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[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] aelfinn:
What do you mean “lost” your IMEI number? I have an S5 mini that somehow changed its IMEI to something non-functional, and I haven’t been able to change it back to its real one…
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
You can mess up the IMEI and Mac addresses by erasing the EFS partition. You should be able to restore it.

Reflash to stock usually solves it though
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] aelfinn:
That’s one of the things that I tried, alas to no avail.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
I've not only messed op efs, but some low level thing when trying to dirty roll back from February to January build. I can't boot neither system nor recovery nor offline charging. I can't even shut down. But I can boot Odin mode. What stock ROM do you recommend? Link? I'm in German Vodafone network.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Offline charging relies on the main firmware, hopefully you have just broken the firmware and recovery. You might get away with flashing TWRP in Odin?

Download the SamFirm software and search SM-A310F with VD2 that will give you something you can flash in Odin. (Depending on Odin version you may have to extract firmware and remove the hidden partition)

If you have screwed with EFS then you will probably have to rebuild it unless you have a backup.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] mohand06:
Lost EMEIs means losing network usage, you can't make calls. Otherwise, the device was usable as a wifi mini tablet (for browsing or listening to music)

Merely flashing with Odin stock firmware for A3 2016 didn't solve the problem. I've tried all the firmwares I could download!

As I said, the only solution to recover network usage (working SIMs) was to get the firmware that comes with a superior number in it, in my case the number 5 as in this German Vodafone latest firmware: A310FXXS5CSF3 and flashing as usual with Odin, it's that simple!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] mohand06:
German Vodafone latest firmware: A310FXXS5CSF3

You can use Frija for Windows to download the latest sofware available for your CSC (screenshot)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Flashing failed with hidden.img now phone asks for emergency recovery function. Any hints?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] mohand06:
4-files repair firmware: https://firmware.gem-flash.com/index.php?a=downloads&b=folder&id=7240
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Remove the .md5 extension and open it in 7zip, delete the hidden.img file. Save the archive as a tar and flash in Odin
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Update: odin flashing twrp and dirty flashing lineageOS brought back my phone. But it's laggy now and detects neither sim nor imei. Restoring efs and radio gave no improvement. I think, i really start from scratch.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Try wiping system and then reflashing ROM + Gapps. It might help if gapps install is corrupt and causing issues.

Wipe cache + dalvik too.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
I'm now trying to get stock ROM without hidden tuning. Flashing seems to work but the boot process looks like a loop with pulsing SAMSUNG logo an flashing backlight each minute. How long should I wait?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
You need to go into Samsung recovery and wipe data and cache
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
I installed twrp to wipe and format. That did the trick. Now I have stock ROM and SIM and imei. Thanks.

Next step: setup a more stable linageOS. Maybe one reason for the soft brick was magisk. I only need it for viper4android's audio equaliser. Does anyone know a less intrusive method to alter treble/bass ratio when listening antennapod over wired headphones? AudioFX never worked stable. That's why it has been discontinued in many devices.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] charlander:
Any solution having a black screen when calling? Can't even cancel my call because of black screen. Im using the official dated feb 13, 2020. Pls help thanks in advance
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Your proximity sensor is defect or dirty. You can configure power button to end calls.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] charlander:
I'm calling someone and then black screen will happen. Tried to press home button and power button many times but still on black screen. I think it will open until 5 secs of pressing home and power button. Im using viber and messenger to call.

EDIT:

My phone works fine when using stock during a call. I did a clean install of the official and this happens. Pls help
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
As previously stated your proximity sensor is faulty. Either get your proximity fixed (sometimes it just needs cleaning) or use one of the workarounds suggested.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] charlander:
Just a question, why work on other rom but having a problem in lineage? Would you mind sharing how to fix proximity sensor? Thanks
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Ifixit.com
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] PlayFriik:
Thank you for your work! This ROM has been running on my mother's A3 2016 for about 3 months now and the only issue she has reported is that if she makes longer calls, then the display doesn't turn on anymore until the call gets ended - the only way to end the call is to enable "end call by pressing power button" setting.

FYI, I installed Google apps on her phone, so she is using Google Phone app.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] charlander:
Same problem
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kipphebel3:
OK, Have not seen that with my daughters phone, but she did complain about sluggishness, but moving apps from the SD card fixed that, she also complained about battery life, until I enabled the battery saver. I was going to install the "BetterBatteryStats" app, but it does not show up in the Play Store on her device. Anyone know why?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] chertVdetali:
Low mic volume with analogue headsets and failing echo cancelation

Hello,

I noticed a problem today... actually, I have two to report but they might have the same root cause. One is about analogue headsets, the stock one or similar from other phones. The second is about echo cancellation in hands-free conversations.

They both work fine with the normal dialer.

But with other apps the trouble emerges. With Signal, Whatsapp, Threema, everybody complains about echoes. I did the test by myself with another phone and I can confirm, the echo is awful.

The second problem is with the regular headset. The mic levels are low, the other side cannot understand anything. I have checked the levels in the EasyVoiceRecorder, it's about 10 percent of what should be received.

OTOH Bluetooth telephony works fine with any application, tried also in different cars so far, all works fine.

I found a thread showing in the direction of audio routing, https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-oneplus-one-bacon-mic-fix-t3503128/page16 , but that is not effective, even when applied manually. I have also recently seen something similar (??) in LOS changelogs for the JF HAL but I have no idea how to interpret/attribute this correctly. Might be not related at all. https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_samsung_jf-common/+/268870/ . Some peole attribute this to AudioFX... but I though AudioFX is N/A in LOS?!

In case I shall test anything, I am open for instructions. Just not doing a complete LOS rebuild, there I am slightly out of practice.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Hi,

The headset mic levels for the profile that these apps use need to be bumped up, this has been reported to me before but I have yet to find my headset to be able to test with.

The echo issue I have not heard before,

The jf is a Qualcomm based device so is completely different to our devices in terms of audio routing.

Regards,

Danny
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] charlander:
Hi. I went back to centaurus and i dont face the same black screen issue when calling someone. I just want to use this rom coz it's so much smoother and more stable. Any suggestion how to fix it?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
I already said the solution. Fix your sensor. There are software hacks around, just search. it is a very common issue (broken proximity sensor).

I believe there is an app to override the sensor values. But you will need to find that yourself.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
Nevermind, seems to be fixed now. :good:

Hello guys,
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Yes, we had an alternative source of the code which had good licensing. [MENTION=8184192]Stricted[/MENTION] worked hard and fixed it up and applied our patches. :)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
You rock guys! :victory:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] iindeec:
Latest version works great so far. Thank you
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] dan_marcu:
I'm still using los 15.1 but i keep an eye on 16 build. I noticed that some users here complain about not charging and that re-plugging the cable fixed that. Had similar issues on 15.1. It wasn't the os fault, I had dust collected in my usb port and the cable did not connect because of that, clean it with a toothpick.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Shumafuk:
When should I install Magisk? During LOS and Gapps? Thanks.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Hieuvo:
Hi. Thanks for the hard work

It's kinda annoying to install a new release and reinstall all the app again and again.

Is there anyway to update without data loss? I try migrate but end up can't open any apps
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Wiltoncandido:
Hi I think [MENTION=6707196]danwood76[/MENTION] has talked about this before, but I'll remember, download the latest version use TWRP and install do not need to delete anything, I did and I had no problem.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] dan_marcu:
1. flash the new zip without any wipe

2. if you want to wipe everything, do a backup and when you authenticate with google it asks you if you want to restore from cloud, you simply check what apps you want restored.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] WSuijker:
Just did a dirty flash coming from LOS 15.1 and no issues yet! Thanks Danny for keeping my phone up to date!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] menca93:
There is some random reboot or battery draining or problem with vocal messages on WhatsApp ?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Wiltoncandido:
No
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Thanks for testing that out.

I will do it myself in a few days too. :)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] menca93:
I had installed the latest build and i found a problem with the rear camera, i always have a blurry photos
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
The camera hal has crashed, reboot to solve it.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jofan:
I installed april 8 build the other day and I'm mighty impressed by the 'deep sleep'! The phone managed some 30+ hours on 'flashing charge' before turning off by itself. Very nice power consumption graph - it's just strait lines (or a bug? :) )! Not really used it since flashing, other than Youtube through Firefox, so I can't tell about much else yet. Well done!

--

Strange app behavior (not a bug just heads up)

Battery Manager is complaining that the email app (com.android.email) is draining battery in the background and suggests to limit it which I did (not using it).

The sms/mms app (com.android.messaging) is set to 'don't show notifications'... Is that just me?

It's not possible to optimize battery usage for sms/mms and phone apps. The option is there but pressing it doesn't do anything.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Shumafuk:
Updated from 15.1 without any problems yet. Finally call recordings is posibble without sound issues, battery holds little longer, exchange is working right after flash without need to install Gmail. Thanks.

Oh, just flashing Magisk won't install apk - I had to install it later separately.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] mohand06:
What gapps do you recommend?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jofan:
I'm using OpenGapps Pico Edition.. It's the minimum you need.. Anything else you favour you can get later from play store
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jofan:
Are there plans to include FM radio in future builds?

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsung-electronics-co-ltd/samsung-radio/

I found this apk and tried installing version 10.0.00.42 but it just says 'not installed'. I don't why or if it's even supposed to work on the latest LOS build.

https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_FMRadio

I found the above link on github but I don't know if it does any good or if it does anything at all (please excuse my ignorance)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jofan:
Sorry for being the only one writing...

I just want to share my frustration with installing Magisk (!!!)...

First I installed Magisk through TWRP install queue

1. Magisk 2. LOS16 3. OpenGApps

...and got stuck with the bootloader grr... so don't do that!

Then I installed Magisk Manager in LOS and downloaded Magisk-v18.1.zip from within the Magisk Manager, rebooted to recovery and installed the zip - every checkbox is green!

Sorry for spamming
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] mohand06:
Arm 9.0 pico?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Wiltoncandido:
yes!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] yeye.phone:
Hello,

With the last build (12 april) i'm stuck at logo samsung... :(
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Dhalsim43:
Try a hard reboot and clear cache
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] yeye.phone:
i do it, but same ... i have re installed it directly via Twrp, but idem
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
[MENTION=8184192]Stricted[/MENTION] , is this a case for https://freiheitsrechte.org/urheberrecht/
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Eh?

That has nothing to do with it. We previously used a BSP which had a questionable source for redistribution of binaries. Our new source is now clear cut (under the Apache 2 license).
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
How did you install?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] yeye.phone:
via ota

next try via twrp
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] yeye.phone:
so, I took the opportunity to do a clean install and try LOS 17.1 ;)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Pierre49976:
Hello, I hope I can post this here:

I've installed Lineage OS 16 on my Samsung Galaxy A3. Everything is fine, except for the Deezer app.

I've installed it, got connected to my account, but I can't listen to or download any music.

The player is stuck with the following message:

(something like: "Loading, wait a bit")

Any thoughts?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Desglex:
Nice ROM! Perfectly working on my friend's SM-A310M phone. I don't know why i couldn't flash official TRWP Recovery. Luckly i found an unofficial one on Youtube that worked out for me so, now his mobile has come back to life. Thanks for this great ROM Lineage :good:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] Eric_Lev:
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[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
You will need a migration zip otherwise things will randomly stop working and be buggy.

Official builds will restart next week probably.

Just be patient.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
I've seen 17.1 coming

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/hudson/+/276245

It would be good to have a final 16.0 with may or june security patch.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Automatic builds are currently offline. There will be future official 16.0 builds when the whole system gets back online.

Just be patient.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Sucessfully dirty flashed https://lineageos.mirrorhub.io/exp/a3xelte/20200527/ over lineageOS 16.0 for microG. As expect magisk is no longer installed. Everything else looks good.

It's 17.1 - only bug so far: lockscreen background doesn't look as expected.

Official 17.1 has landed https://download.lineageos.org/a3xelte
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
You need to run the migration zip. Check my post on the 17.1 thread.

-- edit --

I misread your post, if going from official LOS there is nop need to flash the migration zip.

Just make sure you update your recovery, gapps, and magisk at the same time as the ROM.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
The experimental build is meant as migration zip? Community is guessing why there have been experimental for so many devices before re-starring nightly
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
There has been issues on the build infrastructure. The experimental builds are not meant for end users!

Not sure if the experimentals are even signed correctly, run the migration zip just incase.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
This?

https://xdaforums.com/samsung-a-ser...lineage-os-16-0-a3-2016-t3915192/post80105270
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Check my last post on the 17.1 thread (as I suggested earlier).
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
[MENTION=6707196]danwood76[/MENTION] Will it continue to receive LOS16 updates? :confused: :confused: Like a official update
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
Check answer on previous page.

LOS16 will restart soon.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
sorry, i mean like 1 years later "LOS 16 2021 April security patch." something like that
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Sorry, 16.0 is no longer build target. Maybe we will see unofficial builds

https://github.com/LineageOS/hudson/blob/master/lineage-build-targets
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
I may do a monthly unofficial. Depending on the number of users?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
it would be perfect
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
A version with signature spoofing for microG would be highly appreciated.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
There are already micro g ports for all lineageos devices?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Lineage.microg.org only builds for official 16.0 devices. So no more updates for a3 2016
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
I wonder when the latest normal and/or microg(maybe only be normal) version will be released. Even unofficial
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Why not upgrade to LOS 17?

Sorry but I have little interest in using what little time I have to support an old version, I certainly wont produce microg builds.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
Firstly LOS17 is still buggy and almost every day new changes are included in the next build. For this reason i don't update. And wouldn't a final build be great? Coming to the microG topic, [MENTION=8031265]kurtn[/MENTION] asked this
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
A final build would be great, waiting for a daily usage of LOS 17.1 version.

Will keep wife's A3 on stable 16 and put one of my kids on 17.1. :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Ok Tim (and others). I will do a monthly unofficial build. It will require a migration zip when you switch to it though.

Regards,

Danny
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
Thanks! Waiting Impatiently :good::D
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
Hello Guys,

I upgraded my child's A3 from LOS 16 to 17.1.

In one step I flashed Recovery, ROM (17.1 nightly), Gapps (arm-pico-10) and Magisk 20.3.

So far, so good.

Thanks again Dan!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Hi,

I have just uploaded a new unofficial build of LOS 16.0, to switch from the 16.0 official builds to this you need to first flash the "lineage-migration-danwood76.zip" from the same download folder.

(You only need to flash the migration zip once when you first switch to the unofficial builds)

Unfortunately I do not have an A3 to test with (my cracked screen finally died and I am waiting for a replacement to come from China).

Could someone please test it? Make sure you take a full backup first.

It should be fine as it is a complete clean build form the upstream sources.

I intend to build once a month after the security patches land.

Changes in the 11/06/20 release:
[INDENT]June 2020 Security update
[/INDENT]

Kind regards,

Danny
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
Downgrading from official 17.1 to unofficial 16.0 did not work for me with lineageOS recovery and migration zip. After boot animation it reboots into recovery and says "Couldn't load Android system..."
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
Of course not, you cannot downgrade.

This build is for people who want to stay on LineageOS 16 and migrate from official. You are already getting the latest official builds on LOS 17.1.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] rusen02:
it's alive :D :D :D
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] sasuke chen:
Is there anyone has the last nightlies lineageOS 16 of a3xelte?

It's no longer available on lineageOS official website.

Pls help!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] TimMayle:
Hello,

You might find one of the latest of this thread in first post, in the unofficial images.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] leo1leo2leo3:
Tried installing the latest LOS 16 but the installation failed with Error:7.

I've read in this thread that a too old version of TWRP could be the culprit, however did actually use the newest version v3.4.

I rolled back to TWRP v3.3 after which I successfully installed LOS.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
No

Try that.

Wayback Machine
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jokeris:
Is there somewhere the last version of Lineage OS 16.0 for A3 2016 ?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
LineageOS Build Archive
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] jokeris:
I was thinking of some previous versions like 16 or 15...not 17.With 17 doesnt seem to work OK. It is laggish and ....uncomfortable!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] kurtn:
There is an unofficial 16.0 in OP
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Original Android Develop] danwood76:
The install queue should be:

1. LOS

2. Gapps

3. Magisk

If you do it in a different order it will not work.