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[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Javed ali:
Lots of custom rom here

Mokee. LineageOS. Resurrection remix. And many more. Out of these maximum roms are build on fire lord developer and miki.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] senseijtitus:
It would have been nice if the fp gestures could be integrated in final release. Let's hope for the best. Keeping fingers crossed. Great work by all the developers of our P2. This great device deserves this much talented developers.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Javed ali:
I'm fully agree with you brother
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] FireLord:
Firelord and subham* Mike yet has to push sources.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Valberu:
I know it's not a quantifiable thing, but can someone do an estimation in percent or whatever, of the work made to get a first fonctional rom ? :)

Because I'm not enough qualified in term of development to understand the Git Branches :/
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] nihil39:
There are a lot of working roms whose minor bugs can be worked around. Try Aex 4.6 for example.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Valberu:
Sry, I was talking about the project of this topic ;)
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Javed ali:
i will suggest crdroid Rom.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] mispp:
Anybody knows the status of official los?
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
Firelord is still working and trying to improve los....as motioned by him in a post...And he is also working to fix the volte and NFC bugs of the Oreo ROM (AEX) for the p2...so we can expect an update any time soon
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] JayVerhofstadt:
I appreciate his efforts, he appears to be providing a good custom Rom. But his question mentioned "official", and as Mike seems to have other priorities than to provide updates, I am curious ro figure out what stops [MENTION=6257538]FireLord[/MENTION] from going official with his ROMs. I would certainly appreciate it, I would assume there are more who would.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
I'm gone leave this here.

https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/project:LineageOS/android_device_lenovo_kuntao
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] JayVerhofstadt:
I've been looking and looking for updates from Mike, but for some reason I couldn't find this info, never found this page. I've sent him a PM a while ago for a status update, but no answer. I remembered how things went in this thread and what had been told in that donation thread about when we would see something concrete, so I drew my conclusions. Communication could be better, some more info on what's going on would be nice, like a dev blog/update once in a while? I still do not really know what I am looking at in respect to the bigger picture. Are these big steps, minor things, is there a lot going on or is it still far from where it should be?
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
let me put it this way.

minor things are what's left to be fixed.

just because a dev doesn't provide updates to his work doesn't mean he isn't working on the project.

there is always a reason when a dev is holding his work back. and in Mike's case it was.

A: time, he does all his coding in his free time and he is one of the head developer's of los. besides kuntao he works on other los related projects.

B: he is a perfectionist in his work. just like an artist that doesn't want his work to be seen until it is perfect.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
All living People should realise that Android custom rom development is done in "Free time", when I am not free,.so I don't halt the process of development. More hands in, faster it's done....now Lenovo will/might launch P3 as per device timeline, still P2 is struggling with no bug/all stock features custom rom. Super logic of Perfectionist, illusionist , Artist will be only when there is someone to praise or amazed. I hope you do know present Android device life cycle. I hope greatest fanbois here don't exchange their phones during 11.11 , good friday, Christmas sale....I want Perfectionists here to be relevant. I pray for that.:D:cyclops:
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Subham:
Coming here once a while to just support mike when he pushed stuff isn't a great thing lol. He also mentioned that he used firelord's device tree as a base. You shouldn't ignore that big thing and just give all credits to mikeNG. And for your kind information fix your twrp stuff. Its messed. Atleast firelord gave a better twrp. Peace :D
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
Im not going to be involved with a script kiddie that just knows how to copy/paste whats pushed into github and build half Brocken Roms.

I brought up my twrp a year ago when no one was around or even interested in the device with the help off jcd who is known for his clean code work on twrp.

So if you someone like you without background knowledge who's work (lol it can't even be called that) wouldn't even pass TWRP's nor LOS official code verification. Calls my work messed. Do you seriously think I would give a rats sh*t about?

Your stuff is the worst crap I've ever seen. It's hard to find anything remotely useful in it.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Liacon:
Where you have read that lenovo will launch the lenovo p3?
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Does that bothered you?? It's been a year. Timeline said me P3 coming soon. There are 2 possible cases either P3 or end of p series. Me being more optimistic....I think P3 on cards soon.

P1 Oct 2015

P2 Nov2016

P3 Expected Nov-Dec 2017 :victory::cool:
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Liacon:
Because from what I have read the P series it's over with the p2, lenovo will continue the K series, as a matter of fact the p2 will not have Oreo
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] xanthrax:
Oops , some posts have disappeared ... how come ?

Talking about the future of anything in this world isn`t easy at all so, if you`re not able to keep a decent conversation you better don`t post because you`ll get easily in conflict to our forum rules

thread cleaned

Thanks for understanding
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] medwatt:
Looks like we might be getting official LOS soon (relative term)
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] thariq06:
Los 15.0?? Sweet
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] zalaTheOne:
Los 14.1
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Subham:
[MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] [MENTION=2494638]celoxocis[/MENTION] i am sorry for whatever i told to you in previous days! I apologize for my mistake and my rude words to you both! You both have done really great work for P2. I appreciate it. The problem which led me to tell this and that was that everyone was saying mike but nobody said firelord. The reason i supported firelord was that he did same hardwork as mike did for p2. Both of them are great developers. But once the thing started it went on getting bigger and bigger and i couldn't get anyway to get out of it. As a normal human being mistakes do happen and this was very bad mistake i did to such good people. I heartily apologize for my mistake. Hope you forgive me and we look forward to work together someday. I am sorry again. :(
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] nandakis4:
by seeing latest commits here : https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/project:LineageOS/android_device_lenovo_kuntao

i feel like, its getting near.. but in how many days is it still going to take ? :P sorry for asking ETA, but eager to know how much of it is DONE and how much is remaining to be patched-up

waiting for 1st build of OFFICIAL LOS :P
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
as a lot of users are eager to know the current status.

I will write about the current state.

there is no release date yet. but it's close. how close depends on what bug/issues we find and how much changes the currently pushed lenovo OTA brings (OTA 251 November 1 update from Lenovo) maybe some newer binarys blobs? we don't know yet.

but kuntao has been added to the official los wiki.

once it gets added to hudson you can expect an official build.

so lookout for kuntao being added here: https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/project:LineageOS/hudson

mike wants it done asap too because he wants and needs to get started on his other devices he maintains which are queued for lineage 15 bringup. but he does not want to rush kuntao. rushing things never adds to quality.

currently most changes have been merged that already have been tested and verified. we are running the latest build including all yet to be verified/merged additions and we are "bug hunting" for issue's with the changes including new camera hal (bye bye lenovo legacy! hello Full Level support!) on daily basis.

you can imagine it simply takes time to

run around take pictures/recordings catching and grabbing logs, communicating with each other. trying to reproduce possible issues and pin pointing the causes down. and everyone is in a different time zone, has work, real life and limited free time.

I hope I added some transparency to the current state.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] urbano.fra:
[MENTION=2494638]celoxocis[/MENTION] thanks for your answer and for the time You, Mike and all other dev spends to develop our devices...finally camera 2 api on our beast :o:o
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kevindiepenmaat:
[MENTION=2494638]celoxocis[/MENTION]. Thanks for this ETA!!

Of course also to all the devs! I can imagine this is not done in an couple days/weeks.

Waiting eagerly for the release. Would be nice as an Christmas present :laugh:
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] xavdeman:
[MENTION=2494638]celoxocis[/MENTION] Thank you for the update. I just read the first post and then yours. So good to know there's progress behind the scenes.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kevindiepenmaat:
Hi All

Little question does anyone if the devs know if the option "double apps" also works? I use this to keep my private and work separate.

Thanks to you all.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] fburgos:
This double apps are Lenovo thing, you could try island from developer of greenify does the same thing
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Is that you from TT...lolz
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Btw when did you unlock p2 BL. :)
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
XDA account 3 days ago?? :)
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] devianz:
https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/project:LineageOS/android_device_lenovo_kuntao

Mike seems to be on fire...
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] leo_97:
I was looking a new phone with huge battery and found P2 and Xiaomi Redmi Note 4. I was considering to buy Redmi only because it has many ROMs and deployment, but when I read this thread returned Redmi and bought P2.

Very nice to see this effort. I'm going to donate (in the other post), I really loved this 5100mAh battery. Anxious to take my new phone and start flashing it.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
P2 has a lot of Advantages compared to the RN4

AMOLED Screen...Bigger battery..gorilla glass...fast charging...NFC...And I feel it has a slightly better camera too..

Only disadvantage is the 32GB internal memory

It's an excellent buy..I'm very happy with it
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] tapunger:
From today.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] hiimimtayaz:
I'm in the same dilemma and I'm agree with all point you have made but the biggest plus RN4 has is that rooting it won't void the warranty (AFAIK).
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
Yes true...but I don't understand the use of warranty..cause if the screen breaks its not covered under warranty...it only covers software issues..which I can pretty much fix on my own...
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
I think they release before November. May be in next 1-2 days.I think it's long enough to end closed beta testing..
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
well its more like semi-closed. everyone who knows to repo sync and build a ROM can test it. all sources are available.

but we don't recommend to push such builds to the public as long as selinux is set to permissive. which it currently is, due to selinux cleanup/fixes on bring-up.

meaning androids security is completely disabled. (permissive, meaning allow everything but log it)

you don't want to run around with such an build and use it for example for banking apps, or any other apps that have access to sensitive information.

unfortunately not everybody knows this. to protect those users with lack of knowledge. we don't push beta's to the public in the first place.

but don't worry. the big wait is almost over.

AFAIK mike is about 95% done.

he calls it the cleanest msm8953 device and kernel tree on los. and everything works. including, LED notifications, fingerprint gestures, camera api 2 picture and recordings, vibration intensity control (which wasn't included in stock) glove mode, etc.

the only thing which has no function yet is the "super power saver" switch. but guess what. mikes wants to make that work too. but that's probably coming as an addition once it is official. it takes time to write a kernel driver for the button using gpio and map that accordingly.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
That's great news
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] medwatt:
Just one question if I may. You mentioned camera2 api being implimented. Do you know if we can use Google camera ports such as the one for Xiaomi phones?

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-camera-hdr-xiaomi-redmi-note-3/
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
yes google camera works flawless.

only HDR isn't working at least I don't see a difference when activating it.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] medwatt:
HDR should make a difference. This means it's not working.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] nandakis4:
:p crying out in happiness :crying:
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
I have only looked into the modded google HDR+ camera so far.

the v4 (marshmallow based one) works fine without crashing it's just that I don't see an actual difference when turning HDR+ on and off.

keep in mind that the lenovo camera stack is M based.

the dev (modded gcam hdr+ dev) said every device is different and he needs additional information of the device to make hdr+ work properly.

the version 5 which is nougat/oreo based produces a glitched pinkish static image frame when HDR+ is turned on.

this is as far as I have tested it. I'm sure there will be people to debug and make it work once the ROM is official.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
Yes I've faced the same issue.... If turn on HDR+ control in advanced settings...it shows me an HDR option on the main camera screen...but in main settings HDR is turned off...it gives the static screen if I turn it on
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Thats good news finally we're getting a ROM that could be used instead of stock.. as a daily driver rather than testing. :D

Any launch date or estimate?
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Siva Mk:
First thing, no ETA

Secondly there are enough and more ROMs which are already stable and far better than stock to be used as a daily driver out there.

Thirdly, there's nothing new in this LOS build, except for the official tag!
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
this is wrong. none of the other custom ROMs come with oss camera hal stack including proper camera api 2 support and latest available marshmallow hal code tag.

not even lenovo's stock camera hal is on the latest marshmallow code tag.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
Will stereo recording be solved..cause wen i record an audio or video...it's in very bad quality in the los or any other rom...but it's very good in stock...I really use Audio recordings a lot...
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] webvan:
The problem I think on the P2 is the horrible quality of the microphone, I think it produced the worse result I've seen when it comes to recording music, it saturates terribly even at moderate volumes. Such a shame for an otherwise pretty much perfect device.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] iniro:
Mic recording quality is very good to me. Best I had on phone. Last phone was moto x play.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
I haven't noticed an issues with audio recordings.

but I haven't tested it in any loud environments like a concert or a surrounding with loud music or a big crowd of people. my records where all in nature/city area or at home and I always had clear and crisp audio in them.

I'm not too familiar with the audio hal so I can't comment on changes on that.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] webvan:
What ?! In quiet environments it's ok but I specified "recording music, it saturates terribly even at moderate volumes" there's no way you can record any kind of concert with the P2, well apart from classical music at the opera possibly ! The Moto X can take quite a beating on the other hand.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] leo_97:
I bought the 64GB ROM version... (Chinese I think). I was considering RN4 only because one friend has it and showed to me, but when I started my search to new phone found P2 and loved it.

I love custom ROMs and saw this post, then finally decided to buy P2, now I'm waiting it to arrive (in my country it takes a lot of time, but I'm still patient).
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Siva Mk:
True, but that doesn't mean it cannot be used as a daily driver, atleast not what the previous post meant.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] MAILUS:
Hi celoxocis,

Will official LOS support lenovo fast charging?
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Suvam Mondal:
Did the camera quality improved after installing custom rom ? because the lenovo stock camera app takes very bad pictures(bacon camera takes better pictures than the lenovo stock camera app)
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASP02:
You can install Google camera app ..it takes very good pictures..u can even get a raw portrait mode using the lens blur option..
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] gamefreaksuraj:
of course it will
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Liacon:
LOS development aside, did anyone found a way to use the power saving button for other fuction?

Some month ago I found the way for active the "power saving mode" without physical use of the button, so I think that the slide button simply launch something, like an app, but aside this I can't do nothing.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kevindiepenmaat:
I know I the coming release it is not handled yet. It will be done with a new release or update. This according [MENTION=2494638]celoxocis[/MENTION]
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Which phone you though of buying after selling this..:)

You are the one late here... Rom development started in the same month you bought p2.

Network issue is because of your jio signal and your location in Delhi. Even after this build, you will have same. #Blamelenovo for radio design and jio tower near you and obstacles in between. It's not the software to blame.

Curious to know...How did you rooted on f2fs and status of your banking apps?.:D Tried any custom rom to check signal issues? Volte works on existing 14.1 based N roms.

Number is nothing, everything need to be coded as per new Android base and hardware. 15 comes after 14.1 is done to perfection.. :):cool:

---------- Post added at 11:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 PM ----------

That button for Tasker would be nice...Btw i use that button for launching purnhob....that button should electrify my energy levels with power of Odin :laugh:
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Good...just to know how you doing with f2fs, root, stock and bank...u think me trying to troll you? Yes I do:D...., but refrained myself to a bit politely.:victory: Join this group in telegram @p2community.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranavateja99:
Stop buying 2-3 phones in a year. Buy One plus 5T instead of mi A1 or wait till February. I got OP5 after p2. Ask in p2 group about the best, I mostly use OP5 as primary.. What ever you see on xda is made by those pro AF. Any many rom builds don't get updated here. Please don't kill me just because I made you buy p2. It's good for price :D
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] nandakis4:
is this it ? https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/195213/

just curious :P
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
this is just the commit to set it to permissive.

see one commit before that to see why it is still set to permissive.

on a side note. I have been testing open camera with api2 enabled alot lately. and it works great. especially the manual control (iso/shutter) for video recording. however I did discover some bugs which are open camera related. if I get some time I will try to contact mark and see if he can fix it.

even video recordings in dark lit rooms turn out really good. snap (stock los camera) has no controls to set manual iso/shutter and to lock exposure unlike open camera does.

but I feel that snap does a far better job with EIS. even when recording 4K. video stabilization is super smooth in snap compared to open camera.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] medwatt:
If only we can get Google Camera working in HDR+ mode. I've been lurking in the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 forum looking at pictures taken from Google camera ports. The photos look much better than stock. I hope this is something we can eventually get on the P2.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
Well my bet is on Open Camera outlasting the Google Camera mods in all future Android updates.

Open Camera is open source where's Google Camera isn't.

But if anybody wants to contact the proper dev for the Google Camera mod to make it work for P2, feel free to do so.

BTW Snap's HDR (i know not +) works perfectly fine and looks better than stock.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] NiTrOwow:
I really hope there's some development left in this device. I would like to support the development of this phone for the future. Since Lenovo didn't really did a good job on it, like usually..

Also decided that this is my last Lenovo phone. The stock rom is just garbage.. Not to mention that the broadcom firmware running on all our stock P2's is vulnerable to remote exploitation, a true remote exploit (RCE) because it running without ASLR/DEP and memory is RWX (so oldschool..)!! Without root or without voiding warranty I cannot just patch this or update it nor can we disable poorly implemented qos stuff..

And there's nothing we can do besides VOIDING the warranty and fixing it ourselves.. This is why we really need active developers for the P2.

Maybe we can bypass voiding the warranty by doing;

Write a POC code that executes code as root using CVE-2017-9417 to gain temp root, dump aboot.img, and patch the unlock bit in the bootloader and write the new aboot image to the fs.

Not sure if this will work, but there's a possibility. It probably won't be easy through.. As it's one big hack that can crash(kernel panic) or brick the device(wrongly modified aboot.img). But I am ready for it anyways because I want to keep my warranty.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] celoxocis:
to my knowledge.

the only part of P2 that has broadcom in it, is the NFC chip.

broadpwn (CVE-2017-9417) only affects broadcom WiFi.

the P2 uses Qualcomm Prima WCNSS (formerly Atheros) for WiFi and Bluetooth.
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] nandakis4:
Cm 14.1 (Kuntao - bringup) changed to CM14

Does this mean, we got near??

YEEEEEHAWWW :D

I flashed Stock rom, making sure StockRom is working fine.. so that when i flash los14.1 i dont face any issues :P
[Lenovo P2 Guides, News, & Discussion] alzz:
Galieo GPS post:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74660215&postcount=60

GPSTest app: For a better GPS implemantation

Github

FAQ

any possibilities?? :highfive: