[LineageOS News & Discussion] Byte Burner:
Hey everyone!

It is lovely to be here with all of the experts in one place. such a time to live!

I have installed LineageOS 17.1 on my Galaxy S6 SM-G920F few days ago. coming from stock lollipop 5.1.1 directly. the experience is so smooth so far. my phone feels faster, smoother and lite. I really love it along with all the features of Android 10.

I have 4 issues so far with the OS:

1- the media volume is way lower than the stock ROM. the other volumes like ringing and notifications, alerts .. etc are pretty loud. I solved that by installing an app called Speaker Boost. and by increasing it to %15 the sound is superb clear and load. it is a stereo sound now I can hear the sound coming from the ear speaker loudly. even while taking shower it is very clear and understandable !!

2- I'm not able to use fast charging anymore. Now it says 3 hours. usually my phone charges fully in 70-80 minutes. and both the phone and the charging cord gets hot noticeably till it reaches %80 when it starts to charge slower. within the next two days. i have noticed the phone to be charging faster occasionally as if the OS is adjusting and trying to learn the charging pattern of the phone by pushing it little by little. which is weird because i don't think such a technique is implemented in the OS. for now it switches between normal and fast charging on its own ( it just says "charging" all the time whether it is fast or normal, unlike stock where it was differentiating between "cable charging" and "fast charging" ). moreover, the cable now is never getting hot while charging only the phone !

3- I'm noticing thermal throttling: usually when my phone gets hot it never slows down it just keep the same performance even though it can really get uncomfortable to the touch in heavy gaming. but with lineage OS if it is getting little bit hot ( not warm ) I notice some stutter ( a constant one as if the CPU-GPU been clocked down) . which I don't like. even though I set the battery profile to max performance. and this is really annoying. my phone performed well for the past 6 years with all that heat without getting damaged. and now Lineage OS decided governing the performance as if the heat will damage my phone.

I tried to undervolt so I can prevent reaching the threshold of the thermals but setcpu did not work on my phone and i couldn't find an alternative.

4- the camera app is a total mess. I have lost 1080p 60 FPS recording. now it is only @30 FPS.

when shooting with flashlight: the phone flashes then after a second it takes the photo!!! so taking photos is useless for me in dark places. they are totally out of synchronization.

even with choosing the max resolution for photos. Im getting low resolution photos even in the sunlight outside. in the stock ROM I used to get from 10 mb to 16 mb for each photo in sunlight but now its rom 4 mb to 6 mb !!!

I even tried installing different camera apps. 3 refused to work with error message. one worked with good synchronization with the flash but it fails to save the picture. another one just could not take picture with flash on but will work if toucher is on or the flash is off.

I hope this reaches the developers for a fix. when i restored my nandroid backup to the stock it worked fine.

thank you for taking the time for helping I really appreciate it.

stay safe!

Byte