[ROM] [OFFICIAL] LineageOS for the Shield Portable

[Steel01]

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow), 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.

Instructions :

• Download the latest build and gapps
• Reboot to recovery
• Flash the latest build and gapps
• Reboot

Downloads :

• Builds : https://download.lineageos.org/roth
• Root addon : https://download.lineageos.org/extras
• Google Apps : http://opengapps.org/

Reporting Bugs

• DO NOT Report bugs if you're running a custom kernel or you installed Xposed
• Grab a logcat right after the problem has occurred. (Please include at least a few pages of the log, not just the last few lines, unless you know what you're doing.)
• If it is a random reboot, grab /sys/fs/pstore/console_ramoops. (Do not bother getting a logcat unless you can get it just before the reboot. A logcat after a reboot is useless)
• If the problem disappears after running "setenforce 0" from a root shell, grab /data/misc/audit/audit.log

Remember to provide as much info as possible. The more info you provide, the more likely that the bug will be solved. Please also do not report known issues. Any bug not reported in the bug report format below may be ignored.

What is your--
LineageOS version:
LineageOS Download url:
Gapps version:
 
Did you--
wipe:
 restore with titanium backup:
reboot after having the issue:

Provide any additional information (observations/frequency of problem/last version it worked on/etc) as needed:

XDA:DevDB Information
LineageOS for the Shield Portable, ROM for the Nvidia Shield

Contributors
Steel01
Source Code: https://github.com/LineageOS

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

Version Information
Status: Nightly
Current Stable Version: 13.0

Created 2017-02-25
Last Updated 2017-02-25

 

[edtide25]

Wow nice work! Thanks for porting Lineage OS to Nvidia Shield Portable. So before I want to do download and install it... Does everything work? The Nvidia controller, Power button, etc?

 

[Steel01]

Wow nice work! Thanks for porting Lineage OS to Nvidia Shield Portable. So before I want to do download and install it... Does everything work? The Nvidia controller, Power button, etc?

All the hardware works, yes. Some of the software features aren't ported like touch mapping for the gamepad, wireless controller support, gamestream, etc. But for the normal use cases I have of retroarch, a handful of controller enabled native games, and kodi, everything works beautifully. So, depends on your use cases.

 

[fr500]

Is this full android or ATV like the one you built for me?

 

[Steel01]

This is a normal build. Probably won't do atv for officials unless the userbase really asks for it. Need to fix gapps before that would even be considered, though. Only 32 installs atm, and half of them are probably me testing.

So, haven't had a bootloop on the new build myself. Anyone having any troubles at all? Seeming really solid to me finally.

 

[stuken]

When using snes9x ex the performance is way down in comparison to nvidia update 110. The screen refresh rate as reported in the emulator is 48.85hz. If that's correct its far too low.
In addition there appears to be another bug where ui animations stutter and loop back a few frames on themselves. Not sure if this is related to the apparent refresh rate issue.
I would also like to chime in on the possibility of an atv build. Without the right stick mouse functionality of the stock firmware the tv interface makes a whole lot more sense.

Thanks for the build and the work you've put in on this and fixing nvidia messes over the years.

 

[Diego9000]

That's great to know!!

Once they manage to port the touchmapper and some other software from this device to it, I'm pretty sure to stick with it forever.
I'm using lineage at my MotoG3 and i'm lovng git!!

 

[JazzMartian]

Thanks for this. I just installed it. I had been running your 12.1 CM ROM the last week. I decided to try it out after had enough of the buggy stock ROM. I would install apps, and they would (seemingly) randomly disappear. I would install them over and over again. Anyways, your custom builds of CM/Lineage have been working beautifully.

The only thing that I'm really missing is the gamepad touch mapper. I know you've said that you don't use it, but it seriously hurts not having it, because you can so quickly and easily make most touchpad only games work so quickly and easily.

 

[Steel01]

The only thing that I'm really missing is the gamepad touch mapper. I know you've said that you don't use it, but it seriously hurts not having it, because you can so quickly and easily make most touchpad only games work so quickly and easily.

The problem is that Nvidia's touch mapper is mostly in the stock framework. That's code I don't have access to and even if I was interested in trying, I don't have near the time needed to try and recreate it. And tincore is still an option. I know it's a major pain to set up, but it does work.

 

[JazzMartian]

The problem is that Nvidia's touch mapper is mostly in the stock framework. That's code I don't have access to and even if I was interested in trying, I don't have near the time needed to try and recreate it. And tincore is still an option. I know it's a major pain to set up, but it does work.

Gotcha. What a shame. I guess Tincore Mapper it is. It seems like something that probably is really awesome, once you invest the time into learning it. There's probably way more in depth options and things you can do with it, than Nvidia's mapper (but I'll still miss the ease and convenience lol).

 

[igrik1986]

Hello,

Are there any plans to get Noughat on board of Nvidia Shield Portable?

thank you

 

[Steel01]

Well, good news. I actually got the portable to boot N / 14.1. Bad news. It's a jerky mess. I took the advice of one of the other Tegra 4 devs and stuffed the blobs from the Jide Ultratablet in there. Flipped a couple flags, and voila, it boots. No sound, no touch, and quite jerky. But at least I finally found a graphics stack that works. I can work with that, find out which specific pieces I need to pull of the graphics stack and leave the other Roth stuff in place. Should be able to make it usable. No guarentees on when, but I'll keep working on it.

 

[painkiller_93]

Is it somehow possible in this rom tu use nvidia's shield hub app to use gamestream and geforce now? When you install and run the app those options dissapear from the app. I know I can use moonlight to stream, just curious why it doesn't work on this rom, maybe the app detects that it's not an official firmware and disables it or some libraries missing?

 

[fr500]

Try installing nvidia games from google play.

 

[fr500]

Yeah tincore mapper is a pita the stock nvidia mapper is way easier.

 

[danny_boi]

For the these two platform, which do I download? Cause last time I tried to update, the device was bricked and somehow magically started up today and went back to thinkering with my shield lol
i'm currently on android 6.0.1 with CyanogenMod Version 13.0 Nightly build

Root addon : https://download.lineageos.org/extras
Google Apps : http://opengapps.org/

 

[50up3r9uy]

What's different between this and CM13?

 

[Steel01]

Lineage is the continuation of CM. No one is working on CM anymore.
@danny_boi: Unfortunately flashing from CM to Lineage official builds will require a wipe due to a change in signing keys. Then you want the 13.0 arm su zip and one of the arm 6.0 opengapps packages. I personally use micro, which I also believe is the largest that will fit on this devices small system partition.

 

[marvi0]

Is it somehow possible in this rom tu use nvidia's shield hub app to use gamestream and geforce now? When you install and run the app those options dissapear from the app. I know I can use moonlight to stream, just curious why it doesn't work on this rom, maybe the app detects that it's not an official firmware and disables it or some libraries missing?

Try installing nvidia games from google play.

Hello about to flash this rom and wanted to findout if the shield hub works as this is not mentioned when I searched. Does installing nvidia games from Google play work please?

 

[painkiller_93]

Hello about to flash this rom and wanted to findout if the shield hub works as this is not mentioned when I searched. Does installing nvidia games from Google play work please?

You can install the app from the play store but it won't show you the options to use gamestream or geforce now. If you want to use gamestream you can install moonlight app.