[ROM][OFFICIAL][11] LineageOS 18.1 for Samsung Galaxy S5 (klte*)

[JohnieJ]

Hi everyone. Hopefully someone can help me with my issue. I have a G900P running Lineage 17.1 (kltedv) almost perfectly! The only issue I have found is loss of the volume up and down. I must qualify that I do NOT use this phone's LTE properties, so have no idea how well it functions with a SIM in it! I am using it strictly for a lightweight media player and a project for something to do. I'm retired!

My real issue is I have tried numerous times to try OS 18 with Android 11 just to see if it functions as well, but with volume controls functional. I tried with disabling (uninstall) Magisk, without disabling also. I am trying to do this without losing all the work I accomplished in A 10. So I haven't been wiping anything. I have tried this with adb sideload and with current version 3.6 TWRP. I haven't flashed GApps as it already exists from 10. It always boots, but it hangs in the Lineage logo running. I have left it for 10 minutes, and still no screen.

I guess my question is: Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to upgrade without killing the previous work? Or am I just not doing it right? I love 10, but the lack of volume control without going to settings/sound picks my interest in 11.

I have 10 running on 2 SM-T807T's and one SM-T800 and love it! They run perfectly.

Thanks in advance for any assistance getting this to A 11 for a test.

John
Billings, MT

 

[kurtn]

Hi everyone. Hopefully someone can help me with my issue. I have a G900P running Lineage 17.1 (kltedv) almost perfectly! The only issue I have found is loss of the volume up and down. I must qualify that I do NOT use this phone's LTE properties, so have no idea how well it functions with a SIM in it! I am using it strictly for a lightweight media player and a project for something to do. I'm retired!

My real issue is I have tried numerous times to try OS 18 with Android 11 just to see if it functions as well, but with volume controls functional. I tried with disabling (uninstall) Magisk, without disabling also. I am trying to do this without losing all the work I accomplished in A 10. So I haven't been wiping anything. I have tried this with adb sideload and with current version 3.6 TWRP. I haven't flashed GApps as it already exists from 10. It always boots, but it hangs in the Lineage logo running. I have left it for 10 minutes, and still no screen.

I guess my question is: Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to upgrade without killing the previous work? Or am I just not doing it right? I love 10, but the lack of volume control without going to settings/sound picks my interest in 11.

I have 10 running on 2 SM-T807T's and one SM-T800 and love it! They run perfectly.

Thanks in advance for any assistance getting this to A 11 for a test.

John
Billings, MT

Read the blue box

Upgrade LineageOS on kltedv | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

Each major Android version has it's own GApps. So you need to flash mindthegapps arm 11

 

[JohnieJ]

Read the blue box

Upgrade LineageOS on kltedv | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

Each major Android version has it's own GApps. So you need to flash mindthegapps arm 11

Wow! Out of ALL the stuff I have read, this is the first time I have seen that particular page.

Thanks a bunch. I will give this a try tomorrow.

Have a great day/evening!

John
Billings, MT

 

[JohnieJ]

Wow! Out of ALL the stuff I have read, this is the first time I have seen that particular page.

Thanks a bunch. I will give this a try tomorrow.

Have a great day/evening!

John
Billings, MT

Well, here's what happened. Used TWRP 3.6 which is what I have been using from the beginning and what I used to install 17.1 and the Gapps nano which works fine other than what I mentioned in my first post. Installing 18 and mindmygapps, no wipes, wouldn't finish boot. (By the way, I did uninstall magisk prior to this). Tried again wiping Dalvik/Cache. Same results. So decided to do a clean install. Wiped everything except internalSD. Flashed 18 & mindmygapps. Viola, booted into setup. Thought I had it made. Hit the start button and re-boot immediately. Came backup into the next step. I got through the entire setup to a home screen. I touched it and immediate reboot that never recovered. Finally rebooted into recovery and restored my 17. It booted, but showed a corrupt SDCard. It wiped out my entire sd card storage. I am sure I can replace most anything that was there, but it was a shock to me. And no, I didn't wipe External SD card. And, my TWRP backups where still there to restore from TWRP. It happened when I booted into 17

Any thoughts?

John
Billings, MT

 

[EuK_V]

Well, here's what happened. Used TWRP 3.6 which is what I have been using from the beginning and what I used to install 17.1 and the Gapps nano which works fine other than what I mentioned in my first post. Installing 18 and mindmygapps, no wipes, wouldn't finish boot. (By the way, I did uninstall magisk prior to this). Tried again wiping Dalvik/Cache. Same results. So decided to do a clean install. Wiped everything except internalSD. Flashed 18 & mindmygapps. Viola, booted into setup. Thought I had it made. Hit the start button and re-boot immediately. Came backup into the next step. I got through the entire setup to a home screen. I touched it and immediate reboot that never recovered. Finally rebooted into recovery and restored my 17. It booted, but showed a corrupt SDCard. It wiped out my entire sd card storage. I am sure I can replace most anything that was there, but it was a shock to me. And no, I didn't wipe External SD card. And, my TWRP backups where still there to restore from TWRP. It happened when I booted into 17

Any thoughts?

John
Billings, MT

That's why before flashing ROMs I make:

• a backup of all partitions in TWRP to an external SDcard or flash drive;
• AND (!)
• a backup of Internal storage - manually (copy files and folders);
• then I remove the external sdcard or flash drive from the phone;
• And only then I flash a new ROM.

Cause I have also experienced the wipe of the entire Internal storage several times during flashing ROMs.

 

[JohnieJ]

That's why before flashing ROMs I make:

• a backup of all partitions in TWRP to an external SDcard or flash drive;
• AND (!)
• a backup of Internal storage - manually (copy files and folders);
• then I remove the external sdcard or flash drive from the phone;
• And only then I flash a new ROM.

Cause I have also experienced the wipe of the entire Internal storage several times during flashing ROMs.

Howdy!

Well, it was a lesson In all the years I have been doing this, I never had this happen before! Like I mentioned, no great loss as I have already recovered 98% of what was on there.

My main concern is why I was able to get all the way through setup before it crashed into a mode that wouldn't boot? Maybe the SD card? Should I install a blank card and try again? Any thoughts GREATLY appreciated.

John
Billings, MT

 

[pmduper]

Howdy!

Well, it was a lesson In all the years I have been doing this, I never had this happen before! Like I mentioned, no great loss as I have already recovered 98% of what was on there.

My main concern is why I was able to get all the way through setup before it crashed into a mode that wouldn't boot? Maybe the SD card? Should I install a blank card and try again? Any thoughts GREATLY appreciated.

John
Billings, MT

sm-g900i kltedv

G'day mate,

My 2 cents worth.
Anytime I flash a rom, except for OTA, I boot into twrp and always FORMAT first, next advance clean all but SD card. Flash the rom from SD card and setup. Never had problems.
However I do not use GAPPS or Magisk. You may want to try rom only...

This may be an overkill however works well for me. Setup is a chore which I'm happy to do
If you continue to have problems you may want to re install stock Samsung firmware, latest for your variant, and then head back to custom rom.
Good luck

Cheers, Phil

 

[Massedil]

Hello,

I see a strange behavior with a new SM-G900F that I try to configure like my main one.

With my main one I can connect to both 5GHz and 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks.

With the new one :

- I can connect to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks, but I can't connect to 5GHz Wi-Fi networks.
- I well see both type of Wi-Fi network in the list, but I only can connect to 2.4GHz.

I can reproduce by creating a Wi-Fi access point with my my working SM-G900F : if I choose "5GHz (preferred)" the other phone can't connect, and if I choose "2.4GHz" the other phone connect fine.

Both phone have baseband "G900FXXS1CQA4".

On the new phone I tried with a LOS build from August 2021 and from January 2022 : same behavior (I can't connect to 5GHz networks).

Is there someone who know what happens ?

 

[JohnieJ]

sm-g900i kltedv

G'day mate,

My 2 cents worth.
Anytime I flash a rom, except for OTA, I boot into twrp and always FORMAT first, next advance clean all but SD card. Flash the rom from SD card and setup. Never had problems.
However I do not use GAPPS or Magisk. You may want to try rom only...

This may be an overkill however works well for me. Setup is a chore which I'm happy to do
If you continue to have problems you may want to re install stock Samsung firmware, latest for your variant, and then head back to custom rom.
Good luck

Cheers, Phil

Hi Phil.

Thanks for the input.

Very interesting, I must say. I've been flashing ROM's since I got my first smartphone, an HTC back in ~2008. Never had issues like this. Even installing 17.1 went pretty smooth. I actually bought this G900P off ebay last week as the 2 S5's I used for several years was the 900V Verizon version CID11 which cannot have the bootloader unlocked.

18 is kicking my butt! But I shall not give up. There is no logical reason for these issues...

TTYL...

John
Billings, MT

 

[Kirparon]

Hello,

i have a big Problem with a bug. I used a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F (klte) and i use a lot of LinegageOS 18.1 versions, and all of them said to me, that i have no free space on my phone. I cant install Apps, because its not possible for the Play Store.

Everytime i did a clean install, with full wipe of all partion and i install only LineageOS 18.1 and OpenGapps Pico.

This bug is on the Versions: 20220116, 20220109, 20211226

What version for the Galaxy S5 is without the bug? And how can i install older versions? All of the actually had the bug and i cant find older versions on the LineageOS homepage.

 

[BigPulco]

Hello,

i have a big Problem with a bug. I used a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F (klte) and i use a lot of LinegageOS 18.1 versions, and all of them said to me, that i have no free space on my phone. I cant install Apps, because its not possible for the Play Store.

Everytime i did a clean install, with full wipe of all partion and i install only LineageOS 18.1 and OpenGapps Pico.

This bug is on the Versions: 20220116, 20220109, 20211226

What version for the Galaxy S5 is without the bug? And how can i install older versions? All of the actually had the bug and i cant find older versions on the LineageOS homepage.

I have S5 G900F (KLTE) and I'm using 9 January 2022 version of limeageOs 18.1 with OpenGapps Pico and I have no problem. Are you sure your phones memory is really OK. During clean install maybe you like to format too.

Regards and good luck...

 

[Kirparon]

@BigPulco

It works without problems, before i start the new install.

A few people 2 weeks before, talked about the same bug.

What kind of Recovery do you use? TWRP or Lineage Recovery?

Edit:

I got it. I formated the phone again, flashing Lineage Recovery with TWRP. In Lineage Recovery i formated all partions and then reinstalled TWRP.

After that it start installing LineageOS 18.1 + Gapps and it works now.

I dont know why the Lineage Recovery is formating different. I think there is also a bug into the LineageOS 18.1 2022er Versions.

 

[curiousrom]

TWRP & Lineage Recovery - Format Data vs. Wipe

...I formated the phone again, flashing Lineage Recovery with TWRP. In Lineage Recovery i formated all partions and then reinstalled TWRP.

After that it start installing LineageOS 18.1 + Gapps and it works now.

I dont know why the Lineage Recovery is formating different...

Probably because you are confusing a simple wipe (factory reset) with Format Data in TWRP. See the attachments.

If you want to do a really clean install in TWRP *Format Data* + wipe System & caches before flashing LineageOS.

In both TWRP & Lineage recovery you cannot "formated all partions". You can only format the data partition & wipe the others. Words matter in this case.
***

From TWRP FAQ: What is a data/media device?:

"...Since /data/media is part of /data, we pretty much never actually format the data partition. Formatting data, of course, also removes the media folder that contains the internal sdcard. When you choose a factory reset, instead of formatting, we use rm -rf commands to remove all the folders except for the media folder so that we can remove all of your apps and settings while leaving your "sdcard" intact.

In TWRP we also have a wipe internal storage option that rm -rf's the media folder and a "Format Data" option that formats to recreate the entire file system in case something goes completely wrong or to remove device encryption."

Format Data adds an empty encryption footer after the end of the Data partition for some future encryption related data if enabled.

Format data will destroy the content of your internal storage so backup to external SD card or computer before doing it.

Note: in the Lineage recovery a factory reset will Format Data and destroy the content of the internal storage + will wipe the System partition & caches.
***

So my guess is that your S5 had an issue in the Data partition & the Format Data feature in the Lineage recovery fixed it.
***

TWRP & the Lineage Recovery are made by different people & have different features.

I prefer TWRP on the S5 mainly because of it's backup & File manager features.

On some other devices TWRP does not work properly so the Lineage Recovery is the only game in town in those cases.
***

 

[Kirparon]

I did what you showing me.

I formated every partiton, like you show on the second picture.

I select all of these partitons: Dalvik/ART Cache, System. Data, Internal Storage, Cache, microSD card and USB Storage.

Thats how i new install my phone every 6 months, so for me i think there is any bug into the LineageOS 2022er versions.

 

[BigPulco]

I did what you showing me.

I formated every partiton, like you show on the second picture.

I select all of these partitons: Dalvik/ART Cache, System. Data, Internal Storage, Cache, microSD card and USB Storage.

Thats how i new install my phone every 6 months, so for me i think there is any bug into the LineageOS 2022er versions.

The latest "lineage-18.1-20220116-nightly-klte-signed.zip" is reverting back a correction (Revert "adbconnection: don't spin if adbd isn't running.") as indicating that for some phones causing as "Breaks boot for many devices".

May be that is what happening in your case if you like to try...

Edit: To see "Changes for klte"
:

LineageOS Downloads

download.lineageos.org

 

[chillipig]

"Clean Install" & No Space says Google Play?



What is the full name of the Open GApps file that you installed?

Are you are trying to download huge 100 MB apps?

If you sideloaded Open GApps it automatically creates a log named open_gapps_log.txt in the internal sdcard folder.

If you copied to the device the GApps...zip package & installed it from there manually using the recovery then the "open_gapps_log.txt" is created in the same location as the GApps...zip package.

Maybe you could attach that log to a post? Zip it if you have issues attaching it to a post.

What do you mean exactly by a clean install? Format Data is better than a simple wipe Data if you want a really clean install. (screenshot)

See Clean Install with TWRP.

From TWRP FAQ: What is a data/media device?:



Format Data adds an empty encryption footer after the end of the Data partition for some future encryption related data if enabled.

Format data will destroy the content of your internal storage so backup to external SD card or computer before doing it.
***

Try with MindTheGApps instead of Open GApps. See the bottom of this post about optimizing MindTheGapps which I installed on my S5 G900M.
***

Thanks for the info. I didn't realise there was a later MindTheGapps and had previously tried MindTheGapps-11.0.0-arm-20210412_124103 which had the same problem, but MindTheGapps-11.0.0-arm-20210920_083829 seems to have fixed it and I was chuffed until I realised I now have a big battery drain issue (I have two S5 DUOS and this is the Arabic version) everything else works as before on 16.1 So as I also have a Russia S5 I did the same lineage-18.1-20220116 and Magix 23, this has no battery drain but will not give me 4G which I suspect is linked to the previous issue I had on 16.1 whereby one slot is prioritised for 4G unlike stock which is interchangable on the fly. I made a few posts about it. With 18.1 I note it's impossible to achieve 4G on my Russian DUOS and I would take a guess that they are different enough for the Russian model to be incompatible with what may have been compiled for the Arabic one.

 

[curiousrom]

S5 LineageOS 18.1 Update 2022-01-23 - Android Security Bump

Using the built-in Updater I OTA updated S5 G900M LineageOS 18.1 klte build 2022-01-16 + MindTheGapps + Magisk 23.0 + TWRP 3.6.0_9-0 to build 2022-01-23: everything went smoothly as usual & GApps + Magisk survived the update.

There are quite a few changes listed in https://download.lineageos.org/klte/changes/ and some of them do not concern the S5 klte* family but most importantly it includes the monthly Android security bump: Bump Security String to 2022-01-05.

Many of the listed changes are related to that bump & were committed by the S5's dev haggertk as you can see in the pages 1 & 2 of the LineageOS Gerrit code review here: https://review.lineageos.org/q/topic:R_asb_2022-01

After the automatic reboot as seen in the screenshot > Settings > About phone > press on Android version > Android security update: January 5, 2022.

The Vendor security patch level just below it remains @ August 1, 2017 because the vendor is Samsung & it is not publishing security patches for it's S5 proprietary hardware related blobs anymore since August 2017.

See Android Security Bulletin - January 2022 for details about the security fixes.

Thank you to the Lineage Team & Mr. haggertk for keeping our old S5 klte* up to date.
***

BTW you can create a direct link to the Updater app & much more with the LineageOS Settings widget.

For example I like the App info shortcut because it opens directly > Settings > Apps & notifications > See all {number} apps.

I stack them on Home to create a folder.
***

 

[rootkitty]

I'm trying to convert an "original" SM-G900W8 to LOS 18.1, and I'm wondering if there is anything special that I need to do to work with a phone that is that old? I have another SM-G900W8, that has been upgraded several times, and it was no problem, but it was coming from LOS16... just did the wipe as recommended with TWRP, flashed and good to go.

I have successfully installed TWRP-3.6.0_9-0-klte,, but when I try to do a nandroid backup (just in case i need ot go back for some reason), it fails - here is the last few lines of recovery.log:

:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/context_feature_default.db-journal' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
I:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/google_analytics_v4.db' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
I:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/google_analytics_v4.db-journal' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
Truncating string cache entries.
I:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/fitness.db.dipaolo.ca_gmail.com' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
I:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/snet_files_info.db' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
I:addFile '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/snet_files_info.db-journal' including root: 1
  ==> set selinux context: u:object_r:app_data_file:s0
I:Error adding file '/data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/snet_files_info.db-journal' to '/usbstorage/TWRP/BACKUPS/SM-G900W8/2022-01-23--03-29-15_KOT49HG900W8VLU1ANF3_STOCK/data.ext4.win000'
Error creating backup.
I:ERROR tarList for thread ID 0
Error creating backup.
I:InfoManager saving '/usbstorage/TWRP/BACKUPS/SM-G900W8/2022-01-23--03-29-15_KOT49HG900W8VLU1ANF3_STOCK/data.info'
createTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
Backup Failed. Cleaning Backup Folder.

Any suggestions on how to make a backup that I can restore if I need to.
Does this issue mean I am going to have other issues if I do a clean wipe and install of LOS18.1?
Any suggestons (including other places where I should post this question), advice is much appreciated.

 

[twindragon6]

I just flashed https://mirrorbits.lineageos.org/full/klte/20220123/lineage-18.1-20220123-nightly-klte-signed.zip OTA and well...
It got weird Bro! All apps crash at launch, I'm trying to capture a log or two.

***EDIT***
So it looks like if you do the OTA update instead of doing a manual update it enables Encryption and DM Verity.
I'm guessing the OS broke when I tried to fix Magisk by flashing the boot.img followed by Magisk-v23.0.zip, UPDATE-Busybox.Installer.v1.34.1-ALL-signed.zip and Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_11.02.2020.zip then wiping the Dalvik and rebooting...

I guess don't use the OTA?!? I kinda figured it would parse for that first!

***UPDATE***
If anyone else is having similar issues, it's because Magisk is having issues with Android 11 so try the Canary Builds.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/topjohnwu/magisk-files/canary/app-debug.apk

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[vlad3647]

thanks