yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
The rom is abnormally large? When selecting the aroma package barely anything fits, in 7.1.2 it fit 5x more apps using th aroma package also 400 MB for the rom? what's causing this? how can I make the system partition bigger?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
If I'm allowed to ask, what's aroma? And yeah, the ROM size it's quite normal since Android O includes vndk and hidls.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dontpanic-xda:
It feels really snappy compared to 14.1. I guess that's because of a different launcher?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I don't think the launcher has something to do with the snappiness. I guess Android Oreo it's more optimized than Android 7. You also need to keep in mind that I've updated the GPU drivers (kernel-side, mali).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] lifty95:
Wow, great job @Rortiz2 ! Respect and thank you!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
Aroma is an open gapps installer it includes all apps and offers a gui installer. Also, I found out what causes the screen issue. Apparently just installing a SELinux switcher app will cause the issue where if you put it to sleep by pressing the power button and you press the power button again to take it out of sleep nothing happens. I don't know how just installing a selinux switcher causes the screen issue and the Bluetooth crashes
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Why would you set SELinux to enforcing..? Sepolicies aren't yet prepared to do so... Anyway, I don't have any clue about aroma, use the standard gapps package I guess.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
I want to have it on enforcing to get safetynet to pass
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Alright, I guess I'll try to fix sepolicies then. Don't expect it to be quick though, this takes a lot of time.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] xenonrider:
I'm really impressed with this ROM. Running Services reports nearly 800 MB free after boot and it's definitely snappier. Also, viewing Settings with a pure black background is probably my favorite feature.

One thing I did run into was that during the install of GApps, it seemed to stall after the Installation Complete message. I just rebooted manually and it was all fine. Great job, Rortiz2
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] 9000RPM:
rom installs fine but it looks like it freezes after "installation compete" for opengapp.

Used the link above for openapp. Did not choose a different variation.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] moore.bryan:
Sure...

EDIT

After installing and reinstalling a number of times, the choppiness has disappeared, leading me to believe it was (somehow) an issue with the streaming services and/or my network connections and not the ROM. I'm hoping to update to the latest build later today and test some more.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2021-10-31 [douglas] [giza]

Resolved missing {drm,omx} symbols ({TimedEventQueue,EVP}).

Added MicroG support (Signature Spoofing).

Added exFAT support (included new kernel driver).

Fixed audio stream (amazon proprietary libraries).

Added GPU Extension Device ("GED") support.

Updated the security patch to October 2021.

PS: Happy Halloween!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] slinson:
I'm on this load. However, the SD card access seems to be denied. Is this expected limitation so far or am I missing something? Please advise.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] ArchaicDroid:
I'd be grateful for any info on approximate idle battery life for this (LOS 15.1 on douglas). I know that deep sleep isn't working but not sure what that translates to in terms of how often you have to charge the tablet.

I'm currently on LOS 12 (thanks to @Rortiz2 for that btw) and get about a month between charges if the tablet is left totally idle.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] maelcocolatorche:
Hi, OTA update works fine for me.

I've updated from lineage-12.1-20200905-UNOFFICIAL-douglas to lineage-15.1-20211002-UNOFFICIAL-douglas manually last saturday

And updated OTA to lineage-15.1-20211031-UNOFFICIAL-douglas

Thanks to @Rortiz2
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] maelcocolatorche:
Hello I found this information on xda, it can help to solve the deep sleep issue:

https://xdaforums.com/t/no-deep-sleep-on-any-custom-rom.3612472/post-72673080
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pashtun:
Is this an issue with this ROM? I've been running it without any problems (except for some reason it's been taking a long time to charge today, but I've just upgraded to the latest build. maybe that will fix that issue), but I just went into the settings and 'double tap to sleep' was already turned off anyway.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] v7asfpx:
Thank you Rortiz2!

I just switch to 720. I don't notice the difference
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pashtun:
Until yesterday, I had no issues with charging, but my son ran the battery right down and it's been taking a very long time to recharge. This was on the previous build' I've just done an OTA update to the latest build, which will hopefully fix the issue.

EDIT: The issue seems to have gone away now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
No that's not expected. Could you elaborate your situation please? What is the sdcard format? Are you using it as internal storage or external storage?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] reloxiw959:
@Rortiz2 I just have to say thank you! I recently updated my tablet to the newest rom that you built and i have to say I noticed a very big performance boost. I know sometimes we might seem like a bunch of ungrateful strangers, but be assured that all of us respect your work. Again, thanks for all your work we really appreciate it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mikef1:
I'm holding off this update for the same reason. Mike.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Good news to everyone. I partially fixed HW decoding (and this includes Video Recording) ;)

EDIT: It fully works now
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2021-11-07 [douglas] [giza]

Fixed Video Recording.

Partially fixed Hardware Decoding/Encoding.

NOTE: 1080p it's still laggy.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] slinson:
Sure and thank you for your time in advance.

I tired with 2 different sd cards:

1. Sandisk Ultra 64G, exFAT, and this one was working fine on the same douglas when running previous 12.1 (where I upgraded from), and was even working fine in TWRP when flashing 15.1 ROM

2. Samsung EVO Select 64G, also in exFAT. Working fine on other Android devices.

The symptom is that (same for the 2 cards):

1. the tablet can somehow 'see' the sd card, because not only it shows 'for transferring photos and media' in the status bar when card is inserted, but also I can even see the portable storage listed '49.xx GB used of 63.99 GB' under Storage in Setting - no problem

2. However, when try to access the content of the sd card, say using stock File Manager app, or File Manager+ or RS File Manager that I downloaded from Play Store, none of them would show the content of the SD card when navigating to the path - they all show somewhat 'access denied' message and leaving a blank folder -- as if no access was granted, but none of them asked for access approval neither.

3. Weird enough, all of the 3 file manager apps can somehow 'see' the sd card with usage listed '49.xx GB used of 63.99 GB' or 77% or whatnot. Meaning the card itself is there.

Btw like I mentioned I upgraded from 12.1 (followed all wipe procedure), and the same sd card was working fine on 12.1 for me.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] maelcocolatorche:
Hi, OTA last update works fine for me.

Except battery issues

Thanks to @Rortiz2
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I'm glad to hear that, but unfortunately telling me "battery problems" it's useless for me. If you're talking about deep sleep, it's already a known issue. If you are talking about the charging issue, please provide more details (how to produce it, which charger you are using ...).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] la_tristesse:
I can not confirm that hw dec/enc is fixed. I just installed your 2021-11-07 build on a Kindle HD8 (Douglas) and played a jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-h264.mkv testfile without hardware decoding support on Kodi 19.3. Did I miss something or is the support limited to a specific app?

View attachment 5454487
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] maelcocolatorche:
I'm talking about deep sleep issue which is already known

About this issue have you seen this link https://xdaforums.com/t/no-deep-sleep-on-any-custom-rom.3612472/post-72673080
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] sachinss:
Thanks again for the continued development on this ROM!

I am on gize and am not able to get the camera working. I have tried it with the stock camera app from the lockscreen, a QR scanner app from the Play Store, and also a bunch of 3rd party camera apps. All of them fail to start the camera.

I have installed Fully Kiosk Browser and I want to use the camera motion detection feature on the tab. Any suggestions on what I can do? Happy to provide any logs that are needed.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Hi there,

I thought this problem was fixed previously but looks like it wasn't. Did camera ever work on giza? Just asking since maybe I broke something with the latest updates (since I've been playing around with vendor blobs). As you already know, I only own douglas so I can't really test giza builds.

Anyway, it would be interesting to see at which point it dies. Can you provide a boot log please? You can use the command to generate a full log (which will include the kernel logs as well):​

adb logcat -b all > log.txt

By the way, an unrelated question to this problem (asking to everyone who watches/follows this thread). Do you think it would be a good idea to create a Telegram group to discuss about douglas and giza?

Regards.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Unfortunately douglas doesn't even support DT2W so that's kinda useless.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Yes, indeed it isn't fixed. The changelog says "partially fixed" because HEVC doesn't work still.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] robonxt:
Camera hasn't been working since 14 if I recall correctly. For sure on 15 it has not worked before, apps saying that they lack the proper permissions and/or camera not enabled. Even the default camera app icon is missing from the launchers list, while it's still in settings > apps, you can't do anything/open the app.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] sachinss:
Thanks, here is the log output.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I can't see it (?)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] sachinss:
Log output: https://file.io/QYsd77ogTuFZ

Edit: another link: http://4GP.ME/busd/1636655114551.txt

(for some reason I am not able to attach files to the post, maybe because the log file is larger than 1MB?)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] la_tristesse:
So partially fixed means H.264 isn't accelerated as well. If neither H.264 nor HEVC is supported what is actually fixed? I don't want to sound like a total douchebag but can you explain which video functions are actually hardware accelerated? I also tested H.264 with Moonlight Game Streaming which is also broken. Thanks for your ongoing efforts.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Korin67:
Yes, when you open Telegram group, I immediately join.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] roomer11:
Just checking if you've gotten to this yet ? Thanks. :)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] akillenb:
I installed this rom a couple of versions ago, and am overall much happier with it than the Fire OS nonsense from amazon. But I noticed today that there seems to be no "hidden network" option in the wifi settings. Is it possible to add?

The device will let you configure a connection to a hidden network, but without that option, it will not connect. Is there any workaround?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work. I'm still looking forward to find a fix.

Yes, that's a known bug. I still need to figure out why wpa_supplicant isn't happy about hidden SSIDs.

Thanks for the log. Looks like something is messed up in the kernel side. I'll take a look as soon as I can.

To everyone, I will be inactive for a few weeks due to personal problems. When I'm back I'll update the ROM.

Regards.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SAHorowitz:
Thanks for the ROM. I have been using it as a daily driver for a while and for my use case all is well. Appreciate the work and look forward to an update in a few weeks.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] shoeseat:
Great work. Everything is working fine.Now, only need to fix is deep sleep. Then this ROM will be perfect. My battery drained from 74% to 62% overnight(7 hrs) with WIFI turned OFF. Keep the good work.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] demotesting:
Same here.

Default file explorer shows "Can't load content at the moment" wherever I select "SD Card storage" (in exFAT format).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Crim Soukyuu:
Loving the snappiness sofar, great job!

However, signature spoofing doesn't seem to be working on latest douglas build. I used the magisk microG installer module on 14.1 and it worked fine, but on 15.1 the self-test reports rom not supporting spoofing... could you double check that please @Rortiz2?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pom532:
I was still having charging issues and tried to turn off the tablet while it was charging and now it won't turn on. Any ideas how to get it working again?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Hold the power button for like 20-30 seconds.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pom532:
Doesn't work
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
There are some videos on Youtube that have other suggestions. Try this one:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pug_ster:
I'm curious, is this rom a 32 bit or 64 bit?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] cellist:
This is a 64-Bit ROM.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Finnzz:
@Rortiz2 Thank you for your work on this ROM, I just upgraded from LineageOS 12, using Douglas.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Back to work, happy new year everyone. Fixed USB tethering & some more stuff, I will release the new builds later.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2022-01-02 [douglas] [giza]

Fixed USB tethering.

Added support for MTK's perfnative handles.

Updated vendor blobs to the latest FireOS version.

Defined the vendor security patch (to satisfy Trust).

Cleaned up unused vendor blobs & patches.

Fixed MicroG spoof patch.

NOTE: giza users, check if the cameras are working now, please.

NOTE: MicroG users, check if you can use MicroG now, please.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Crim Soukyuu:
Happy new year! Just clean flashed the new build and microg still claims there is no spoofing support. I'm using the magisk module (microg installer revived), if that matters.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] cellist:
Good morning and a happy new year to all of you! Thank you very much for the new ROM, I tried the Giza one right now, but unfortunately, the camera is not working (I tried with OpenCamera). And for MicroG: no signature spoofing capabilities right now. Appreciate your effort!!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Not sure what's wrong with MicroG then. The patch is there (and applied, I double checked it). Can't do anything else, sorry. As for giza camera, try to grab boot logs, they should be different now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] cellist:
Thank you Rortiz2 for your kind offer! I appended a logcat when trying OpenCamera that I compressed to save some space (hopefully this is useful, since I haven't used logcat before). I personally am very happy with your ROM, as a working camera on that tablet is not important for me. Btw. MicroG reports missing spoofing capability on douglas with its self test just as well, but let's see what other users of your ROM report back ...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Crim Soukyuu:
Well, I'm not sure it's microG, just used smali patcher to generate the magisk module and after installing it, spoofing works... so maybe the patch doesn't apply on 15.1 the way it should... Thanks for double-checking it was in!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] ShapeShifter499:
will the microG patch mess with CTS/SafetyNet ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] anujdatar:
Happy new year everyone. I have been using LineageOS 15 on my Douglas for a few months now. I've been having an issue with mesh WiFi for some time now. Instead of seamless switching as I move around the house, I get these disconnects, and reconnects. Has anyone else noticed this? There are no WiFi issues as long as I stay in one room.

Not a big problem in general, but causes some video streaming apps to stop buffering. I figure that is probably an app issue, where they aren't handling abrupt disconnects/reconnects properly. But I do not see this behaviour (WiFi disconnect/reconnect) with my other devices.

I am on the latest update at the moment, January 2022. I have a set of three Tp-Link Decos around the house.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Interesting, thanks for the report. Mind if I send you a zip in PM to see if the problem gets fixed?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I'm not sure. People reported the patch isn't working at all anyway.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Thanks for the log, but unfortunately it's kinda useless since I can't see how does camera init. Could you grab instead a log while you power on the tablet (Amazon Logo -> LineageOS bootanimation -> Home Screen)?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] anujdatar:
Sure, I'll try it out 👍
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] cellist:
OK. Hope this one is more insightful!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Crim Soukyuu:
For me it also happens with one access point - I randomly see the Wi-Fi icon going hollow - not connected to any AP. That is with me not moving... I think there were reports about that before?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] OS9er:
Hello everyone, new forum user here. Recently installed this build of Lineage on my Douglas, and just grabbed the latest update. All the major features are working fine. Only problem I have is the SD-card inaccessibility bug (device sees the SD card is inserted, but can't read any of the files on it). I'd love to see a patch for that, if possible. Otherwise, it's working much better than FireOS ever did. :)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Finnzz:
@Rortiz2

I'm enjoying LineageOS 15.1 so far (Douglas). I see that deep sleep is a known issue. Is there a way to manually force a deep sleep? And do you think the deep sleep problem is something that could be fixed in the near term, or is it more a long term, to probably can't be fixed sort of issue?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] ShapeShifter499:
I'm using a Amazon Fire HD 8 2016 "Giza" model and it works great for the most part but I'm experiencing an issue with one of my two "Giza" tablets. It doesn't seem to want to properly shutdown and I don't know why, it'll just abruptly power off when the battery is low enough. Does anyone here have ideas what might be happening?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Still nothing :(. Try to use adb logcat -v time -b all
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Yes, there were similar reports here, but I thought they were already resolved (with the wi-fi HAL update). Since the patch I sent to anujdatar didn't work as expected, I guess I'll have to debug this issue as well. If any of you experience the same problem again, please try to get a kernel log and log.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Unfortunately, I'm still not sure of what's causing deep sleep to not work at all (even though I tried to debug it a lot of times). So yeah, I can't give you an exact date (or estimated) of when I'll fix that issue.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I have read that in one of your gizas you had to disconnect the battery to be able to unlock it. By any chance, the tablet that gives you problems is that one? If so, I guess you should check the battery connector.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Could be because I disabled sdcardFS. What's the format of the SDCard?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] OS9er:
Last time I formatted it was a long time ago, so I can't recall for certain, but I formatted it on another Android device, so I'm guessing its current format is the Android default.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] cellist:
Hi Rortiz2, this is my next take with the parameters you suggested, best regards!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Finnzz:
@Rortiz2 This may be an unpopular opinion, but I hate the default typing sounds on LineageOS. I'm not sure if it's kosher to replace them in the distribution image? If so here is a copy of the iOS typing sounds:

iOS 10 Keyboard Sounds.zip | by JT1510365 for Generic Device/Other

Download GApps, Roms, Kernels, Themes, Firmware, and more. Free file hosting for all Android developers.

bit.ly

They just need to be placed in /system/media/audio/ui
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I would prefer to keep the LineageOS sources as stock as possible. You might hate the default sounds, but other people might like them. So yeah I think it's best to just leave them as is and let users change them afterwards if they don't like the defaults (like you did). As a side note, since these will be overwritten every time you update the ROM, I would recommend you to create a ZIP that replaces the sounds (so you can just flash it after every update) or set up some kind of addon.d script.​
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Thanks, that's way more useful. I will try to take a look.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] ShapeShifter499:
Turns out it was a bad battery. I got a hold of a fresh new battery through a seller on Amazon and replaced the one in the problem tablet. The same tablet now properly shuts down on low power. It lasts longer too it seems. All is well there now.

I do see a different issue, when using the YouTube app sometimes it will get stuck on screen when it attempts to go to floating video mode, picture in picture. It will stop responding to touches and I find I have to use the part of the screen not taken up to navigate to settings and force close the app.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Drachna:
I'm downloading the latest version now. I have to say that I've become very impressed with this ROM over the last few months or so. It works like a charm (except with some select browsers), especially offline, where it's almost as snappy as my phone.

Just a note on video playback: 720p or less works although the device has issues with 720p@60hz, 1080p or higher is extremely choppy.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mrage:
Just wanted to take a moment to thank the OP, this ROM has breathed new life into my douglas.