 GB or less on my Samsung Galaxy A12 with 64 GB of Storage (it should have, it only shows something like 3 or 4 gigabytes like I mentioned)
matahbeyz said:
Thanks for the great guide. Unfortunately, I don't know how to resize tmpfs. Can anybody tell me how to do that? I only have 4 GB or less on my Samsung Galaxy A12 with 64 GB of Storage (it should have, it only shows something like 3 or 4 gigabytes like I mentioned)
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You don't have to resize TMPFS if you don't want to have FBE encryption or have the external SD card (you can use microSD for flashing, which might be a better choice if you need to flash a larger devices). Also you can't resize TMPFS to 64 GB, it uses your RAM to store regular data instead of storage (this is basically the concept of TMPFS). What I was mentioning is that /data won't work under FBE and custom recoveries for now, so you need to use your RAM instead if you don't have any external storage device to save images somewhere via ADB.
As of resizing the TMPFS, you should be able to find some Linux tutorial how to do that, on Android this is works basically the same (even on both Linux and Android you have /tmp directory with TMPFS by default).
Anyway, I've decided to share some stuff that you may need for that. Here's the multidisabler script I was using for flashing GSIs with FBE encryption preserved. I was also working on the native binary that would work as the workaround for the touchscreen so it can be used instead of the script. The advantages are that it actually listens to filesystem events and therefore does not need to read file in loop in order to get the information if brightness has changed. Maybe I'll share it with you once I find it to be ready, right now I'll just share my multidisabler script with patches.
BTW, I've tested LineageOS GSIs (both 11 and 12) and noticed they behave completely different, no matter of variant (the USB actually uses some driver, which is not fully compatible with M12 but close enough to provide basic communication through ADB). I guess pphusson just changed something and now these drivers aren't applied by default, yet I think I've noticed the issues with Bluetooth's HSP/HFP profiles which as I remember was not the case with latest stable pphusson's vanilla Android 12 GSIs. Now I just hope these problems are going to be resolved in the next builds of Android's GSIs with phhusson's patches and with the knowledge that MTP just worked fine on TWRP I used, there's a little hope that we will gain the proper combination of drivers/firmware to have both USB and Bluetooth functional at the same time someday.
I've also approached patching the kernel under newer kernel base 4.19.112, yet I gave up on properly resolving its conflicts. I may work on that as well in order to patch some vulnerabilities, with a hope that I'll succeed updating kernel as closest to the latest patch as possible. The 4.19.112 is going to be just a test if Samsung is capable of actually booting from it and if I may be able to use git with common human logic and my limited programming skills to actually patch it the way it would do so (without much understanding about the code itself, yet basic knowledge about C syntax). For now I've only succeed reproducing the upstream Linux kernel commit structure from 4.19.111, with a single additional commit for Samsung changes and another one for physwizz ones.
can anyone guide me how to unlock bootloader on Samsung Galaxy M12G ?
@SB3P Thanks so much. Sorry for my late reply, but thank you!
SB3P said:
Achievement unlocked: flashed GSI with FBE enabled! View attachment 5533799In short, I've successfully done flashing of @phhusson's latest version of Android 12 GSI (which is v402 as of today). To do this, I needed to modify the multidisabler script so it won't disable FBE, format the userdata using the stock recovery, flash TWRP, resize tmpfs to proper size, push GSI image into tmpfs and flash it using TWRP. I used the securized image with vndklite variant, since there was no securized images for regular vndk releases (but it seemed that vndk was working better for me, at least I have no USB connection anymore where with VNDK I was able to have USB debugging). Maybe I'll try re-flashing it once I'll patch the regular images and securize them (since I'm on *nix, I can just mount them and modify their contents) and take an approach of finding how Samsung ROMs are working OK. For now, I need to take a break from all bootloops I had in the process of FBE flashing .
Anyway, the goal of this experiment was to use GSI ROMs as a daily driver and having FBE disabled could otherwise cause a serious problem on device loss.
So, onto the list what's been tested (that wasn't noted before):
Screen locking – it seems that the workaround for the screen is not applied before unlocking the phone, probably because the app is not running yet. This might work with the script used as postfs module.
EDIT: I've found some notes in the Magisk documentation that both post-fs data and late_start services are run after data is decrypted, which basically means applying this workaround using Magisk seems to be pointless for now (maybe not after PPH app will stop providing the workaround)... Probably the best option would be patching the ROM itself, either with flashable ZIPs or directly before flashing it (most GSIs can be mounted under Linux and tweaked).
Adaptive brightness – not working, since all virtual sensors are not working for now. Might be easy to fix through as I've found some stuff in the official ROM that I had an idea to experiment with putting them into GSIs (as a Magisk module, to avoid a breakage).
USB – as I said, a data transfer via USB is not working for me for some reason. It worked for me once I had VNDK Android 12 GSI installed (same version).
Booting with stock kernel – I had some successful attempts doing that, but it further was a cause of a bootloop, at least once I had installed Magisk. Therefore, I'll recommend patching the Magisk the way as in tutorial (after patching the kernel) to have everything working for now.
For people who wants to play with stock images but don't know how: you can use simg2img, lpunpack and Linux to extract and mount the official ROM image in approach of finding there some tips like in initrc services why some stuff is working fine on Samsung while it doesn't on GSIs. Maybe I would tinker with it a bit, trying to export a few services and libraries in an approach to create a Magisk module with all stuff needed to have a fully functional GSI, but I'm tired of modding for now, especially when this is my first Samsung phone I had to deal with.
Edit: Typo fixes, added additional text formatting.
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Could you explain how you done this.... i mean please explain step by step... i am using Galaxy M12G Varient....thanks in advance
milindbhaliwade said:
Could you explain how you done this.... i mean please explain step by step... i am using Galaxy M12G Varient....thanks in advance
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If you would see the *untested* section at the initial post of this thread, it is unknown whetever this works or not for M127G phones (if it bootloops it might not work at all). Anyway, here's how I did it on M127F (at least how I remember this):
1. I did steps from 1-6, I believe I skipped 7 since I was aware it will mess something up with the data partition.
2. I modified the multidisabler script and pushed it to my phone via the ADB (to TMPFS). You can find this script pushed as xz compressed file. Before executing multidisabler script I have done a backup of the recovery and system partitions (using dd tool) which I am going to reflash later.
3. I rebooted to download mode and flashed TWRP image.
4. After TWRP ended flashing, I booted into the recovery. I flashed the physwizz kernel and then my own GSI image as it was described in the instructions at the initial post. Just remember that /data partition is not functional with FBE and TWRP so you need to push your images somewhere else like microSD card or TMPFS partition. OTG might work here as well, this is something I haven't tested yet through...
5. Once you are done with flashing you need to restore the original recovery partition via the download mode. TWRP won't boot the GSIs with FBE encryption enabled actually it does boot now for me, yet I still recommend switching to stock recovery if your phone bootloops or you need to format/wipe userdata partition. You can then safely format your /data partition with the stock recovery.
ap4ss3rby said:
Hi, I installed LineageOS 18.1 GSI on my M127F. I want to share my guide to installing this GSI.
Code:
DISCLAIMER:
By following this guide you accept that you
may do irreversible damage to your phone.
If something breaks the responsibility is
yours only. If you want stable software that
is guaranteed to work 100% don't follow
this guide.
I assume you are running a fully stock system and and locked bootloader and firmware U3/U4.
Installing TWRP and custom kernel
Enable Developer Options by tapping on software information > build number 7 times
Enter developer options then toggle OEM Unlocking on.
Power off your phone.
Hold Vol Up + Vol Down then plug in your phone to enter download mode
THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA AND VOID YOUR WARRANTY. Follow on screen instructions to unlock your bootloader. THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA AND VOID YOUR WARRANTY
After this you want to download and install attached Orangefox recovery using odin. After odin is done flashing enter recovery
Format data (not wipe) in recovery
Enter terminal and type multidisabler twice
Reboot to system and verify that under security encryption is disabled
Download TWRP and custom kernel for your phone
Reboot into recovery and locate the downloaded twrp image
Select recovery.
Reboot into recovery
Install kernel, then wipe cache and reboot. You should now see that it is complaining about some internal issue. This is normal.
Installing the GSI
Download your favorite ROM from the list provided below. You want to install an arm64 a/b image.
Extract the image file
Reboot to recovery.
Select install then install image
Locate the GSI image
Select install system
After that is done return to recovery and select factory reset.
Reboot then do setup (if applicable) then download attached magisk and phh trebleapp. If your phone is stuck on bootanimation check under to fix it.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT LET THE SCREEN TURN OFF OR YOU WILL HAVE TO REBOOT TO MAKE TOUCH WORK AGAIN.
Install attached magisk
Open magisk and click on install then direct install
Download and install the attached phh-treble app apk.
Touch should now work. Enjoy your GSI.
Extras
Magisk 24.1
Open Magisk
Go to settings
Update Magisk Manager app to version 24.1
Relaunch Magisk then install magisk
Choose direct instal
Migrating to patched trebleapp
Download and install attached trebleapp
Open your root file manager
go to /data/adb/service.d
Delete the script you added earlier
Tips in case things don't work
In case after rebooting to the GSI the phone bootloops:
Download stock image from wherever you download your firmware (I use a python program called samloader)
Extract the AP of the downloaded firmware
Find userdata.img.lz4 and create a .tar archive only containing this file
Reboot to download mode
In odin select AP then locate the newly created .tar archive Then click on flash
Reboot
Continue from step 7 under the "Installing the GSI" portion of the guide
To revive the touchscreen using ADB:
In case you didn't grant adb root access but installed magisk, run adb shell then su. A root access for the app shell will appear. Grant root permission
Plug in phone to a computer with ADB
adb shell
su
cat /sys/class/sec/tsp/cmd_result
echo check_connection > /sys/class/sec/tsp/cmd
What works:
Boots
RIL
Fingerprint
Main rear camera
Front camera
Sleep/Wake (workaround in steps above, may need to sleep wake several times before it works)
WiFi
Flashlight
Rotation
Magisk 24
90Hz (M12 only. A12 doesn't have 90Hz refresh rate)
LineageOS 18.1
LineageOS 19
CAOS (GApps variant available)
phh AOSP 11 v313
phh AOSP 12 v400h
Untested
GPS
Flashing GApps. (I use fdroid and aurora store on LineageOS and CAOS has built in GApps)
USB-OTG
A127F
M127G
If I didn't list it under broken or working I didn't try it or forgot to test it.
Broken
Double tap to wake. Touchscreen turns off and I have no idea how to keep it alive while lcd is off
MTP
Virtual Proximity. Screen will stay on in phone calls and WhatsApp will always play voice messages through speaker
Flashlight brightness. Flashlight will always stay on weakest brightness with no way to adjust.
Adaptive refresh. The framerate you set in phh addons is what you get. Be prepared for slightly reduced battery.
You tell me (even though I probably don't have the solution)
Bugs
You may need to wait a little bit before touchscreen responds or sleep/wake several times before screen responds after turning the screen off
Credits
@physwizz for kernel, TWRP and orangefox
@phhusson for implementing workaround in trebleapp as well as GSI list
me for touch workaround
Links
Kernels and recoveries: https://t.me/a127f_res/113
GSIs: https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Generic-System-Image-(GSI)-list
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try to install @phhusson (system-squeak-arm64-ab-vndklite-gapps-secure.img) GSI using above method on Samsung Galaxy M12G (SM-M127G) BUT failed to boot up
facing following issue:
1) unable to boot in OrangeFox Recovery
2) boot in TWRP Recovery but not detected MicroSD Card
3) samehow manage to push Kernal.zip, SystemGSI.img by adb push file_name_with_extension /sdcard BUT not flash properly as TWRP reboot again and again in 2-3 minutes
so friends, don't try this method on Samsung Galaxy M12G (SM-M127G) unless Senior member come up with this specific model
For anyone who has starred this thread, I and other devs have released a proper build of LineageOS with /vendor. Aside from VoLTE (which I don't think worked in GSIs anyways) everything should work. Moderators, please close this thread
ap4ss3rby said:
For anyone who has starred this thread, I and other devs have released a proper build of LineageOS with /vendor. Aside from VoLTE (which I don't think worked in GSIs anyways) everything should work. Moderators, please close this thread
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LineageOS is not only GSI available, I think someone might still find it useful if they want to flash another ROMs. Also Phhuson's GSI also contains some features that unofficial GSI release don't have (i.e. flashlight control in Phhusson's app), so they still might be useful for someone.
This is why I think it is better to not close this thread and maybe revive original guide.
SB3P said:
LineageOS is not only GSI available, I think someone might still find it useful if they want to flash another ROMs. Also Phhuson's GSI also contains some features that unofficial GSI release don't have (i.e. flashlight control in Phhusson's app), so they still might be useful for someone.
This is why I think it is better to not close this thread and maybe revive original guide.
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Our rom is built completely from source, not a GSI, and it is more or less a complete replacement of stock firmware. If you want you can use a GSI over that instead, and it should function much better than just replacing stock firmware
ap4ss3rby said:
Our rom is built completely from source, not a GSI, and it is more or less a complete replacement of stock firmware. If you want you can use a GSI over that instead, and it should function much better than just replacing stock firmware
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I haven't said GSI are better, I personally use this unofficial LineageOS build. But what I've said, GSI brings much more variety of picking the OS you can install. Even Linux can be installed on phones nowadays using GSI with only Halium-patched kernel as an requirement. This is why I think leaving this tutorial archived (no updates, interest on fixing bugs etc.) is better than removing it.
crDroid Android is a free firmware distribution of Android 13, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
crDroid is based on the LineageOS & Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community.
All the source code for crDroid is available in the crDroid GitHub repo
Basic requirements:
Unlock your bootloader, make sure you are on Android 13 firmware (tested over 61.2.A.0.410)
Make sure you can send and receive SMS and receive calls (also via WiFi and LTE, if possible). It would be better for you to get VoLTE/VoWiFi utilized once on stock to provision IMS
Currently tested on XQ-BQ52 (Global version)
Current build has no Gapps built-in so it's up to you either to stay Gapps-less or flash Gapps version you want (I would recommend NikGapps personally)
Make sure you have gone through the installation guide once before proceed!
Installation:
Flash additional partitions and recovery.
Download the following files from the download link:
dtbo.img
vendor_boot.img
boot.img
Connect your device to your PC via USB if isn't already
If your device is not already in fastboot mode, on the computer, open a command prompt (on Windows) or terminal (on Linux or macOS) window, and type:
Bash:
adb reboot bootloader
Flash the downloaded image files to your device by typing:
Bash:
fastboot --set-active=a
fastboot flash dtbo_a <dtbo>.img
fastboot flash vendor_boot_a <vendor_boot>.img
fastboot flash boot_a <boot>.img
Now reboot into recovery to verify the installation:
Bash:
fastboot reboot recovery
Installing ROM from recovery
Download the crDroid installation package that you would like to install from the download link
If you are not in recovery, reboot into recovery
Now tap Factory Reset, then Format data / factory reset and continue with the formatting process. This will remove encryption and delete all files stored in the internal storage, as well as format your cache partition (if you have one).
Return to the main menu
Sideload the crDroid package
On the device, select "Apply Update", then "Apply from ADB" to begin sideload
On the PC, sideload the package using:
Bash:
adb sideload filename.zip
Return to the main menu
(Optionally) If you want to install any add-ons (Gapps, Magisk..), click "Advanced", then "Reboot to Recovery", then when your device reboots, click "Apply Update", then "Apply from ADB", then "adb sideload filename.zip" those packages in sequence.
Once you have installed everything successfully, click the back arrow in the top left of the screen, then "Reboot system now"
Downloads:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xperia5iii/files/crdroid13/
Device Trees & Kernel Source:
https://github.com/faust93/android_device_sony_sm8350-common
https://github.com/faust93/android_device_sony_pdx214
https://github.com/xperiaossdev/kernel_sony_sagami
Build Information
Device: Xperia 5 III (pdx214)
Build Type: Unofficial
ROM OS Version: 13
Kernel Version: 5.4.219-Krispy-v1.2
Kudos:
@Sakuu
@clfbbn
Changelog
2023-04-27:
- crDroid v9.4
- kernel side tuning and optimisations
2023-04-15:
- crDroid sources repo sync
- performance optimizations
- HW assistant button gestures fix: single, long, double click works and can be re-assigned
Geez, our first custom ROM! Thank you very much for your efforts :^)
Any list of what's working and not working?
Gray47Maxx said:
Geez, our first custom ROM! Thank you very much for your efforts :^)
Any list of what's working and not working?
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My daily driver for about a week now. Haven't found any problems so far. Seems everything to be working. But for sure we need more testing..
faust93 said:
My daily driver for about a week now. Haven't found any problems so far. Seems everything to be working. But for sure we need more testing..
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Neat! Based on stock, I guess?
Gray47Maxx said:
Neat! Based on stock, I guess?
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Well, it's not GSI if that's what you meant. Closed source proprietary blobs are taken from stock ROM, otherwise just fully-fledged build from crDroid sources.
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Well, it's not GSI if that's what you meant.
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Not exactly. There's an initiative called SODP which provides all the necessities and binaries to build anything you want. Alas, usually it's not stable enough, especially on newer devices with hard configurations (like with our periscope camera).
Anyway, gonna test crDroid today and report anything I'd find interesting or worth noting
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Not exactly. There's an initiative called SODP which provides all the necessities and binaries to build anything you want. Alas, usually it's not stable enough, especially on newer devices with hard configurations (like with our periscope camera).
Anyway, gonna test crDroid today and report anything I'd find interesting or worth noting
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Aah, I see. It's my first SONY device so I'm not aware about all the nuances yet No, it's not SODP based build.
thanks very nice rom
Good work, btw might want to do a rebuild with the newest Krispy version, major speedups on the 1 III that's running Krispy-v1.2.1 plus some battery life improvement, maybe I'll do 5 III builds too, if I get any testers that is.
Just installed this. Feels like I've been waiting ages for a custom ROM, and now here it is!
So far it seems too good to be true, not a single issue yet.
Sakuu said:
Good work, btw might want to do a rebuild with the newest Krispy version, major speedups on the 1 III that's running Krispy-v1.2.1 plus some battery life improvement, maybe I'll do 5 III builds too, if I get any testers that is.
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Will test later today. Curious to see if refresh rate can be locked @ 120hz. The GSI builds I tried on A11 and A12 were stuck at 60
bhow11 said:
Will test later today. Curious to see if refresh rate can be locked @ 120hz. The GSI builds I tried on A11 and A12 were stuck at 60
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Of course you can lock that dunno if he added the stuff for the refresh rate qs tile though
Sakuu said:
Of course you can lock that dunno if he added the stuff for the refresh rate qs tile though
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Just a prop edit?
bhow11 said:
Just a prop edit?
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Not even that, i think you can turn it on from the settings, but qs tile is more convenient
All good thus far
Will google wallet work with this ROM?
dima_vy said:
Will google wallet work with this ROM?
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For me it works. Magisk Delta does the trick.
After using it for a few days, it is very stable and smooth, the battery performance is also great, thank you for your efforts
Cannot get Photo Pro and other sony app running after install sony framework in Magisk delta. Any one else has the same issue?