[ROM][OFFICIAL][11] LineageOS 18.1 for S3 Neo

[MehmetSaitTR]

Hello everybody,
Lineage OS 18.1 (Android 11) finally arrived officially with Lineage OS Recovery and discontinued Lineage OS 17.1. If you want to take security and bug fixes updates you need to use Lineage OS 18.1.

New Features!​

• Security patches from April 2020 to March 2021 have been merged to LineageOS 15.1 through 18.1.
  • 18.1 builds are currently based on the android-11.0.0_r32 tag, which is the Pixel series unified tag.
• Wi-Fi display is available for newer Qualcomm devices, on a device-by-device basis.
• WebView has been updated to Chromium 89.0.4389.105.
• Our Recorder app has been vastly improved in more ways than can be counted, go leave yourself a voice-memo so you don’t forget that great idea!
  • Screen recording has been moved to a QS tile to match AOSP’s behavior.
  • The user interface has been revamped and there’s also now a UI for easily viewing, managing, and sharing your voice notes.
  • It’s now possible to choose the quality of your audio recordings to save space.
  • It’s now possible to pause and resume recordings.
• The FOSS Etar app has been forked, improved, and shipped in place of the stagnant and largely unmaintained AOSP calendar.
• The Calyx institute’s FOSS Seedvault application has been included as a built-in backup solution.
  • To use it, navigate to Settings -> System -> Backup, and “Change backup provider” to Seedvault. You can then click “Seedvault Backup” to configure, schedule, and encrypt backups!
  • Backups created with Seedvault can be uploaded on your Nextcloud instance, an external USB drive or kept on your local storage.
• There is now an option on non-A/B devices to update the recovery image alongside the OS, just as the stock OS would!
  • To use this, either enable the option during the initial device setup or navigate to Settings -> System -> (Show More) Updater -> Three Dot Menu in the top right -> and check “Update recovery alongside OS”.
• Our music app, Eleven now has a more up-to-date UI and integrates nicely with all the new android features for music players such as seeking from the notification.
• All LineageOS apps now have support for dark mode.
• (17.1 too) Our recovery now has a new, colorful, and fun UI that is much more accessible.
• (17.1 too) The firewall can block all connections now by making apps think that the device is in airplane mode.
• (17.1 too) We’ve introduced a new expandable volume dialog UI that allows you to control multiple volume streams more easily.
• (17.1 too) The partial screenshot feature has been improved with a new UI that’s easier to use. On 18.1 it also integrates nicely with the new Android’s “instant screenshot”. Long press the screenshot button in the power menu and give it a try!
• (17.1 too) Trebuchet now supports icon packs.
• (17.1 too) ADB root was reworked to ensure compatibility with other 3rd party root solutions.

Known Bugs:
-NFC (Unfixeable)
-Reading Mode (Unfixeable)
-Wifi Direct(You need to turn on gps if you want to use wifi direct)
-Some minor issues

Links:
Samsung Sensor (s3ve3gjv)
Sony Sensor (s3ve3gxx)
Dual Sim (s3ve3gds)
Strongly recommend to use Lineage OS Recovery for updates!!
Note: Use Magisk for root

Changelog:
Samsung Sensor (s3ve3gjv)
Sony Sensor (s3ve3gxx)
Dual Sim (s3ve3gds)

Previous LineageOS Roms:
LineageOS 17.1
LineageOS 16

Version Information
ROM OS Version: 11 R
Status: Stable
Created: 2021-10-25
Last Updated: 2023-XX-XX (Keeps getting Updates every month)

 

[MehmetSaitTR]

Rez

 

[MehmetSaitTR]

Rez

 

[semih67x]

kanka türksün dimi bi baksana benim telefon kurulum ekranında kalıyor yardımcı olur musun

Translated by GT: bro, you are turkish, take a look, my phone stays on the setup screen, can you help me?

 

[4ipon4ik]

Hi! Maybe LineageOS website have a typo? I have Samsung Galaxy S III NEO and in system information it shows model [s3ve3gxx]. In service menu it shows Samsung camera.
By LineageOS info I should have Sony camera. Who should I believe?

 

[helloyello]

Hi,

wondering what TWRP version works with this. I had troubles with backup & restore by using twrp-3.3.1-1-s3ve3g on LineageOS 17.1 and struggled to make it work, see:

[ROM][OFFICIAL][DISCONTINUED][10] LineageOS 17.1 for S3 Neo

Hello everybody, If you haven't heard it already, LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10) finally arrived officially with LineageOS Recovery Links: Samsung Sensor (s3ve3gjv) Sony Sensor (s3ve3gxx) Dual Sim (s3ve3gds) Note: Use Magisk for root. This rom...

forum.xda-developers.com

Edit:
Just noticed the there's a new twrp-3.6.0_9-0-s3ve3g.img for S3 Neo officially available at:

Download TWRP for s3ve3g

Download TWRP Open Recovery for s3ve3g

dl.twrp.me

Has anyone tested this with LineageOS 18.1 ? I'm more intersted in properly handling the partitions and the backup & restore procedure.

 

[MehmetSaitTR]

Hi! Maybe LineageOS website have a typo? I have Samsung Galaxy S III NEO and in system information it shows model [s3ve3gxx]. In service menu it shows Samsung camera.
By LineageOS info I should have Sony camera. Who should I believe?

try these methods: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...mera-sensor-you-have-sony-or-samsung.3759213/

 

[MehmetSaitTR]

Hi,

wondering what TWRP version works with this. I had troubles with backup & restore by using twrp-3.3.1-1-s3ve3g on LineageOS 17.1 and struggled to make it work, see:

[ROM][OFFICIAL][DISCONTINUED][10] LineageOS 17.1 for S3 Neo

Hello everybody, If you haven't heard it already, LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10) finally arrived officially with LineageOS Recovery Links: Samsung Sensor (s3ve3gjv) Sony Sensor (s3ve3gxx) Dual Sim (s3ve3gds) Note: Use Magisk for root. This rom...

forum.xda-developers.com

Edit:
Just noticed the there's a new twrp-3.6.0_9-0-s3ve3g.img for S3 Neo officially available at:

Download TWRP for s3ve3g

Download TWRP Open Recovery for s3ve3g

dl.twrp.me

Has anyone tested this with LineageOS 18.1 ? I'm more intersted in properly handling the partitions and the backup & restore procedure.

lineageOS doesn't support twrp backup and restore if you want to backup use titanium backup, google backup, lineage os seedvault or try this https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/s3ve3gxx/upgrade

 

[tulgahan_alp]

kanka türksün dimi bi baksana benim telefon kurulum ekranında kalıyor yardımcı olur musun

Translated by GT: bro, you are turkish, take a look, my phone stays on the setup screen, can you help me?

Bende aynı sorunu yaşıyorum yardımcı olabilir misin

Translated by GT: I have the same problem can you help me

 

[MehmetSaitTR]

Hi! Maybe LineageOS website have a typo? I have Samsung Galaxy S III NEO and in system information it shows model [s3ve3gxx]. In service menu it shows Samsung camera.
By LineageOS info I should have Sony camera. Who should I believe?

Try s3ve3gxx if you encounter any problem (especially bootloop) try s3ve3gjv version

 

[BiG_FooT]

I have some WiFi issues. 2.4ghz is slow and sometimes S3 is not connecting.

Update: it's strange behaviour, certain apps say that phone is not connected to internet while others are working fine at the same moment.

Anyone else facing this?

 

[mariocaraf]

do you have the latest bootloader?, it is recommended to have the latest firmware, for example Greek firmware:
samsung sensor:

COS-I9301IXCUARA1-Firmware Halabtech.zip

drive.google.com

sony sensor:

https://samfrew.com/it/download/GALAXY__S__%E2%85%A2__Neo__/6ip1/COS/I9301IXXUAQL1/I9301ICOSAQL1/

you can also have hardware problems, right?

in the house we have 2 s3 neo one sony the other samsung, no problem,with los 18.1.

 

[dicamarques]

I have some WiFi issues. 2.4ghz is slow and sometimes S3 is not connecting.

Update: it's strange behaviour, certain apps say that phone is not connected to internet while others are working fine at the same moment.

Anyone else facing this?

I'm having these issues since I updated to 18.1.
5Ghz only sees one of my APs and 2.4GHz is sloooww and always dropping
Also my baseband is: I9301IXXUAPG1

 

[redblur07]

WOW this one is not working for me either. Every time phone starts, it goes up until setup wizard and then restarts. I've tried reinstalling again but still same problem.

Here's what I did

- did factory reset
- wiped dalvik/system/data/internal storage/cache/preload
- installed s3ve3gjv version
- rebooted to recovery (to keep twrp)
- rebooted to system

My TWRP version is above 3.0.0 (the latest one).

Why could I be experiencing this problem. Both this and Android 12 ROM are giving the exact same problem. But when flash LineageOS android 10 s3ve3gjv image, I experience no problem. What should I do?

 

[helloyello]

I can confirm the issues reported with the WiFi connectivity on both 2,4GHz & 5 GHz and I presume it's a driver issue that was not addressed properly.
I'm not getting disconnected, and the signal strength is pretty stable, but as soon as the phone enters standby(doze) while connected on WiFi, when waking up, the connection is broken. It still looks connected, and can disable WiFi & reconnect on both networks, but after the WiFi handshake, the phone RX is broken - doesn't receive packets & doesn't answer to pings. A reboot helps as workaround. And, everything is working ok if you avoid standby during WiFi connectivity.
I tested all this on an OpenWRT router with tcpdump & ping.
I also remember some discussions in the LOS16 thread, where the devs said that they needed to disable power saving on the WiFi, because the driver is messed up. Maybe this should be also done in LOS 18.1.

Some other LOS18.1 observations - experiences:
- apart from the WiFi issue, it looks solid
- there's still the persistent (LOS16/LOS17) bug with BT & WiFi (2,4GHz only) not able to coexist (turned on and in use), WiFi get's disconnected if a BT Headset is used. I guess it's a driver/firmware issue.
- the new TWRP 3.6.0 works OK - get it from:

Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo i9301i

Disclaimer:Team Win strives to provide a quality product. However, it is your decision to install our software on your device. Team Win takes no ...

twrp.me

Download TWRP for s3ve3g

Download TWRP Open Recovery for s3ve3g

eu.dl.twrp.me

- ViperFX - the classic installation way doesn't work anymore, but it works well with the Magisk Module and the instructions presented here:

[APP][ALL ROOT SOLUTIONS][6.0+]ViPER4Android FX 2.7

ViPER4Android FX By pittvandewitt and MrWhite214 Introduction Many users are enhancing their smartphone audio experience with the popular ViPER4Android software, but some of us have a hard time installing the driver or they don't like the look...

forum.xda-developers.com

Finally, I made a TWRP full backup of my LOS18.1 installation (a lot of work for the configuration) and reverted to LOS 17.1 (TWRP backup).
I'm considering LOS 18.1 broken and would be thankful if the devs take some time to look into the WiFi issue and fix it.

 

[alecxs]

cannot connect to open wifi,
cross-posting this here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-for-s3-neo-beta.4399567/page-5#post-86747557

 

[orxideya]

Phone running extremely slow it's almost unusable on this ROM and optimization is bad.

 

[asaf400]

EDIT: SOLVED

Hello,
I have installed latest build (20220425) for my
Samsung Sensor (s3ve3gjv) and I do not have any camera app,
Device Info HW has reported both cameras are from Samsung, the ROM works well, except there is no camera app, and even Whatsapp can't initialize it.

I have installed MindTheGaaps version (11.0.0-arm-20210212_145641), right after flashing the ROM in recovery, setup wizard went smoothly..

Which Camera app do you use, and how?
In settings app --> Installed Apps list, I can see 'Camera', but there is no launcher icon for it..

package name: org.lineageos.snap
version: 2.02.082 (0188f6d9ec-30)

( I'll also post on lineage support, and see if they have an insight )

Edit: Just found this, might be the same issue, I didn't test camera on first boot,
I'll try and install snap from 17.1:

Camera app (org.lineageos.snap) disappears after fresh installation of most recent LineageOS nightlies (#4295) · Issues · LineageOS / issues / android · GitLab

Expected Behavior Lineage camera app should remain at bottom of launcher screen and should also be accessible from apps drawer.

gitlab.com

Edit #2: I clean flashed 17.1 for the Sony Sensor (s3ve3gxx),
without installing MindTheGaaps, and camera app showed up, and both cams are working fine..
I'm unsure if the issue was that I actually have the Sony sensor S3 Neo, while software reported Samsung sensors,
or if installing MindTheGaaps after flashing the ROM caused the camera app to now show up at all..
in between, I did install 17.1 for Samsung Sensor but I also installed MindTheGaaps in the flash session..

Edit #3: It seems it was the ROM, even though Method #4 of the Samsung vs Sony thread reported I have 2 Samsung sensors, only the Sony Sensor ROM shows camera icon for me, while Samsung Sensor ROM didn't, Also note I am now on Lineage 17.1, because I dont mind staying a bit behind, and I dont have any more time to fiddle with flashing 18.1 Sony and testing it..

 

[sajjads24]

i need last twrp for s3ve3gdsxx
wher is download odin versian for s3ve3gdsxx ?

 

[steve8x8]

i need last twrp for s3ve3gdsxx
wher is download odin versian for s3ve3gdsxx ?

There's a unified TWRP for all s3ve3g on twrp.me