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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Re: Google Play Store Problems & Open GApps

Open GApps is a package with Google core apps + other apps depending on the package. Nothing more, nothing less & without modifications. See Open GApps Package Comparison.

When the apps are updated it does not add anything except if the new app versions include additional permissions which you can check if you disable auto-update in Play Store & click on the apps before updating them.

See S5 Remove Animations UI Speedup Test - Taming Google & Apps and you can limit in your Google account which data you want to share or not with Google.

Well you could have included a link & quote in full the disclamer which explains why it's risky to use your own real Google account in it. :rolleyes:

From Aurora Store Disclamer :

If you have questions about it go to the XDA thread: Aurora Store v3 - a FOSS Google Play client

If you use Play Store it does not make sense to also use Aurora. It's an alternative for people who don't have a GApps package installed but still want some apps from Play Store.

Note that several apps won't install, or will crash when trying to open them, or won't work properly or won't receive push notifications without the Google framework included in GApps.

OTOH I also use F-Droid to get some apps but that has nothing to do with my Google account.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kurtn:
To keep the answer short. Open GApps is spyware. You can't dokkerize it, but you can firewall it with afwall+

If you don't need payment, aurora is one way to get Waze. No need to login with your google account. If Waze doesn't work, try lineage.microG.org
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
I want to stay as far away from Google as I can, but unfortunately occasionally I have no decent non-google choices. I Installed Aurora store and used the anonymous mode to update some of the high priority apps.

I cleared the storage/cache as you suggested and I just checked the phone today, and Google Play Services seems to have updated itself to 19.8.31. Playstore is still at 17.7.17, so my question now is should I try to update it somehow or should I try to work around it?

Thanks so much for this detailed writeup... lots of good stuff here.

Thanks... FWIW, Waze seems to work with the Pico Version.

Thanks guys for the great help so far...

I am in the habit of turning off WiFi, BT, and Location from the pull down menu when these are not needed...

Does that provide some privacy while these are off, or is Google still harvesting data?

I'm thinking that Having GP updated might be useful, but set all the permissions to off except when needed.

Is there a way I can manually update Google Play Store (there is only Disable, no Uninstall) ... so far it isn't updating itself.

I've turned off auto updates because I don't want everything updating.

Does privacy guard work on Google Play, or can GP just bypass it?

Is there a way to script permission profiles?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kurtn:
[MENTION=5523886]rootkitty[/MENTION], I still can't see a reason why you need GApps. Google knows your location. There are more than enough sensors in your device.

Not updating play store or trying to restrict it is no real solution. GApps pico still is GApps. MicroG is not.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
EDIT: I just went through my apps and I noticed even a couple of privacy focused apps like Wire use GSF. I also have a couple of paid apps that don't use GSF, but I can't update them without Google Play Store (Titanium Backup). For now, is there a way to update Google Play Store (not Services-they updated already)?

Thanks for this.... When you said MicroG, I though you meant the micro version of GApps... I didn't realize that this was a new project. I like where MicroG is headed--based on what is on the web page, it might have a way to go -- that's were I would want some good input form the community.

I had a look at the web page, and this make me very nervous:

It's a few months old, but it looks like a lot of functionality is missing and the stability is questionable.

Are you using it? IIUC based on what I see here: https://lineage.microg.org/ to use MicroG, I would be flashing a totally separate version of LOS 16 that has been custom built for MicroG -- correct?

I definitely need a new backup strategy--I have been doing full backups using TWRP, and backups using Titanium backup.... In an ideal would I would like to be able to back up over a USB cable to my Linux box. I've got to get this right before I go too far away from Google.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Cell phones, even dumb ones or smart ones with MicroG or Gapps or not are tracking devices that can be used by network providers, police & spy agencies @ any time.

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

The NSA Files about Edward Snowden's revelations.

MicroG is a signature spoofing hack that still uses Google Play Services.

Read the detailed post here by a LineageOS dev about why LineageOS does not support MicroG & the security risk it introduces.

There are plenty of threads and other message boards that are better suited than this thread to discuss privacy & cell phones so I'll leave it at that.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
I don't know enough about Android Development/Internals, but I'd be interested in informed comments on this from the MicroG web site.

Clearly a cell phone is a tracking device, and always will be. It's just wholesale supplying google with every bit of data is crazy--not only the invasion of privacy but the waste of MY resources.

The other thing that I'm a bit disappointed with is that (even though it is supposed to) I can't block Amber alerts. I feel for people who have their kids taken, but when the #$#@ carrier (or cops) send an amber alert to my phone in the middle of the night all it does is annoy me. I'm wondering if the carrier is sending Amber alerts as one of the higher classes of alerts. As a result I have to go to airplane mode which means that I would miss a real alert like a tornado
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Boatshow:
You should call your municipality to get that fixed...

I haven't used gapps in years. Sometimes I've needed workarounds for things but I've never needed microg either. If I need navigation I just open a map with a web browser and try to wing it without any GPS. :D
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
Unfortunately I have 2 or 3 apps that I need (and several others I wouldn't mind using occasionally, but can live without). For me an acceptable compromise would be freezing google services unless one of the apps was in use.

I know the cell carriers are constantly tracking, so if that isn't acceptable, the phone has to stay home or in a faraday bag. I don't think that most of the deep spying is too likely unless you are either high profile or a "person of interest". Unless you have a Libre phone or something with hardware kill switches, the baseband is likely contains a back door anyway.

I'm far more worried about google collecting a constant stream of metadata, applying AI to that data, making conclusions (which may or may not be correct), and then selling their conclusions to unknown entities for profit and the unknown consequences of those actions (present or future).

Privacy guard appears to have sufficient permissions available to muzzle both Google Play Store/Google Services, as long as the permissions are respected.

With all permissions off Google would not be able to collect very much. Am I missing anything? (Alternatively being able to freeze/thaw GP/GS would be a possible solution as well.)

For convenience, having ways to switch these permissions off/on would be ideal.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] grumpy783:
Hello . does infrared work?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Boatshow:
The IR blaster? Yeah it does but you need to get an app to control it.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] guest4711:
And at its best, no need to own any google account.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Noob9496:
I use Lineage OS for microG and works perfect.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] grumpy783:
Okay thanks , what apps ?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
Thanks for mentioning this.... Are you using any apps that use Google Services? If so can you please tell me which ones? Did you ever use Wireshark or other tool to see how much stuff was going to Google?

I have been playing with AFWall+ in an attempt to muzzle most of Google's data streams, and things were going very well until I got to my contacts... everything disappeared. I'd like to find a way to store and backup contacts outside of the Google ecosystem. Any suggestions?

I also found an app Samsung Push Service as I was going though the firewall apps.... Is this part of LOS16, or is it something I inadvertently imported from another OS?

(I haven't used my Samsung account for almost a year, and I am getting messages that it is about to be deleted -- which is fine by me.)
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kurtn:
How about keeping your contacts locally in a vcf file? You can download it from your Google account, export/import it with stock lineageOS contacts app. Or sync it without cloud https://f-droid.org/app/org.decsync.cc
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] cdrivex4:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duokan.phone.remotecontroller

Clean interface, no adds last I checked works with just about everything.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] grumpy783:
Nice , thx
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] rootkitty:
I have been examining traffic with Net Monitor (I'm not sure how to make AFWall+ log/capture traffic (I guess that needs a cusstom iptables script which is currently a bit beyond me) and I am wonding if anyone can help me identify the following apps:

app.android.unknown UID 1000

does a bootps, and a bunch of connections to several 1e100.net endpoints.

app.android.unknown UID 10022 and

Connecting to:

142.250.4.188, 172.253.63.188, 172.253.116.188 Owned by google

Numerous endpoints in 1e100.net - again owned by google

app.android.unknown UID 10029

I deleted log info by accident, and it hasn't come back again yet.

I have Wireshark capturing the traffic, so I know what is going out (at least over WiFi), but is there a better way than Net Monitor to determine the source application?

I'm fine with adb if someone can give me some idea of what to do.

Has anyone mapped out what some of these things do and best ways to firewall with minimum impact?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] dcarvil:
No guarantees, but /data/system/packages.list has package names and a number that looks like a UID.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] guest4711:
I keep my contacts local. To do so I have to create a local account e.g. by using com.fjsoft.mylocalaccount. I use MyPhoneExplorer to sync them with a windows pc.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] lollazzo:
I flashed latest nigthly and I can't see app permission In privacy guard.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Boatshow:
I got curious so I kept my phone connected to a Wireguard tunnel the whole day and ran tshark on the tunnel. I'm aware that Android split routes captive portal tests etc so it never goes through VPNs. For the most part my gappless phone produces 0 traffic when idle. I could only find two weird DNS lookups when the phone starts:

time.android.com

I didn't look too hard to see if it was just a DNS lookup. Maybe it's for determining timezone? LineageOS defaults to android.pool.ntp.org for NTP. You can block this domain in the hosts file and NTP doesn't seem to be impeded.

kernel.boeffla.de

From the Boeffla app for the tuned kernel. You can block it in the hosts file as well.

Tshark command I used:

tshark -i wg0 -nn -e ip.src -e dns.qry.name -E separator=";" -T fields port 53

I use this hosts file in AdAway:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/

I have secure DNS disabled because it doesn't tend to work with tunneling setups where the DNS is already secured anyways.

Try setting up AFWall in whitelist mode, I'm sure that would work better for you.

P.S Has anyone managed to get the heart rate sensor to work without those magisk modules in another thread?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] dtr.:
Is there any genuine fix that works for people not hearing my phone call conservation or at very best very low volume during my conversation _ I can hear them perfectly well they can barely hear me at all _ its killing my phone conversations

This has been happening now for several weeks using various klte ROMs or am I just stuck with it . . .

Thanks for ant feedback
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Noob9496:
Slow battery charging

When the phone is switched off, the battery charges very slowly. I have an enlarged battery, 7800mAh. I discharged to 0% and connected overnight to charge on a turned off phone. The battery was charging 11H. After clicking the power button, the phone showed that the battery was still charging. I turned on the phone and the system showed 61% battery charge. The battery charges faster when the phone is on.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] dtr.:
Is there any genuine fix that works for people not hearing my phone call conservation or at very best very low volume during my conversation _ I can hear them perfectly well they can barely hear me at all _ its killing my phone conversations

This has been happening now for several weeks using various klte ROMs or am I just stuck with it . . .

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kurtn:
Clean microphone port hole?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] dcarvil:
Increasing the microphone gain worked for me. https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s5/development/how-to-microphone-gain-increase-s5-t3190613
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Re: Low Mic When Making Calls? - Stereo Recording

If this happens with various ROMs then clean the small mic hole next to the USB port like [MENTION=8031265]kurtn[/MENTION] wrote above.

If you use a needle & go too deep you will break the membrane that prevent water from coming in & your S5 will not be water-resistant anymore.

If you use a protective case or cover make sure it has a hole for the mic.

I use a vacuum cleaner once in a while to clean the USB port, the mic hole next to it & also the top mic hole next to the IR blaster which is used when you have stereo recording enabled in some third-party recording apps like Easy Voice Recorder for example. (screenshots)

You could use that app or similar to test your mics or Lineage's Recorder app > Record sound which uses only the bottom mic (Main mic) which is the one in use during a call.

See my post with flashable zips S5 Main Mic Recording Boost & Survival Script - WhatsApp and also Low Mic When Making Calls? for links to other zips.

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The problem with that thread is that it's from 2016 & it's about Lolipop when the mixer_paths.xml was located in system/etc so the zips in the OP will not work on LineageOS 15.1 & 16.0.

Since Android 8+ on the S5 the path is now: /system/vendor/etc/mixer_paths.xml.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Galaxy S5 Heart Rate Monitor & App Alternative

There is a way here on XDA to enable the S5 heart rate sensor which I tried when I was running LineageOS 16.0 unofficial but after running 3 consecutive tests comparing the results with a stock Samsung 6.0.1 on S5 Mini G800H's heart sensor and those simple apps using the camera instead like Heart Rate Monitor by Meet Your Need Production and Heart Rate Monitor by REPS which gave exactly the same results I did not bother with it and the resource hungry S-Health after a clean install of LineageOS 16.0 official.

See this video which is exactly what happened on my S5 G900M: Galaxy S5 heart rate sensor vs ? pulse measuring app from the Play Store

I ran 3 tests on each S5 devices using S-Health + 3 tests on 7 heart beat apps each (21 tests total) and the apps & camera method is as reliable as Samsung's heart beat sensor on the S5.

S-Health is huge and wants a ton of permissions & that's why I dumped it as well as the required S-Health framework.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Sobhan Mazaheri:
Hello to all

I have a problem with Klteduos

First SIM is "LTE"

But the second SIM is "E"

Band settings were attached to the screenshot

Any help?
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] cexcells:
Try swapping them around. If the irancell still shows E (edge) connectivity then I would check the APN settings. I've had issues with virtual network providers and data.

I can only get H+ but have to set preferred network type to this.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Sobhan Mazaheri:
I have done the apn settings manually

I also tried all the Preferred network mode options

I can't even get H+
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Re: S5 klteduos G900FD - SIM Settings

AFAIK there is nothing to fix & that's how the S5 klteduos G900FD works: only 1 SIM at the time can have data & be set to GSM/WCDMA/LTE and there other one must be set to GSM only.

If you want your head to spin Search Opinions here with "SIM" or "SIM 1" or "SIM1" https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gal...views-6272.php

Did you try the SIM with E in an other phone?

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Sobhan Mazaheri:
Thank you

You are right that only one SIM card at a time can set the data to GSM / WCDMA / LTE

Everything works well
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Official LineageOS 16.0 Now Weekly

FYI it's now official: LineageOS 16.0 updates will be built only weekly starting tomorrow as you can see in https://github.com/LineageOS/hudson/blob/master/lineage-build-targets which includes the initial list of devices that will get nightly official LineageOS 17.1.

As you can see here the LineageOS S5 klte + variants maintainer haggertk is not working on a 17.1 version @ the present: https://review.lineageos.org/q/owner:haggertk%40lineageos.org

You can find here an [UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 17.1 for klte by [MENTION=4770483]afaneh92[/MENTION].

While it's not merged yet, you can see the next batch of devices that will receive 17.1 here: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/lineage_wiki/+/271388

I am attaching for posterity the last changelog for the S5 16.0 build 2020-03-25 nightly and as you can see it's not a big lost to go to weekly as the changes are not frequent anymore for 16.0.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] J-Lindo:
It may also be good to note that Afaneh92 presently does not intend for his builds to become official.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] FettyWap:
Hello,

I am using last weeks build. I am trying to hide the content of messages app when the screen is locked. I was able to set it for telegram. In the screen preferences there is no longer an option to hide sensitive content.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] cexcells:
Search in settings notifications> work notifications
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] FettyWap:
I resolved it by Adding a lockscreen after that hide sensitive notifications appeared.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kiai72:
in case you're still searching for a solution: i had the same problem (on another phone, but also with lineageos).

i tried everything ... but the only solution i've found: xposed framework (not on systemless root) + "rootcloak" -> swyxmobile finally works!
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] JeyC79:
Hi!

I use LineageOS 16, I install update often.

Is it possible to reset/recalibrate the battery?

One year ago, I bought a big battery (7800mh). It's very good. The S5 is my spare phone, WIFI and DATA are off.

With this battery, my S5 can run ~1 month.

But, the phone doesn't show the real use. Look.

I tried different things I found on internet, but nothing works.

Please, do you have any idea?

Thanks.

EDIT :

On those 2 screenshot, the chart is not full, because the flat ligne continue during many days... (I took the screenshot before the phone shutdown by empty battery)
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] jpulido09:
Have my G900T with March 25, 2020 build.

I have read on previous post the fingerprint problem and i too am having the same problem. I even followed instructions here : https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78485099&postcount=740 but no luck.

to specify:

I can register but I can NEVER unlock phone. Not sure what I am doing wrong or maybe I am missing something. Please let me know community. much love
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] lecorbusier:
If you're used to decent fingerprint scanners:

This is a line scanner and you have to swipe over the menu button in the exact same direction and angle (finger relative to surface of the phone) as you did when recording the fingerprint.

I was astonished then how quick and easy the scanner on my LG G6 works and that phone's scanner i startet to actually use, PIN entry as second option.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] HippoMan:
Quick-setting tile for three-way sound toggle?

I just installed the latest version of this ROM onto my ancient S5. It's working well so far. Thanks for all the good work!

I have a question: I'm looking for a Quick-Setting tile that will toggle between 3 sound modes:

(1) Ringer + Vibrate

(2) Vibrate only

(3) No ringer, no vibrate

Some other ROM's that I have used in the past have offered such a tile, but I haven't been able to find such a thing for this ROM.

Am I overlooking something?

Thank you very much in advance.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] kurtn:
I didn't try, but can't you tweak the system profiles tile to do what you want? Long press that tile brings up radio buttons
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Didgeridoohan:
Hello everybody.

Please keep posts on topic. This is a ROM thread, not a "what phone should I buy?" thread. Thread cleaned.

Stay safe and don't forget to wash your hands.

Didgeridoohan

Forum Moderator
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Noob9496:
I have the same problem
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] HippoMan:
Aha! I think that will do it!

Thank you very much.

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[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Zytrel:
Device Encryption

Hi all,

just for the record, I was pretty weary about enabling device encryption, after reading loads of problems posted all over the forums. So, after a few shots of Vodka, I just went for it with TWRP 3.3.1 and LOS 16 05.04.2020. Everything went smooth. I went with password encryption and I can decrypt DATA via TRWP just fine. Everything else also just works out of the box.

So, just posting this as encouragement for other users with the same doubts. LOS 16 with TWRP 3.3.1 just works.

EDIT: Only drawback so far: Automatic Updates won't work anymore, at least not if you use things like Magisk or assumedly things that uses addon scripts. But not really a problem in my view, as you can always flash manually.

Regards,

zy.
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] Nevaran:
Which version of LineageOS do I need for a 900T S5 model but for it to be international? Since I live in Europe
[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] dcarvil:
LineageOS does not provide the radio/modem software the phone uses to connect to telecommunications services, so there are not different LineageOS versions for countries with different telecommunication systems. If your 900T works in Europe with the stock ROM, it will work with LineageOS.