[ROM][UNOFFICIAL][12 L][ I9305 ][ LineageOS 19.1 ][BETA]

[EeeK]

Maybe wrong TWRP used.

must it be TWRP 3.5.2? I'm using the latest twrp-3.6.1_9-0-i9305.img

 

[html6405]

must it be TWRP 3.5.2? I'm using the latest twrp-3.6.1_9-0-i9305.img

No this one should be compatible,
if you're flashing my LOS 19.1 ROM, everything must fit!

Wipe the system and do a factory reset, reboot into recovery and try a new installation.
If it still fails, share the recovery log with me.

 

[html6405]

Update 04.04.2022:

• Re-Implemented and enabled boeffla sound

 

[fyeungsy]

Update 04.04.2022:

• Re-Implemented and enabled boeffla sound

Finally, I used this Rom + Mindtheapps, and working fine now.
SIM function is working perfectly, and the ROM should be more smooth than Android 11.
I believe it is related the Open Gapps

 

[lpedia]

@html6405, this ROM is amazing! I've just re-installed using the latest version (I had gone back to 18.1 after trying out the first 19.0 for a while), gappsless and not rooted, and it's very smooth.

SIM was detected during LOS setup and is working. The only issue I've seen so far is that on-screen navigation doesn't seem to be working. If I select that, there are no nav buttons visible. But hardware nav is working fine, so that's not a show-stopper.

I particularly like that LOS setup automatically selected the correct timezone!

 

[EeeK]

Update 04.04.2022:

• Re-Implemented and enabled boeffla sound

Just use the Updator to upgrade to this version and installed MindTheGapps but playstore kinda stuck with a "You're offline" message.

Want to reflash again, does the Updator export update works?

 

[html6405]

Great news,
now you can download my app to access all boeffla settings like boeffla sound and also charging controls.
More features will follow .

Exynos4 Kernel Manager - Apps on Google Play

This app provides Boeffla sound control and other kernel + charging tweaks

play.google.com

 

[html6405]

Update 19.04.2022:

• Synced with LineageOS sources

 

[djyahoo]

Hi and thank you again for your work, @html6405 !
I am testing this ROM on my second i9305 (yes, I own two S3 LTE ).
Yet it seems to be quite good but... I have got some problems with Play Store. Any attempt to install an app stucks on "pending" message. Tried to wipe app cache, to wipe "cache / dalvik cache" from twrp, but it is a fail.
Of course my network connection is OK - browser is functional.

I installed MindTheGapps (MindTheGapps-12.1.0-arm-20220416_173154), should I try a previous version (e.g. the one quoted by @Captain Kangaroo ?).

I read you quote "MicroG", I don't know it but is it a "OpenGapps / MindTheGapp-like app" ? It doesn't seem to use PlayStore isn't there any hazard to use this kind of store app (and yes, I know you gonna to reply "not much more than installing the rom provided by @html6405... )?

Thank you for your advices,

 

[djyahoo]

Hi and thank you again for your work, @html6405 !
I am testing this ROM on my second i9305 (yes, I own two S3 LTE ).
Yet it seems to be quite good but... I have got some problems with Play Store. Any attempt to install an app stucks on "pending" message. Tried to wipe app cache, to wipe "cache / dalvik cache" from twrp, but it is a fail.
Of course my network connection is OK - browser is functional.

I installed MindTheGapps (MindTheGapps-12.1.0-arm-20220416_173154), should I try a previous version (e.g. the one quoted by @Captain Kangaroo ?).

I read you quote "MicroG", I don't know it but is it a "OpenGapps / MindTheGapp-like app" ? It doesn't seem to use PlayStore isn't there any hazard to use this kind of store app (and yes, I know you gonna to reply "not much more than installing the rom provided by @html6405... )?

Thank you for your advices,

I "self reply"

Eyyykh.... a strange thing : actually, if I disable WI-FI and just rely on my "mobile data", Play store then begins to download and install the app !

So here is the situation for me : at the moment, everything seems to be cool (with MindtheGap). App download from Playstore DO require to disable WI-FI and rely only on mobile data. However, there are some "lags", very noticeable, that does not exist with Lineage 18 from @html6405 . I am going on with testing this rom...

 

[Captain Kangaroo]

I "self reply"

Eyyykh.... a strange thing : actually, if I disable WI-FI and just rely on my "mobile data", Play store then begins to download and install the app !

So here is the situation for me : at the moment, everything seems to be cool (with MindtheGap). App download from Playstore DO require to disable WI-FI and rely only on mobile data. However, there are some "lags", very noticeable, that does not exist with Lineage 18 from @html6405 . I am going on with testing this rom...

I have a very limited use of this device (no radio Sim, no or very few internet traffic via wifi) and as I experienced problems when installing any Gapps – device became laggy and did,t update via wifi - I use it gappless and installed very few apps via *.apk.

Also, I succeded rooting with Magisk; but device became very laggy with no response of some apps. Now, I'm happy to use my device as a PDA.

Good luck to @djyahoo for his/her experiments and thank you again to @html6405 for the great work.

Last Update 19.04.2022 via OTA went very well.

 

[djyahoo]

I confirm : the phone became very laggy for the second time, after a few hours of "passive use".

Here is a "htop" screenshot :

There are duplicate processes (com.android.phone, com.android.systemui, com.android.messaging...), sometimes for different users, sometimes with the same user.

And moreover : only two cores over the four are "online" ! (update : same situation for lineage 18, though... on lineage 14 there were 4 CPUs online).

For this session, I have only done a "sms backup and restore" restoration of my sms, nothing else for this session. And now it's over but phone is still unusable as it....is.....verrryyyyy.... slow

After a reboot, note that I still have duplicate processes and only two cores online, but there is no more lag at this time.
New info after reboot : the nofication bar showed a pending task "Google Speech services - waiting for a network connection"... but I had a network connection (mobile data without wifi). And this time... as soon as i set the wi-fi on, the download began. Very difficult to understand :
- Play store is only OK with WI-FI off / mobile data on
- Updates are only OK with WI-FI on
This time, after only 30 minutes after reboot, doing nothing, I can see that the device lags again.

 

[djyahoo]

Hi guys, here are some news from this rom on my device.

Some CPUs are switching between offline and online. At boot time, the four CPUs are online :

and after a while, some CPU become offline... but then can recover (see CPU 2)

and there is a possibility that they become all online after that :

It may be the expected behaviour... but the fact that two CPUs were offline while the phone was heavy lagging is surprising.

 

[djyahoo]

So far are the results of my tests...

What I have tested and is working :

• Audio calls
• SMS / MMS
• Camera
• Speakers and microphone (tried with voice recorder at this time)
• Wifi and mobile data (but there are some problems - see below)
• USB connection with PC (ADB + MTP)
• Nearby share
• Screenshots
• Sound and micro are good under most of use cases (headset, handset, speakers etc...) : I used to deal with sound and mic problems with previous version of Lineage (14 then 18), but now it seems to be better in this rom, congratulations
• Screen split mode works only by swiping up (to view running apps) then clicking on an app logo / "display at top".

What is not working :

• Device become laggy after a while (until it become unusable at all)
• Strange behaviour with network connection at the first days of use : sometimes I have to disable wifi and rely only on mobile data, sometimes I have to enable WI-FI to make an app working with internet... and sometimes, for a given use case at two different times, the solution can differ (either enable o disable WI-FI)... EDIT 28/04/2022 : now this problem doesn't seem to exist anyore, very weird because I changed nothing...
• Settings in the gallery app (blank screen)
• Adding contacts to the emergency settings (yes I know, it is not a high priority bug...)
• Screen split mode by tile shortcut (via swipe down)
• Bluetooth with car : pairing is OK but no sound and no microphone... and after that there is no sound anymore for any call even without bluetooth : no other way than rebooting After some minutes of bluetooth pairing, phone begins to be very laggy, too.
• Bluetooth with headset : pairing ok but sound/microphone sound is very very low.
• The "type your sim code" screen is VERY slow to come. You sometimes have to wait for one or two minutes after unlocking before this screen is shown. At the beginning, I thought it was a problem with sim recognition.
• GPS fix is pretty bad - much more than my other i9305 with LOS 18.1. Tried with some other gps.conf, just a little better but still not as good as my other i9305. Didn't tried yet with the app pointed by @html6405 in this post.

I haven't experienced random reboot, afaic

Some problem above make this rom unsable in real life, for me. Lineage 18.1 is much much more usable at this time.
I am going to test the new Lineage 18.1, update 20.04.2022. EDIT 28/04/2022 : I resumed trying yesterday to test this device with this rom, and it is weird because now the phone is nearly usable in real ife : no connection problem and the phone become laggy after hours (less than a day, though) - except if I make a bluetooth pairing (lags come quickly in this case and blutooth is not functional anyway).

Here is a last_kmsg file, after a reboot I had to do because of heavy slowdown... but there were NO crash, so I don't know if this file will worth an analysis. Moreover, for this session, I removed the sim and sd card to check if it could be related to the lags (and it is not, at last).
I tried with different batteries (I tried the one used for my other device with Lineage 18, which works fine), for no change.

Please note that I haven't installed Magisk (device is not rooted).

Have a good day !

 

[2uPGodCnrwa]

I fixed the slowdown problem by editing the file /vendor/etc/init/tweaks.rc :
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_max_limit 1600000
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_min_limit 800000

the cpuinfo app gives frequencies from 200 to 1700 anyway…

I have tested cpufreq_min_limit 200000 but phone become lag as well, no other test

This work on i9300 but made the battery drain very quickly for me.

Devices with magisk and no gapp

 

[djyahoo]

I fixed the slowdown problem by editing the file /vendor/etc/init/tweaks.rc :
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_max_limit 1600000
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_min_limit 800000

the cpuinfo app gives frequencies from 200 to 1700 anyway…

I have tested cpufreq_min_limit 200000 but phone become lag as well, no other test

This work on i9300 but made the battery drain very quickly for me.

Devices with magisk and no gapp

Thank you for sharing, I'm gonna give it a try on my i9305 (and I was ready to uninstall this 19.1 ROM today, so you just changed my plan ) ?

 

[djyahoo]

@html6405 In this ROM there is another small problem : the length needed in order to swipe up the "unlock screen" is way way to long to drag. We have to swype from the bottom of the screen to the nearly top of the screen, otherwise it is a "swipe up fail".
This problem seems to be known :
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/6wk0nb/_/dm8oth6
And the fix worked for me :

1. settings put global HIC_enable 0
2. reboot
3. enjoy

 

[djyahoo]

I fixed the slowdown problem by editing the file /vendor/etc/init/tweaks.rc :
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_max_limit 1600000
setprop sys.power.cpufreq_min_limit 800000

the cpuinfo app gives frequencies from 200 to 1700 anyway…

I have tested cpufreq_min_limit 200000 but phone become lag as well, no other test

This work on i9300 but made the battery drain very quickly for me.

Devices with magisk and no gapp

So.... unfortunately, no so good news for me.

First, in case it could help further readers : these settings does not survive across reboot.

Now the results : what is good with these settings is that shutting off or restarting process is much quicker than with the standard configuration (I noticed that the process of boot and shut down is, by default, much more slower whith ROM 19 than with Lineage 18.1).


The primary use case for me, in order to make the device severely lagging quickly, is to bluetooth pairing it with my car : the lag comes neary instantely after first attempt to call anybody. Well, with the two settings max_limit and min_limit, the lag come gain.
Note that by forcing cpu_governor to "performance", the lags stops immediately. But as I am not rooted, it is not very easy for me to force performance governor (and I found no way to set it at startup).

Though I forced cpu governor to "performance" and the two settings for cpu frequencies, I just had again the problem with the "black locked screen with light yellow notification led on (not binking)" : no way to wake up from this state, and adb connection is down.


And I noticed again some problems with sim card :

• Several mobile connection losses during the day (at the same location, where I have a good signal). Generally it recovers by itself. I thought my sim card was involved in this problem, but I just received a new replacement for my Sim card and the problem is still there.
• sometimes it requires to try several reboot before getting the "type your pin code" screen (@html6405 already warned us about this problem)

For me the ROM would be useable as a "everyday phone" :

• with cpu_governor set to performance by default (or at least with a fix for the slowdown problems)
• with a fix for bluetooth sound and microphone problem
• with a fix for the "black locked screen with light yellow notification led on (not binking)" with no way to make the device "displaying something again"
• with a fix for the GPS (with the same gps.conf than my other device i9305 with LOS18.1 that can find a 3d fix quite easily, the gps reception is very bad for this LOS19.1 - very hard to have 3d fix)
• with the fix for the "swipe up to unlock

As a remind, I am under LOS19.1 last version / Gapps pico.

Have a good day !

 

[2uPGodCnrwa]

So.... unfortunately, no so good news for me.

First, in case it could help further readers : these settings does not survive across reboot.

Now the results : what is good with these settings is that shutting off or restarting process is much quicker than with the standard configuration (I noticed that the process of boot and shut down is, by default, much more slower whith ROM 19 than with Lineage 18.1).


The primary use case for me, in order to make the device severely lagging quickly, is to bluetooth pairing it with my car : the lag comes neary instantely after first attempt to call anybody. Well, with the two settings max_limit and min_limit, the lag come gain.
Note that by forcing cpu_governor to "performance", the lags stops immediately. But as I am not rooted, it is not very easy for me to force performance governor (and I found no way to set it at startup).

Though I forced cpu governor to "performance" and the two settings for cpu frequencies, I just had again the problem with the "black locked screen with light yellow notification led on (not binking)" : no way to wake up from this state, and adb connection is down.


And I noticed again some problems with sim card :

• Several mobile connection losses during the day (at the same location, where I have a good signal). Generally it recovers by itself. I thought my sim card was involved in this problem, but I just received a new replacement for my Sim card and the problem is still there.
• sometimes it requires to try several reboot before getting the "type your pin code" screen (@html6405 already warned us about this problem)

For me the ROM would be useable as a "everyday phone" :

• with cpu_governor set to performance by default (or at least with a fix for the slowdown problems)
• with a fix for bluetooth sound and microphone problem
• with a fix for the "black locked screen with light yellow notification led on (not binking)" with no way to make the device "displaying something again"
• with a fix for the GPS (with the same gps.conf than my other device i9305 with LOS18.1 that can find a 3d fix quite easily, the gps reception is very bad for this LOS19.1 - very hard to have 3d fix)
• with the fix for the "swipe up to unlock

As a remind, I am under LOS19.1 last version / Gapps pico.

Have a good day !

did you modify the file /vendor/etc/init/tweaks.rc and delete the line setprop sys.power.cpufreq_max_limit 1200000 ?
I also deactivated boeffla after a sound problem…

I also have disconnections or loss of network (restart required) and the "swipe to unlock" problem, the gps is correct (by modifying the gps.conf), and no black screen problem.

 

[html6405]

@html6405 In this ROM there is another small problem : the length needed in order to swipe up the "unlock screen" is way way to long to drag. We have to swype from the bottom of the screen to the nearly top of the screen, otherwise it is a "swipe up fail".
This problem seems to be known :
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/6wk0nb/_/dm8oth6
And the fix worked for me :

1. settings put global HIC_enable 0
2. reboot
3. enjoy

I could disable HIC by default, I will give it a try how it works disabled, If I can see a improvement, I will publish it with the next update.