Official LineageOS 19 for Fairphone 3/3+

[HardCoreTec]

@Kariburger

Are the “security fixes” special to the FP3-Build of LineageOS 19? - or are they global for all LineageOS 19 ports to other devices?

Hi Achim, no they are not specific for FP3, these fixes are global and provided by Google or volunteers.

@Kariburger

Would it be possible to provide a test build without these security fixes in the former case? - then it would be possible to see if the problems with denied accesses are gone.
I already tried to grant to System-UI the missing access rights (according to the logs) - but it was not possible to set the needed access rights with the normal Setup-App - thus this has to be done by adb or whatever developer tool.

It’s not that easy as there are OTA-Updates provided in this release which restrict flashing old versions to the device without cleaning all data. Don’t know if this time is spent wisely with this approach as it also seems that the official non LOS FP3 build has this boot loop.

@Kariburger

At FAQs - NikGapps | NikGapps Website there is an interesting guideline to do a “clean flash” without loosing data. I’d try this, if there is a real chance to fix the access right problems. The strange thing is, that I find no other bug reports regarding “systemui” and “requires android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”.

Did you reflash the latest NikGApps over the old one and done all the steps I suggested here? This procedure should also work for users using NikGApps.

@Kariburger

So I suspect that this problem is very specific to this FP3 build of LineageOS 19. Am I wrong?

As the unofficial LOS FP4 release also ends up in a boot loop when GApps are installed with this update, you can see that there is a relationship to this fixes provided by the last update. And it seems that this is a bigger problem with Google Play Store, not (only) a LineageOS one.