[OFFICIAL] LineageOS 18.1 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 (All QCOM Variants)

[npjohnson]

No, I don't think I have any other magnets attached.
I'm just using an authentic S-View phone case from Samsung.

While the clock face doesn't show up when I close the lid of the flip case,

In the Settings app:
Apps & notifications -> Notifications -> Notification history

shows:
Recently dismissed -> FlipFlap: Smart cover detected

and this latter has the correct timestamp matching the time when I closed the lid.
I can also hear a phone ring upon closing the lid when sound is turned on.


For the record, I have another phone with LineageOS 18.1 installed, namely LG G3, which also makes use of FlipFlap for almost similar functionality: the circle area of its flip case should show a clock face upon closing its lid.
Here too, this used to work properly with stock firmaware, but not anymore once LineageOS was insatlled.

Regarding this, the maintainer of LineageOS for LG G3 model kindly answered to my inquiry yesterday: he said he in person is using an authentic quick circle case for LG G3 phone and confirmed that it is working very well.

So now I suspect somes OS settings I make out of habit is preventing FlipFlap from functioning correctly, but I have trouble narrowing it down.

If you go to connected devices, Smart cover, what does it show you?

 

[kitros3942]

If you go to connected devices, Smart cover, what does it show you?

In the Settings app, this is the screenshot of Connected devices -> Connection preferences -> Smart cover.

 

[kitros3942]

This will probably not be of much help, but I tried to make this feature work properly by fiddling with various settings.
Then I noticed that when I turn on USB debugging and run adb shell from my PC wirelessly, there is a high chance that the clock face will show up upon my closing the lid of the flip case, only it will show up for some seconds, then disappear, then show up and disappear again endlessly until I re-open the lid. Once this behavior was triggered, I couldn't find a way to suppress it (either make the clock face not show up altogether or make it show up only for once) by tampering with settings save turning off the USB debugging.

 

[rw_on_xda]

Specifically, the clock face does not show up in the rectangular area of the flip case upon closing its lid.

I've a Spigen Slim Amor here

S-View functionality is working: shows the clock,date when the Home button is pressed.
even with "smart cover" off I see the Status bar line (provider, signal strength, charge), but no clock, date
I'm on lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly

 

[kitros3942]

I've a Spigen Slim Amor here

S-View functionality is working: shows the clock,date when the Home button is pressed.
even with "smart cover" off I see the Status bar line (provider, signal strength, charge), but no clock, date
I'm on lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly

Thanks for your feedback.
I'll wipe my phone, re-install LineageOS and see how things go over the weekend.

 

[rw_on_xda]

hint:
my slim amor doesn't have a magnetic closure.
what seems to be for the Samsung's be the case
- me is unsure -

 

[kitros3942]

Thanks for your feedback.
I'll wipe my phone, re-install LineageOS and see how things go over the weekend.

Hi,

I wiped my Galaxy S4 and re-flashed LineageOS.

Sorry, it took a lot longer than expected, as I had lots of data to back up.

This is how I've proceeded:

- I downloaded the latest official rom file (i.e. lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip) onto the external sdcard of my S4

- turned off the phone and took out the microSD card.

- booted to LineageOS recovery (Home + Volume UP + Power)

- Factory Reset -> Format data / factory reset

- turned off the phone via menu entry from recovery

- re-inserted my external sdcard

- re-booted to LineageOS recovery (Home + Volume Up + Power)

- 'Apply Update -> Apply from Android', then navigated to the file 'lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip' on the external sdcard and flashed it.

- 'Reboot system now'


Then the phone seems to work fine, but unfortunately the functionality still doesn't work.

Settings such as sounds and notifications naturally seem to have been reset, but closing the lid of the flip case just turns off the screen, it does not display the clock-face.

Maybe I'm missing some very simple setting which should have been set up upon booting the freshly installed OS?


Also, what I don't understand is that Google PlayStore is installed by default, despite the fact that I wiped my phone and did not side-load Google Apps.

So I suspect the above procedure does not completely erase the previous installation, and I hope someone will point me in the right direction with regards to doing this properly.

On a related note,:

- At some point in the past I unsuccessfully tampered with Google Apps entry within '/addon.d/' to fix PlayStore which kept crashing, which made LineageOS unable to boot. Upon applying mindgapps addon from LineageOS recovery, LineageOS booted again, PlayStore was not fixed, though.

- Around that time, I also tampered with '/system/build.prop' to deal with an app which refused to run on non-stock firmware. As I could not make this work, I reverted the built.prop file to its original version, but I'm not entirely sure about this.

I wonder if my messing with the above system files influenced the OS not to be properly wiped.

 

[kurtn]

Hi,

I wiped my Galaxy S4 and re-flashed LineageOS.

Sorry, it took a lot longer than expected, as I had lots of data to back up.

This is how I've proceeded:

- I downloaded the latest official rom file (i.e. lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip) onto the external sdcard of my S4

- turned off the phone and took out the microSD card.

- booted to LineageOS recovery (Home + Volume UP + Power)

- Factory Reset -> Format data / factory reset

- turned off the phone via menu entry from recovery

- re-inserted my external sdcard

- re-booted to LineageOS recovery (Home + Volume Up + Power)

- 'Apply Update -> Apply from Android', then navigated to the file 'lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip' on the external sdcard and flashed it.

- 'Reboot system now'


Then the phone seems to work fine, but unfortunately the functionality still doesn't work.

Settings such as sounds and notifications naturally seem to have been reset, but closing the lid of the flip case just turns off the screen, it does not display the clock-face.

Maybe I'm missing some very simple setting which should have been set up upon booting the freshly installed OS?


Also, what I don't understand is that Google PlayStore is installed by default, despite the fact that I wiped my phone and did not side-load Google Apps.

So I suspect the above procedure does not completely erase the previous installation, and I hope someone will point me in the right direction with regards to doing this properly.

On a related note,:

- At some point in the past I unsuccessfully tampered with Google Apps entry within '/addon.d/' to fix PlayStore which kept crashing, which made LineageOS unable to boot. Upon applying mindgapps addon from LineageOS recovery, LineageOS booted again, PlayStore was not fixed, though.

- Around that time, I also tampered with '/system/build.prop' to deal with an app which refused to run on non-stock firmware. As I could not make this work, I reverted the built.prop file to its original version, but I'm not entirely sure about this.

I wonder if my messing with the above system files influenced the OS not to be properly wiped.

The flip case thingy can be set up under unser settings - connected devices

To remove GApps you have to additionally wipe system partition before flashing.

 

[rw_on_xda]

Then the phone seems to work fine, but unfortunately the functionality still doesn't work.

maybe a sensor, etc. problem ?
- there should be something that signals the phone/OS the case is closed/open -

Have you tried to check the case functionality on stock ?

 

[kitros3942]

The flip case thingy can be set up under unser settings - connected devices

To remove GApps you have to additionally wipe system partition before flashing.

I fiddled with the settings you referred to, but can't seem to make it work.

And thanks for the GApps tip, I'll re-flash the OS later today.

maybe a sensor, etc. problem ?
- there should be something that signals the phone/OS the case is closed/open -

Have you tried to check the case functionality on stock ?

On stock firmware, the clock-face used to worked flawlessly with the flip case. Also the flip case is incidentally an authentic S-View case from Samsung, as far as I can tell. So I have trouble understanding why this is not working.

edit: to elaborate, the flip case *is* functional, as the screen turns off when I close the lid, and turns on upon re-opening it. My problem is that the clock-face will not show up properly, no matter what I do.

 

[RoboRebel]

Hi everyone,
I have installed UNOFFICIAL version (with GApps), it works great, but when I update stock Chrome that built into the firmware (83.0.4103.106) to the latest version from Play Store (114.0.5735.61), it stops rendering pages, and shows blank page upon loading (though with clickable invisible links, if you manage to hit one).
There was the same effect when I installed OFFICIAL version, adding GApps from MindTheGapps-11.0.0-arm-20220217_095902.zip.
Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

The version I installed is from the 1st thread message: https://updater.oddsolutions.us/#/devices/jfltexx/builds , I tried lineage-18.1-20230506-UNOFFICIAL-jfltexx.zip and also the latest 20230612.
Thank you!

 

[RoboRebel]

Update: tried open_gapps-arm-11.0-nano-20220215.zip (which contains no Chrome) with OFFICIAL ROM lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip (no Chrome either), installed latest Chrome 114.0.5735.131 from Play Store, and the same problem with blank pages persist. At first I thought preinstalled Chrome from MindTheGapps somehow interferes with the one I install from Play Store, but obviously this is not the case. It looks like the latest Chrome from Play Store just doesn't work on latest LineageOS 18.1 builds for jfltexx. Can anyone confirm this? Any other ideas I can try?

 

[kurtn]

Update: tried open_gapps-arm-11.0-nano-20220215.zip (which contains no Chrome) with OFFICIAL ROM lineage-18.1-20230515-nightly-jfltexx-signed.zip (no Chrome either), installed latest Chrome 114.0.5735.131 from Play Store, and the same problem with blank pages persist. At first I thought preinstalled Chrome from MindTheGapps somehow interferes with the one I install from Play Store, but obviously this is not the case. It looks like the latest Chrome from Play Store just doesn't work on latest LineageOS 18.1 builds for jfltexx. Can anyone confirm this? Any other ideas I can try?

Try other browsers.

 

[pocketrule]

Try other browsers.

For me, DuckDuckGo is the fastest one I could find

 

[RoboRebel]

Thanks for the suggestions!
It looks that you were right -- it's Google's fault after all: Chrome beta 115.0.5790.32 seems to work just fine. Hope it will be fixed in the next stable Chrome release.

 

[orse04]

Hello, if incoming call auto answer doesn't work.

 

[Retrial]

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Unofficial - built once a month by me, includes GApps and Pixel goodies:

• jactivelte (GT-I9295)
• jflteatt (SGH-I337) - Please note you will need to be on bootloader I337UCUAMDB or I337UCUAMDL
• jfltespr (SCH-R970/C/X, SPH-L720)
• jfltevzw (SCH-I545) - Please note you need to be on bootloader I545VRUSMDK
• jfltexx (GT-I9505, SGH-I337M, SGH-M919) - NOTE: GT-I9505G is supported in this build, but due to system size space limitations it will not fit any form of GApps package.
• jfvelte (GT-I9515/L)

Hi npjohnson, I just noticed you provide unofficial builds for S4. Beside the GApps build-in, what Pixel goodies includes and is there any other difference vs official builds?
Thanks!

 

[npjohnson]

Hi npjohnson, I just noticed you provide unofficial builds for S4. Beside the GApps build-in, what Pixel goodies includes and is there any other difference vs official builds?
Thanks!

Really just pixel specific apps

 

[mentat]

Big Thanks to npjohnson for supporting our Galaxy S4 devices.
I just updated my old SGH-I337M using twrp-3.6.1_9-0-jflte with
lineage-18.1-20230815-nightly-jfltexx-signed + MindTheGapps-11.0.0-arm-20220217_095902
Performance is far better than expected (for this ancient device).
Thanks, Again.

 

[orangepowerpokes]

Wow I stumbled on my old S4 and was curious what traffic on xda. Years ago, I wanted to flash the older s4 but got stuck somewhere. The lockpad on the boot screen shows unlocked... I wonder if I dig in to see what ATT variant I have maybe I can flash LOS (?)