yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R3bornD4rth:
Numbers add up exactly. Same info about baseband. Only the kernel is 2 days older then yours and has a different name but that should be unrelated...

For my unreasonable thoughts:

Mayyyybbeee my device was locked out form the carriers system. But that would be a long shot because why block the device and not the SIM, since it works with other devices perfectly.

:silly:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
depends, if somebody had the IMEI blacklisted then the phone wouldn't be able to register at all while the sim would be fine

but I can't really vouch for that ^^

to get root on your device, flash this: https://mirrorbits.lineageos.org/su/20190304/addonsu-16.0-arm64-signed.zip

then a small log from system and radio would be useful

logcat -d > /sdcard/system.txt

logcat -b radio -d > /sdcard/radio.txt
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NORTHLIM:
The YouTube came back to life.

Don't ask me how, he just started to function properly again. The rest remain the same.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
then please try 17c which I just uploaded [MENTION=9181235]R3bornD4rth[/MENTION] [MENTION=5707481]NORTHLIM[/MENTION]
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NORTHLIM:
Well, YouTube it's ok, before, when I was rolling a list of videos there was a glitch, now, it's not there anymore, and everything's okay.

Videos on WhatsApp apparently works well, but on Instagram the first video (or any animation) that appears to me, run, but starting on the second, don't run anymore, even the first that have runned on the start. It's like some buffer being filled with the first and don't storing what follows.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R3bornD4rth:
My game plans for today:

Completely flash to stock - see if mobile data works -> if not suspect HW-issue

then reflash to lineage and see if it works - if not go back to stock for the time being

I will keep you postet by editing this :)

Edit 1: Stock boots up :) - but no carrier.... FML what ever the issue. It must be HW-related for sure. I mean, I didn't even mess with baseband or modems on this phone (not that I can recall or find anything in the other threads about different ones). Only on my Sasmung I needed to update those.... #FML

I will try to contact my carrier, if he may really have blocked the device out. If not... Well up top to the recycling-bin or maybe sell it as broken (any one interested in the parts only damage is the modem- if you pay for shipping I will send it over the world :) )
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
did you try both sim slots to see if the IMEI of slot 1 is blocked maybe?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
then I need a log mate

EDIT: I found some other properties to set, will build a new version for you guys to try (just regarding video playing and graphical glitches), I am confident it should be solved now

EDIT2: It's up for anybody who wants to test [MENTION=5707481]NORTHLIM[/MENTION] [MENTION=5418701]swejo01[/MENTION]
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R3bornD4rth:
Nah, nothing is wokring. It is not reading out the SIM info on both of the slots. It asks me for my PIN and after unlocking successfully nothing happens.

It has to be the reader/modem. SD Cards work fine though.

Edit: Funny thing which makes me disbelieve the 100% HW issue is, that it finds carrier-networks no problem. But it won't connect. Every available one in the area for a fact. So I already started to ask my carrier about the IMEI-part.

Edit 2: Vodafone Support is really "Meh" sometimes. But I still hope we can find a solution. Or they at least rule out the IMIE-part for me... :fingers-crossed:

Damn. I mean, you go about having a backup device laying around and then it goes hops on you by not being used or turned on for some time.

Man this ROM here is so cool, it would be sad, if this was the end :(

Nether the less here is a BIG THANK YOU [MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION] for this awesome contribution and afford to keep the ZTE Axon 7 Mini alive :highfive: :cool:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NORTHLIM:
So, WhatsApp and YouTube are apparently okay.

Instagram still the same, but this time I made a logcat, running in the moment when I click in some video in there: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Hc9VNpMS8w/
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R3bornD4rth:
So this is goodbye from my side. :(

I can now definitely rule out my carrier. I installed another SIM from another carrier. Well for like 60sec it connected and then it broke up again and didn't reconnect. Same stuff as with the other SIM from Vodafone.

It was a great time, but for me it is not worth up-keeping the device or giving it to repair.

As I said, if anyone is interested in it and its parts: Be my guest. Nothing wrong with it other than a few aging-marks and the mobile-network issue. If the shipping got paid for I would give it away freely (since I know it will get put to some use again) - Other than that I would give it into recycling.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] juanantofb:
Hi, i am interested, where come fron you?.

Thanks.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Can you please add this to your build.prop and reboot:

media.mediadrmservice.enable=false

this will force different buffer types to be used, maybe it helps

edit: just installed Snapchat myself and it works too play as many videos as I want... the content creators there produce garbage though^^
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] breezin123:
TWRP install guide for Axon 7 Mini B2017G US, Build 14

Hi guys,

For a newbie I have been reading the forum, but I have been having a hard time understanding all the technical terms and issues you all have with the various methods.

Is it possible someone can comprise a very simply, but complete, step by step guide as of June 2019 to boot up the Axon 7 mini with Android Nougat, with direct links of each file required, including the TWRP recovery file in a computer so we can follow along and be confident enough to flash TWRP successfully.

Many thanks for all you do.

breezin123
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R3bornD4rth:
I pm'ed you :)
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
up next :)

something is fishy with bringing the CPUs online during boot and after boot up, I hope I will be able to repair that, but I am happy that my upgraded Kernel version seems to work without reboots or missing deep sleep :good:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NORTHLIM:
Instagram vids still don't work, but don't concentrate on this, I'll survive without the vids.

Continue the great work.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] [Jan]:
Honestly speaking (and based on the fact that you seem like a native English speaker) I'd rather recommend you looking yourself for the information needed. If you got a specific problem or question feel free to ask ... but as general as your question stands here i gotta say the guides/solutions/instructions are already out there and fairly easy to find. ;) not wanting to sound harsh or mean or something like that ... feel free to come back and ask questions like what gapps version to use or if your phone is unlocked or similar (most are answered somewhere) ... also let me warn you that if you don't know what's happening and what you are doing you may even hard brick your phone resulting in pretty much unusable hardware (happened to me in my early days — years ago).

A general direction you should/could go is searching for a general installations guide (which you can follow and understand) — there even was one on the LineageOs homepage, which might be hard to find since the official support run out.

This was fine in the earlier builds around 20/05, tbh I had this problem in all builds running prior to your build — incl. the outdated official ones. [talking here about the bootup time & the initial laggy phase which wasn't nearly existing at all for me in your early build]. What I try to say is if zte's teams didn't fix that it might be tough to do so... props if you can tho and good job on the scrolling-glitch :good: (found a similar minimal graphical glitch in overloaded listviews — but this is likely to rather be due to poor implementation and/or hardware resources).

Another big annoyance I'm having are (seemingly) random hick ups in WiFi availability (there were also a bunch of posts about it). Never set up wireshark to understand what's happening and if it's my WiFi which causes this problem ;) so if you experience this problem as well and are interested in networking this might be nice to investigate ... if you're not I keep blaming my wifi-extender (even tho the mini is the only device experiencing this problem)
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Actually I noticed a quick booting myself during the May periods, this is why I was startled about this lagging all of a sudden, maybe reverting to the code base around that date will show some differences, but one thing at a time....

The WiFi issues I cannot reproduce, it's actually gotten way better (WiFi connects by just tapping on the Wifi symbol in the status bar - on stock ROM I always had to open the Wifi settings to actually have it search for networks). If you have this once in a while, feel free to share a log
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] [Jan]:
:) would be great if we get the performance back .. but that definitely is lower priority for me personally - i am absolutely fine with how it is.

about the scroll-glitch i mentioned you might wanna look into it since it occurred to me just recently twice (reproducible): in the Gmail app showing a simple email text-content and such as on the sueddeutsche app .. from my understanding those are webviews - both might be pretty likely compiled with flutter (pretty sure the sz app is) - i am on the 17/06 rom tho .. the effect happening is what gsync fixes for Nvidia gpus - by that i mean when scrolling (the y-achsis), the x-achsis (in potrait-mode) is not synchronous with the y-achsis. might be a result of your workarounds in the graphic area tho and is definitely acceptable for a custom rom. (there aren't huge bugs occuring to me on your builds anymore :good: much thanks for the effort and good job on the rom) (Edit: might occured to me because of performance since this happens only occasional)

about the wifi-problem: i am pretty certain the bug is on a deeper level in the osi-model (2 or 5) for a specific protocol/standard (which i apparently am using).. probably should start tracking logs for that (and a more reliable analysis) - but i got the feeling wireshark would tell me way more about whats failing. if i find promising hints i'll keep you up to date (got exams soon tho) until that you can happily ignore this problem :laugh:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] breezin123:
Where is the link to the rom?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Read the first post of this thread entirely
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 1chaoticadult:
[MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION]. This Rom is shaping up nice. The last few updates have really been working well on my Axon 7 mini. Keep up the good work and thank you for your efforts. :D
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
much appreciated

I don't think I will get rid of the graphics glitches completely, for me it is difficult to understand why egl errors happen (bad surface, bad native window), it could be because of outdated libraries I have to use (which are part of the last stock ROM so I can't just compile one myself because I miss the source code)

for coming builds I will try to use the Qualcomm compiler to maximize performance, but I have to research how to properly do it for LOS16

today I might be able to upload my latest build, less glitches, but still not completely gotten rid of
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Quick heads up: I am currently upgrading the camera drivers to 3.18 kernel branch and then try if we will be able to use Camera2 API, my previous results just fiddling with the source code on user side didn't cut it
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
still not successful with camera 2 API, but I am not out of options, so fingers crossed

by the way: whoever has opengapps installed and experiences battery drain due to the phone not going to sleep, run these command in terminal emulator, works without root as well

settings put global hidden_api_policy_pre_p_apps 1
settings put global hidden_api_policy_p_apps 1
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LazyNoNos:
I had specifically bought an iPhone because this phone had air better life and add to slow on our saver. This rom fixed that. Thanks a lot tdm and ssj.

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And I used gapps aroma. I install between stock and full but I skip the play suite. I tried project fi but I guess it's still limited. Oh well.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Sad news: I tried everything possible (messing with kernel drivers and any Qualcomm camera source version which barely compiled ) but I don't get Camera2 API to work - it is not getting the correct FPS settings from the cameras, not even by hardcoding as it fails at some other stage. Unfortunately we have to stick with a Camera1 API camera. What's worse is that any camera source I found for devices with the same chipset are not suitable for our Axon 7 Minis. Tried ZTE Nubia, Leeco S2, original source(s) from codeaurora, each with different errors (segmentation faults, array size 0, etc etc etc

The last thing I am going to try is to use all libraries from Nougat to see if they are accepted in Pie (I remember Camera2 API was half working in stock ROM), but don't get your hopes up. After this attempt I am going to focus on graphics again
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LeonardoGC:
Installing LineageOS 16: "No OS installed!" message

Hi everybody, hi [MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION],

I tried to install the LineageOS 16 ROM but I have encountered some problems.

I installed the more recent recovery (tulip-twrp-7.1-3.2.3-r2.img). I rebooted again into the new recovery.

I installed LineageOS 16, Magisk and gapps (in that order) with adb sideload, but after each adb command (and the apparent completion of the sideload in TWRP) appeared the following message in the PowerShell window: "adb: failed to read command: No error". I don't remember that kind of message with TWRP 3.1.1 (tulip-twrp-7.1-3.1.1-r1).

When I wanted to Power Off the device it appeared the following message: "No OS installed! Are you sure

you wish to power off?"

Any idea?

Regards

Update: The LineageOS version is from June 18th (lineage--20190618-UNOFFICIAL-tulip.zip) and the gapps version is arm64 Android 9 mini (open_gapps-arm64-9.0-mini-20190704.zip).
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LeonardoGC:
Problem solved.

It looks like I shouldn't have wiped System.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] bigfoot29deu:
Well, maybe you SHOULD have (as you did). The message always appears, when you wipe "system". TWRP doesn't recognize, that after the wipe you did set up a new OS with ADB sideload.

By the way: I am having the "adb: failed to read command: No error" as well. Doesn't seem to do anything bad. Maybe your local ADB-Version is outdated or too new?

Regards, Bigfoot29
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LeonardoGC:
I read again the OP and the instructions indicate that you need to wipe Data, that's why I deduced that maybe to wipe System is not necessary. I "solved" the messages problem by flashing the ZIP files from an USB pendrive with USB OTG.

I have adb version 1.0.39. In this moment I don't know if it is outdated or too new. I am going to investigate.

Regards
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] [Jan]:
Hey there,

current adb-version (aka Android Debug Bridge Version) as of 7th July 2019 is 1.0.41 (Platform-Tools Version is 29.0.1-5644136). You can download it here. You can check your version with "adb version".

For anyone beeing confused on how to install while reading this thread:

To do a fresh-install of this LOS-Custom-Rom you must wipe system.

Regarding the "adb: failed to read command: No error":

This is an odd error with different causes - if your smartphone is fine i guess your fine as well , even though it shouldn't appear. More information would be required to understand and fix this error.

[MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION] would be nice if you find time to replace the mark "Format/Wipe data." under "First time install Instructions" with "Format/Wipe 'Dalvik/ART Cache', 'System', 'Data' and 'Cache'" in the op since it`s marked as stable
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
OP updated with the correct wiping process

currently pulling July patches and building a new version, should be up tomorrow :good:

EDIT: UP
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LazyNoNos:
I found something interesting. In Canada we have freedom mobile that allows us to connect to the signals of other carriers if freedom loses signals. Whenever I try and set the carrier manually, the settings app crashes back to the main settings page. Don't understand what is going on.

Edit: I am using the 18th June build.

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I have another question. Will updating the android using the instructions on the first post delete all user data?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
Hi,

updating from an older LOS16 to a newer version you don't have to wipe data (my phone works fine). Just before building the new version I updated some RIL related settings, so the manual carrier selection might maybe work for you after you updated?

Cheers
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swejo01:
Still can't get videos or .gifs to play in anything but gallery, are others still having this issue? Killing the app doesn't work for me. Everything else about this rom is near perfect and I am excited for the kernel changes, esp the new governor, I've always had crap for battery life on this device and I'm not a fan of impulse's rules. But amazing job [MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION] for this near perfect rom.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nikaiako:
Hi [MENTION=2388665]TheSSJ[/MENTION]. Is it possible to get our DAC work? I just tried the 20190708 version of your LOS, and the only audio output available is still the same 16-48.

And I would like to thank you once again. Your work is great!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
thanks man :)

What is DAC? :D I honestly used the same audio settings from TDM's lineage 15.1 so I didn't work on audio at all. Best would be maybe to point to a ROM advertising this feature
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nikaiako:
I mean that Axon 7 mini has a dedicated audio chipset, AK4962 ,which supports hi-res audio up to 32 bit 192000 Hz quality. All stock ROMs support it. This means that the audio signal goes not through the original internal Android audio driver but via our HiFi DAC ("digital-to-analog-convertor"). Say, when I use UAPP music player, it engages Direct PCM HiRes driver flag.

As for a custom ROM that allows hi-res music to play on our Axon 7 mini, I used only AOSP Extended 4.6 https://cloud.mail.ru/public/AGLC/eABvrHGV8

UPD O.K., it is not DAC, to be precise. It is just DSP but it is quite good in terms of sound, anyway.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
ok, and how did you check that the dsp is currently not used? in case I am working on audio I would need to know how to tell if I was successful

is there an app to check?
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nikaiako:
There are just three music players that can play hi-res music on Axon 7 mini (and, of course, the stock music player too). These are Neutron, PowerAmp and UAPP. All are not free.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nikaiako:
Yes, there is one.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nikaiako:
Here is how it looks when the android audio channel is used View attachment 4790089

And how it looks when DSP is used View attachment 4790090

Of course, I used the 24-96 FLAC file in this test.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] TheSSJ:
that helps, you might want to remove the link to that cracked app though :D

EDIT: Progress on Camera2 API, I did the huge (belive me) effort to hardcode our Axon7 camera specs to the camera sources and I indeed made it to progress past the initialization point. I never thought I would reach that far :) Maybe after all we can have our Camera2 API powered cameras
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] k500zm:
That is a damn shame :( I tried your latest build last night installed substratum and it wont work !

I cannot use this as the white is too bright as I have really sensitive eyes :(
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] koktey14:
I have problems with magisk (it is working on only core mode) because of this substratum not working :(
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] k500zm:
Substratum has nothing to do with magisk functioning :rolleyes:
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] koktey14:
Actually it has there is a module in magisk called substratum and in core only mode magisk not using modules. When magisk module is not available substratum stops working.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] k500zm:
Substratum is an app from the playstore and this does not work in Android P Lineage - It also does not affect the functioning of Magisk in anyway.

A Substratum Magisk module is a completely different thing and there is not a compatible magisk Substratum module for Android P Lineage

So what are you talking about ?!!

The ROM works fine with Magisk 19.3 - THERE IS NO PROBLEM

YOU are the one screwing things up !!!!!!!!
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] koktey14:
Easy boy
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] [Jan]:
Hey,

Firstly as stated Magisk v19.3 (Magisk Manager v7.3.2) is indeed working fine; if magisk is forcing core-functionality-only on your device you should look into it. Generaly speaking setting up Magisk and all modules propperly should fix this, but you might wanna look for help at the magisk-support-thread, please check out the magisk-troubleshooting-guides first.

Regarding the substratum-magisk-module and based on this thread, it seems for me to be outdated; also it's stated that this (specific) module is only tested on 'Stock Nougat'. (Couldn't identifiy/find this module in magisk-download-section). Install-instructions for substratum can be found here and here (also suggestion to not use/disable the magisk-module). Please also check out the requierments for substratum to work properly.

It might be also stated that there are many more ways/apps/tools to customize your android, some are already built-in features for this rom.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] koktey14:
Thx for your answer :). I think i messed up something i will clean install latest rom and look if it works.
[ZTE Axon 7 Mini ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gvk007:
Anyone facing issues with wifi after installing this rom? It connects to 5Ghz band and I am not able to browse internet when connected to that band. But internet in 2.4Ghz is working fine.