[OFFICIAL/UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 19.1 for Amlogic G12*/SM1 Family Devices

[matrix200200]

After having tried several times to follow the guide for dopinder, now my device is stuck at boot screen.
Fastboot doesnt see the device.
What are my options?

 

[matrix200200]

No.
Neither adb, nor fastboot.
Using Windows 10 (but can try Linux).
And no, device manager is not seeing the usb device.
The last option is to open up the device and use a usb to serial to reflash it, I guess?

 

[matrix200200]

Wow thanks.
I got into recovery!
Now I need to search, what to do next.
I actually searched the thread for "stuck at boot logo" and didn't find anything useful
Wonder what I should have searched for.

 

[matrix200200]

Yeah I got it done.
LineageOS installed.

 

[papashango92]

Tubi is giving me DRM issues with some movies and not others on dopinder. Very odd.

 

[npjohnson]

This thread has 84 pages and at least a handful of people have had the exact same issue as you, with others posting the solutions. It also doesnt help most lineageOS install guides are incorrect and assume everyone knows about driver signing on windows 10+ or needing to run fastboot with elevated privs. Then there's the "i dont want to read 84 pages to find the answers already posted" and i don't blame people, who has time for that.

Hold the button on the side of the device down, and plug the usb A male connector slowly into your PC until just the power pins make contact, then release the button. This will change how the device boots. After you do so, plug the usb A male connector fully into the port to allow a data connection. Your windows pc should make a "do doop" noise. Now see if you can get somewhere.

For future reference for Anyone flashing their android devices (outside of samsung devices). Linux is much easier to do it from and most linux distros can boot to a live CD without needing to install. All functionality of downloading files from firefox and installing the adb fastboot tools are available without installing linux. Both Ubuntu & Mint (debian based) and EndeavourOS (arch based) work great for this.

Google "Ventoy" for making a usb boot drive that you can use for multiple ISOs at the same time. You can partition space to allow a "permanent" storage area for said ISOs to write downloaded files to when booted into the live environments.

Driver signing? What driver are you using?

The Google (signed) USB driver works fine for adb and fast boot.

Are you talking about the am logic driver? There are signed versions. But anyway, I'm just going to add a "Linux only" tag to the install guide for wade and dopinder.

 

[jim16127]

Searching 84 pages is daunting! Although I only needed to read page 1 and page 84.
There are a few steps in the wiki linked on page 1 for Dopinger - Walmart Onn UHD Box that WOULD NOT WORK.
On this page https://wiki.oddsolutions.us/devices/dopinder/install under Unlocking the Bootloader < Step 5. It states to enter this command

fastboot oem 'setenv lock 10101000;save' && fastboot reboot bootloader && fastboot flashing unlock

The only way I could get it to work was typing each command separately

fastboot oem 'setenv lock 10101000;save'
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock


Then under Flashing the dtb and dtbo partitions it has 2 links for the required files...and one link is DEAD! The real place to find those 2 files is INSIDE the LineageOS zip that you download (the OS Install file. It's over 700MB) kudos @XDA-DB

Finally on Step 6 of Installing a Custom Recovery using fastboot. It states to type "fastboot reboot-recovery" but it never boots Recovery.
Power cycling the device then puts it in a state with NO fastboot or adb connection!
Unplug device. Hold button on device and slightly plug into PC until it powers on. When you see the Onn splash screen. Let go of button and fully plug in. You're now in Lineage Recovery that you installed. Again kudos @XDA-DB

 

[jim16127]

I have one final inquiry. What's the best method to enable root on these unofficial LienageOS builds. I do not see a toggle in developer options. Currently a few mouse clicks away from trying Magisks official github install. Just seems like extra since I just went through all that. Lol

 

[npjohnson]

Searching 84 pages is daunting! Although I only needed to read page 1 and page 84.
There are a few steps in the wiki linked on page 1 for Dopinger - Walmart Onn UHD Box that WOULD NOT WORK.
On this page https://wiki.oddsolutions.us/devices/dopinder/install under Unlocking the Bootloader < Step 5. It states to enter this command

fastboot oem 'setenv lock 10101000;save' && fastboot reboot bootloader && fastboot flashing unlock

The only way I could get it to work was typing each command separately

fastboot oem 'setenv lock 10101000;save'
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock


Then under Flashing the dtb and dtbo partitions it has 2 links for the required files...and one link is DEAD! The real place to find those 2 files is INSIDE the LineageOS zip that you download (the OS Install file. It's over 700MB) kudos @XDA-DB

Finally on Step 6 of Installing a Custom Recovery using fastboot. It states to type "fastboot reboot-recovery" but it never boots Recovery.
Power cycling the device then puts it in a state with NO fastboot or adb connection!
Unplug device. Hold button on device and slightly plug into PC until it powers on. When you see the Onn splash screen. Let go of button and fully plug in. You're now in Lineage Recovery that you installed. Again kudos @XDA-DB

So, running them separately doesn't make much sense. `&&` says "run this after that if it succeeds" - this is on linux?

DTB - ugh, I need to fix my upload scripts - will do

reboot-recovery - fixing it.

some special notes that could be added to the dopinder wiki as well.

Fastboot needs to be run as root (or sudo / doas) on linux

In order for dopinder to show up in adb, under developer options, set MPT on but turn off usb debug first or the stock OS crashes (does not occur under LOS). once MPT is enabled, re-enable usb debugging.

Onn's booting into another mode when detecting data causes trouble for quite a few.

And some advice for anyone looking to buy one of the devices: just buy a wade. dopinder has so many little issues (emmc burning out, overheating and freezing, the mtp slider crashing the OS, not booting recovery when connected to a pc). The only redeeming quality of dopinder is the remote (and the price).

You don't need to give me credit for anything, jim. I don't help others for e-clout.
Not everyone will read, not everyones native language is english, not everyone has the foundational knowledge. All we can do is try to make it as easy as possible. If those "who know" can offload the burden of the devs, they can focus on doing what they like to do best (unless you like herding cats then who am I to judge).

fastboot - does not need root/sudo at all - it needs proper u-dev which is detailed on the wiki. You don't need to set MTP - ADB works just fine? I'm using it now.

The half-plug thing is an interesting finding I will note the wiki - thanks.

Wade is way better - can't agree more. IMO IR remote of wade is better even.

Appreciate it.

 

[wright6432]

Thanks to all of the helpful comments here in the forum. I thought I bricked two devices, but I was able to unbrick them through the usb trick given by XDA-DB given here in the forums. Very appreciative. I successfully got lineage os to boot, but there are no apps. Only "Settings." I saw the lineage directions to load the GAPPS on first boot, but I was not planning to use GAPPS, so I did not think it applied to my situation. I was planning to sideload F-Droid. I have attempted several times to sideload the F-Droid apk now and I'm being given an error "E: Failed to find binary META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary." I'm assuming I should have sideloaded F-Droid before first boot. Is it going to be possible to sideload the F-Droid apk or do I need to start over from scratch?

The compleate readout is:
Verifying update package...
E: footer is wrong
Update package verification took 0.1 s (result 1).
E: Signature verification failed (I click "yes proceed with the installation" here)
E: error: 21
Installing update...
E: Failed to find update binary META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary

Install from ADB complete (status 2).

After this, I "Apply updates" and "Reboot System now," but there is no F-Droid app and nothing in the downloads folder. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[jim16127]

@npjohnson
Thank you for reading and taking note. THAT'S AWESOME! The separating of commands only even popped in my head because of the error I kept receiving. "Status write failed (too many links)"
I didn't know how to slow the execution of commands aside from manually entering them. All of this was done on Windows 7 Pro. I failed to mention that. I tried in Linux first but couldn't connect to adb over USB. Not until I was attempting in a windows environment did I think to try without the otg cable connected. And voila! Again thanks for all the effort into this project!

 

[edwrapxda]

Thanks to all of the helpful comments here in the forum. I thought I bricked two devices, but I was able to unbrick them through the usb trick given by XDA-DB given here in the forums. Very appreciative. I successfully got lineage os to boot, but there are no apps. Only "Settings." I saw the lineage directions to load the GAPPS on first boot, but I was not planning to use GAPPS, so I did not think it applied to my situation. I was planning to sideload F-Droid. I have attempted several times to sideload the F-Droid apk now and I'm being given an error "E: Failed to find binary META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary." I'm assuming I should have sideloaded F-Droid before first boot. Is it going to be possible to sideload the F-Droid apk or do I need to start over from scratch?

The compleate readout is:
Verifying update package...
E: footer is wrong
Update package verification took 0.1 s (result 1).
E: Signature verification failed (I click "yes proceed with the installation" here)
E: error: 21
Installing update...
E: Failed to find update binary META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary

Install from ADB complete (status 2).

After this, I "Apply updates" and "Reboot System now," but there is no F-Droid app and nothing in the downloads folder. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

If you’re successfully in Lineage, just like with regular Android after turning on USB debugging, you can use adb to install any apk - “adb install <f-droid.apk>“

You can also toggle on adb over wifi in the developer options, after which you’ll need to “adb connect <IP address>”

 

[wright6432]

If you’re successfully in Lineage, just like with regular Android after turning on USB debugging, you can use adb to install any apk - “adb install <f-droid.apk>“

You can also toggle on adb over wifi in the developer options, after which you’ll need to “adb connect <IP address>”

Wow, that was easy and yes it worked. For some reason I thought I had to sideload it. Thank you very much.

 

[viggi5k]

I just installed the newest nightly on a freshly bought wade.

Some notes:

- thanks for the hint with the button and usb cable to access recovery after the fastboot reboot-recovery not worked.

- don't use the included usb cable as it seems to not have data pins (at least eu version sold at amazon.de).

Sadly I cant activate Wifi. This seems to have been a bug in an older release. Any help on this?

thanks

 

[viggi5k]

I just installed the newest nightly on a freshly bought wade.

Some notes:

- thanks for the hint with the button and usb cable to access recovery after the fastboot reboot-recovery not worked.

- don't use the included usb cable as it seems to not have data pins (at least eu version sold at amazon.de).

Sadly I cant activate Wifi. This seems to have been a bug in an older release. Any help on this?

thanks

Adding to this:
I wanted to downgrade LOS to the 1106 nightly but it denies because of SPL downgrade

 

[viggi5k]

I just installed the newest nightly on a freshly bought wade.

Some notes:

- thanks for the hint with the button and usb cable to access recovery after the fastboot reboot-recovery not worked.

- don't use the included usb cable as it seems to not have data pins (at least eu version sold at amazon.de).

Sadly I cant activate Wifi. This seems to have been a bug in an older release. Any help on this?

thanks

lineage-19.1-20221113-nightly-wade-signed.zip fixed it

 

[jim16127]

Is it possible to enable exfat filesystem support? Whether natively or via root? Mainly I want Kodi or MrMC to read a 5TB external drive formatted to exfat and load local media? Any input is appreciated.

I specifically purchased this device to accomplish having a fully offline portable media library. If exfat cannot be accomplished. NTFS is my only other option (not prefered). I know the stock firmware would mount NTFS but I didn't test any further since I knew I wanted to ditch the stock rom.

Also, is there a method to remap the bottom 4 buttons on the remote?

 

[ChriMo]

I know/use Lineage OS 18.1 TV (A11) and it misses a function from smartphone Android ROMs
App Info > Permissions > Mobile data & Wi-Fi > Multiple Options to Allow/Reject
App Info > Permissions > Network > Allow/Reject
(or similar path/words)

It would interest me if this Lineage OS 19.1 TV (A12) has that feature to forbid WLAN/LAN(/MobileData) access for an App?
BTW: I saw A13 TV is released for ADT-3 devs, so maybe that iteration will have that option? Did not find it in the Release Notes.

 

[Slimshady997]

Is there an official version of dopinder or a stable one in which the streaming applications work?

 

[jim16127]

No there is not. From what I gather. If that’s desired then my understanding is get a WADE.