[ROM][A320FL/F/Y] LineageOS 16.0 - Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) ROMs, Kernels, Re

[ROM][A320FL/F/Y] LineageOS 16.0 - Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, A7 (2017) ROMs, Kernels, Re

Changelog
Code:
[B]27th December 2018[/B]
- Initial build
[B]28th December 2018[/B]
- Enabled HWC
[B]9th March 2019[/B]
- February security patch
- Selinux enforced
- Fixed the wrong video lenght issue
- latest LineageOS sources
- Fixed the Wi-Fi in a better way
- Removed magisk
[B]30th March 2019[/B]
- Labelized Selinux DRM denials
[B]4th April 2019[/B]
- April Security Patch
- Updated LineageOS sources
- Added custom update over the air (OTA)
- Boosted mic gain

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Fantastic and amazing work as usual ! , Great job

Good job man! Keep it up!

Nice job McFy

Hoh finally pie.. Hope this have VoLTE DD
Just kidding haha

Eh, woah. Good job!
Hats off to you.

Great work mate! Atleast someone is giving our phone some love :3 Keep up the good work... Installing right now and i will report how it goes

telephone calls works good?
proximity sensor?
and I got some problems in los 15 with black screen and failure to fully discharge the battery. ~1 year ago. Thank U

Good job, and thank you very much.
some questions if somebody can guide me out perhaps:
ok i ve seen around VoLTE doesnt work on lineage 15-16 etc but i dont know the reason why....?
im also wondering about VoWIFI, the equivalent of VoLTE but through wifi instead??? im currently on stock rom of android 7.0 on A320FL and theres an option on carrier's stock rom and its calling it wifi calling....its very very handy to be honest. Would that work on custom roms such as lineage 16 ?

Thanks a lot king! Just installed and all is working well so far. I will report any issues if found

Just had a crash while trying to change ringtones. When I want to, I can choose the "Sound" app or "Multimedia storage". First one crashes when I select a category, second one (classic UI) works perfectly.

After succesfully flashing the rom with gapps my phone would turn off after a couple of minutes in the setup and wont turn on

A new build is out with HWC enabled, thanks for all your support, batery and smooth are therefore a bit improved
cjb0o said:
telephone calls works good?
proximity sensor?
and I got some problems in los 15 with black screen and failure to fully discharge the battery. ~1 year ago. Thank U
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Yes calls work well now, same for the proximity sensor. A lot of issues have been fixed in this time
afterglow said:
Good job, and thank you very much.
some questions if somebody can guide me out perhaps:
ok i ve seen around VoLTE doesnt work on lineage 15-16 etc but i dont know the reason why....?
im also wondering about VoWIFI, the equivalent of VoLTE but through wifi instead??? im currently on stock rom of android 7.0 on A320FL and theres an option on carrier's stock rom and its calling it wifi calling....its very very handy to be honest. Would that work on custom roms such as lineage 16 ?
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VoLTE is not working on LineageOS for every Exynos devices as Samsung implemented it in a custom way on their framework and as it is on private sources, we can't know how they implemented it. Therefore until Google force OEM to implement volte in a common way it is nearly impossible to get it to work on any AOSP based rom. I won't work on it since my carrier doesn't support VoLTE for my phone and I don't need it. For voWIFI it's the same.
VoLTE is Often asked by Indians as many carriers such Jio only have LTE antenas so they can't make call throught 2G/3G network, so without voLTE they can't call, but as A3 is not sold in India I guess it's not your case . You will have to live without it if you flash my rom.
Pyroclasm said:
After succesfully flashing the rom with gapps my phone would turn off after a couple of minutes in the setup and wont turn on
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Could you be more precise like if you clean installed, tried to reflash or any extras informations.

Good work McFy! And big thanks for your investment in time and effort!
Something is wrong with the colors at LOS16.
Everything looks very bleak or yellowish, but if you switch to gray mode twice, the picture becomes brighter again.

McFy said:
A new build is out with HWC enabled, thanks for all your support, batery and smooth are therefore a bit improved
Yes calls work well now, same for the proximity sensor. A lot of issues have been fixed in this time
VoLTE is not working on LineageOS for every Exynos devices as Samsung implemented it in a custom way on their framework and as it is on private sources, we can't know how they implemented it. Therefore until Google force OEM to implement volte in a common way it is nearly impossible to get it to work on any AOSP based rom. I won't work on it since my carrier doesn't support VoLTE for my phone and I don't need it. For voWIFI it's the same.
VoLTE is Often asked by Indians as many carriers such Jio only have LTE antenas so they can't make call throught 2G/3G network, so without voLTE they can't call, but as A3 is not sold in India I guess it's not your case . You will have to live without it if you flash my rom.
Could you be more precise like if you clean installed, tried to reflash or any extras informations.
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i see, thanks for the info. well only vowifi is useful actually cause you get no issues with your calls, plus they sound great, when in areas with ****ty coverage which i happen to be in actually.
working at -1 floor with barely some signal or no signal at all then you really appreciate the help of vowifi not missing calls, sms, and generally not to worry.
ill have to think about it, other than that thank you very much.

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So i was using LOS 16 for first day and here are some results....
Installing method:
1.Fully reinstalled to latest stock from sammobile (all packages)
2.TWRP (official one)
3.Wipe system,data and install los- reboot!! - gapps(pico)
At first i want to say its absolutely amazing how it is stable ( i mean it more stable for me than los 15) , i had one freeze during whole day (i renamed my fingerprint , then go back click on trust and had like 30sec freeze of phone but it recovered) , but i was able to found some issues.
1. WiFi Hotspot is not working - i also tested disabled hardware acceleration for tether but it didn´t help , as for me this feature is extremely critical so please if you have time look into this , else i would be forced to downgrade
2. Camera app+results are super bad , app is very basic and result photo looks like from cheap camera from 2005 so much noise and undetailed.
3. I was to find that sometimes animations looks like they are stuttering in their mid-time , like it starts okay then in mid it stutter a noticeable way and then it plays out okay (im running first build so there is change that your newest build is solving that )
Besides this issues , as first build this is extremely good , thank you for the hard work and i will monitor where we can push our little device
PS: But please try to spare some time and look into that hotspot problem , its crucial for me ....
Also it is possible to just dirty install latest update without so much troubles ?
Edit: I forgot two issues
1.Network traffic thingy in status bar in not showing up at all ...
2.It seems that status bar icons are slighty misaligned , there is small gap from left (i wanted to add screenshot but right now i can´t transfer screenshot to PC)

A720F support?

i just installed the new build and it wont let me connect to the wifi

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[ROM][Unofficial][A520x/A720x] Pixel Experience Plus 9.0

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Our mission is to offer the maximum possible stability and security, along with essential features for the proper functioning of the device
Based on Android 9.0
Code:
* Your warranty is now void.
* Should anything happen to your device, I will be there to help you,
* but I won't be responsible for any damage on your device.
This ROM uses the LineageOS device sources completely. The only thing that I do here is sync (download) all sources and make a new PE build with them. The credit goes to the developers of this device, PE team and LineageOS team. I also sometimes make small changes to it.
This is the Plus version of Pixel Experience
Bugs:
Can't take picture with camera and flash on (it's either out of sync or just loses connection to the camera) This is with stock camera only!
No "Advanced display" menu in settings
Installation:
Make sure you have Oreo bootloader and modem
Make a clean flash in TWRP
And that's it.
Note: GApps are already included in the ROM (micro variant). If you want an other variant, then flash that.
Download links:
A5 2017 (08/12/2019)
A7 2017 (08/12/2019)
Special thanks to:
@Option58, @RaymanFX and @forkbomb444 for device and motherboard support
The LineageOS and Pixel Experience team
@elcreepyFP and @mahmoudsyr1998 for the testing and direct feedback
Sources used:
Pixel Experience
A5 sources, A7 sources
Exynos 7880 sources & kernel
Proprietary vendor sources
Telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/K8vIZVBCaN93qrK_fTuCAg
XDA:DevDB Information
[A520x/A720x] Pixel Experience 9.0, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy A Series 2017 A3, A5, A7
Contributors
sheepkill15
ROM OS Version: 9.x Pie
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x
Based On: Pixel Experience
Version Information
Status: Beta
Created 2019-01-01
Last Updated 2019-12-08

Changelog:
- 08/12/2019:
Updates from LineageOS and PE team
Imported camera libs and configs from korean pie and also from hadesROM OneUI
Imported audio libs and configs also from both pie roms
Other misc changes / tweaks / fixes
- 16/10/2019:
Updated to PE Plus version
Updates from LineageOS and PE team -> October security patch
Imported a few things from Korean Pie (nothing significant)
Other misc changes / tweaks / fixes
- 29/07/2019:
Updates from LineageOS and PE team
Synced device tree sources from LineageOS
Increased volume
- 15/07/2019:
July security patch
Fixes and improvements from LineageOS and PE team
Imported R28P0 gpu driver (from hadesKernel)
Imported pie sdcardfs (from hadesKernel)
Synced device sources fom LOS -> button settings
-> faster/better gps
- 31/03/2019:
March security patch
Upstream fixes from LineageOS and PE teams: (major ones)
- Sound issues fixed
- System-wide dark theme
- Advanced restart toggle
- Volume panel moved to left, where the button is
"Buttons light up only when pressed" behaviour
Some kernel improvements (from hadesKernel source)
Force set CTS profile to Pixel 3
- 10/01/2019:
January security patch (in settings it's not updated yet, but trust me it is.)
Fixes from LineageOS and PE team
Added black boot animation
Added Music app (no gallery yet, I was lazy to do another build just for that)
Settings now correctly knows Fingerprint Reader location
Added "Double tap to sleep" and "Advanced Restart" in Settings, but neither of them are working yet... I'm working on it ^-^
- 31/12/2018: Initial release

This ROM uses the LineageOS device sources completely. The only thing that I do here is sync (download) all sources and make a new PE build with them. The credit goes to the developers of this device, PE team and LineageOS team. I also sometimes make small changes to it.

Nice work dude keep it up :good:

Nice.. I use rom now

Nice job perfect work

Congrats man, perfect ROM! Flashed on A5 2017 of my brother. Improve battery, audio(too low) and camera crash (gcam) and it will be perfect.

AssoDiPicche said:
Congrats man, perfect ROM! Flashed on A5 2017 of my brother. Improve battery, audio(too low) and camera crash (gcam) and it will be perfect.
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Thanks man! And yes, that is the goal

This is my daily driver.Perfect

muhamet said:
This is my daily driver.Perfect
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I'm glad to hear that! Expect more greatness in the future, hehe

best pie rom so far(for a520f)!
only bug ;sound cracking.

s.khanizade said:
only bug ;sound cracking.
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That's related to Samsung's protection of some sort, it should go away after some time after a restart

Best 9.0 (or any rom) hands down
I have been trying multiple custom Roms from Nougat, to Oreo, and Pie over the last few days from multiple developers and there are bugs with all of them, some of them make the device unusable. I stumbled across this rom a few hours ago and decided to give it a go and WOW. It literally converts the A520 into a perfect pixel. I'm not finding any bugs so far. This is amazing work. Anyone looking for a rom for your A520, look no further than this!

@sheepkill15
Thanks for this. Will flash tomorrow and feedback over next few days.
Happy New Year

Very smooth this room... Improve performance for pubg mobile between others rom

I enabled hwc and it worked! but I'm not sure if I face freezes or what . I noticed 4 things that is not working well
1.button option is missing as u listed it on bugs list too
2.device is veryyyy laggy while using battery saver mode
3.video qualities on apps like instagram is low I didn't faced this on oreo roms this bug is present on los 16 too
4.gps still not working
and there are some sound crackling on recorderd voices on apps and recorderd voice messages on apps like telegram and instagram etc
btw this so far best aosp rom I've ever used thanks a lot mate fot this awsm works and happy new year wish u the bests

Working beautifully on my A520w! :good:

MaMaReza said:
I enabled hwc and it worked! but I'm not sure if I face freezes or what . I noticed 4 things that is not working
1.button option is missing as u listed it on bugs list too
2.device is veryyyy laggy while using battery saver mode
3.video qualities on apps like instagram is low I didn't faced this on oreo roms this bug is present on los 16 too
4.gps still not working
and there are some sound crackling on recorderd voices on apps and recorderd voice messages on apps like telegram and instagram etc
btw this so far best aosp rom I've ever used thanks a lot mate fot this awsm works and happy new year wish u the bests
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Thanks man, these reports are really useful. I didn't know the battery saver one. Gps worked for me, so I'd be happy if you could provide a logcat or something to fully describe the situation
If you enable hwc, you'll experience random freezes, that's why I disabled it.
Until I fix the battery saver, you can use the powersaving governor, when I used it, it worked correctly

sheepkill15 said:
Thanks man, these reports are really useful. I didn't know the battery saver one. Gps worked for me, so I'd be happy if you could provide a logcat or something to fully describe the situation
If you enable hwc, you'll experience random freezes, that's why I disabled it.
Until I fix the battery saver, you can use the powersaving governor, when I used it, it worked correctly
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again thank u for ur answer I can prodive logs for u ofc. just share with me ur telegram ID.

sheepkill15 said:
Thanks man, these reports are really useful. I didn't know the battery saver one. Gps worked for me, so I'd be happy if you could provide a logcat or something to fully describe the situation
If you enable hwc, you'll experience random freezes, that's why I disabled it.
Until I fix the battery saver, you can use the powersaving governor, when I used it, it worked correctly
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Can u somehow fiy hwc...because now when is disabled experience is laggy...but is the best 9.0 rom so farr...tnx mate!

[ROM][PIE] LineageOS 16 (UNOFFICIAL) [31.03.2019][S9/S9+]

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Note: This is not a ROM based on the ROM shipped with your device. Exynos variants such as International (F), International Dual(Hybrid)-SIM (F/DS), Korean (N) ONLY. In NO way it is compatible with Snapdragon variants including but not limited to American(U/U1/A/T/P/V), Chinese(0/8/6), Hong Kong(0), Japanese(SC-*), Canadian(W) variants.
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 9.0 (Pie), 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.
This it not a GSI. It is built on actual device trees
What's not working?
- The signalbar always shows 0 bars,altho this has no impact or call quality or data.
- HWC is currently disabled
Obviously Samsung's own features such as Samsung Pay, KNOX, Theme Center, Game Launcher, etc. won't be ported to LineageOS. We may have our own implementation to similar functions, though.
Iris sensor does not work because AOSP upstream does not support that yet.
IMS services (VoLTE, VoWiFi, etc). Samsung has their own proprietary implementation. It is not really possible to easily port that to LineageOS .
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What's working?
Anything not specifically listed as not working
Instructions:
Make sure:TWRP has been installed and functional;
you are on the CSB8 based vendor and fw
Download the latest build (and optionally gapps).
Reboot to recovery
Wipe data and cache (required if you switch from other ROMs)
Flash the latest build (and gapps)
(optional) flash magisk for root
Reboot and enjoy :highfive:
Downloads:
Galaxy S9 starlte (G960F/FD/N) : HERE
Galaxy S9+ star2lte (G965F/FD/N): HERE
CSB8 vendor: HERE
Providing feedback:
You are more than welcome to provide any kind of feedback here.
(limited only to feature requests)
Changelog:
31.03.2019
merged source with ELS and synced LOS
not much
17.02.2019
Increased vibration strenght
Added walrus's smooth hax (which might be snake oil)
Added vendor version check at boot
Synced kernel sauce with CSA2
12.02.2019
Initial release Boi
Troubleshooting/FAQ:
Q: I'm on a dualsim variant and (a) sim isn't detected.
A: Try reinserting your sim and rebooting. This wierdly nuff only happens on some* dualsim variants and no one has sent me a logcat yet.
Q: My mobile data (3G/4G) is not working/only 3g shows
A: Go into mobile network settings and select/create an apn, also select 4G as the preferred network type.
Q: How does this compare to GSIS?
A: Much better all around. Faster,smoother etc. I don't think there's any reasons to use pie gsis anymore.
Q: How good is the camera?
A: Actually,(by my standards), pretty good. Almost comparable to stock. Ofc the aosp cam doesn't have the fancy filtering, features and stuff but by far not bad. Alot better than 8.1 roms anyway.
Q: Safetynet doesn't pass?
A: Yeah, i guess that's a thing. Go into magisk and download some module called props hide or something. Don't forget to run it from terminal. It should work from there
Q: The rom isn't booting/camera doesn't work
A: Flash/make sure you have the CSB8 vendor and fw, and try again. This has been tested. It's prolly something on ur end.
Q: I have another bug; How can i tell it to you while slightly increasing my changes of it ever getting fixed.
A: You can tell me what's going on either here or on telegram WITH A LOGCAT attached(required);if rom isn't booting at all attach /proc/last_kmsg.
Q: I don't know what/how to logcat. Is it really necessary?
A: Logcat or gtfo
Q: How can i support you?
A: Awwww thanks;On most of my posts on the left side there's a "donate to me" paypal button;. Send the seal some fish. Seriously. The seal realllyyyyy loves fish. You can do that,donations are more than welcome, or if you don't have any $ to spare you can also post here about how awesome i am (this surprisingly helps very much)
Credits:
BIG thankies to @Ivan_Meler. He was at the center of all of this, and he single handedly did the pie bringup
Jesec for the initial trees
The LineageOS team for creating the rom we so do enjoy
Many good people from the telegram group (linked above) that helped me create this project and spamming for etas
@malinathani for being a coolboi and misc help (up until he got an oneplus6t, now he lameboi)
XDA:DevDB Information
LineageOS 16, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S9
Contributors
Rainbow_Dash, Ivan_Meler,jesec
Source Code: [url]http://github.com/rainbowdashh[/URL]
ROM OS Version: 9.x Pie
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: CSB8 vendor and fw
Based On: LineageOS
Version Information
Status: Beta
Beta Release Date: 2019-02-12
Created 2019-02-12
Last Updated 2019-03-31

Nice one mate

hope port for note 9 is possible pleaseeeeee.

Many thanks to Dev for this LineageOS 16. In Brazil we are very happy with this news for the Galaxy S9+.

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Can I install it on CRLO firmware?

Goin from your Pixel 9.0 ROM. Need to flash another vendor or smth like that? Havent found what CSA2 based vendor means. S9 exynos variant. Thank U. Donation is on way ??

MTAVALI said:
Goin from your Pixel 9.0 ROM. Need to flash another vendor or smth like that? Havent found what CSA2 based vendor means. S9 exynos variant. Thank U. Donation is on way ??
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If you were running my other 9.0 rom, nah, you shouldn't need anything. Just don't forget to wipe

Telegram link not working

Using latest pie (CSB3) vendor and FW fixed dual sim problems. Even apn is ok now

What performance are you having guys ? Is it perceptibly faster/smoother/OnePlus 6t mcLaren/super Megagiga fast/ultra instinct mode than let's say v15 Soldier ROM ?

Tinkered a bit with it, its stable enough for daily use for me. Only real issue I'm having is no audio in Spotify but audio plays in everything else. Will be checking out battery life and post results later on.
Bluetooth - Good
WiFi - Good
Fingerprint Reader - Good
Face Recognition - Good
Signal Icon - Always looks empty
Spotify - No Speaker Audio (Plays Over Bluetooth Fine)
Oh as far as speed is concerned, I haven't had any issues what so ever.

Swapped from official 15.1 and got boot loop at Samsung logo, tried CSA2 and CSB3. Will try again tomorrow to see if I can figure out what went wrong.

Anyone got a fix for spotify over phone speakers?

mackeftw1 said:
Anyone got a fix for spotify over phone speakers?
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Reflash CSA2 vendor.img from crazybeaver mega folder. That worked for me.

ZoiraP said:
Reflash CSA2 vendor.img from crazybeaver mega folder. That worked for me.
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Thanks but I did a restart and now media is working again.

call recorder is working?

Spotify audio started working out of the blue.

[CLOSED][ROM][8.1][A5 2017][Unofficial] LineageOS for microG - 15.1 alpha

[Discontinued][Unofficial] LineageOS for microG - 15.1 - Galaxy A5 2017
Check https://download.lineage.microg.org/a5y17lte/ for official pie port !
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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 Gerrit Code Review.
Disclaimer
This thread deals with a LineageOS unofficial fork with built-in microG gapps implementation, as described here.
It should not be used with Google apps.
Supported variants
Galaxy A5 (2017) SM-A520F
How to install
Make sure you have Samsung's Oreo firmware bootloader and modem before installing this
Make sure you are using the latest official TWRP version.
Download the lineage for microG build
Copy them to the phone
In TWRP wipe dalvik/cache/system/data
Flash LineageOS
Optional: Flash root package
Reboot
Downloads
Check https://download.lineage.microg.org/a5y17lte/ for official pie port !
ROM:2019-07-15
TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/samsung-a-series-2017/development/recovery-galaxy-a5-a7-2017-t3815931
Root addon (arm64): https://download.lineageos.org/extras
Source Code: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_samsung_universal7880
Version Information
OS Version: 8.1 Oreo
Kernel: Linux 3.18.x
Android patch level: may 2019
Firmware Required: Samsung Oreo firmware
Status: discontinued
Created 2019-04-30
Last update 2019-07-09
Credits
RaymanFX, forkbomb444, Corsanicu, Option58, LineageOS team, microG team
XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][8.1][A5 2017] LineageOS 15.1 alpha, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy A Series 2017

Building instructions
https://github.com/lineageos4microg/docker-lineage-cicd
Known issues
(mostly comparable to any LOS based rom out there)
battery life could be better (compared to 14.1) I guess : idle consumption is low, BT on the contrary consumes a lot.
camera doesn't work flawlessly (same as other LOS based rom)

Thanks for contributing
How is battery life as of your tests? How bad is it compared to stock and to other LOS builds?
What are the flows of camera? Is it only quality, or some functions are lost?
Keep it up! :

Hi, battery life is significantly better than last 15.1 build from Option58, at least when idle ; most of the "to-be-improved" consumption is related to BT.
Cameras flows are the one already reported for all LOS based rom (nothing less, nothing more) : quality seems sub-optimal, 16:9 needs to be selected in settings and from times to times crashes may happen.

Sir, wonderful rom indeed.
The only thing I want for my A5 2017 is a custom kernel for AOSP based roms. I know it is stupid to ask something like this. But please get us a kernel. This will improve battery using profiles, support for overclocking/underclocking, and just usual Basics. On the other hand this rom is fabulous, and would love to see it growing more.

I'm providing a clean LineageOs with microG build, i.e. no custom kernel.
The basic idea of this thread is to offer an alternative to the Google-based ecosystem.

Have you tested NFC? Is it working properly?

Seems so, yes.

Okay, after a day of usage, I've occured some problems.
Aforemention that I've done a clean install:
- GPS not working - High accuracy is on, yet neither GMaps, neither Waze can locate, saying that no GPS signal is available. I don't know if this is correlated with microG, if it's caused by some Google framework is missing - since that should be the point of microG, but it's definitely a problem.
- Login with Google is not working - I assume this is a problem rooting from microG, and my misunderstanding, but it would be nice to make this available somehow.
Apart from that, it seems to be a nicely functioning ROM, which is nice to see on LOS.
Not to only mentio negativities, here's something on the pro side: I'm using an Amazfit BIP, which requires constant BT connection to the phone. However, I haven't occured any unreasonable battery consumption caused by BT.

shifty.hungary said:
Have you tested NFC? Is it working properly?
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shiftyHungary said:
Okay, after a day of usage, I've occured some problems.
Aforemention that I've done a clean install:
- GPS not working - High accuracy is on, yet neither GMaps, neither Waze can locate, saying that no GPS signal is available. I don't know if this is correlated with microG, if it's caused by some Google framework is missing - since that should be the point of microG, but it's definitely a problem.
- Login with Google is not working - I assume this is a problem rooting from microG, and my misunderstanding, but it would be nice to make this available somehow.
Apart from that, it seems to be a nicely functioning ROM, which is nice to see on LOS.
Not to only mentio negativities, here's something on the pro side: I'm using an Amazfit BIP, which requires constant BT connection to the phone. However, I haven't occured any unreasonable battery consumption caused by BT.
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Why the names?

Yes, GPS is indeed not working ; location service cannot be accessed as well. I need to figure out why.
Strangely, this was working perfectly fine with (older) LOS 15.1 builds without microG.
Regarding signing at google, I will not look at it, but you can go through the https://lineage.microg.org/ (where do I report a bug) logic to find out where the issue is.
Edit: I've just installed GPStest and selected the "device only" option (to use the GPS only) ; it is now working. what puzzles me is that whenever I'm trying to access the security/location settings page, it will crash. I guess there is something wrong in those bits, that will eventually be corrected upstream.

The one with the dot is an accidental registration by signing in with Google. The other is the original which I use, yet sometimes I get signed out, and relogged in w/ the Google one. I'll contact MikeChannon to remove my alterego...
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~babel said:
Yes, GPS is indeed not working ; location service cannot be accessed as well. I need to figure out why.
Strangely, this was working perfectly fine with (older) LOS 15.1 builds without microG.
Regarding signing at google, I will not look at it, but you can go through the https://lineage.microg.org/ (where do I report a bug) logic to find out where the issue is.
Edit: I've just installed GPStest and selected the "device only" option (to use the GPS only) ; it is now working. what puzzles me is that whenever I'm trying to access the security/location settings page, it will crash. I guess there is something wrong in those bits, that will eventually be corrected upstream.
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A possible answer could be that microG's network provided location is somehow not working, or not properly. If GPS in itself can locate, then the network based data should be corrupted or should cause some trouble, yet I lack the knowledge how to test it.

are you able to see the security/location page, and configure the location details (with last build, it is working fine now) ?
microG needs some backends to be activated for proper wifi/gsm triangulation/localisation to work, did you configure them ?

~babel said:
are you able to see the security/location page, and configure the location details (with last build, it is working fine now) ?
microG needs some backends to be activated for proper wifi/gsm triangulation/localisation to work, did you configure them ?
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I had to revert to hadesStock, since this is my work phone also, so I'll only have a chance to test on the weekends and on office days.
Yet what I remember is that I had all possible configured in microG, nothing else in the setings apart from the basic modes.

new build posted

~babel said:
new build posted
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Great to see! Is there a changelog available?

sure, for now, nothing less, nothing more than https://www.lineageoslog.com/15.1

Building without MicroG
Is there a way I can build this exact ROM without the MicroG implementation? It runs much smoother than my builds, I was wondering is it using a different device tree or is this just because of MicroG? Many thanks

It's just because of microG.

new build posted

[ROM][A5|7 2017][13] LineageOS 20 Unofficial

LineageOS 20 Unofficial for Galaxy A5|7 2017
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*
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What's working?
Audio
Calls
Wifi
Hotspot
Mobile data
GPS
Bluetooth
Fingerprint
Hardware composer
OpenMAX (hardware encoding/decoding)
Camera (photos + recording)
NFC
Sensors
Vibration
Double tap to wake
Always on display
What's broken?
FDE (full disk encryption) has been fully deprecated in android 13
Network traffic monitoring
Sepolicy is permissive
Supported variants
All variants of Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A7 (2017). Dual SIM is also supported.
How to install
Make sure you had Samsung's Oreo firmware bootloader and modem before installing this.
Make sure you are using the latest official TWRP version.
Download the lineage build and optionally google apps.
In TWRP format data (if you still have stock rom encryption).
In TWRP wipe data and cache.
Flash LineageOS.
Optional: Flash Google apps (rightafter).
Reboot.
It's okay to dirty flash new updates.
Downloads
MEGA | google drive | androidfilehost | google apps | changelog
Old builds:
Lineage 19.1 Unofficial: MEGA | androidfilehost | google drive | changelog | sources
Donations
If you find the work I do helpful, you can support me by donating via this link.
Telegram
There's a telegram group made by A5|7 users where we hang out. Feel free to check it out.
Credits
Huge thanks to (a lot of people):
RaymanFX for the original work on lineage 14.1 and thus making this possible.
Forkbomb for contribution to original 14.1 sources.
Simon1511 for contributing to these devices via patches uploaded to lineageos gerrit.
Stricted, Danwood76, Fcuzzocrea, Ivan Meler and others for contribution to exynos platform.
SGTPresticle, Jmackley, Simon1511, Arno and others for doing the testing.
LineageOS Team
Me, for the infinite hours spent on this project.
Kernel source: https://github.com/filiprrs/android_kernel_samsung_universal7880
ROM OS Version: Android 13
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.18.140
ROM Firmware Required: Samsung oreo firmware
Created 2022-11-12

FAQ
Help my sim doesn't work
Please read the installation instructions more carefully. Oreo firmware bootloader and modem is a must.
You can find the collection along with the guide in this xda thread.
I'm sometimes having crackling sound when listening to music
Turn off 'ok google now' functionality in google app settings. If you have troubles finding it you can as well go to settings>apps, find app called 'google' and disable microphone permission.
Does this rom support VoLTE?
No. And it likely won't in the near future. Samsung's exynos VoLTE implementation is proprietary and non-standard. It is not possible on AOSP based roms for the time being.
I have weird issues with camera (wrong resolution, issues with flash etc.)
Тhis could very well be an issue with the included camera app. Try a third party camera app.
Will you fix the bugs? Will this version ever go official?
I've already fixed everything I was able to. The main drawback is that our linux kernel 3.18 has become too old. Our devices starting showing their age. Because of this version will not go official.
My hardware keys light up whenever I touch the screen
Navigate to Settings->System->Buttons->Backlight and tick 'Illuminate buttons only when pressed'. You might want to reduce time on the scaler to 1 second, too.
How to switch to full screen gestures
1. Navigate to Settings->System->Buttons->Backlight and tick 'Enable on-screen nav bar'.
2. Navigate to Settings->System->Gestures->System navigation and tick 'Gesture navigation'.
I need help with google camera
Please see this xda post.
Help! I have problems with my bank app/my device is failing SafetyNet.
Try following this guide by Simon1511.

Nice to see this out, great work

Great job as always.

im glad there's still hope for a little bit of support for our rusty device
i know this is pretty ridiculous at this point but i really hope this become another galaxy s2 situation where despite how old the device is.. it still get more and more versions despite its age

Yea, but the S2 is more of a tinkerers device at this point, A5 is still usuable (at least on A11, broke my screen before I could test 12 :C)

Possible update with simple TWRP install (wo delete data) from 19.1 Unofficial? (I think yes.)

Very nice rom ....smoot and stable

Which one is better LineageOS 19 or LineageOS 20? Which one is more stable for daily use? Or is just LineageOS 18 stable enough for daily use for now?

How is the battery consumption?How is the camera?

schneitomee said:
Possible update with simple TWRP install (wo delete data) from 19.1 Unofficial? (I think yes.)
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I also think yes, but no one has tested this already. Note that you would surely need to reflash the same gapps package you were using before right after the new version flash.
Bried said:
Which one is better LineageOS 19 or LineageOS 20? Which one is more stable for daily use? Or is just LineageOS 18 stable enough for daily use for now?
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I can't tell this for certain. It totally depends on your usecase and preferences. There aren't any unresolved bugs coming from previous versions (other than mentioned). Some people say however that the rom runs slower than the previous versions, especially with gapps. For me personally it was still ok.
lord_wolf7 said:
How is the battery consumption?How is the camera?
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Not worse than before with lineage at least. For what it's worth, there is actually a new lineage camera app now. And we were getting some good battery life results during the testing.

thanks for the update.
which gapps is recommended for los20

Option58 said:
I also think yes, but no one has tested this already. Note that you would surely need to reflash the same gapps package you were using before right after the new version flash.
I can't tell this for certain. It totally depends on your usecase and preferences. There aren't any unresolved bugs coming from previous versions (other than mentioned). Some people say however that the rom runs slower than the previous versions, especially with gapps. For me personally it was still ok.
Not worse than before with lineage at least. For what it's worth, there is actually a new lineage camera app now. And we were getting some good battery life results during the testing.
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the gapps is not available for Android 13. Does it have Google apps?

Option58 said:
I also think yes, but no one has tested this already. Note that you would surely need to reflash the same gapps package you were using before right after the new version flash.
I can't tell this for certain. It totally depends on your usecase and preferences. There aren't any unresolved bugs coming from previous versions (other than mentioned). Some people say however that the rom runs slower than the previous versions, especially with gapps. For me personally it was still ok.
Not worse than before with lineage at least. For what it's worth, there is actually a new lineage camera app now. And we were getting some good battery life results during the testing.
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What does Network traffic monitoring do? I switch off Mobile data and WIFI for many apps in the app settings. Without Network traffic monitoring, does it mean that separate app Mobile data and WIFI switching off will not work reliably? Or is it completely unrelated?

lord_wolf7 said:
the gapps is not available for Android 13. Does it have Google apps?
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hodanli said:
thanks for the update.
which gapps is recommended for los20
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I focused mainly on fixing rom bugs, so I haven't had much time to investigate the google apps situation.
But yeah they exist. They can be found using the link in the thread.
Flamegapps, Nikgapps and perhaps a several others are there for android 13 already.
Bried said:
What does Network traffic monitoring do? I switch off Mobile data and WIFI for many apps in the app settings. Without Network traffic monitoring, does it mean that separate app Mobile data and WIFI switching off will not work reliably? Or is it completely unrelated?
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I believe that is unrelated. It is literally broken monitoring.

network monitor does not work

backup doesn't work properly

why is the battery mah 3600?

nikgapps go doesn't work properly

issues :
using qr scan notification panel causes settings to crash, HDCP checking causes minor lag, SRGB doesn't work , network monitor does not work, nikgapps go doesn't work properly, backup doesn't work properly

[ROM][13][UNOFFICIAL][STABLE] LineageOS 20

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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.
Code:
/*
* Your 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.
*/
What is working:
- WiFi
- DualSIM, including calls on both SIMs
- Bluetooth
- NFC
- Camera
- Sound
- GPS
- Fingerprint scanner
- Sensors
- SD cards
- Double tap to wake
- Data encryption
- SELinux enforcing
- OTA updates
- Signature spoofing
- Most other basic stuff
Spoiler: Known issues
Known issues:
- VoLTE
Installation guide:
Spoiler: Using Lineage recovery
1. Recommended Samsung firmware version is A705FNXXU5DVK6, but it will work on slightly older versions too.Make sure that the bootloader is unlocked.--
2. Boot the phone into download mode. Flash Lineage recovery through AP button in Odin.Download here. Note: Use TWRP at your own risk! It does not properly support new A13 roms with the latest changes.
Use Lineage recovery for the best experience, otherwise don't complain if your phone bootloops.
--
3. Boot into recovery (Vol+ and Power while USB is plugged into PC) Note: Samsung's OneUI wipes the custom recovery partition and possibly vbmeta while booting so try not to reboot into Android.
--
4. Format data and system in the recovery--
5. Flash the rom in "Apply update" menu. There are 2 ways to install:
On the phone: Copy the zip to a FAT32-formatted microSD card and install it in recovery.
With a PC: Use Minimal ADB on Windows. Open "cmd-here" and type
Code:
adb sideload <rom-file>
where <rom-file> is the filename (drag-and-drop the zip file into cmd window).
--
6. (Optional) Flash add-ons such as Google apps or Magisk in the same way that you flashed the rom.We now have a working ramdisk so newest Magisk works fine ^^
--
7. Reboot and enjoy
Downloads:ROM: lineage-20.0-20230619-UNOFFICIAL-a70q.zipRecovery: lineage-20.0-20230619-recovery-a70q.tar* Lineage 19.1 is still maintained here.
Changelog:
Spoiler: Click to open
20230619:
Full changelogs: https://github.com/rtd1250/a70q_OTA/releases
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Credits:
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Source code
https://github.com/LineageOS
https://github.com/rtd1250/android_device_samsung_a70q
https://github.com/rtd1250/android_kernel_samsung_sm6150
https://github.com/rtd1250/proprietary_vendor_samsung_a70q
Other info
OS version: Android 13
Linux version: 4.14.190
Recommended firmware: A705FNXXU5DVK6
Build date: 19.06.2023

Screen off fingerprint not working even after enabling it from settings. However, to lineageos 19.1, it was working as expected.

Will look into that, thanks for reporting. You can use DT2W or raise to wake in the meantime
Edit: fixed as of 20221126

Still downloading hope no sleep of death

all good on the a70 (sm-a705mn) for now
thanks for the rom

Great work as always, thanks a lot

New update is now available, with Screen off FOD fixed (make sure you enable it in settings). You might also find that Always on display is turned on by default, it can be turned off with a quick settings tile. You also can update through settings app on the phone.
For OTA updates I recommend Lineage recovery and, if you need root, Lygisk. Don't report bugs with updates if you use Magisk.

Is volte working in this rom?

MarvinMod said:
Is volte working in this rom?
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Don't expect VoLTE on _any_ rom for a samsung phone, there is no implementation in AOSP. Official devices lack it too. No developer has bothered to do volte so far (and probably won't unless there's a good reason). Other than that, we're pretty much as bugless as we can get currently.

rttxda said:
Don't expect VoLTE on _any_ rom for a samsung phone, there is no implementation in AOSP. Official devices lack it too. No developer has bothered to do volte so far (and probably won't unless there's a good reason). Other than that, we're pretty much as bugless as we can get currently.
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Thanks, due to needing Volte for calls and texts, now that 3g is shut down, looks like im stuck using stock.

MarvinMod said:
Thanks, due to needing Volte for calls and texts, now that 3g is shut down, looks like im stuck using stock.
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Apart from that, only thing you could do is use OneUI mods.. volte might happen one day if someone takes the time to reverse engineer it but so far we're out of luck. This is a problem on every samsung device on AOSP, and with other makes, YMMV.

rttxda said:
Apart from that, only thing you could do is use OneUI mods.. volte might happen one day if someone takes the time to reverse engineer it but so far we're out of luck. This is a problem on every samsung device on AOSP, and with other makes, YMMV.
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It modded with magisk and safety net pass. Debloated and such. I really like los though.

Personally I'd say los is a great experience as long as 3G calls are not a problem, I use it on my daily phone which has no volte either, but at least is maintained officially
(Also in many countries 3G is shut down before 2G so I'm pretty sure 2G can still be used in those)

How to make dual sim work?

Works out of the box if you haven't messed with the efs partition and did a clean flash. You can also try 19.1 just in case.

vendor needs to update

Why? Even the security patch wasn't bumped. It's not so urgent, it was literally released today.

muito obrigado, A70 é muito mais rápido comparado ao LOS 19.1, você tem uma recomendação de kernel?

DiEGo7SiLVa said:
thanks a lot, A70 is much faster compared to LOS 19.1, do you have a kernel recommendation?
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Use the lineage kernel, it's most stable and has good performance too. Older "mod" kernels will not work with android 13

My phone can't detect sim 2 on OTA builds but in the older builds it does. A705MN/DS.

Database Develop

welcome