[Xperia SP Original Android Development] gorillanobka:
A bit of feedback for aosp-9-20190422-huashan

Here's a bit of feedback for @AdrianDC.

Apps:

The keyboard seems to be locked on the preset languages and you can not add any other language dictionaries to it, making spellchecking impossible if you don't speak French English Italian Spanish or German, my better half is Romanian and she made me aware she can not use Romanian on the default keyboard.

Of course we can always install the official Gboard but i kinda liked this one, and it's ability to add dictionaries manually.

The recorder.

When trying to share the video created (video only without audio) i get the follwing error from whatsapp: "The file format is not supported"

I checked the resulting file and is an .mp4 indeed so in theory it should be compatible with whatsapp.

Camera App keeps crashing and force closing

Camera is actually OK now. Make sure is a fresh install not a dirty one.

On a fresh install with no extra mods and no gapps ,the camera seems to be working just fine when taking pictures.

When it comes about recording videos it seems to be able to record it just fine , the gallery app can see it but it can not play it. It just turns dark.

Sound Recorder

(com.android.soundrecorder) 254KB

Or better said, traces of it is still there although it's been a while since anybody saw it's icon on the desktop but for some reason, traces of it still gets compiled.

Gallery

When trying to play the resulting video from a recorder session i get i get the follwing error from the Gallery app : "Can't play this video"

Both when the resulting video has been recorded with the sound on or off.

I have installed from F-droid the Simple Gallery Pro (free version ) https://f-droid.org/repo/com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro_243.apk

and that can't play it either so it's the recorder using a weird encoding format incompatible with both AOSP gallery codecs and the Simple tools Gallery.

Bootbridge

The old 2016 bootbrige is still compatible

Themes

Setting the device theme on dark does not seem to do anything (see the screenshot attached)

Developer options:

Display cutout option works just fine and is quite fun to play with for like 30 secunds.

The option called Advanced Reboot IS NOT THERE ANYMORE.

It was a very useful function although had to be enabled in Developer Options first.

Pressing the pressing volume up whilst the phone is rebooting still works but is a pain as my UP-DOWN button is kind of old and does not work that well anymore.

Sound:

We got sad news for sound. It's back again to the ridiculously low official Lineage levels.

I get some errors reference the speaker gain amp not being applied.

I guess the values have fallen back to the backup_gain: as apparently is the case with the gain in case of an error occurring during ramp. (see the attached screenshot)

Either way the sound levels are really low. Both notifications , media , and ring values.

I am back again at not being able to hear the notifications from phone on the street.

What made AOSP 8.1 really amazing it was those hard coded gain values which circumvented and bypassed the ridiculously low Lineage values and restrictions.

That was one of its best features.

The ability to make full use of the speaker and have very loud notifications/media/ring. To hear it whilst walking on the street.

Whomever tried to use the phone on a very busy street or driving with the windows open [because we're poor and we don't have AC's on our tiny ass Polos :) will understand what i mean.]

I will keep on playing with it and report any feedback. If you need like Logcats just let me know.

Anyways,

Once again,

Thank you @AdrianDC.