Updating LineageOS 16.0 for microG via TWRP + feature test

[MetaNorm]

Thank you for your effort but since magic world runs flawless there is no reason for me to suffer through any setting up process for obsoleted or outdated tts engine. The pre-recorded speech package is out of the question, it’s dreadful

[le_trnsptr]

Hey, I upgraded to 16.0 and everything is all good, despite forgetting to sideload the modem file. What is it for? Should I install this?

[AnotherElk]

Please see #modemfiles.

[le_trnsptr]

Thank you. I was looking for a page like that but just couldn’t find it.

[JeroenH]

@AnotherElk

I found this here … https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/211988/default-text-to-speech-tts-engine-in-lineageos-16-0/212337 … suggesting the formerly used Pico TTS would now be dead and would not return, and as an Open Source alternative there’s Flite TTS on F-Droid … https://f-droid.org/en/packages/edu.cmu.cs.speech.tts.flite/

But there’s more to it than just installing it, I found further (German) hints here … https://forum.kuketz-blog.de/viewtopic.php?t=3401 .
Apparently you have to activate the engine in Settings - Accessibility - Text-to-speech output and you can also select a language there.

Ah, good old festival. Yeah, that is open source… and very old [1]… and the quality is… subpar, to put it friendly.

[1] festival/NEWS at master · festvox/festival · GitHub

[StevenHachel]

@anon43238275, what about this bug?
I did not think about it this morning and overslept.

(no alarm sounding with volume set too low)

Steven

[chrmhoffmann]

I dont know how to fix it
Chris

[StevenHachel]

Okay.

[AnotherElk]

• Encrypted phone (LineageOS 16.0 encryption, unchanged)

• addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (for Root access, unchanged)

• modem-19.05.2_2019-06-04.zip (unchanged)
  Baseband version: 4437.1-FP2-0-08 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android-Version)
  How to make your own modem.zip

Update Installed via custom TWRP 3.2.3 … although currently no luck with encryption.
TWRP 3.3.1-0 (Releases) seems to have trouble with encryption in general.

• lineage-16.0-20190708-microG-FP2.zip (Changelog)
  • Security patch level:
    up to date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    5 July 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)
  • Vendor security patch level:
    out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 April 2018 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

The following things work for me so far:

• call / be called
• send SMS / receive SMS
• internet via WiFi
• internet via mobile network
• location
• compass
• screenshot
• main camera (new module) works correctly with Open Camera, stock camera App not checked, didn’t operate the flash correctly last time I checked.
• main camera (new module) video recording
• selfie camera (new module)
• selfie camera (new module) video recording with stock camera App not checked, worked correctly last time I checked, Open Camera records only black if surrounding light is too dark or changes into too dark while you move.
• USB connection to PC / MTP
• alarm (no alarm sounding with volume set too low.)
• MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.12
• Root access (Settings - System - Advanced - Developer options - Root access)
• USB OTG
• WiFi hotspot
• Bluetooth (data connection, music playback … pairings survived the update)
• FM radio
• weather (Yorecast with my own OpenWeatherMap API Key, Weather Widget)

For reporting bugs see the bottom of this page.

[JeroenH]

Just a FYI. With LOS 16 + microG + latest TWRP I did a clean install without encryption. Then I enabled encryption. LOS updates work, flawless (not in the very beginning). The only issue I got is that I need to mount from terminal + OTG + USB key if I want to install say Magisk. Cause for the life of me I can’t find the sdcard mount point (if it even exists). In the past I needed to do the same for the LOS update.

[AnotherElk]

At long last, there’s an OpenWeatherProvider for 16.0 at https://download.lineageos.org/extras, but I didn’t try it yet.

Edit 1 day later: It works .

[AnotherElk]

• Encrypted phone (LineageOS 16.0 encryption, unchanged)

• addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (for Root access, unchanged)

• modem-19.05.2_2019-06-04.zip (unchanged)
  Baseband version: 4437.1-FP2-0-08 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android-Version)
  How to make your own modem.zip

Update Installed via custom TWRP 3.2.3 … although currently no luck with encryption.
TWRP 3.3.1-0 (Releases) seems to have trouble with encryption in general.

• lineage-16.0-20190812-microG-FP2.zip (Changelog)
  • Security patch level:
    up to date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 August 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)
  • Vendor security patch level:
    out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 April 2018 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

The following things work for me so far:

• call / be called
• send SMS / receive SMS
• internet via WiFi
• internet via mobile network
• location
• compass
• screenshot
• main camera (new module) works correctly with Open Camera, stock camera App not checked, didn’t operate the flash correctly last time I checked.
• main camera (new module) video recording
• selfie camera (new module)
• selfie camera (new module) video recording with stock camera App not checked, worked correctly last time I checked, Open Camera records only black if surrounding light is too dark or changes into too dark while you move.
• USB connection to PC / MTP
• alarm (no alarm sounding with volume set too low.)
• MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.12
• Root access (Settings - System - Advanced - Developer options - Root access)
• USB OTG
• WiFi hotspot
• Bluetooth (data connection, music playback … pairings survived the update)
• FM radio
• weather (OpenWeatherProvider with my own OpenWeatherMap API Key)

For reporting bugs see the bottom of this page.

[sky]

• Vendor security patch level:
  out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
  1 April 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

Think its 2018, isn‘t it?

We all would be happy if not, right?

[AnotherElk]

Thanks for noticing, corrected.
Curse you, copy and paste …

[AnotherElk]

• Encrypted phone (LineageOS 16.0 encryption, unchanged)

• addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (for Root access, unchanged)

• modem-19.05.2_2019-06-04.zip (unchanged)
  Baseband version: 4437.1-FP2-0-08 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android-Version)
  How to make your own modem.zip

Update Installed via custom TWRP 3.2.3 … although currently no luck with encryption.
TWRP 3.3.1-0 (Releases) seems to have trouble with encryption in general.

Don’t install lineage-16.0-20190827-microG-FP2.zip, as it will not boot, because it is based on a regular LineageOS build which doesn’t boot.

• lineage-16.0-20190819-microG-FP2.zip (Changelog)
  • Security patch level:
    up to date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 August 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)
  • Vendor security patch level:
    out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 April 2018 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

The following things work for me so far:

• call / be called
• send SMS / receive SMS
• internet via WiFi
• internet via mobile network
• location
• compass
• screenshot
• main camera (new module) works correctly with Open Camera, stock camera App not checked, didn’t operate the flash correctly last time I checked.
• main camera (new module) video recording
• selfie camera (new module)
• selfie camera (new module) video recording with stock camera App not checked, worked correctly last time I checked, Open Camera records only black if surrounding light is too dark or changes into too dark while you move.
• USB connection to PC / MTP
• alarm (no alarm sounding with volume set too low.)
• MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.12
• Root access (Settings - System - Advanced - Developer options - Root access)
• USB OTG
• WiFi hotspot
• Bluetooth (data connection, music playback … pairings survived the update)
• FM radio
• weather (OpenWeatherProvider with my own OpenWeatherMap API Key)

For reporting bugs see the bottom of this page.

[AnotherElk]

• Encrypted phone (LineageOS 16.0 encryption, unchanged)

• addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (for Root access, unchanged)

• modem-19.05.2_2019-06-04.zip (unchanged)
  Baseband version: 4437.1-FP2-0-08 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android-Version)
  How to make your own modem.zip

Update Installed via custom TWRP 3.2.3 … although currently no luck with encryption.
TWRP 3.3.1-0 (Releases) seems to have trouble with encryption in general.

• lineage-16.0-20190908-microG-FP2.zip (Changelog)
  • Security patch level:
    up to date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 August 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)
  • Vendor security patch level:
    out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 April 2018 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

The following things work for me so far:

• call / be called
• send SMS / receive SMS
• internet via WiFi
• internet via mobile network
• location
• compass
• screenshot
• main camera (new module) works correctly with Open Camera, stock camera App not checked, didn’t operate the flash correctly last time I checked.
• main camera (new module) video recording
• selfie camera (new module)
• selfie camera (new module) video recording with stock camera App not checked, worked correctly last time I checked, Open Camera records only black if surrounding light is too dark or changes into too dark while you move.
• USB connection to PC / MTP
• alarm (no alarm sounding with volume set too low.)
• MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.12
• Root access (Settings - System - Advanced - Developer options - Root access)
• USB OTG
• WiFi hotspot
• Bluetooth (data connection, music playback … pairings survived the update)
• FM radio
• weather (OpenWeatherProvider with my own OpenWeatherMap API Key … I don’t get a connection to OpenWeatherMap quite often lately … so updates to the weather status are still coming in, but not every time they should according to schedule)

For reporting bugs see the bottom of this page.

[JeroenH]

Can also report LOS with microG works once more, like a breeze. Just had issue that my microSD was not recognized after boot, and device was hot. After putting it off for a while and starting it, problem went away.

[AnotherElk]

In case anybody wonders … the 20190910 build is still at Security patch level 1 August 2019, so if you are on 20190908 there’s one less reason to bother.

[AnotherElk]

• Encrypted phone (LineageOS 16.0 encryption, unchanged)

• addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (for Root access, unchanged)

• modem-19.05.2_2019-06-04.zip (unchanged)
  Baseband version: 4437.1-FP2-0-08 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android-Version)
  How to make your own modem.zip

Update Installed via custom TWRP 3.2.3 … although currently no luck with encryption.
TWRP 3.3.1-0 (Releases) seems to have trouble with encryption in general.

• lineage-16.0-20190917-microG-FP2.zip (Changelog)
  • Security patch level:
    up to date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    5 September 2019 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)
  • Vendor security patch level:
    out of date (Settings - Security & location - Trust)
    1 April 2018 (Settings - About phone - tap on Android version)

The following things work for me so far:

• call / be called
• send SMS / receive SMS
• internet via WiFi
• internet via mobile network
• location (Edit: had some temporary problems reported starting here, which turned out to be unrelated to the build)
• compass
• screenshot
• main camera (new module) works correctly with Open Camera, stock camera App not checked, didn’t operate the flash correctly last time I checked.
• main camera (new module) video recording
• selfie camera (new module)
• selfie camera (new module) video recording with stock camera App not checked, worked correctly last time I checked, Open Camera records only black if surrounding light is too dark or changes into too dark while you move.
• USB connection to PC / MTP
• alarm (no alarm sounding with volume set too low.)
• MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.12
• Root access (Settings - System - Advanced - Developer options - Root access)
• USB OTG
• WiFi hotspot
• Bluetooth (data connection, music playback … pairings survived the update)
• FM radio
• weather (OpenWeatherProvider with my own OpenWeatherMap API Key … I don’t get a connection to OpenWeatherMap quite often lately … so updates to the weather status are still coming in, but not every time they should according to schedule)

For reporting bugs see the bottom of this page.

[JeroenH]

Have you tried (Mira)cast recently?