[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
SM-G900P kltedv LTE Problem - Brightness Exponential? - Expanded Desktop Crashing?

Thanks :good: for your report. :cool:

The SM-G900P kltedv is known to have LTE issues in official LineageOS 15.1 & now it seems in 16.0 beta too according to what you say.

And your problem may be compounded by having "virgin mobile, a sprint mvno". Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is marketing speak for a reseller of network services. It's not a real network provider.

Take time to read all the posts in this BUGBASH-1986 No LTE connection on Sprint MVNO.

You did not say what is your modem/baseband. Maybe you could ask the users in that Bugbash to share or link to their modems?

An older or newer modem may do the trick. [MENTION=2693412]haggertk[/MENTION] has folders with S5 Odin flashable bootloader/modem combos. He offers the older SM-G900P_BOK4_Bootloader_Firmware.tar.md5 in his root / Bootloader_Modem_Firmware / Android-L / SM-G900P folder. But not the CQD1 or CQC1 for G900P in his newer root / Bootloader_Modem_Firmware / Android-M folder.

Normally the more recent the modem the better which is the highest 4 last alphanumeric characters but that is not always true depending on your region/network provider combo as discussed in this official 15.1 thread post: Most Recent Modem = Best Modem? - SM-G900F & SM-G900M.

You could check here on updato.com for SM-G900P Samsung stock firmwares sorted by most recent: https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=SM-G900P&rpp=15&order=date&dir=desc&exact=1

They use the label "Phone" for the modem/baseband in their respective download pages.

Did you double check & made 100% sure that your APN are set correctly for Virgin/Sprint? Maybe you could call them or check their website?

Also in that same > Setting > Network & internet > Mobile network > Advanced panel > what is the setting in Preferred network type? In my G900M it's GSM/WCDMA/LTE but then your 900P is a CDMA phone so it should be different.

Maybe you could try with LTE only, Wifi off, Mobile data enabled & reboot?

Note that afterwards it's good to revert to multiple choices for some areas where the LTE coverage is poor or inexistant. When @ home I often select on G900M only GSM/WCDMA as the LTE signal strength is not very good & fluctuating but a solid constant 100% on H+ (WCDMA).

You could try searching 16.0 & 15.1 threads & XDA forum site search with some keywords variations. Examples with 900p LTE:

[UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 16.0 thread search w/ 900P LTE

[OFFICIAL] LineageOS 15.x thread search w/ 900P LTE

site:xdaforums.com/ SM-G900p LTE problem

Please report back if you fix your LTE problem or not. :cool:

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Brightness Exponential?

"...the brightness is lower on los 16 than on los 14.1. I have to slide the brightness almost to the maximum to acquire the same brightness that i could achieve on 14.1 by going to half or 2/3 of the way" - I noticed the same thing when compared to LineageOS 15.1 on my SM-G900M klte.

Referring to Settings > Display with Adaptive brightness off > Brightness level which shows % in 16.1 klte beta build 2018-11-21 Brightness needs to be set to 50% to get the same as 10% in 15.1. To get 50% it needs to be set @ 85%.

The progression when using the curtain > brightness slider seems to be exponential rather than linear. That's if > Settings > System > Advanced > Status bar > under Brightness all the toggles are turned on.

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Expanded Desktop Crashing?

Can you guys with haggertk's 16.0 build 2018-11-21 check if Settings > Display > Advanced > Expanded Desktop is working for you? It's crashing Settings for me & never opens.

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