yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
Good then. :)

Sorry I can't be of more help on your guesses but if I can provide more data let me know.

One question, I've backed up my device today and I'm thinking about flashing the September build of Udev LOS 15.1.

Is it worth flashing that, or should I wait for official release?

Just asking out of curiosity really. Would be good to have some input on that.

Thanks in any case.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] [armitage]:
Besides the two things I mentioned, one being the Mac address thing and the other being that the phone turns on as soon as you attach the charging cable, or just reboots when you turn it off, when the cable is attached, I didn't notice anything else. It's smooth, it's stable, it's definitely daily driver material for me. :)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
Those are manageable issues, at least for me, good I'll go ahead and give it a go today then. :)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Masterjuggler:
I've been following the thread, and haven't seen the gcam slo-mo mentioned in a while, unless I missed it. Last I heard, it was broken. Is it now working?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jntesteves:
Since we are at it, I thought I would leave my review too. I'm on the 15.1-20180911 build, been using this image since the first build from June, very stable and definitely a daily driver for me, except the following two problems that I think have been present in all builds:

1. Heat and fast battery drain while listening to music (Google Play Music) with headset plugged to phone;

2. On any app, when changing App info > Data usage > Wi-Fi data (LOS firewall) to limit an app's internet access doesn't work, and I get an ANR from the "App info" app itself (may be a bug from LOS 15.1 and not directly related to this image, but I don't have any other 15.1 device to test).

Thank you devs for the great work, I'm finally loving my Axon 7 now.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] vishnoo:
yeah I've noticed it too in all custom ROMs except los 16 (tried nitrogen yesterday and my battery went 20% down in an hour while listening to an audiobook)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Alex_Lema:
Didn't find anything about that (if it was mentioned already, sorry).

Last version (20180911) is failing ctsProfile on SafetyNet (basicintegrity checks). No root, no nothing.

Any idea what could be causing that?

Thanks.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Druboo666:
Did you consider that before unlocking the bootloader

On an unlocked device CTS will always fail unless you have magisk and any other module s to fix that safetynet.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] pnin:
This is really bad news and it seems to be the general trend nowadays.

E.g., Huawei is not unlocking bootloaders anymore and even Xiaomi appears to be going down this road.

If I can't take ownership of my device, Android is dead in the water, at least for me... :(
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Alex_Lema:
D'oh...

You're right, unlocked bootloader trips SafetyNet. Dumb mistake.

However, I tried to install magisk with magisk hide. That used to fix SafetyNet in the last LOS that I had installed. But now, it's tripping it..

I've just installed MagiskHide Props Config and tried to use Axon7 fingerprint, but nothing.

EDIT: Just tried the "improved hiding" option, and it worked!

Thanks anyway, and sorry for the dumb question to begin with... :P
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jimhark:
I'm happy with this ROM and have been using it as a daily driver, but as long as we're piling on (and as there doesn't seem to be a proper issue tracker), I can confirm:

1. Heat and fast battery drain while listening to audio (DoggCatcher podcast app) with headset plugged to phone;

Other than that I've been happy. Battery drain when I'm not using the phone is really good, looks like it would last almost a week in standby.

I did fix one problem I was having. The camera was force closing when I was trying to use Google Photos. I went into Titanium Backup and saw I had 2 Google cameras installed: Camera 4.4.020.163412804 and Camera 5.1.018.177624777.V7.9.8. I had installed some of the Camera apps recommended on this thread.. Using Titanium Backup, I froze Camera 4.4 and the problem went away.

Thanks to [MENTION=5027381]OrdenKrieger[/MENTION], [MENTION=4911249]Unjustified Dev[/MENTION], [MENTION=4126377]tdm[/MENTION] and everyone else for breathing new life into our phones.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Masterjuggler:
For those wondering, audio bug is known and has been an issue for as long as we've had B12. It was only recently fixed by Orden in the LOS16 vendor implementation. See my post here for details on the bug: https://xdaforums.com/axon-7/develo...d-rom-v4-3-t3618950/post77144641#post77144641

Also, anyone know if slow motion video is still broken for all gcam versions, and if there is a fix if it is broken?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Unjustified Dev:
Fixed by the audio dev who's name we can't disclose. The same change has already been merged in 15.1 as well.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Surge_:
Good stuff, good stuff.

Sooo... coming from a non-vendored 15.1 build; how do I best go about installing the 0911 one? Just mount System and then flash or are any additional steps needed?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] tdm:
Alright, WiFi MAC is fixed. Next bulid (official or unofficial) should work. The logic is the same as nougat:

If you have a /persist/wifimac.dat it will be used.

Otherwise, if you have a /persist/wifimac2.dat it will be used.

Otherwise, a random MAC in the range 00:d0:d0:xx:xx:xx will be generated and saved as /persist/wifimac2.dat and used.

This means that the factory MAC will be used if available and, if not, a random MAC will be persisted and used.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
Looks like I made a good choice.

Call bug is fixed and a mac fix is on the way as well.

Sweet.

Thanks everyone.

It's running well for me so far.

I'm not taking as many shots as I was before so I can live without manual focus shutter and iso controls on the camera.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ITenson:
Hold on, did the camera HAL break? It was working on the earlier version. Which camera app are you running?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
I can't answer to that I think.

Gcam and the bundled camera works, so I guess hal is ok..?

But neither app has manual controls like the stock ZTE Camera.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] ITenson:
Oh! scare me there for a second. Have you tried Open Camera? Its got full manual control.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Surge_:
I flashed the 0911 build and it rebooted fine, everything works so far.

I can connect to all my Wi-Fi networks, stock camera does its job, speakers work fine, couldn't test headphone playback yet.

I do however wonder why my TWRP doesn't show a vendor partition under "Mount" options.

Shouldn't it be visible or is it somehow hidden by default?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] [armitage]:
Using NFound's Twrp 3.2.1-8-treble version here and it shows it just fine.

I have, in the following order:

System

Cache

Vendor

Data

Persist

Micro SD Card

USB OTG
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Surge_:
Good info. I'm on OrdenKriegers 3.2.3-0, maybe that's why it doesn't show.

I'll flash Nfounds Recovery later, just because I'm curious to see if that makes any difference.

EDIT: Still no vendor visible under 3.2.1-8, weird :S

When I flashed it it said "creating vendor partition", etc.

But as far as I know 15.1 isn't a treble GSI anyway, so it might not be needed. Hope this doesn't cause issues down the line (i.e. for LOS 16.0).
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bornlivedie:
I don't think the 0911 build supports treble.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] [armitage]:
Sure it does.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
I'll test and post back, was using it some time ago but didn't suit me, gonna try again.

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I can't seem to find manual exposure time iso and focus percentage?

Are you sure open camera has full manual controls?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Arbelzapf:
I think it does, but it hardly matters if you wish to do long-exposure shots, because pretty much all camera2 apps with manual controls will give you only about 2s exposure whereas stock camera went up to a full minute if I recall correctly. I've been over all advanced camera apps, even paid ones and ports from oneplus, and concluded that only the zte stock cam is working good enough.

It's a real shame the port never made it to oreo
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] nfsmw_gr:
I agree fully.

Can we do something to port it? :(
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Masterjuggler:
Bump. No one has any idea?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Jcth1:
I too suffer from this but I have a feeling it's a simple case of entering the right command in fastboot over adb. No issue with it switching it off with a cable in however.

I remembered enabling it on my Nexus 6p to always power up when plugged in to charged. Was a failsafe I wish I had for my previous lg Nexus 5 and it's failed power button before it was repaired.

I don't know if it will be the same command however but someone more knowledgeable will surely tell you
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jntesteves:
Just tried to record slow motion video with Pixel2Mod-Arnova8G2 v8.2, the recording freezes every second, as if the CPU isn't fast enough to process the video. I tested at 120 FPS. 240 FPS doesn't even show video. So it's not usable right now. I didn't try to search for any workaround.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dantedakilla:
How do I swap the recents and back buttons around? I've tried multiple zips that claim they change the orientation, but nothing happens. The order is still "BACK - HOME - RECENTS"

I even tried to go into the keylayout file but all the file managers I've tried either said the file isn't there (upon clicking it) or just doesn't show at all.

*EDIT*

I figured it out. I had to mount Vendor in TWRP before flashing the zips.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] mark1003:
Currently I use Lineage 14.1. When i bought my device it was a A2017G. After unlocking, installing a new bootloader and modem and Lineage 14.1 it was a A2017U. I don't know why.

Now i would like to know which oreo modem i should install before i can install Lineage 15.1.

Is it correct to install ZTE_A7LOSv1_UniversalBootStack.zip and A2017G_OreoModem.zip via TWRP on my device?

Thanks for helping :)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] joaocandeias:
It is correct. For some reason LOS14.1 shows as A2017U on About Device no matter what variant you have. Your device has always been an A2017G :)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jimhark:
I have an A2017U so am not sure how A2017G is identified in LOS, that is if you seeing A2017U is expected. But you have it right, install the A2017G device specific modem and the Universal Boot Stack and you should be good to go.

BTW I've been happy using this as my daily driver. For my use I just have to be a little careful with battery life.

Now I have a question: The original post provides a beta boot stack. Anyone know if the release version is available?

Jim
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jrotaetxe:
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[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] TeutonJon78:
ZTE would have to actually release the Oreo version for all models to not have beta bootstacks. Something they haven't done yet. There was an update to the G models recently, which may have been Oreo, but it wasn't listed in the changelog as such and no has seemed to confirm that it was indeed Oreo.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] trevor68:
No the G update was Nougat
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] EBeatFLA:
Can someone here on a fresh install, without third party kernel and without separate Magisk flash, or anything else that modifies the boot.img, please extract their boot.img and provide me the link?

Please and thank you.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jimhark:
I've already installed Magisk so I can't exactly do that, but let me try to help anyway. If you download the install zip, a file named something like:

lineage-15.1-YYYYMMDD-UNOFFICIAL-axon7.zip

(but with numbers for the the year, month and day, of course.)

This zip file contains the boot.img file at the top level (not in a subdirectory).

Good luck,

Jim
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] tdm:
The boot image is in the zip.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Dodgexander:
[MENTION=4126377]tdm[/MENTION] I wondered if you could share anything you know about treble on our device?

For example, what is having to be changed on aokp/Los compared to gsis to get the phone working correctly?

At the moment it seems we can't use the vendor used in this or LOS15 releases with gsis, why is this?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] tdm:
I haven't really looked into treble or running GSI yet. I'm sure that it will get solved soon.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] OrdenKrieger:
That's not true, all O based GSIs should work normally.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jimhark:
Posting an error I ran into with fix in case anyone else has the same problem.

Updating my non-treble Axon 7 to a treble version of LineageOS 15.1 failed with this error:

Create /vendor partition failed.

This was because I didn't follow directions. Instructions in the original post says, "2. Update your version of TWRP", and supplies a download link. I had TWRP_3.2.1-8_axon7-TREBLE installed. After flashing the image for the required version of TWRP, installation of LineageOS 15.1 completed without error. (I also installed the latest GAPPS before booting system.) Dirty flashing worked without any problems for me.

Thanks to all the devs. I'm happy using this as my daily driver. Now if only ZTE would release Oreo so we could get a bootstack refresh.

Jim
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] LuccoJ:
A bootstack that can't be unlocked, as far as I've understood. I'm not much looking forward to that...
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] TheWaterBug:
If our bootloaders are unlocked already and we install the update, it won't re-lock it, right? If so, better to unlock our bootloaders now.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] mark1003:
Is it necessary to create a vendor partition to install LineageOS 15.1?

And is the vendor partition created just by installing TWRP_3.2.1-8_axon7-TREBLE or is there an additional action to do?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] bornlivedie:
the rom creates the vendor partition and flashes the necessary files

you can only install the new roms with that TWRP
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Oki:
Not really, any TWRP 3.2.x can do it.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] TeutonJon78:
Just a note for the devs (which I'm sure they know, but just in case), the build servers for LOS are still targeting 14.1. I read there was a mention of them having been switched to 15.1 for the official builts, but if so, something went wrong.

https://www.lineageoslog.com/14.1/axon7

https://www.lineageoslog.com/15.1/axon7
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] tdm:
We are switching to 15.1 today. First official build should be Monday.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] xerocopy:
I got high cpu usage on big cores (~1400mhz) when idle. On previous build, idle load was on little cores and it was around 800mhz.

Another problem, little cores has touchboost turned on (1593mhz for ~1.5 sec.) and I can't turn it off.

Any advices how to turn it off? Tried kernel managers. Schwifty Kernel wasn't updated to OPM6 yet.

No issues so far.

I also tried (just light tests) Havoc, RR and AEX 5.8 Oreo GSI's. Havoc and RR was working pretty well, RR had problems with theme accents (lack of apks in /system/app?) and AEX had SystemUI crashes on homescreen after boot.

Also, I couldn't mount system partition as R/W (R/O works) after installing Havoc GSI. Because of that, I was unable to install Magisk and I go back to LOS15.1. Anyone had such a problem with GSI?

Edit: While listening music on headphones, logcat is spammed with messages from tfa98xx and tfa9890. Does it hit performance in some way or it is just annoying thing?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Dodgexander:
Play music with headphones plugged in and see if you have the well known bug with bad CPU usage. You need root and terminal. Type "top" to see processes.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
It's the audio CPU bug called out couple of times. As mentioned if you run top in terminal you will see that audioserver takes up to 70% of CPU, eating battery and affecting performance.

Supposed to be fixed but it isn't obviously.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jimhark:
I'm happy using lineage-15.1-20180911-UNOFFICIAL-axon7 as my daily driver. I do carry an external battery that supports Quick Charge because I'm always listening to podcasts and with this ROM my battery doesn't make it through the day.

Instead of terminal I used ADB shell to run 'top' and saw this:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S[%CPU] %MEM TIME+ ARGS
547 audioserver 20 0 1.7G 1.3G 840K S 63.6 36.1 299:03.26 android.hardware.audio@2.0-service
17390 u0_a111 20 0 5.2G 180M 67M S 41.0 4.7 2:12.95 com.snoggdoggler.android.applications.doggcatcher.v1_0

Thanks for the quick way to test for audio related battery drain.

Note: my phone was getting some power via the USB connection to the computer, maybe results would be different when not connected to any power.

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First, thanks for your nice partition management tool. Knowing I could use your tool to go back to venderless allowed me to make the leap to vender partition with confidence.

I expect the TWRP 3.2.x requirement is correct for your tool. But the install problem due to failure to create vendor partition I reported happened with TWRP_3.2.1-8_axon7-TREBLE.img installed. While troubleshooting, I flashed twrp-3.2.3-0-axon7.img as linked in the original post and then installing lineage-15.1-20180911-UNOFFICIAL-axon7.zip worked. I didn't make any other changes so I conclude the TWRP version did matter in this case.

My personal experience is TWRP 3.2.1 didn't work and TWRP 3.2.3 did.

Jim
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Dodgexander:
Great, another user showing bug is still there!
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Kingo64:
Anybody tried uninstalling the AudioFX system app and see if that solves the audio bug?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
Freezing doesn't do anything so I assume that uninstalling does nothing as well
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] jntesteves:
According to UDev the fix was already merged in 15.1 by 09/12, so it should be fixed in the first official build that's already in the build queue for next week. :D

His message: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77603169&postcount=1080
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
I have seen his message hence use of "supposed". Users , me among them, are reporting otherwise. So it's going official with serious bug affecting every day use
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Druboo666:
https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77659195&postcount=443

look at this post your confusion will be gone
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
Look 3 or 4 posts up to be confused. I have tried disabling aFX for both speaker and headphones - nothing, nada.

I have tried disabling the app altogether - nothing nada.

Edit: what I'm saying is, please let me rephrase this again - the bug is still there, it is not fixed, the fix is either not implemented or is no fix at all, maybe devs are looking and talking about different bug or device - I don't know. The truth is even when following Ordens advice audioserver is still eating between 45 and 75% CPU time with connected headphones.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Oki:
It was fixed on 9/12 for LOS 15.1. If you are using any release prior to that date, then expect the bug to be there.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
The last download available is 11th September? Care to share the link?

Edit: checked all links, last available build is dated 1109. [MENTION=319057]Oki[/MENTION] and others - please don't assume that other users are dumb just because they say something is not working as supposed ;)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] LuccoJ:
I don't think anyone called anyone dumb...? Someone could have compiled their own build with the fix included. Anyway, it was said that an official build should be available on Monday, so it shouldn't be an issue for much longer.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] janthe6th:
Hi the link in OP shows 0625 as the latest 15.1 build. Is the a nother link to 0911? (I assume it's Sep 11)
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] paul4762:
Does anyone know how to get this to work with t-mobile wifi calling? I have horrible service at work so this is kinda a deal breaker for me.

Thanks,
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Oki:
Yes, the last unofficial revision is the LOS15.1 2018.09.11 before the new official LOS 15.1 that will be available tomorrow.

In the settings app, tap on the search bar at the top and write wifi calling. Just enable those options.
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] attilalovesfun:
Hi Oki, will the official build releasing tomorrow be the version with all the vendor partition changes or not?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] docentore:
Not saying that you have specifically said but people tend to patronise here. I have reported that the bug is still there even though dev said it should be fixed and it was pointed to me that a) I'm running wrong / old version b) don't know how to read and follow simple instructions.

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There you go

https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=280287

So why did you bring the 912 build if it does not exist? Bumping your post count?
[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] EBeatFLA:
At the risk of becoming your next punching bag, I'll try to clarify this for you. The answer to everything you're upset about has already been told to you. You are just misunderstanding. (And I'm not calling you dumb)

The last build was 0911 in this thread, nobody has said that there is a 0912 build. What they have all said is that the fix was merged into LOS 15.1 **ON** 09/12. So, it's safe to say any build after that date will have the fix, right?

Any other developer could have made a build after the fix was merged, but as far as this thread goes, it has been announced that the next build will be released Monday, which it is now. So you could also say that the fix will be in that build, right?

I haven't seen anyone say that freezing or uninstalling AudioFX would fix the bug. So if you are worried about official being released without the bug being fixed, based on that, then don't worry. Just wait for it and test it yourself.