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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
[MENTION=4122877]curiousrom[/MENTION] For the Google Camera idk, it popped up once in Playstore as i searched for some Google Apps... Its still in my Apps list and i did not modify anything just using normal GApps from Open GApps.. Ap version of my GCam is 2.5.053 throught... I will try to update to 2.7 now :) I dont record any video and just a few pics sometimes to remember stuff

Anyway as you are the "wisdom" of this thread, i have some questions:

1. Lowest brightness. Its much too high, it burns my eyes at night. Is there any way to lower it? Custom Kernels can lower it, but i would like to stick with stock LOS Kernel. That would be really great!

(I allready tried to edit the build.prop value ro.lcd.min.brightness to 1,10,5 and 0 but they dont have any effect after reboot...)

2. AFAIK (please correct me if im wrong) we have an AMOLED panel. So basically only active "colored" pixel's are lit by theyself and black pixels ar off at all and from my experience with newer AMOLED panels those black pixels are as black as they are when screen is off - now i noticed that in many cases those black pixels (black backgrounds are lit) still have some kind of background light ?! Is our tech just old or its something other?

Thanks in advance!

Also thanks for the zip for the button swap! I just looked into the wrong files, duh...

peace!

EDIT: Also i noticed something great, because the FC popup upon un-/installling apps, i disabled MTP Host in app settings. Funny thing i noticed is that i can still connect my phone to PC as allways - even MTP host is still disabled.. win-win :) thank you forkbomb!!!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] shahamk34:
After the july 5 update , the lineage music app can't play anything. But mx player could play audio in both sw and hw decoder. I tried to open an audio from files app to music, it showed a toast saying "media sever timed out". I have seen that many times and a restart will correct this problem . But this time even after restart , it said the same. So I tried clearing data of music app, cm audio services and media storage and restarted. But it didn't work. After this my music app don't showed any audio files. So I triggered media scanning from settings -developer option- dev tools- media provider - scan. But no luck. I can't play music from music app via any filemanager. The music app showed no files. So tried wiping cache and dalvic cache. That too don't worked. At last i restored a backup from 15 june and it solved the problem.

Do anyone have the same problem with the latest update?

Note: my s3 is pure lineage with gapps nano and lineage su addon.nothing else.

EDIT: AFTER RESTORING THE BACKUP, I UPDATED TO 5 TH JULY VIA LINEAGE UPDATER. NOW THERE IS NO PROBLEM.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] vuut:
my S3 turn off power.then plugin power changing it not wakeup....
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] DienoX:
Could you record a movie how to install Debian on I9300? It would be very nice if all files were built before.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
S3, The Movie!

Here you go:

[YOUTUBE]rSCBvu_kijo[/YOUTUBE]

I would prefer a movie with the S3 running official LineageOS 15.1 Oreo. ;)

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] DienoX:
My S3 has a broken display. I have been using S5 + and S7 for a long time, so I do not need Oreo for I9300. And the working GNU / Linux on the mainline kernel supposedly can be built for I9300.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Ashraf Iraqian:
Please make sure You enabled the "wake on plug"

Go to Settings > Display > and you will see "Wake On Plug" then Enable it. :good:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] vuut:
OMG:good::good::good::good:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] lkmr:
forkbomb444 has been working on HW composer since last October. That's 9 month ago. Last update on progress was in April, 3 month ago :(

I feel like Android 8 is not gonna happen, my battery is behaving like it has a month left to live (already replaced it once a few years ago) so I'm thinking about just buying a new phone and be done with s3 since it seems like no real development is taking place anymore...
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
He just commited one hour ago. Are you sure you are following his progress?

https://github.com/fourkbomb
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
Oreo or Die!

But what do you expect from Oreo if S3 i9300 ever gets it? Do you think the RAM will magically jump to 2GB or the CPU will boost by 20% or the GPU will suddenly support OpenGL 3.0?

I bought a third-party Bastex battery for less than $10 two months ago & it holds pretty well. I estimate the real capacity at about 1,900~2,000 mAh. Would have gotten an Anker but it was not available to be shipped to a friend's country who brought it to me.

If you think that the newest is the best then maybe you could sell your S3 to somebody who can use it & buy a new phone w/ better specs if you can afford it.

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] gabyzen:
I think that the s3 is dead but android Go its made for a phone with 1gb of ram so that version of Oreo is a good choice
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] renzreyes21:
Is forkbomb444 working on regular or go version of oreo?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
Android Go in the Garbage Please - Go Apps

"...the s3 is dead... - Oh My Gosh! I have been using a dead S3 running LineageOS 14.1 as my daily driver for the last 7 months & I did not even know that it was dead!!! :eek:

Any suggestion on how we can tell the 40,000+ i9300 users running Lineage the bad news???? https://stats.lineageos.org/ (Active installs means devices pinging almost everyday to the Lineage servers.)

And how about all the other S3 users running other custom firmwares & all the others running stock Samsung firmware??? They need to know too!!!!

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Android Go - Do It Yourself

"...android Go ...is a good choice" - Make any Android 4.4+ act like Go: [MOD] Low-RAM Property Patcher for Android. I did not try that flashable zip file so read the thread. Edit: I did manually add the line ro.config.low_ram=true to the /system/build.prop & rebooted to enable the Low RAM Flag & will post about it after testing.

More technical details about the Low RAM Configuration Flag: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/perf/low-ram

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Android Go Apps & Lite Apps

Get Go apps in Play Store: YouTube Go (too much calling home & background stuff for my taste 38~50MB RAM usage, check in Privacy Guard too), Files Go (SD Maid is much better IMO) & Google Maps Go (it's using Chrome, I prefer the full version, see XDA article linked below). While Play Store says Google Go is not available in my country when searching on the S3 or "This app is incompatible with your device" when searching on my PC, I downloaded Google Go from apkmirror & it works on S3 i9300 LineageOS 14.1.

Play Store says about Gmail Go and Google Assistant Go: "This app is incompatible with your device" Min: Android 8.1 (Oreo, API 27).

While I found a Gboard Go on apkmirror (lite) it says (arm64) (320dpi) (Android 8.1+).

I don't know if there is other Go apps compatible w/ S3 i9300 running LineageOS 14.1.

Some third-party lite apps: Facebook Lite, Facebook Messenger Lite, Twitter Lite, Skype Lite and a bunch of apps with lite in their name which often does not mean much except that there is a paid version of it in many cases.

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Lineage is already debloated & does not include Google apps so no Go for me. See [MOD] link above which I don't need because I applied these: S3 LineageOS 14.1 Battery Optimization

Recent XDA article: Android Go – How does Google’s lightweight ecosystem compare to the original?

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] vuut:
Me too. S3's hardware not support

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Ashraf Iraqian:
hello guys

i see many posts in thread just like an chatting about phone is dead or it is will not get Oreo or when we will get it etc..!

Please don't post anything like these topics anymore , the threads in XDA created for asking to fix any issues in the ROM you have.

with my respect to all :highfive:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ZjemCiKolege:
[MENTION=5405215]forkbomb444[/MENTION] can you say as what works on mainline kernel linux/android what uboot give as what is current status of work? site from may no updated ?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
Linux kernel on Samsung's midas Boards - S3 - Note 2

Why not include some links to what you are referring to? :cool:

You are asking about stuff needed to boot a mainline Linux kernel on Samsung's midas boards: Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300, GT-I9305, SHV-E210K/L/S) & Galaxy Note 2 (GT-N7100, GT-N7105).

Developers are not known for updating their blog frequently or give verbose explanations about their commits: Bunch of Links: S3 i9300 LineageOS, Developer & Oreo Project >>> Simon Shields blog: http://blog.forkwhiletrue.me/pages/midas-mainline/

If you want to see his most recent work check GitHub Simon Shields as fourkbomb https://github.com/fourkbomb and at the bottom of the page Contribution activity where you can see for July 2018 @ the present (with links):

Created 18 commits in 3 repositories

fourkbomb/android_device_samsung_midas 9 commits

fourkbomb/buildroot-external-midas 8 commits

fourkbomb/u-boot 1 commit

And for June 2018: Created 63 commits in 5 repositories.

It's a work in progress and there is no way to predict when it will be completed as unexpected problems arise all the time when developing major stuff like that.

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I added some Go apps links to the Android Go in the Garbage Please - Go Apps post above & enabled the Low RAM Flag on my S3 i9300 running LineageOS 14.1 and will report back after some testing. Not impressed so far. :(

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
At least he can give us some news about developement but he still said nothing after more than 2 months.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Blacksteelgrey:
hey guys, i have a strange issue with my battery, i don't know why but when i wake up my s3 after a while the battery autocharge it self with 1 or 2 percent more, this only happens in lienage os 14.1. anyone had this issue?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
I also have that and some guys also mentioned that.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Blacksteelgrey:
it's really strange.i'm using cyanogenmod 11 and it never happened in this version so i can confirm that is not a battery's problem. well, it's good to know that i'm not the only one with this, thanks for respond
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] karpacha:
I get that as well. So far I've only noticed it with Extreme power saving option enabled over night.

On a even rarer occasion, there's a gap in my battery chart. EDIT: It looks like it's only a rendering bug.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
I never used power saving.Mainly it happens after long usage and when battery is extremely low. It charges +2% in general but don't know what causes it. It wasn't happening on Stock Sam roms ,older CM's and LOS's.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] saamaanm:
Hi

I use wiper os daily for abut one year.

and I face this too sometimes.

I have to ask if your ROM is stable enough for daily use? I need to change my ROM to an updatable one but I afraid random restart and other serious suddenly issues
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Blacksteelgrey:
I use official lineage OS 14.1 with gapps pico and add-on su. the rom is very stable, but that issue still in this rom.

Another issue that i find is when i take a photo with flash in stock camera, it freez for a moment but it takes the photo with no problem.

Well the battery life is not great but is normal in this device

PD: Sorry for my bad inglish
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
Better Performance!!! Tested & works.

obsolete post. see new one 2 pages forward :)
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
I have bought new original battery (production date 3/2018) and battery life is awesome, atleast for this device. I can post SS later. Dont have any issues like the guy above, not even before...

For the ROM, bro, its absolutly rock stable, thats why its official LOS! Everything works great, no issues at all! Never had any random reboot. Just remember: if you use this ROM, DONT use magisk because Magisk causes bootloops. Use lineage ROOT addon.

If you want to get the fullest of the device, i recommend Hybrid Kernel with this ROM. Using it now for 3 weeks as my daily driver, no issues at all. This was just a backup phone, but the awesome sound from Boeffla made it my default phone :D Also, there is a nice write up by @ curiousrom what to do to get it really fluid! (basically most important think is to disable apps running in background & running at startup via LineageOS Privacy Manager, after that phone runs superb. ) With Hybrid Kernel, you can also use Magisk.

I have a pretty heavy setup with Ruthless (Pixel) Launcher with Google Assistant, substratum and xposed and this phone still runs very quick!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] frojnd:
My friend got his first "smart phone" an I9300. Now he has 4.3 preinstalled (official). He got it second hand with preinstalled apps and all. It feel sluggish. Then I thought hey I can install u lineageOS since it's official for S3. But then I found this link in the op thread: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76224958&postcount=4419 That is like a lot of issues for official lienageOS or is it just me? Do you guys experience some or all of those issues? Reason I'm asking is because he IS NOT a tech savy. I would install lineageOS if it's more responsive and stable as official. Otherwise I don't have time to play and install back official :( Any feedback welcome.

P.S. would installing micro gapps work as nano? (speed wise) He needs contacts calander and stuff synced.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] flotax:
MTP doesn't work :P
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Ashraf Iraqian:
1. not everybody got these issues on one device!

and must of them have been fixed.

you will get issues like the all info. in that post when you did something wrong while installing the Lineage OS ROM.

Read the introduction well and you will install it without any problems.

2. Gapps pico or nano is recommended for better RAM .

Good Luck
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
This device drives me crazy! I updated to latest build yesterday = Google Camera worked

Than i was tinkering a bit with system and go to a dead end, spent 2hrs to be able to keep my data. (had a backup of it) Anyway nothing helped and now there's no way i can get Google Camera to work, it crashes when trying to access it's settings... Allready tried to resolve this.. Uhhm...

And yesterday my display broke, it's still working but it's shattered. I guess i will switch back to good ol' simple phones!!!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
Yesterday you said it is fast with the build prop edits etc. but now saying it is a trouble-maker. Those are not official things and pretty much everything can happen.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] imperiuspt:
continuous reboot

hello

just updated my S3, now its on a continuous reboot. Enters into system, after a while it just reboots.

Also, the device now is always very hot in the back-bottom.

How to i go back to the previous firmware?

thanks
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
Those are not because those edits. I also tried clean install with inly rom and gapps and Google Camera still not worked.

It's indeed official, see the documentation on the Android Developer Site. It's support from 4.4 in
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] frojnd:
Ok. My elderly firend got LineageOS 14.1 with PICO openGapps. Unfortunately he has one "big" problem. He can't sync contacts with google. He has 2 google accounts and before I factory reset his phone we both made sure both google accounts had everything enabled under sync tab in official jelly bean rom. Now he added both google accounts and he can't seem to retrieve phone contacts.

I mentioned to him he can try with contacts.google.com and he says he can only see email addresses for both of google accounts. Which made me believe that maybe his real phone contacts were saved somewhere else. He mentioned he was using Microsoft Outlook and I suggested to him that he should try install outlook on a lineageos and see if he retrieves his contacts.

I feel bad I haven't manually made a backup of his contacts before wiping data. Any ideas if openGapps PICO syncs phone contacts?

I did copy/paste content of /sdcard before wiping data so is there a way to retrieve contacts from there?

Sorry if this is too off topic but I would really like to help him out.

EDIT: One more question. What app do you suggest for FM radio? No root please.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
In 4.3, Sync was a bit problematic. It shows as synced but it probably didn't sync it. First look for the contacts on the PC or using internet app and go to Google Contacts so you can see if it is synced or not. If it is not you can flash back to 4.3 (7.x.x doesn't can't import from Sim) and maybe it could be saved on Sim-card.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
Yesterday "ForkBomb" added a folder named as HWC which is in the "lineage-15.1" branch. I don't know it is working or not.

https://github.com/fourkbomb/android_device_samsung_midas/tree/lineage-15.1/hwc
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Marc0601:
He said that hwc isn't working yet
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
HWC 15.1 Premature Hope

I guess not because in that folder you can find hwc.cpp and in the bottom of it you can read: .name = "Dummy hwcomposer" ;)

And you can read here @ the present:

"midas: initial stub hwcomposer

doesn't even render things yet!"

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ArdaCsknn:
Yeah also noticed in the other file it is named as "lamecomposer". At least seeing some new things makes me happy.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Crescent Moon:
Which kernel is the best?

or should I continue with the stock?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] itachi uchia:
You may compare different kernels and find out, which is best for you.

I used long time stock kernel, now i am on hybrid v9 stable kernel and it is way better :)

Good luck!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
[MENTION=4122877]curiousrom[/MENTION]

thank you! I had to enable "change system settings" toggle in app info, that did the trick :D
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] curiousrom:
Update 2018-07-26 LineageOS S3, Security Bump & Thanks Dev!

Ah finally a LineageOS 14.1 for S3 i9300 update 2018-07-26 with some meat in it including a security bump to 2018-07-05 after the last 3 ones with nothing for the S3 except a few minor updates to the Updater.

The OTA update using the built-in Lineage Updater went smoothly & after enabling the Settings > Status bar > Network traffic monitor I could see that the download was speedy reaching my max internet connection download speed of 2.7Mb/s as seen in the screenshot.

It added a new option in > Settings > Status bar > Clock > Show seconds which is nice to have when you need it as seen in the screenshot.

You can see all the update changes in https://download.lineageos.org/i9300/changes/ and after opening them I notice several where our S3 maintainer & OP this thread Simon Shields/forkbomb was part of the Reviewers & that is besides his work here:

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/172576

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_vendor_cm/+/195941

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_CMParts/+/156589

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_hardware_samsung/+/219056

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_hardware_samsung/+/219792

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_hardware_samsung/+/219779

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_hardware_samsung/+/220048

Holy cr@p, does he have a life outside Lineage? :eek: Thanks for all the fish Simon! :good:

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[MENTION=5257316]bejunk[/MENTION] - One of the change here is related to the init.rc and the ro.config.low_ram which I did not try yet on this build.

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bejunk:
[UPDATE] enabling Google Assistant + Hotword working!!!

So after much testing here's my modded build.prop for 26/7 build which enables Google Assistant + Hotword!!!

Instructions:

1. flash my build.prop

2. In Google App tap that "My Day" icon (see screen) to get to it's screen. Then say "Okay Google" and finish the setup!

3. Done. From now on you can say everywhere when screen is ON "okay Google" to trigger it! (also in other apps or on lockscreen.)

IMPORTANT: DON'T go to speech settings as it will reset it and you will have to do the damn enabling tutorial again... :(

Consider downloading offline speech recognition. Enable Speech input as input method if not allready.

Cool stuff:

- Say "play xxxx in Phonograph" and it will play it :D works for spotify and possibly other music apps.

- Texting: You can say "text mom in whatsapp" or messages or send email to etc

- Much more to discover, Google app gives many tipps on this:good:

Works flawlessly, also after rebooting.

Just remember, do NOT go again to speech settings (toogle will allways stay off) else you need to do tutorial again..

~ LOW RAM CONFIG ~

it's not good and i dont use i anymore, because:

- disables dynamic display (auto night mode switching)

- disables features in G' camera

- other i dont remember

the speed benefits, came thru the other values listed below:

ro.sys.fw.bg_apps_limit=16
ro.config.max_starting_bg=4

these are not included in my current build.prop mod, because i want to test them more first, will update in the coming days.

Sorry for the confusion/inconvenience, but you'll know, curiosity is what drive us to new experiences :P

[MENTION=4122877]curiousrom[/MENTION] i looked in default & build prop but no sign of those values. Anyway thanks for the headsup! I also saw those commits few days ago and patiently waited for the update :D

bejunk.