[ROM][7.1.2][N8000/N801x/N8020][UNOFFICIAL][Beta] LineageOS 14.1 Nougat

Don Carnage · Mar 13, 2019

Code:

/*
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 *
 * 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.
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Hi, I'm currently trying to get this device officially supported again as I really love it and it never let me down in the last 5 or so years. It still works amazingly fast and I have no need to replace it with anything else.

As I'm a Java engineer for my day job there is a lot of new stuff here, I had some contact with C/C++ when I studied CS a couple of years ago but never actually wrote anything bigger than two or three files in these languages. This is quite an adventure and I learned a lot already but I'm open for any help you can offer. After all, I'm doing this for fun and getting better at whatever hits me in the face while doing it.

Current Status
Beta

Working

Audio
Video
Bluetooth
GPS
Hardware Acceleration
SELinux
Sensors
IR
RIL (N8000)
Wifi (98% of the time?)

Partly working

Camera (use OpenCamera, zoom and focus not working currently)
Setup Wizard: Voice Match installation screen has wrong rotation
MTP (occasionally crashing)

Not working at all

RIL (N8020)

Reporting Bugs

Please provide logcat, dmesg, kmsg, steps to reproduce or whatever is appropriate to help me understand the issue.
Here is a link to help you help me: How To Logcat

Source Code

Device #1: n8000
Device #2: n8013
Device #2: n8020
Common: n80xx-common
Common: p4notelte-common
SoC: smdk4412-common
SoC QC: smdk4412-qcom-common
Kernel: smdk4412
Hardware: samsung

FAQ

Q: Why another thread?!?
A: The ROM provided by @lirokoa is great but it is based on sources that deviated quite a lot from the official LOS repo, I try to close this gap and get the ROM aligned to the remaining devices based on the SMDK4412 core so that everbody profits from the development going on there. This ultimately means that we can get a 8.x alpha version "soon" after fixing the remaining issues.

Q: How can I help to improve the ROM?
A: If you are a developer, I'd be happy to discuss the remaining issues with you and how to approach/solve them. I'm open for pull requests on Github. If you are testing the ROM and can provide log files for issues this is also a great thing, even more so if it is one of the devices I do not own.

Q: What's up with the performance?
A: Disable Live Display, it's actually not supported by the GPU (or at least by the current driver)

Q: The camera is crashing!
A: Use Open Camera

Q: Wifi attempts to connect but never succeeds!
A: Try reflashing again, including wiping. This usually fixes it.

Credits and Thanks

all the people that worked/are still working on the smdk4412 device and kernel source code, this wouldn't be possible without their hard work!
the guys from #lineageos-dev channel for helping me out with my questions
all the people posting helpful guides in various sections all over the forums
@lirokoa for the updates and support that helped this device to live on until today

XDA:DevDB Information
LineageOS 14.1 N8000/N801X/N8020, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Contributors
Don Carnage
Source Code: https://github.com/Viciouss?tab=repositories&q=android

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Based On: LineageOS

Version Information
Status: Beta

Created 2018-12-28
Last Updated 2019-11-28

Don Carnage · Nov 30, 2019

Updates

Don Carnage · Nov 30, 2019

Installation

use TWRP files from the link below!
coming from stock: flash TWRP TAR.MD5 file via Odin (I used 3.12 for this) or Heimdall (latest)
TWRP already installed: flash TWRP IMG file via TWRP
boot into recovery
wipe cache + dalvik/art
coming from stock/another rom: wipe system + data
flash ROM first, then GApps without rebooting the device
wipe the cache again just for fun

Need Root for Apps?

go to https://download.lineageos.org/extras
download the addonsu-14.1-arm-signed.zip package
open TWRP and flash it via the Install button

TWRP

TWRP got it's own thread, click this link to get there.

ROMs

Open GApps

Click me (ARM - 7.1 - don't use FULL as there is not enough space to install it - try micro or lower instead)

Archived Downloads

unknownman820601 · Oct 12, 2016 13 2 0

Wow!
thank your development for this old Pad.
will try it in a free time.
: )

eemjee · Jan 25, 2010 42 23 0

Downloading. Will post some feedbacks later. Thanks for continuing the development on this old brick. ?

The_Veneficus · Mar 7, 2012 34 8 0

i couldn't get secretwolf98 version to install on my n8013 so i am keen to see if this one will install for me when the n801x version is ready

Don Carnage · Dec 31, 2018 at 2:30 AM

There is a new build with basic camera support, the back camera has some issues with recording videos which will crash your camera app. I noticed that activating the torch while having the camera app open in the background/foreground will also crash the camera app, so still some issues there.

The work on the camera will go on after the big party, I wish everyone a good start into 2019

pancakesFORjesus · Dec 31, 2018 at 12:23 PM

I still use 2 of these and thank you for getting back into it. Using lineage 14.1 now. Will keep watching.

fulloflove · Oct 23, 2011 96 4 0

Great. I've just incidentally gone back to this forum after a long time to check if there's any newer ROM than lirokoa's for my N8000
I'll check it out. Thanks a lot

thepolish · Jan 2, 2019

Got it all installed - but can't get over an error code 190 ("can't download app")when trying to install chrome. Unsure if this is rom related or gapps related.
Also flashed the 14.1 su package - works well with the rom as expected. Youtube from the play store does not work - plays audio but no video. Other than that as I play with this I'll see if I can find any other bugs. Really appreciative of you picking this up!

curiousde2002 · Jan 2, 2019

Thank you very much for continuing the development of this tablet!

My N8000 is presently running on lirakoa's latest build lineage-14.1-20170810-UNOFFICIAL-n8000 with open gapps micro and as root solution Magisk 18.0.
Recovery is TWRP 3.02.

Everything is working fine except the well known bugs, and it seems that most of these have been fixed in your latest build.

I've never tried video recording with this tablet but had some camera crashes recently when using the ClearScanner app, in fact it's not usable with this app.

Otherwise I think it's usable as daily driver, and it was.
My daughter used it for university until recently.

So, as far as I understand, your build should be on the same level and I'm gonna try it very soon.

Do you think a dirty flash could work?

Don Carnage · Jan 2, 2019

thepolish said:
Got it all installed - but can't get over an error code 190 ("can't download app")when trying to install chrome. Unsure if this is rom related or gapps related.
Also flashed the 14.1 su package - works well with the rom as expected. Youtube from the play store does not work - plays audio but no video. Other than that as I play with this I'll see if I can find any other bugs. Really appreciative of you picking this up!

Thanks for pointing those out, I'll have a look at it later today.

curiousde2002 said:
So, as far as I understand, your build should be on the same level and I'm gonna try it very soon.

Not quite yet, lirokoa put some effort in the ROM and there are probably things that I don't know about yet which are broken. See my last quote above for example. I'm still learning the inner working of the linux kernel and Android which is quite a huge task.

curiousde2002 said:
Do you think a dirty flash could work?

It could work but there is no guarantee as always. There are some changes here and there which can potentially break it.

thepolish · Jan 2, 2019 at 1:26 PM

Don Carnage said:
Thanks for pointing those out, I'll have a look at it later today.

The 190 issue was fixed with a reflash and and formatting my system. Took 3 times - not sure but I think it was on my end. The youtube however is still at issue. I was able to view in browser w/o issue though. It is just the app. Side loaded a bunch of older APKs of youtube with same result.

Don Carnage · Jan 2, 2019 at 3:21 PM

thepolish said:
The 190 issue was fixed with a reflash and and formatting my system. Took 3 times - not sure but I think it was on my end. The youtube however is still at issue. I was able to view in browser w/o issue though. It is just the app. Side loaded a bunch of older APKs of youtube with same result.

I can confirm your observations. Chrome is running smooth but the youtube app is only giving me audio with a black video stream.

NikoNik7 · Jan 2, 2019

Don Carnage said:
I can confirm your observations. Chrome is running smooth but the youtube app is only giving me audio with a black video stream.

It is really good ROM for N8000! But it seems not all video codecs are switched on in assembly. Except YouTube any IPTV application does not work, there is no video in Instagram (the still image of the first frame only) and in browsers many videos cannot be reproduced too.
Samsung SmartThins and Samsung Galaxy Apps application and is not started too. Sadly, as I remember, only from Galaxy Apps can be install the S-Pen application. By the way, somebody knows where to take .apk for Samsung Galaxy Apps? And how to work with the stylus?

meca42 · Jan 2, 2019 1 0 0

Thank you very much for this ROM I'm new here on XDA, however I have recently flash this ROM to my n8013 it's running pretty good, but I have 2 issues so far.

First, I'm having some troubles accessing to my wifi network, I have a Spectrum router which have 2g and 5g but it keep saying that the password may be incorrect, I have try many apps so far changing settings on my router but no success; but when I go with my phone on Hotspot I can get access and establish connection.

I'm also trying to get root access, I already flash the path for LineageOS 14.1 but when I go to developers I can't get access to the manage option. And when I run the root checker app I shows that I don't have root access.

Thanks,

curiousde2002 · Jan 3, 2019 at 1:27 AM

meca42 said:
I'm also trying to get root access, I already flash the path for LineageOS 14.1 but when I go to developers I can't get access to the manage option. And when I run the root checker app I shows that I don't have root access.

Thanks,

Have you tried Magisk for root already?

NikoNik7 · Sep 22, 2018 12 1 0

NikoNik7 said:
It is really good ROM for N8000! But it seems not all video codecs are switched on in assembly. Except YouTube any IPTV application does not work, there is no video in Instagram (the still image of the first frame only) and in browsers many videos cannot be reproduced too.
Samsung SmartThins and Samsung Galaxy Apps application and is not started too. Sadly, as I remember, only from Galaxy Apps can be install the S-Pen application. By the way, somebody knows where to take .apk for Samsung Galaxy Apps? And how to work with the stylus?

UPD.
Found Samsung Galaxy Apps. It's no S-Pen application too. There is a Google hand-written input. It is possible to cost them also and not to found S-Pen any more.
So, will be great if there is a video's full support and will earn Samsung SmartThins and if earns the IR-port for control of household appliances (now does not work on N8000). After everything it will be a masterpiece!

timelord666 · Apr 6, 2010 17 0 0

many thanks for the new build :good:

curiousde2002 said:
Do you think a dirty flash could work?

for me it worked

Don Carnage · Jan 4, 2019 at 11:32 PM

There is an issue with decoding the video stream but I'm not quite sure what's the root cause yet. Still investigating.

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