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[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
I've been following this thread, looking to flash my S3 Neo with LOS 16 and waiting for the devs to fix the main issues. It's my main phone, old and tired, battery got changed 2 years ago (old "again") and very happy with it. I skipped S4 (rubbish), dropped and broke the display on a S5 neo, skipped both S6 (rubbish) & S7 (interesting display, rubbish and very expensive) and waited too much for the S8 to get cheaper, can't find it new anymore, so I'm stuck with the S3 neo - again, lovely phone. :cool:

It looks like the LOS 16 flash is mature enough now to be able to use it on my main S3 neo and I'm a little confused about the deep sleep mode. Just to recap, the issues I noted and followed on this thread and their actual status:

- GPS - GLONASS Satellites are not used - pretty bad, but I can survive with the American ones (GPS)

- using the flashlight or fully loading the phone makes it unable to fully reload again until a soft reset is performed - pretty inconvenient, but manageable

- WiFi MAC Address & Mobile Data speed bug - BAD! - looks fixed now:

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_samsung_msm8226-common/+/268494/

- some esthetic stuff related to live display / wallpaper, themes, etc. - not gating

- DEEP SLEEP Mode - looks unfixed - really bad issue considering the aging/tired battery

Here I'm a little bit confused because of the following posts:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81109137&postcount=216

"Deep Sleep is working, but only if you are doing "right".

Deep Sleep was always buggy on custom rom for S3Neo, also on CM11 and 12.1. With LOS16.0 it's a bit better.

At the moment you have to choose, what you want to have working - Deep Sleep or Autoration, both isn't possible.

Maybe Devs can fix it. "

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81235075&postcount=285

"Yes with 18.12 its fixed by devs. Autorotion works after deep sleep! "

Recently, in one of the newer posts (some pages back) [MENTION=8750475]Humaxxx[/MENTION] reported that the Deep Sleep actually doesn't work and that the LOS 16 image is really low on battery consumption. OK, still unacceptable for my already tired second battery, I need to squeeze every bit of it in order to have it last 1-2 days of normal usage on stock ROM, with 200 stock apps uninstalled ("Google free") and Greenify killing everything that is not used.

My question is - does Deep Sleep mode work? Do I need to disable Auto-Rotation (I don't really mind), or it works with Auto-Rotation enabled? I'll be thankful if someone could provide some answers.

Besides, just noticed this recent fix:

https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_lineage-sdk/+/267283/

- is it related to Deep Sleep?

Thanks in advance for the answers/help & Many Thanks to the Devs for this LOS 16 for S3NEO!

:good:
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Hello, in builds after 07.02.2020 the following is fixed:

- Autorotation

- WiFi Mac address

- Flashlight-charging bug

- mobile Data bug

The following bugs/issues still persists:

- Live-Display isn't working properly. I never really used it / take notice of it, but other users say that it was never working properly on S3Neo on Custom Rom.

- Location-Service: since LOS14.1 only GPS-Satellites are used, Glonass not. This is also on devices like S4,S5. So it's a bug of LOS, Not of S3Neo. - But Location-Service also working without Glonass. For me it gets close to 3 meters, but getting 3D fix lasts longer as on older custom ROMs.

- Deep Sleep: Is working in generally, but its no more working when you fully charge your phone. Then you have to do a reboot to get it work again. Also phone can't get good to deep sleep if WiFi is enabled and no known wifi is in range, because phone is permanently searching... Anyway battery-lifetime in standby (screen off) of S3Neo on LOS16 is awesome. Instead of deep sleep phone disables 3 of 4 cores and last core is running on 300mhz. I did some testing ( set core max speed to 1190mhz - instead of 1590 or 1401 which is standard). Without deep sleep my battery dropped down from 100 to 80% in 22,5 hours ( display off and doing nothing with it...), Same test with deep sleep drops it from 100 to 84% in 26 hours.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
How to enable deep sleep?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Deep sleep is enabling it by itself. Normally you turn off your display and after a short while your phone should go to deep sleep.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] msst72:
Hi

Which app you use for set cpu speed?

Can I root this rom with magisk?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
For root you can use magisk or Los su addon. For setting CPU speed u can use a kernel manager app like kernel adiutor, ex kernel manager and others. I prefer fk kernel manager.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] TheForgotten:
Really good ROM and also running really smoothly. I'm really impressed! Sadly my S3 Neo doesn't charge properly... But still, this is amazing! I'm truly amazed! Thanks for making this phone great again!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
What means your phone doesnt properly charge. Is it a hardware issue, which also occurs on other custom /Stock rom?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Hi again.

Seems like you are a "security-freak" ;)

So where to start:

- B08QT = Sony Cam, but some people report, that the methods for finding out no always give the correct result (also on Stock Rom!?). So i still recommend, after flashing and booting up first try if cam works...

- CM12.1 was and LOS16 is official, also i guess CM11. Source Code (at least from LOS16) is available on Github. I guess here or here, but if you need more / better info about source code you can surely get the info in the S3Neo telegram group from the devs... Also the evs can surely provide you links or infos to WiFi/BT chip and more...

- twrp is a custom recovery, which replaces the stock recovery with more / better functionality. With flashing Stock ROM you can undo everything you have changed on S3Neo.

- To flash twrp you need the img.tar file in odin (no need to tick / untick anything except "Auto-reboot" - If you forget to uncheck autoreboot and you miss the time to press the buttons to boot into recovery then the just flashed recovery will be replaced by the original one. So better untick this option, and after succesful flash turn off your phone and boot manually into recovery (twrp) with the buttons Home, Power, VolUp. If you already have twrp and want to upgrade twrp you can do it in twrp itself, then you have to use the .img file.

- Backup you can save to sd card, and later i would prefer to also save it on your desktop pc...

- If you are comming from another custom rom with android 9 a full wipe / clean flash is not needed, but in your case its recommend / needed. You can flash (install) LOS (from SD Card) in TWRP

Here are 3 links i wrote an installatio-guide in german. For CM12.1 (#10), LOS 14.1, (#143) LOS16 (#6). Just have a look in all 3 before you beginn to flash, because all all little different...

Now i noticed that in my guide for CM12.1 i wrote to put the img.tar into "BL". I tested this at the moment. It doesnt matter if you put the recovery into "AP" or "BL"
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
where is the problem?, if you install twrp and make a backup of the stock rom, in 10 minutes, you return to the starting point, without problems ....,

And the guides, don't we read them?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
I tried 2 times to make a backup of Stock Rom and restore it on S3Neo. Both times this didn't work!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
in all the guides, it is advisable to make a backup of the stock, before installing custom rom, are they wrong?, tonight I reinstall the stock, then twrp, and I try to restore, let's see .....
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
No they arent wrong (its neccesary to backup your EFS)! I just said, that i have tried that 2 times. And both times restoring failfed. I dont know why. i restored hundreds of custom roms and never one failed to restore, but two times made a backup of stock and two times restoring fails. I have tried before 2 months or so to flash stock rom, make a backup and restored it. It worked. I dont know why the others wont work, maybe they were to old or maybe because when trying to restoring i had used a never twrp ??
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
if you make a backup with twrp, the folder name is specific to that version of twrp, if you change twrp, you can copy the files to the previous folder, and you have no problem!

with old twrp the folder was called 4 .... etc .., with the last one, 8 .... etc ..., and if the backup was previous twrp does not recognize the backup, however, just copy the files in the updated twrp folder !!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
I am not talking about twrp does not recognized the backup. I am talking that restoring the backup failed. I have my first backup still on my harddisk. Its from 2015-12-31. And i couldn't restore that one. Courious is that i have a new S3Neo, because my old one was broken. And the courious is, that i can restore that backup to my new S3Neo!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
[MENTION=8750475]Humaxxx[/MENTION]

Thank you again for all the useful info you provided. Well, I'm not that much of a security freak, but really concerned about the fact that I buy a product (die Handy Wanze) and I'd like to own it, not to become a product myself ;) Besides, just read the news - heise Punkt de would be enough - and you'll learn that almost every week you get a big Data Leak / Hack / Vulnerability. Last one I remember was Avast selling user data, picture that, an antivirus company meant to protect and secure you, is actually selling all your private data.

In this respect, paranoia is just heightened awareness. :D

Thanks for sharing the HowTo you wrote on android-hilfe Punkt de - post #6. I'll follow that and hope I'll be successful with LOS16 - I only care about LOS16 ATM. Didn't know you have to flash a stock ROM several times to make sure the baseband and bootloader are properly updated, weird.

One thing I'm still a little confused about is the last question from my previous post:

"I presume I need to use the original lineage-16.0xxxxxxxx-s3ve3gxx-signed.zip in zip format, do I also need to put the lineage-16.0xxxxxxxx-s3ve3gxx-signed.zip.sha256 file on the SDCard?"

- I guess I need to put the lineage-16.0xxxxxxxx-s3ve3gxx-signed.zip file (the latest nightly) on the SDCard, instruct twrp ro flash it, then twrp will open (extract) and actually create the partitions and flash it. And there is no need for the lineage-16.0xxxxxxxx-s3ve3gxx-signed.zip.sha256, because twrp won't use it to check the zip signature, I presume.

[MENTION=9154098]mariocaraf[/MENTION]

XDA-Developers is a good source of information for sure. Unfortunately, the SNR (signal to noise ratio) is pretty low, meaning, you get a lot of incomplete/contradictory/confusing info (noise) and you need to parse pages of forum threads to distill the good/usable info (signal). There is no Wiki section that could provide accurate info or HowTos and get housekept/corrected by the more knowledgeable ones.

Goofing around with bad info on these devices is a no go, because you can brick them very easy.

I'm fortunate to have found Humaxxx here and really appreciate all his help.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
- Ahhh forgot that one... Just copy the zip of latest nightly to your SD card. sha256 file is not needed, but I don't know if twrp checks it, if it is also on sd card.

Just choose install, and select the zip...

- maybe because the English language I haven't expressed my self correct. You should read all 3 guides because they are little different in details I wrote... Happy flashing ,?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
:laugh:
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
The zip file download through updater is full rom file or just the update? Bcs they hv same sizes when u download rom from official site
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
As you correctly noticed it's a full rom. Not only a update.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
Where is efs partition located in twrp ?

---------- Post added at 02:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:14 PM ----------

I flashed lineage 17 yesterday just for checking but I reflashed lineage 16 today,now Bluetooth stops working,what should I do ?
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] kurtn:
You should have done a backup in twrp before. There you can check efs and others. Maybe you can now flash stock rom with odin. Download with frija ;)
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Look at #449, these steps helped with a similar problem!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
I hv installed stock rom now.what should i do now ? I dont understand that EFS partition and how to backup EFS :crying:
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Did you boot up? Is your Imei still present, does bluetooth work now on Stock rom?

You have to Backup EFS before you flash a custom Rom!!! So the question is, did you make a full backup or backuped the EFS partition? If yes then you can restore it!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
Yes i boot up,imei is present bluetooth is working.. now how can i backup EFS i dont know about it
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Boot to recovery (twrp), click backup, choose EFS and swipe to do it. You should store this backup also on your desktop PC or something else. Then you can try a clean flash of LOS16. If there still Bluetooth is crashing try in twrp to restore EFS. If it's still crashing try to restore like the guy in the referred #
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
Thnx i m trying
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] andriodking:
Hey,I HV flashed lineage its working Bluetooth is working but another problem now my internal storage is not available,file manager says internal storage is not available
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Once i had this too, i "repaired" it with restoring a old CM12.1 or LOS14.1 Backup (dont remeber which one - both should work) and then again restoring my LOS16 backup. Hoping you have made backups...
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
I managed to get LOS16 on my S3 NEO ( GT-I9301I ) during the weekend and these are the steps I took (mainly followed the official LineageOS installation instructions):

- flash the latest stock ROM for S3 Neo (Greek ROM)

- copy lineage-16.0-xxxx-signed.zip (proper version depending on camera) and addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip on a SDCard and insert it into the phone

- flash twrp-3.3.1-1-s3ve3g.img.tar with odin as AP - disable Auto Reboot from options in odin!

- after that, kill the phone (remove battery) and turn it on in recovery mode - with Home-VolUp-Power

- <<optional>> - enter twrp and backup all the original partitions with twrp on the SDCard (3,6 GB!)

- enter twrp menu and tap Wipe, then tap Format Data and continue with the formatting process. This will remove encryption and delete all files stored in the internal storage.

- return to the previous menu and tap Advanced Wipe, then select the Cache and System partitions and then Swipe to Wipe.

- return to twrp main menu and tap Install - select lineage-16.0-xxxx-signed.zip and addonsu-16.0-arm-signed.zip (important! - select both - additional zip)

- reboot - done!

I find LOS16 good, really good and I believe I can survive without XPosed. Thanks devs, great work!

There were two cosmetic issues I wasn't really happy with, first - the default icons suck and are very small, the icons for the apps I installed were also very small and instead of showing the full icon, I got a white disk with the tiny icon embedded in it. A launcher might resolve this, but I'm not happy "tainting" LOS, so I can survive with it.

Secondly, the dialer and messages app (SMS) are not applying the dark theme and I learned that this is an issue with LOS in general. This is really bad, I mean, I don't need a bright white flashlight in my eyes when I'm opening these apps evenings/night. In this respect, the stock ROM, with the dark blue/grey theme for the dialer/sms app is perfect.

And, there is no FM Radio app. I read about Spirit2 FM Radio, but I don't know if it works on LOS16 (Pie) and also don't know from where to take it officially.

I reverted to stock ROM as I need to prepare a little (learn more about LOS) and looking forward to switch to LOS for good the next weekend.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
Hi, i also use another Launcher, its also Trebuchet, but another version. Ported from CM. Here you can find it. With this launcher you have more "settings", you can choose / apply a downloaded icon pack. Use "full" darkmode, but some LOS-APPs still are with bright background. I deactivated Phone-App and others and replaced it with Google-Apps because i will have darkmode...

About FM-Radio: It should be working with LOS. I have (in german Language) the app "UKW-Radio" - And its working!
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] kurtn:
[MENTION=10525319]helloyello[/MENTION] nice: you didn't install GApps. That's the main reason for me to use lineageOS. You can get apps from f-droid and aurora store. If some apps don't run without play services and you don't find replacement, you can try lineage.microg.org
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
there is a variant of xposed for pie, it's called edxposed, I use it, for the dark I use swift installer, and in the system apps there is radio fm 2.0, I have disabled it, I don't know if it works.

I use evie launcher,with an icon pack,don't like the launcher and the icons of lineage.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
[MENTION=9154098]mariocaraf[/MENTION]

I know about edXposed, mentioned it in post #483, looks like the only one available not triggering the safety net. Thanks for confirming it actually works.

Had a look over the swift installer, looks nice. I'm wondering if it also changes the theme for the dialer and sms app, those are the ones that bother me. LOS16 dark theme works well in general and I don't mind using it, it's just those two apps I need on black.

On the radio fm 2.0 app, where exactly did you find it? Does it come in LOS16 by default? I haven't seen it in the apps list.

Thanks again for all your inputs!

[MENTION=8750475]Humaxxx[/MENTION]

Danke! As already stated in my reply to mariocaraf, I'm ok with the default black theme from LOS16, no need to change it. It's just the dialer and sms app that are on white and it looks like I can't change that, well, unless I install the Google crap as alternative. Thank you, but no, thank you :)

Can you please provide a link where I could get UKW-Radio ?

... I can't even find Spirit2 FM Radio, just a chaotic thread here on XDA, full with links that don't seem useful ...

[MENTION=8031265]kurtn[/MENTION]

Thanks for all the hints, I've already used f-droid, didn't know about lineage.microg.org. Always manually sideloading and updating apps downloaded as APKs from apkmirror.com & co

I've been rooting stock ROMs on all my Samsung phones until now exactly for that purpose, get the useless (and dangerous) Samsung & Google crap out. Usually there were between 150-200 apps that I removed with System app remover.

Even after the "cleansing", just to be sure, I still modified the hosts file, like:

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 l.google.com
127.0.0.1 clients.l.google.com
127.0.0.1 ssl-google-analytics.l.google.com

;)
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
The App "UKW-Radio" (package-name is "com.android.fmradio" version 2.0) is built-in in LOS16. No need to install anything else.! Just tried it again with a clean flash of LOS16 from 2020-02-08
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
https://imgur.com/vSxsGRZ

this is the screenshot of radio fm los 16.0

https://imgur.com/PMHN7mP

this is the overlay with swith installer (with this app you can edit apps by apps, even just one

https://imgur.com/ksYcntG

screenshot of dialer,with swift installer

https://imgur.com/2KNFBqL

screenshot app radio fm,working !!!

https://imgur.com/G3V6hU5

this is the screenshot of the apps to be selected in the black list for the bypass safetynet with edxposed

https://imgur.com/VGqOuhR

another screenshoot of the lineageos radio app
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
[MENTION=8750475]Humaxxx[/MENTION]

Sorry, my confusion, I was also loading LOS16 on a Samsung S5 NEO and it was there I wasn't able to find a Radio App:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=81796727&postcount=436

[MENTION=9154098]mariocaraf[/MENTION]

Thanks for the details & screenshots. It looks like the swift installer is indeed changing the theme for the dialer & sms app and I'll use it too.

Hope that the LOS devs will consider changing (or enabling) the theme for these two apps by default. I was never into extra themes and launchers, kept the ROM clean and rather purist, but now I have no other choice.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] helloyello:
There's something about the bootloader version requirement I'm a little confused about.

The first time I loaded LOS16, I flashed the Greek ROM only once with odin:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_I410yaBLrLGw9GjKZrxL9rLvTlZK_9u/view

and haven't checked the actual bootloader version with Device Info HW

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.andr7e.deviceinfohw&hl=de

Now, preparing to go for LOS16 again, this time for good, I flashed the Greek ROM (which is a total mess -true horror when it comes to branding and bloatware) five times already, only to learn that the bootloader was still on I9301IXCUARA1:

https://imgur.com/UX3JNET

I looked after the naming convention for ROM files and stumbled upon this XDA Developers thread:

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1356325

I guess the Greek ROM doesn't have a I9301IXXUAPG1 bootloader , but the actual I9301IXCUARA1, contained in the filename:

I9301IXCUARA1_I9301ICOSARA1_I9301IXXUAPG1_HOME.tar.md5

Here in the LOS official instructions, the "bootloader" version is described as I9301IXXUAPG1 - "Your device must be on bootloader version GT-I9301I = I9301IXXUAPG1"

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/s3ve3gxx/install

I'm about to flash the clean Austrian stock ROM:

I9301IXXUAQL1_I9301ITTRAQL1_I9301IXXUAPG1_HOME.tar.md5

the one I used until now, it's the latest I found on updato.com

http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=GT-I9301I&rpp=15&order=date&dir=desc&exact=1

and load LOS16 over it.

[MENTION=8750475]Humaxxx[/MENTION]

I was able to restore the backup I did with twrp on the stock I9301IXXUAQL1_I9301ITTRAQL1_I9301IXXUAPG1_HOME.tar.md5

It hung (about 10 minutes) a little on the last step, "writing modem", but was successful.
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] Humaxxx:
DONT flash the austrian Stock rom again!!!

Greek one is correct. You have to check 2 things: Baseband and Bootloader - these are two different things.

Baseband has to be: I9301IXXUAPG1

Bootloader: I9301IXCUARA1

Both you get if you flash the greek stock rom.

--EDIT--

If you flashed greece Stock rom and Baseband / Bootloader has upgraded, there is no need to flash any other stock rom. If you flash an older Stock rom, your baseband / bootloader can downgrade, which can give problems with newer custom roms.

--Edit 2 --

I had a look now at your screenshots. Your baseband and bootloader are up to date.l So everything is fine for flashing LOS16 / LOS17
[Galaxy S3 Neo Original Android Development] mariocaraf:
will he make it?