[ROM][T320][T325][Android 13] Unofficial LineageOS 20.0 Nightlies Tab Pro 8.4 Wifi/LTE (mondrianwifi/lte)

[kmmo]

Of course, random reboots stopped now...

I would, again, like to express my gratitude and admiration for the developer. This rom is so fluent it's amazing! Unbelievable that this works so well on a almost 10 year old device!

I am however, experiencing at times rather severe WiFi issues, like some other here, for instance @kmmo here above. And when the WiFi drops the device sees no networks and it doesn't immediately help to switch the wifi off and on again, might take a little time to find the networks.

Sometimes for instance music streaming to stereo through bluetooth can stutter violently when browsing just random sites that are not necessarily content-heavy. Other times no stutter even when web content is more demanding. I don't know what that is a sign of.

I am not experienced tester and not really sure how to pull logs, but I could try if that would help the developer regarding those issues, if he tries to fix them. @phoval ?

Otherwise I will just try to reflash the ROM and see what happens...

As someone experiencing similar wifi dropping issues, resetting and reinstalling roms didn't help in my case.I just hope that developers will take an active interest in this issue and update it.

 

[bierma32]

Of course, random reboots stopped now...

Which device ? WiFi or LTE

 

[prkfsz]

Which device ? WiFi or LTE

wifi

 

[prkfsz]

I can inform that there has been a drastic imrovement in the quality of the WiFi. And I am not really sure what that depends on. Only thing I've done was to install magisk and syslog - in preparation for taking logs to help the dev with the WiFi issue. Machines...

So now for more than an hour I have only once seen that the WiFi signal has dropped but came back again by itself before it affected the music streaming I was doing from the device.

The bluetooth streaming itself has been quite steady until I opened the XDA page to write a new comment here. So now at the moments it's stuttering quite much but then calms down again. Do you need a log for that too, @phoval ?

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Aaaaaaaand there it was again. I guess the log is in order. Sending it on PM.

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Or not. Anyone knows why it isn't possible to attach files to messages?

 

[bmwdroid]

....
Or not. Anyone knows why it isn't possible to attach files to messages?

For me it was yesterday.

 

[kmmo]

For me it was yesterday.

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I manually checked for Lineage os update and the update was confirmed. Is there a patch for Wi-Fi disconnection in the latest update?

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[bmwdroid]

I manually checked for Lineage os update and the update was confirmed. Is there a patch for Wi-Fi disconnection in the latest update?

No idea.
Ask the dev.
I answered to the file attaching question.

 

[Craftyawesome]

Sources in op seem outdated. It would be nice to update, even if I couldn't spot any changes that weren't from upstream.

I manually checked for Lineage os update and the update was confirmed. Is there a patch for Wi-Fi disconnection in the latest update?

There is a changelog on the download page that lists commits. It does show "Add sepolicy for qtiwifiservice to interact with IWifi hidl". Don't know if this is enough to fix it.

It seems to be a qualcomm specific change from upstream lineage https://github.com/LineageOS/androi...mmit/24b6f4de5642592add42fe74c9bac27f1d59cc31

 

[kmmo]

Sources in op seem outdated. It would be nice to update, even if I couldn't spot any changes that weren't from upstream.


There is a changelog on the download page that lists commits. It does show "Add sepolicy for qtiwifiservice to interact with IWifi hidl". Don't know if this is enough to fix it.

It seems to be a qualcomm specific change from upstream lineage

thank you for your interest and reply

 

[phoval]

It just a build with last lineage sources sync
I don't reproduce wifi disconnection on my two devices.
I never had it, send me log with disconnect

 

[ALEX_ANDER]

It just a build with last lineage sources sync
I don't reproduce wifi disconnection on my two devices.
I never had it, send me log with disconnect

Phoval, do you plan to implement the function to format the external sd card as adoptable storage with another update?

 

[kmmo]

I can inform that there has been a drastic imrovement in the quality of the WiFi. And I am not really sure what that depends on. Only thing I've done was to install magisk and syslog - in preparation for taking logs to help the dev with the WiFi issue. Machines...

So now for more than an hour I have only once seen that the WiFi signal has dropped but came back again by itself before it affected the music streaming I was doing from the device.

The bluetooth streaming itself has been quite steady until I opened the XDA page to write a new comment here. So now at the moments it's stuttering quite much but then calms down again. Do you need a log for that too, @phoval ?

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Aaaaaaaand there it was again. I guess the log is in order. Sending it on PM.

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Or not. Anyone knows why it isn't possible to attach files to messages?

If you have a successful log due to wifi disconnection issue, please send it to phoval. I'm asking because I don't know how. Check out the comment above by phoval. Maybe after checking, I expect something helpful

 

[bmwdroid]

...I'm asking because I don't know how. ...

see my post 140

 

[ctin1]

Many thanks to the developers! This ROM is working really well for me.

One note: when I first installed it it was quite slow, especially when switching between apps. The lag disappeared when I disabled gesture navigation and the nav bar and reverted to using the hardware buttons.

I'm impressed with how well this little tablet is holding up. I started using it again after it sat for a few years. It had a sticky back but that cleaned up with IPA and lint free wipes. It also rebooted randomly after I dropped it years ago. I fixed that recently by opening it up and reseating the battery connector.

 

[prkfsz]

I did manage to pull some logs but for some reason it is not possible to send them directly from the device. They could be sent by email which i offered to do, but so far no answer from the developer that probably is really busy. And I don't want to attach the logs here in the chat.

So i figured i would describe the wifi issues so ppl, and perhaps the dev can try and reproduce them.

It always happens while using Newpipe. More often when i am listening to Newpipe and streaming via bluetooth over to the stereo. And it happens ALWAYS when i am trying to download something within Newpipe app, that usually causes immediate wifi drop. Sometimes i even get a random restart. I hardly ever get wifi drop while just browsing, but it happens. I remembered a while back dev Valera, that was maintaining this tab before, made wifi patches for LOS 16 och 17. I tried them just for the hell of it, but of course i just managed to get a boot loop...

Then if i do manage to download something in Newpipe, it is not possible to play it directly in Newpipe. I get an error saying that no app is installed that can handle that sort of content (which there is of course). So if i want to play the downloaded content i have to go via file explorer. I figured it might have something to do with the apps permissions. When i check in settings and the list of default apps there are no apps listed for playing media. And there is no available menus for giving some app required permissions. I tried to give Newpipe unrestrected access, but that didn't help. Perhaps this issue is related to the previously mentioned impossibility to attach the logfile directly from the device?

I did clean install coming from stock the first time, and from LOS20 the second time. Same result, even more bugs the second time. Latest TWRP. The same with or without magisk, that works as expected.

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I went back to LOS19. WiFi is perhaps more stable but downloading within Newpipe causes exactly the same sort of symptoms, wifi-drops, downloading error and even random reboot sometimes. I don't get anything like this on any of my other devices, some running on LOS19 for instance.

 

[pocketrule]

... it happens ALWAYS when i am trying to download something within NewPipe app, that usually causes immediate wifi drop. Sometimes i even get a random restart...

System:
* SM-T320
* Bootloader: T320XXU1BQB2
* lineage-20.0-20230401-UNOFFICIAL-mondrianwifi.zip
* Magisk 26.0
* BiTGApps-arm-13.0.0-v1.9_signed.zip (without setting up a google account)
* TWRP 3.7.0_9-0
* Clean install (format data and factory reset)

I've got no problems downloading videos with NewPipe

... Then if i do manage to download something in NewPipe, it is not possible to play it directly in NewPipe. I get an error saying that no app is installed that can handle that sort of content ...

When I click on a downloaded video (in NewPipe), I have to choose with which app to play. Both apps, i.e. MiXplorer and the built-in Gallery play the videos without problems.

You could try one of the following:
* Check if you have the latest bootloader / baseband for your device
* Check other WIFI acess points
* Check other frequency (2.4 vs. 5 GHz) / channels
* Go back to the (most recent) stock rom, check if it's better, start from scratch

 

[kmmo]

According to my experience, disconnected Wi-Fi is a chronic problem in LineageOS. Don't waste time trying to change OS version or reinstall. Infinite thanks to the developers, but I wonder why this issue isn't fixed with every new version. Of course, the normal use time is longer, and it may be my own problem. The important thing is that it doesn't automatically try to reconnect right away when the Wi-Fi is disconnected. If we can't fix the disconnection issue, we're hoping for a patch to force an immediate and quick reconnection river attempt when disconnected.

 

[Craftyawesome]

IIRC it started happening to me when I switched from official lineage 13 to unofficial 16 (and neither default or wifi patch fully worked). But I haven't noticed a specific way to trigger it, I can check newpipe later. It also usually comes back in less than a minute for me when it does happen.

 

[prkfsz]

According to my experience, disconnected Wi-Fi is a chronic problem in LineageOS. Don't waste time trying to change OS version or reinstall. Infinite thanks to the developers, but I wonder why this issue isn't fixed with every new version. Of course, the normal use time is longer, and it may be my own problem. The important thing is that it doesn't automatically try to reconnect right away when the Wi-Fi is disconnected. If we can't fix the disconnection issue, we're hoping for a patch to force an immediate and quick reconnection river attempt when disconnected.

I must say this is not really my experience. I have/had many devices and phones through the years, right now even a N5110 that is running on the LOS19 without any wifi problems whatsoever. I'd say that it's something with this particular device that is making it difficult for the developers. The previos maintainer, Valera, had to make a wifi-patch for several LOS versions...

System:
* SM-T320
* Bootloader: T320XXU1BQB2
* lineage-20.0-20230401-UNOFFICIAL-mondrianwifi.zip
* Magisk 26.0
* BiTGApps-arm-13.0.0-v1.9_signed.zip (without setting up a google account)
* TWRP 3.7.0_9-0
* Clean install (format data and factory reset)

I've got no problems downloading videos with NewPipe


When I click on a downloaded video (in NewPipe), I have to choose with which app to play. Both apps, i.e. MiXplorer and the built-in Gallery play the videos without problems.

You could try one of the following:
* Check if you have the latest bootloader / baseband for your device
* Check other WIFI acess points
* Check other frequency (2.4 vs. 5 GHz) / channels
* Go back to the (most recent) stock rom, check if it's better, start from scratch

Thank you kindly for your answer, @pocketrule !
Not sure about the bootloader/baseband for the device, i thought i had the latest since i got the device recently and the last update it had was of course years back, since it is quite old. But i will check that, and the roms, perhaps try several. It is strange that some devices are having the issue and the others are not.
As for wifi itself - not sure what you mean by 'other access points'. You mean other wifi-networks? The one that I am using is my home network, only 5Ghz, and none of my other devices has any problems with connection.

 

[cwokel]

I had njo problems with wifi at the beginning of using this lineageos version, but I have the impression that it is getting worse, with continuous dropouts. When I turn off wifi and on again, it seems to work smooth for a while. I also noticed that sometimes the tablet shuts down withnout any reason while it is charging. Maynbe disconmecting the battery will solve it. Anyway I am whining on a high level, overall I am glad with this rom