[Miscellaneous Android Development] Apache Thunder:
Ok I recently got a Alcatel 5059R and got everything finished. Did part of method 1 to get TWRP installed then went with method to to get the full Android OS installed with GAPPs. (I took some creative liberties though and decided to do most of the file moving/transfer stuff on PC instead of within TWRP, and I had to wipe cache/Dalvik a second time after rebooting the phone after LO finished the encryption thing since it seemed to get hang at boot logo. Worked fine after I wiped cache and what not)

So after finishing methods 1 and 2, It mentioned I'd have to take a step in method 1 to fix GAPPs/Play Store not working....

However when I booted into Android and finished setup....Play Store/GAPPs was already working!? I was able to sign in and install/update apps from Play Store.

Is that normal? Seems like I don't have to do much else then and I'm done. I may go with Magisk as my root method unless someone suggests something better. :P

The only issue I've had in this new OS so far was Bluetooth wasn't wanting to turn on after having turned it off earlier. But rebooting the phone seemed to fix that. Not sure if that issue will crop up a gain. If it does I'll post about it again if I can't fix it. (not a big problem, but will need it probably to restore settings from my old phone to the new one)

EDIT: Had to go back to stock. Found that Google Phone Dialer could make calls, but it wouldn't register that I connected so it would sit on the dialer screen as if the call wasn't started (despite hearing the call connect and what not). Couldn't dial numbers to interact with system I called out to nor even disconnect the call. Had to reboot the phone to get the call to end. Now maybe I could be missing something here since I haven't used a newer version of Google's Dialer after Android 4.4 (yeah haven't really used Android newer then that. A little bit of 5.0 here and there but nothing much after that). But pretty sure it's not me being stupid with the dialer. Definitely seems to not be working right.

No idea why this is happening. Tried not updating dialer, but it was still happening. Pretty big deal breaker so gonna have to go back for now.

Also I could not get the fstab.mt6739 thing to disable encryption. Closest I got was it just hanging on boot screen doing nothing. Data partition was populated with files and wasn't encrypted. But LineageOS wasn't wanting to finish bootup so can't disable encryption.

The OP didn't mention if the vender image was meant to be installed with everything else but I would assume so since he included it....

EDIT:

Ok solved the dialer problem. I redid everything but didn't use method 2 at all. Oh and I wasn't able to go back to stock. Would get constant "Bluetooth keeps crashing" and "system update keeps crashing". And for this phone it seems i can't flash the stock image with the official sp flash tool without a auth file so yeah no going back.

But thankfully I can get the dialer working fine. I just can't use Google's dialer. The one the one that comes with LineageOS 16's base system image for method 1 works fine so I'll stick to that and instead flash a limited gapps image that doesn't include the dialer. I bet this time I'll have to do the fix for making GAPPs stuff work. But maybe not. I had to flash the vender image from method 2 before I could get LineageOS 16 to boot...so perhaps gapps stuff working on the get go was related to that. Won't know till I get gapps installed I guess. :P

EDIT: I can't get any of the GAPP installers to work. Open-GAPPS keeps saying I have insufficient space on system (despite clearly there being room since the method2 full gapps version of LinageOS existing for this phone). Super lame. I had to create a copy of the stock LO dialer before reinstalling the full GAPPs built-in version of LO from method 2. So I can use it fine as an installed app it seems. it's kinda hacky way of doing this though. I'd have preferred if the gapps installers worked. How did the OP even get GAPPs into his rom then? Also why did he remove the stock dialer? I read this can break emergancy calls button on lock screen. Seems like a bad idea to do that...