[ROM][R][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 18.1 for Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro [whyred]

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LineageOS is a free, community-built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 11 (R) designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS still includes various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS GitHub repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a complete list of changes & features.

Installation instructions
Here

Device info
Here

Download
Here

Sources
ROM sources: LineageOS
Kernel sources: Here
 
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Downloading Now.

3rd June 2020
Things that i found working are:-
1.Volte(Tested on !dea and Jio) and native Video-Over-LTE(JIO Only) is working perfectly.
2. FM Radio works perfectly.
3.Flashed with Gapps PICO 10.0 works perfectly, but initially tried flashing with NANO 10.0 and resulted in a bug while setting up the google account(first boot), the "set fingerprint+pin" and "Google assistance" Loop.
4. IR blaster works perfectly.

I have found out some bugs,
1. There is problem in sending SMS (not recieving).
2. Netflix does not work.
3. Cannot send SMS due to which banking apps or UPI apps such as Google Pay(TEZ) cannot be setup.


4th June 2020
Found a bug in "in-call recorder" failed to start.
 
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Wow, I have been hoping for this thread to appear for a long long time. THANK YOU!

I am on last official Lineage 15.1. Do I still need to clean flash?
 
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palashsharma said:
Downloading Now.
Things that i found working are:-
1.Volte(Tested on !dea and Jio) and native Video-Over-LTE(JIO Only) is working perfectly.
2. FM Radio works perfectly.
3.Flashed with Gapps PICO 10.0 works perfectly, but initially tried flashing with NANO 10.0 and resulted in a bug while setting up the google account(first boot), the "set fingerprint+pin" and "Google assistance" Loop.
4. IR blaster works perfectly.

I have found out some bugs,
1. There is problem in sending SMS (not recieving).
2. Netflix does not work.
3. Cannot send SMS due to which banking apps or UPI apps such as Google Pay(TEZ) cannot be setup.
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2. Are you flashed magisk for safetynet fix. Netflix won't work without safetynet.
1&3. My jio work from home plan only have data. So I can't test sms. Volte and Vilte working perfectly fine.
 
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palashsharma said:
Downloading Now.
Things that i found working are:-
1.Volte(Tested on !dea and Jio) and native Video-Over-LTE(JIO Only) is working perfectly.
2. FM Radio works perfectly.
3.Flashed with Gapps PICO 10.0 works perfectly, but initially tried flashing with NANO 10.0 and resulted in a bug while setting up the google account(first boot), the "set fingerprint+pin" and "Google assistance" Loop.
4. IR blaster works perfectly.

I have found out some bugs,
1. There is problem in sending SMS (not recieving).
2. Netflix does not work.
3. Cannot send SMS due to which banking apps or UPI apps such as Google Pay(TEZ) cannot be setup.
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For installation bootloop don't skip Google assistant voice match and after installation you can turn it off
 
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One question. Is TWRP working with our device now? I heard that there was a problem with TWRP on Pie MIUI.

EDIT: I see, that it should work with Pie. Okey, i flashed it to flash LOS. But I have problem with replacing TWRP by MIUI recovery. After flashing, I rebooted phone by fastboot reboot and immediately pressed power button + volume up to enter TWRP. And it booted just fine but there is info about encryption and password. Rebooted the phone again, and unfortunately TWRP got replaced by stock recovery itself.

What I did wrong? What should I do to make it work properly without asking me for password to decrypt (is this normal behavior?) and how to block MIUI for replacing TWRP?
Please give me some hints. I want to flash Lineage OS asap.
Thanks in advance.
 
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    SebaUbuntu
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    LineageOS is a free, community-built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 11 (R) designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

    LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS still includes various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

    All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS GitHub repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a complete list of changes & features.

    Installation instructions
    Here

    Device info
    Here

    Download
    Here

    Sources
    ROM sources: LineageOS
    Kernel sources: Here
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    SebaUbuntu
    SebaUbuntu
    To clarify:
    It was not a device-side issue, nor a ROM side issue, it's actually a build server isssue
    If someone want an accurate explanation, ask me
    If you don't, just wait the next build
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    SebaUbuntu
    SebaUbuntu
    Updated thread for 18.1 🎉
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    Aqq123
    Aqq123
    Re: SoterService & Qualcomm Location

    1. SoterService

    SebaUbuntu said:
    SoterService [...] helps chinese users with secure payments (e.g. WeChat)
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    So for starters it certainly isn't useful to anybody outside China. As for users in China (not Chinese users, there's a difference), official LOS isn't really suitable for them anyway without further patching (at least fallback DNS, SUPL, captive portal and connectivity test URLs should be changed, Chinese-specific fonts and IME also aren't included). In practice not many people there are going to install a custom ROM on a device like this and if they do, it's most likely going to be something locally-brewed like Moqu. Thus, "helping users in China" (not "Chinese," since Chinese people all over the world by and large don't and in fact usually can't use Weixin either unless they happen to be in China) is not a realistic consideration. And as you can see it's also not as if not having this preinstalled would be an extra burden to any user in China.

    This APK was not included in official LOS 15.1. I don't even recall it being a part of MIUI Global ROM for this device. Those lucky few who have the use for it (if anybody at all) will know how to install it, just like everybody else installs all kinds of other stuff on top of LOS. However, Lineage OS defines itself as a "free [as in 'libre'] and open-source operating system," and incorporating proprietary, third-party blobs of dubious benefit to the user is hardly in line with the project's objectives.

    SebaUbuntu said:
    https://www.github.com/Tencent/soter/wiki [link edited to remove Google Translate]
    Please read this and check why we need it.
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    I read it, again (I first did when I was looking up this APK before even writing anything in this thread) and all the more I don't see any reason why it should be included. On the contrary, it's specific to China and only compatible with some of the devices launched in that market. Why would it be so indispensable that it just has to be part of the official LOS build for this device? (If you were referring to some specific statement in what's written there, feel free to quote it, and I will look at it again.)

    For the record, I never said it was spyware, just a leftover that serves no purpose. But device security can be compromised in a number ways, for example through an exploitable bug in the APK. We all know the whole vendor blob for this device is completely outdated. The less is kept of it in its original form, the better. If something can be safely removed without impact, this should be the default action to take.

    SebaUbuntu said:
    This blobs and apps are in stock ROMs, so, to not break something, we leave them in place.
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    The whole point of having a custom ROM is to be able to critically pick and choose what should be in it from the usability perspective. Obviously this involves informed experimentation and something can occasionally break, so what? Reading something like this here makes me want to scroll back to the top of the page to check if this is still "XDA Developers."

    Vendor blobs are not sacred. Xiaomi's in particular are usually rather bad. For instance, previous vendor blobs for this device enabled Wi-Fi diagnostics by default, needlessly spamming the logs and draining battery. Should this have been kept too?

    2. Qualcomm Location

    SebaUbuntu said:
    Again, this is a system component
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    What is that even supposed to mean? By definition it's a user-space application, so it's a "system component" as much as Candy Crush is in Windows.

    SebaUbuntu said:
    as you said, can help in specific scenarios
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    I wanted to save everybody the boring details. In practice I doubt it makes any difference. It's supposed to work by querying the location from nearby Wi-Fi access points but only those with supported SoCs in them (so QCA-only I believe), and then again only those that were configured to provide it.

    The benefit is supposedly better location indoors, so it could be life-saving if you get lost in a shopping mall but 99.9% of the time when you need precise location is when you are outside and not near any particular Wi-Fi access points.

    The idea behind it is not unsound and it could indeed save battery life if GPS doesn't have to run in such situations (and if it really is indoors then it wouldn't work anyway) but the bigger point is that Google (and others) have already been doing the same for years and are better at it. So if you install Google Apps you are already getting all of this functionality anyway.

    You can't blame Qualcomm for trying even though they're late to the game but essentially it's about duplicating what already works just was "not invented here." Your location won't get any more precise than what Google already provides, all it accomplishes is Qualcomm being able to use your battery time and data allowance to seed their own database so as to compete with the incumbent.

    SebaUbuntu said:
    with MIUI you can't disable this stuff so that's an improvement
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    Actually, here you can't disable it either: given how it's set up, there is no setting for it anywhere in the UI, it just runs all the time in the background. I think it'll also interfere if you wanted to use mock location.

    So even if Qualcomm location were to stay by default, there should be a toggle for it, or at the very least the framework overlay settings should be restored to their defaults because now it's effectively impossible to use any other location provider: it's either Qualcomm or nothing.

    Since LOS does not include a complete location solution (people will install Google Apps, MicroG, or perhaps something else), arguably it shouldn't force a partial one on the user either. To be brutally honest, I thought these settings were left like that by mistake, couldn't imagine anyone defending them but here we are. (Feel free to also check out the discussion I linked to in my previous post, and the commit where it was removed for beryllium - Xiaomi Pocophone F1.)

    ***

    I appreciate your effort in building this ROM and making it official. I understand the way you responded must be due to the impression that I attacked or criticized your work. This was not my intention.

    I'm not saying anybody should do anything, I'm just sharing what I did. Hopefully it can help others one way or another. And if I'm wrong about something I'll be the first to admit it, after all I'm here to learn.

    In the end it's your work and your decisions, you'll do as you wish. But there is a valid argument for the majority of the users and readers of this thread not to have these included in the official LOS build, which is why I wrote about it.

    Agree or disagree, either way it's really not necessary to make any of this personal.
    SebaUbuntu said:
    you are scared
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    go completely offline and buy a Nokia 3310
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    SebaUbuntu said:
    Don't be racist and don't apply stereotypes, not all chinese app spy on you
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