Oooh. Ohhh. Lineage 15.1 (testing)

_Chris · August 11, 2018, 8:20am

I restored Lineage OS 14.1 a few days ago, then updated to lineage-14.1-20180808-nightly.

Yesterday I did the upgrade to lineage-15.1-20180809-experimental and it went flawlessly.

no gapps
no microg
my FP2 was encrypted, no problems with that during the upgrade (I didn’t format data, so all data is still there)
even booting into TWRP and entering the password works again, so it is possible to access the encrypted data within TWRP (which didn’t work with the 15.1 test build)
UnifiedNlp was installed on 14.1 using the unifiednlp-minimal_2017-07-02.zip from @Roboe and to my surprise it is still working now on 15.1

So I’m now a happy Lineage OS 15.1 user

Thanks a lot @chrmhoffmann for your great work!

chrmhoffmann · August 11, 2018, 9:09am

As far as I know twrp decryption works if the device was encrypted with 14.1 (and then upgraded).

Chris

Roboe · August 11, 2018, 9:38am

What?! Excuse me, but are you sure? Does UnifiedNLP’s self-check reports all is working?
UnifiedNLP needs (at least) the privileged permission android.permission.INSTALL_LOCATION_PROVIDER on each boot and Android 8+ needs an special permission whitelist file which I didn’t started working on until yesterday.

Loesje · August 11, 2018, 10:33am

So you think it will get included, in the end, with some delay?

I unfortunately need Exchange/ActiveSync to sync my work mail/calendar/contacts. No 15.1 for me, yet…

_Chris · August 11, 2018, 10:57am

UnifiedNLP’s self-check reports the same as with lineage OS 14.1 - screenshot from today:

Roboe · August 11, 2018, 11:27am

Uh! Thank you! Good to know. Maybe the permission is only needed once, not in every boot, so Android registered UnifiedNlp as a location provider in Nougat and passed it configured to Oreo just fine. I doubt however it would work if installed newly on Oreo without the permission whitelist file, though.

chrmhoffmann · August 11, 2018, 12:46pm

Yes, you can use gmail’s exchange connector, too (if you have gapps).

No ETA for native lineage exchange connector. You can monitor progress here:
https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Exchange/+/211382/ and https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/LineageOS/android/+/213705/

Chris

Roboe · August 11, 2018, 2:14pm

I’d love to know if the ROM is pre-odexed prior to trying to install it, @chrmhoffmann, could you maybe dispel my doubts, please?

Zebrafax · August 11, 2018, 3:28pm

Is there a workaround to poweroff the phone? And how can you get to TWRP if the reboot to recovery doesn’t work?

Stefan · August 11, 2018, 3:32pm

Take the battery out.

See dic:recoverymode :

Or type adb reboot recovery when you are connected to a PC.

_Chris · August 11, 2018, 3:33pm

To get to TWRP just press the volume-up button during the restart of the phone or when turning on the phone (until it vibrates).

You can power off either from TWRP or (when your phone is encrypted) from the screen where you enter your PIN/password to decrypt the device.

Edit: @Stefan was faster

Ingo · August 11, 2018, 4:06pm

No, that’s the thing that is broken with Lineage 15.1

chrmhoffmann · August 11, 2018, 4:30pm

No, adb reboot recovery works fine here on lineage 15.1. The problem is the new camera module that must trigger some bug in kernel, so it crashes (or some other problem).

Chris

chrmhoffmann · August 11, 2018, 4:30pm

I think it’s odexed.

Chris

Ingo · August 11, 2018, 4:39pm

Yeah, forgot to mention about the new camera module.

But then the question was how to do a poweroff when the poster was affected by the new camera module problem. If you can’t poweroff then you also can’t adb reboot recovery because of the new camera module. Just happened for me a couple of minutes ago

chrmhoffmann · August 11, 2018, 4:41pm

Vol Up while rebooting brings you in recovery.

vthejay · August 11, 2018, 7:31pm

Hi, Could you post the fiddling you did, so that the others can easily do it? Thanks!!!

Chris_R · August 11, 2018, 7:53pm

@vthejay

I couldn’t run the script from within lineage, and got errors running it in twrp.

I used the zip referred to in the wiki in the end.

However I don’t know if that actually made the difference as of tried that before.

The short answer is no, unfortunately I can’t tell you what actually made the migration work successfully for me. I made 7 or 8 attempts in all

vthejay · August 11, 2018, 7:53pm

This migration zip here worked for me.

Roboe · August 11, 2018, 8:06pm

Thanks. I’ll wait for Lineage for microG then, to avoid blocking me off. Thanks for all the work!