Hi, did you wipe the device with the lineage recovery that I linked. Seems that there are problems with that. Can you try twrp? Btw: which filesystem? Ext4 or f2fs?
Chris
Hi, did you wipe the device with the lineage recovery that I linked. Seems that there are problems with that. Can you try twrp? Btw: which filesystem? Ext4 or f2fs?
Chris
Yeah, exactly. Not discussing new features here. You can ask lineage guys on irc.
Dont even ask about xposed. Not supported officially by lineage.
Chris
Yes.
And then installing via this recoveryās ADB sideload or via TWRP didnāt make a difference.
Can do next time.
Ext4 now that Iām back on 14.1 with reestablished encryption. Didnāt check before, sorry.
Would F2FS be better?
I remember , we talked about it a lot in Battery life in LineageOS
I have done some test recently but havenāt got the chance to update the thread yet. Hope I can spare some time soon.
Oh yes please without Gapps will be awesome !
And is update OTA will it be possible in future ?
When testing finishes and we got nightly official builds we will get everything we could expect from a regular ROM release of LOSās quality. Until then, asking about those is probably futile (not about other things device- or upgrade-specific, though).
Chris regularly posts here about his developments and asks for specific questions, like the main here: is something broken for you or do you had any problem updating/booting?
There seems to be a bug in lineage recovery and f2fs. And lineage recovery doesnāt wipe the crypto header. So please try again with twrp until the lineage recovery gets fixed.
Chris
But encryption was gone for me after wiping with the LineageOS recovery.
To clarify:
Before my first (failed) install I wiped everything with TWRP, but didnāt format data to keep encryption in place. That was the install that didnāt boot.
After that, I wiped everything with the LineageOS recovery, and the encryption was gone. Installing the test build afterwards did work, encrypting the phone with it didnāt work.
So I take it that next time I should do everything in TWRP again, but additionally get rid of the encryption by formatting data?
Related:
āWith the Android Oreo update, Google continues to polish the Android experience for all users. The update notably brings picture-in-picture mode support from Android TV, the Autofill Framework which replaces the need for password managersā laggy accessibility services, and notification channels for more fine-grained control over your notifications. In addition to these changes, some previously root-only tweaks such as theming your device no longer require root, so there are less reasons to root your phone. Still, for those of you who do root your devices, you now have another tool at your disposal: access to the Xposed Framework for Android Oreo (8.0/8.1).ā
https://www.xda-developers.com/xposed-framework-for-android-oreo-beta/
Is there a way to test this one while backing up my current OS (LOS+microG)?
Hereās what I do ā¦
Then I can wipe and format and test all I like, and if I want to have the old system back ā¦
And voilĆ ā¦ back on the old system as if nothing happened .
Edit for a slight correction: My ringtones arenāt back after the restore.
The system backup restores the ringtone settings, but as my custom ringtone files donāt come back until Internal Storage gets restored, the OS cleverly reverts to default sounds.
Cheers AnotherElk, that could be a nice one for #backup or something.
Gonna give it a whirl when Iām sober. I forgot about that MyPhoneExplorer application and used Titanium Backup in the past. How are people on non-Windows doing this?
I wonder. MyPhoneExplorer is one of only a few things still keeping me on Windows.
However, MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.7 seemed to work using Wine when connecting to the phone via WiFi.
Thatās what I would try first on Linux with the current MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.9.
Iām on MacOS and Iām doing backups of apps/data/some system prefs (user dictionary) via Titanium Backup (oandbackup has failed to restore data for me in the past). I then do system backups with TRWP and copy the whole thing (aka the virtual āsdcardā) to my Mac with adb (which can be installed via Homebrew). I use Androids pretty bad Android File Transfer app to copy audiobooks to the device sometimes
Ok, next try on encryption ā¦ coming from an encrypted phone with LineageOS 14.1. 20180711 ā¦
(TL;DR: Encryption works when prepared the right way, but TWRP canāt handle it afterwards.)
TWRP 3.2.2-0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 bs=4096 count=512
)Rebooted into TWRP to make sure encryption is gone (no request for the encryption password when starting).
Checked file systems (visible via Wipe - Advanced Wipe - [file system of choice] - Repair or Change File System) ā¦
system: ext4
cache: ext4
data: ext4
Installed test build (Install - Select Storage etc.).
Rebooted into LineageOS 15.1
Showed the Android robot for a moment, then rebooted and in the process somewhen showed the Android robot again and encrypted the phone.
So far, so good .
But ā¦ @z3ntu TWRP 3.2.2-0 canāt handle this encryption yet?
It prompts for the password (even if the setting in LineageOS 15.1 was āNoneā), but fails to decrypt. Even if I set a password (not a PIN like I used to) for the encryption in LineageOS 15.1 and Iām trying the correct password in TWRP.
And ā¦ @chrmhoffmann While a start pattern works, I noticed that regardless of whether I set a start PIN or a start password the phone then prompts me for a PIN and I can only enter numbers. Which isnāt intended when having set a password, I guess?
New version available (this time without gapps): https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=5862345805528054435
This should:
As I was coming from Ubuntu Touch who have their own recovery, I used the recovery image from the first post to install todayās image plus opengapps pico via sideload. Worked perfectly. First time wizard is completed, phone is up and running. Thanks
Iām thinking of posting my experience like AnotherElk does in Updating LineageOS via TWRP + feature test if thatās ok. Any problems Iād report/discuss here.
That is great to see!
Have you published the source code for this already? Iād like to build my own and play around with it a bit. Thanks!
Device config: https://github.com/chrmhoffmann/android_device_fairphone_FP2
Kernel: https://github.com/chrmhoffmann/android_kernel_fairphone_msm8974
Branch is staging/lineage-15.1
in both repos.