LineageOS 19.1 (Android 12L) [Signature Spoofing][OTA updates] for S7 Edge Exynos
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First of all – thanks for the ROM! =)
And now some tricky questions:
1) If there is a way to add AVIF (image) system support? Because it should be already present with Android 12, but it won't work even with apps specially build to support it. Found something like this. Still can wait for A13, there are no rush =)
2) I noticed that the best camera experience can be archived with HedgeCam2. Can it be useful while tweaking the default camera app for our device? And also add some new formats to save captured images \ video (AVIF, AV1, RAW). Even if they are software transcoded afterwards.
3) Just curious, but does android have a way to add codecs into the system like Windows or Linux? Or our only way is to use apps with build in codecs like Simple Gallery, VLC, etc.?
And now some tricky questions:
1) If there is a way to add AVIF (image) system support? Because it should be already present with Android 12, but it won't work even with apps specially build to support it. Found something like this. Still can wait for A13, there are no rush =)
2) I noticed that the best camera experience can be archived with HedgeCam2. Can it be useful while tweaking the default camera app for our device? And also add some new formats to save captured images \ video (AVIF, AV1, RAW). Even if they are software transcoded afterwards.
3) Just curious, but does android have a way to add codecs into the system like Windows or Linux? Or our only way is to use apps with build in codecs like Simple Gallery, VLC, etc.?
Something like that, only when the option “Pause after taking photo” is enabled.
Took photo with auto flash, it opened with mentioned option. Trying to “go back” and app just crashes.
With “Pause after taking photo” disabled – everything is just fine, in all Flash modes: auto, enabled, torch.
wierd, i have that already un ticked. > more camera controls > pause after taking photo. [ ]
no, I had installed LLoydq android 10. Also camera does not work properly. If you have this rom , what is your camera app ?
I also have some WiFi issues, sometimes the wifi speed became extremly slow and sometimes it just randomly disconnect.
Did you try OpenCamera ?
AOSP was terrible. I used Google camera ( doesn't work front camera) and open camera. But it is not seem a original.
Just tried another thing: swipe instead of “back”. Now got no problems with camera app =)
p.s.: I returned to stock, used the latest TWRP and only afterwards flashed ROM. Magisk 23, MicroG.
Everything survived a few OTAs from June. Can't tell the diff, except better audio quality)
You could try Hedgecam2. Just don't forget to enable Camera2 API (Settings→Misc→Camera2 API).
It becomes WAY better in comparison with stock camera and OpenCamera.
I will try it. But ı did not like the open camera and hedge cam because of the UI. Google camera better for UI except the front camera problem.
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New build is up, here is a brief changelog
- Merged July 2022. Security update
- Fixed more keystore issues
- Synced with LineageOS source
Also some important news, Exodusnick decided to provide huge help and he bought and shipped s7 to me which should be here next week, so all of exciting updates i talked about last week should be way easier to achieve and this will make testing and developement a lot easier, Once again huge thanks to him.
Also big thanks to donators that helped to cover build server cost and got me coffee which helped to keep this project up and running.
Thanks to this s7 should live for few more android releases without any major issues. and Android 12 will get even better with new hals that are curently in developement
There will be updates to 18.1 and 17.1 in a few days once july security updates have been ported to them
Enjoy new build and stay safe
- Merged July 2022. Security update
- Fixed more keystore issues
- Synced with LineageOS source
Also some important news, Exodusnick decided to provide huge help and he bought and shipped s7 to me which should be here next week, so all of exciting updates i talked about last week should be way easier to achieve and this will make testing and developement a lot easier, Once again huge thanks to him.
Also big thanks to donators that helped to cover build server cost and got me coffee which helped to keep this project up and running.
Thanks to this s7 should live for few more android releases without any major issues. and Android 12 will get even better with new hals that are curently in developement
There will be updates to 18.1 and 17.1 in a few days once july security updates have been ported to them
Enjoy new build and stay safe
thanks for the update,
i ran install from the OS and now its stuck in a boot loop? any advice what to do to fix? thanks
the last install was
TWRP 3.6.2_9_0
lineageOS 19.1 20220624 herolte
nikgapps arm64-11 basic 20210514
magisk v25.1
update: anyway no help from anyone. i was able to boot back in after going into TRWP and sideloading the latest NIKAPPS, working ok nothing lost
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You can try to download the lastest build and flash it again from TWRPthanks for the update,
i ran install from the OS and now its stuck in a boot loop? any advice what to do to fix? thanks
the last install was
TWRP 3.6.2_9_0
lineageOS 19.1 20220624 herolte
nikgapps arm64-11 basic 20210514
magisk v25.1
Scary Story Time.
I want to raise some awareness about a bug I just saw since Lineage don't accept bug reports from unofficial builds -- the "Night Mode" is a safety liability: be very careful about using it. This is on the latest June build, not the July build, but I doubt this was fixed.
I had been using it for a few months now all well and good but there's a beyond-critical defect with it where, after reboot, the screen decides to simply fade to black and refuses to return under any user action until the Night Mode ends (and perhaps it's rebooted)? Rebooting again just repeats the bad experience.
Last night during the night mode hours, I rebooted to check if a network issue was with my phone or the service provider and suddenly it faded to black and it responds to absolutely no input at all.
It had turned my phone into, effectively, a brick.
I sort of "needed" my phone so this was a really bad time. I was forced to find another phone entirely for the moment.
When I settled down to try to fix it, I did find a solution.
For anyone that gets stuck in this situation, your options are basically:
1. Wait until your Night Mode ends (hopefully you remember when that is) (and potentially reboot then).
2. Hold Volume Up, Home, Power and reboot to recovery. Power off your home WiFi and remove your SIM or else what we're about to do will be reset immediately on boot when it connects to a network time pool. Connect an adb shell and run `date -s ${LATER}` where LATER is some time hours from now (hh:mm) and then `hwclock -w`. Reboot and it'll be "day" to your phone -- don't connect to any network and go turn off Night Mode.
One of the literal worst Android bugs I've ever seen. Stay careful and -- unrelatedly -- thanks Ivan for the latest updates!
I want to raise some awareness about a bug I just saw since Lineage don't accept bug reports from unofficial builds -- the "Night Mode" is a safety liability: be very careful about using it. This is on the latest June build, not the July build, but I doubt this was fixed.
I had been using it for a few months now all well and good but there's a beyond-critical defect with it where, after reboot, the screen decides to simply fade to black and refuses to return under any user action until the Night Mode ends (and perhaps it's rebooted)? Rebooting again just repeats the bad experience.
Last night during the night mode hours, I rebooted to check if a network issue was with my phone or the service provider and suddenly it faded to black and it responds to absolutely no input at all.
It had turned my phone into, effectively, a brick.
I sort of "needed" my phone so this was a really bad time. I was forced to find another phone entirely for the moment.
When I settled down to try to fix it, I did find a solution.
For anyone that gets stuck in this situation, your options are basically:
1. Wait until your Night Mode ends (hopefully you remember when that is) (and potentially reboot then).
2. Hold Volume Up, Home, Power and reboot to recovery. Power off your home WiFi and remove your SIM or else what we're about to do will be reset immediately on boot when it connects to a network time pool. Connect an adb shell and run `date -s ${LATER}` where LATER is some time hours from now (hh:mm) and then `hwclock -w`. Reboot and it'll be "day" to your phone -- don't connect to any network and go turn off Night Mode.
One of the literal worst Android bugs I've ever seen. Stay careful and -- unrelatedly -- thanks Ivan for the latest updates!
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hm. That's funny.
@Ivan_Meler , the system updater is failing on June and July's build.
I had to copy the zip to an SD card and flash it myself.
It just says "The update check failed. Please check your internet connection and try again later".
In `adb logcat -e UpdatesActivity` I see an empty JSON coming back.
@Ivan_Meler , the system updater is failing on June and July's build.
I had to copy the zip to an SD card and flash it myself.
It just says "The update check failed. Please check your internet connection and try again later".
In `adb logcat -e UpdatesActivity` I see an empty JSON coming back.
Code:
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: Could not read json
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:460)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.json.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:101)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:168)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:185)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.misc.Utils.parseJson(Utils.java:131)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.misc.Utils.checkForNewUpdates(Utils.java:209)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.UpdatesActivity.processNewJson(UpdatesActivity.java:333)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.UpdatesActivity.access$400(UpdatesActivity.java:80)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.UpdatesActivity$4.lambda$onSuccess$1(UpdatesActivity.java:372)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.UpdatesActivity$4.$r8$lambda$Lie8TlvSyzc2wLPYvF3b1ssMUnU(Unknown Source:0)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at org.lineageos.updater.UpdatesActivity$4$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(Unknown Source:8)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7870)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
07-09 09:07:15.586 13961 13961 E UpdatesActivity: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)something went wrong on your device, ive seen this happen to people with some magisk modules before.
Also that log isnt exactly twlling whats going on before it gets empty json
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2Here we go, March security update is here.
LineageOS 21 builds wont get update this time around as new qpr is still being merged and fixed up
There were a lot of changes from google in their quarterly platform update soboth LineageOS codebase
and some device changes are needed for it to be on par with previous builds.
There will be april builds for it soon so it made no sense to push half baked update today.
As always huge thanks to everyone who donated to help cover the build server cost.
This project wouldnt be possible without you.
Enjoy new builds and stay safe1April security update is here, nothing more to it this time around
Unfortunately as you might have noticed patches were posted a bit later past 2 months due my schedule
Ill also fix Lineage 21 qpr merge in coming days and release update for those builds too, there were tons of changes in qpr that turned out to be a bit problematic
As alwasy huge thanks to everyone who supported this project and helped cover the build server cost.
Enjoy new builds and stay safe -
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LineageOS 19.1 for hero2lte
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. */
Working:
- Wifi
- Sound
- mali drivers
- USB tethering
- HW Backed video Playback
- Ril (Mobile data,calls, sms and stuff)
- Sensors
- Buttons
- Bluetooth
- Wifi HotSpot
- MTP
- 2D and 3D gpu acceleration
- HW encoding/decoding
- HWcomposer (HWC)
- Charging with device powered off
- Stuff I didn't test yet
- Camera
- GPS
- Fingerprint Sensor
- Mobicore
- SW codecs
Not Working
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Keep in mind that some LineageOS features have not been completed yet this is not a device bug and please do not report those
in this rom thread, also do not post bug reports for known issues or bug reports without proper
a) Logcat
b) proc/last_kmsg (or proc/kmsg)
c) data/tombstones
d) dmesg
Install gapps right after installing the rom itself don't try to boot to system before that if you want to use gapps (Or wipe data before installing them)
Make sure gapps you decide to use support android 12L/12.1/Are targetting api level 32
Also make sure you are using latest official TWRP before installing rom older versions do not have proper android 12 support
If you want to use Magisk use latest Magisk Beta (25.0) or Magisk 24.1, there is bug in 24.3 that was fixed after its release that prevents zygisk from working on some devices with 3.18 kernel
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Based On Android 12L/S
Changelog
XDA:DevDB Information
LineageOS 19.0 for S7, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S7
Contributors
Ivan_Meler
Source Code: https://github.com/8890q/android_kernel_samsung_universal8890/tree/lineage-19.0
ROM OS Version: Android 12L
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.18.x
Version Information
Status: Stable21After a long wait, here it is, Surprisingly smooth android 12 on s7
check out screenshots here Big thanks to everyone who supported this project so far as they helped cover the build server cost and got me coffee for hours spent debbuging weird issues
enjoy android 12 and stay safe21Well here are some progress update of whats happening behind the scenes.
Ive given 4.4 kernel from 8895 another go and got even further in porting it to 8890 devices this time around.
Mali drivers are ported so is decon (display and graphics stack is up)
I also managed to port audio drivers, buttons and their backlight.
UFS storage drivers were somewhat pain but i got them to work too
and there is tons of small stuff like fp sensor,thermal driver and misc
Tho im not sure it makes too much sense to do this as 4.4 kernel is eol too at least it has full bpf support which i got working on 8895 devices
Other than that there is not too much going on right now, There are few selinux policies that will have to be dealt with and im still dealing with audio config
tho i could only notice echo and not robotic voice some people noticed so that leads me to believe it could be related to weird modem missmatches
I might release another quick build this month with few audio related improvements
No etas as i do this in my free time, And as always thanks to everyone who supported this project so fat as thanks to them this project and device are still alive on latest android version even 6 years after its release (fun fact s7 series was announced on 21. feb. 2016.) so this is somewhat of a s7 birthday update on progress17Well here we go first build of the year, andquite a big one while at it
Here is a brief changelogbut there are a lot more changes you will discover in this build
- Removed duplicate props in vendor and system
- Cleaned up device tree code
- Switched to source built camera provider lib
- Switched to few source built ril related libs
- Addressed more selinux denials
- Fixed volume panel location settings
- Added button backlight
- Added Advanced Reboot
- Added LiveDisplay entry into settings
- Added system side toggle for navigation bar
- Merged January 2022 Security Update
- Merged most of previously missing LineageOS features
- Misc performance and stability improvements
- Synced with LOS source
Updates for Android 11 and 10 should be out next week
About camera, As some of you might be aware camera tends to crash afterprolongued use, Im investigatinga fix for it but due to nature of issue itself it might take time
to figure this out completely and what the best way to deal with it is.
Andfinally huge thanks toeveryonewho supported this and other projects of mine so far as they help me cover the build server cost and get me a coffee with their donations, 2022 marks 5 years since release of s7 and im glad i can help in keeping them alive on latest android version with latest security updates
Hope you all had great holidays, Enjoy new build and stay safe in 202216New builds with february security update are up, Not too many changes compared to yesterdays build as that had some maajor changes but new security update has been merged and there are some stability improvements overall
Here is combined changelog:
10.02.2022.
- Merged February 2022. security update
- Removed broken volume button location toggle
- Synced with LOS source
09.02.2022.
- Fixed issue where camera would stop working after prolonged use
- Misc performance and stability improvements
- Merged some more lineageos features that have been posted to gerrit
- Synced with LOS source
Once again big thanks to everyone who supported this project and covered the build server cost and got me coffee , New builds of LineageOS 18.1 and 17.1 will be up in a few days and they will have camera fix backported
As previously said im trying to figure out in call echo right now so once there is more progress in that regard expect more updates
enjoy new builds and stay safe
