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[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
thanks for your reply - any ideas what might cause the missing vibration on my phone? Just did the "normal" installation via bootloader unlock, lineage-recovery and lineage nightly. No other odd behavior though...
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Mecallie:
No idea. You might try toggling the options for haptic feedback under accesibility options? For calls it seems to default to off.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
Hm, thanks, but as written above, I already tried all the settings I could find (even in developer mode) - no success.

Or is there a hidden option / dependency / feature I might have missed...?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Mecallie:
Not that I know of.

I will try to return to stock tonight. I really need NFC payments and that is not working.

Hope it will be fixed in the future. I really want a rom without Google.

Thanks for all the work already dev!
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
Still looking for a way to re-activate vibration on my phone... Don't want to go back to Stock Rom, but this is a feature I really miss.

Anyone having same issues or a hint what to try? @ZVNexus , you know of anything like that?

Thank you in advance!

peace&love
[ASUS ZenFone 8] adam.718:
Hi,

I installed the app called "cards" and was able to pair my plastic credit card to it.

The other day tried it at the super-market, the machine at super market said "please select one card not muliple cards" that's because I paired mulitple cards into the app.

Now I removed all cards and left only one, gonna test it again and let you know.

Crossing fingers.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Mr.GSpecial:
yes, have the same problem
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Userspace:
Will it make the Japanese version of Zenfone 8 loose Felica capability, including MiFare(NFC-A/B)?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
OK, good to know. What have you tried so far?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
Observed strane behavior:

when starting the phone, I have haptic feedback when entering SIM-PIN and Phone-PIN. After that, no more haptic feedback. Nowhere.

Isn't that strange?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
I am considering putting this rom on my phone but I have some reservations.

It seems the camera and fingerprint reader aren't working properly, I would love to hear some in depth "review" of how this rom works on this phone. I bought the phone to degoogle my life, I've used Lineage on several devices before but using iPhone right now. On my Xperia X the camera didn't work properly.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
In short:

I am running this ROM for about two weeks now. The only really anoying behaviour is the above mentioned missing vibration / haptic feedback.

I'll be abroad in a few days and will check for data roaming then. Seems to be an issue according to other users.

Fingerprint is working and seems to recognize fingerprints much more often than the original ROM. Only downside: display flashes as a whole when putting my finger on the screen (really bright, when ambient light es rather low!).

I don't use banking apps except for the ordinary PIN / TAN generating apps, therefore I have no experience with the security framework.

When it comes to camera, I have to admit, results are rather disappointing. I am still experimenting with opencamera and the preinstalled one and hope to find ways to improve quality. Especially with low light, pictures are almost useless.

I have just finished my first OTA update of LineageOs - flawlessly...

Hope that helps in your decisionprocess?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
Thanks for your reply, the camera is not a dealbreaker for me but I wish there was a better solution. These cameras should be able to capture raw, don't understand why Asus doesn't offer that option.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] morpheus302:
Why dont you guys use Wichaya GCam port? it's really great
[ASUS ZenFone 8] jaalai:
Hi, tried it several time, again with the v1.5 downloaded from here: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-wichaya/f/dl5/ and the app is just crashing whenever I try to launch it. I was wondering if the gapp are necessary or not ? I don't have them.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] jaalai:
By the way on the last nightly, the A2DP offload library bug fix seems to have improved some issues I used to have ! You guys should try it as well !
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
Same for me. Tried different versions of the wichaya cam with different config files. it just keeps crashing (see post above). I don't have gapps installed either - for obious reasons.

Please post your way of getting gcam working on your phone - thank you.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
Thanks for the feedback, How did you manage to flash the device. I tried following the guide but there are some steps that just don't make sense to me. I've unlocked the bootloader and installed the adb/fastboot stuff on my pc, but the step where it says to flash vendor_boot.img I don't understand what it is exactly they want me to do.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Winnie_LD:
I followed the steps as described in

Install LineageOS on sake | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

No big hassle there, you just need to have the right tools. adb/fastboot, latest drivers and the .img files at hand.

I remember having troubles getting into fastboot. Re-installing adb/fastboot software helped.

I find it pretty well explained, so if you have troubles, please describe your problems and I will try my best to help you out.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
C:\android>fastboot devices
M5AIB760W0888V6 fastboot

C:\android>fastboot flash vendor_boot sake_vendor_boot.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending 'vendor_boot' (98304 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.507s]
writing 'vendor_boot'...
FAILED (remote: No such file or directory)
finished. total time: 2.514s

I have this issue, phone is in fastboot mode but it cannot find vendor_boot partition it seems.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
You could try to put the folder path in front of the filename.

Ex. fastboot flash vendor_boot C:/user/Downloads/sake_vendor_boot.img
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
Oh, so it's the file it's not finding? Seems it cannot locate the vendor_boot partition. But I'll try what you suggested. Been a long time since I've flashed any phones so have gotten rusty. Extended iPhone use leads to deteriorating skills...
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
Did it work? Or was that not the issue
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
2 weeks vacation now so will have to try when I get home. Hopefully it will work.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Hello,

I would like to thank everyone for the amazing work on this ROM and Anghrim flash LOS4microg on my Asus so not sure it is the right place to point some bug/improvement:

I lost the vibration on call

Notification does not seem to fully

Is there a way to improve battery

And finally...NFC for payment is not working.

Sorry if I repeat elements
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
You need to enable Notifications (cloud messaging) in MicroG settings for them to work. NFC payments will likely never work as there are no google play services. For the vibrations and battery I don't know. In my experience, the battery was much better than the stock ROM
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Thanks , u just solve my notification issue.

Pity for payment . it was not google pay but another bank app but I understand the dependence to google services.

Regarding battery , knowing that we can not adjust the screen yet I thought something my be done. Anyway very nice OS so far
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
I just realised, maybe you NFC is disabled, you should be able to add a tile to the quick settings to toggle it, maybe it works after all
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Not too sure , I think ur first answer was right. My bank app works perfectly but in order to use NFC payment I need to generate a digital key and that does not work so probably due to the google service to authenticate. Anyway got notifications back that is call. Will see if the vibration can be improve
[ASUS ZenFone 8] CircleCode:
I am using microg for lineageos, latest build at this date: 20211222 (I don't know on which lineage build it is based).

i face the very same problem as users with "no vibration": whenever a call comes, i feel a very subtle move (as if the vibrator motor received an impulse, but it has no time to ramp up and is immediately stopped).

haptic feedback seems to trigger a normal response.

i tried to change ring_vibration_intensity setting from 2 to 3 (settings put system ring_vibration_intensity 3), but the feeling was the exact same.

Is there anything I could test to help diagnose this issue?

By the way, it seems that the menu allowing to change vibration intensity is gone (in French, it is Force des vibrations et du retour haptique): I see an entry Force des vibrations et du retour haptique under Accessibilite, but this item has only 3 sub-items to enable or disable vibration for ringing, notifications, and haptic feedback, but nothing to change intensity.

So there is at least a bug in the label of the menu, or in its sub-items.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Same on mine. I see two new update on LOS since 1222 but nothing on LOS4microg . is that normal or I have an issue with the updater?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] KKF32:
Is it possible to install microg or an other gapp after finishing to whole installation process?

My banking app want work without push notifications (saftynet pass installed with MagiskHide Props Config

+ Busybox) or do I have to flash it again from the beginning?

which minimal gapps package do I need for push notifications? microg, mindthegapp, nikgapps, opengapps???
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
There is LOS4microg ur bank app should work but not sur about magisk on that version
[ASUS ZenFone 8] KKF32:
I will give it a try and report back then about magisk, thanks.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
My bank app works just with los4microg but if u manage to have NFC payment thanks and better battery thanks to saftynet and magisk let us know
[ASUS ZenFone 8] KKF32:
Installed LOS4microg and Magisk, my banking app finally works (MagiskHide does its jobs) but no safetynet pass.

(So it obvious only needs an unrooted phone(without magiskhide it wont work and push notification and no safetynet)

I played around with MagiskHide Props Config (see https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-installing-lineage.4219241/ number 6.), it has a lot of options, but no success on safetynet yet.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Glad to hear, ur app works but what about NFC payment?

Push notification works if u add cloud messaging in microg
[ASUS ZenFone 8] KKF32:
I dont use NFC payment with phone , but you made me curious, I will try out the next days and let you know..
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Thanks, if so it would be very helpfull but not sure I will succeed to set magisk
[ASUS ZenFone 8] schwanzfiedel:
Hello

any news about Lineage os19 release?

Regards
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
I would say there is still a few months wait until it releases
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
I got it to install but it wont boot into lineage, recovery and everything else works so the phone isn't bricked as far as I know.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] lolailogd:
Someone has checked the Official LineageOS 18.1 for microG ?

there is no thread about it

thnkxxx

Asus Zenfone 8:

https://download.lineage.microg.org/sake/
[ASUS ZenFone 8] kimiivanovic:
Hey guys,

glad that this project exists, big thanks for everyone who is involved!

Seems that i have the same or simlar problem like sortebill. Whole installation process seemed smooth (unlocking bootloader, flashing vendor_boot, booting the lineage recovery). But after sideloading the os and rebooting to that, the system stucks in the booting process and all I can see is the LOS animation.

Has anyone an idea what the problem might be? Phone is on Firmware Version 30.12.112.72 if this is relevant (because I have seen in the LOS Build Fingerprint 30.12.112.62)?

This is the first time I'm trying this so would be very happy if someone might know, what caused this problem :)
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
I had this issue as well. I fixed it by installing new adb and fastboot drivers on my pc. After that I flashed all things again, then it worked. If you get the bootloop it is fixable and the device is not bricked so don't worry. I'd try the lineageos discord, I got some help there. But the guys there were quite passive/agressive in the process.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] kimiivanovic:
Thanks for your reply!

I had the same thoughts like you, because the first time i tried to install it i used adb/fastboot from apt repository and to minimize the potential errors i downloaded the current version from google, but still this did not solve the problem.

Tried builds from losmicrog from 08.jan.2022 and los from 07.jan.2022.

Still have no idea, what im doing wrong
[ASUS ZenFone 8] fneuf:
Hello community,

I'm currently assessing the potential purchase of a Zenfone 8, but current Asus support policy of 2 major updates and goobye everyone (including security updates if I'm not mistaken) is a major stopper for me.

That's where, of course and as usual, LOS come to rescue; but I'd like to know what could potentially be "missing" when you use LOS on sake?

For instance, are the specific Asus features (battery charging strategies, DAC management, DIRAC calibration, camera/video apps, etc) available only by their factory ROM / also in LOS / sideloadable on any ROM?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
I think most of not all the proprietary features like you mentionned are not on stock ROMs. Could maybe be possible to port them or replicate them. In my testing, apart from the battery management features, I do not miss any features from the stock ROM. (there is also the ability to use the Fp scanner when the display is off that does not work on roms.)
[ASUS ZenFone 8] kimiivanovic:
Update: Problem is solved, had to try an older build, with what it was working then. Dont know why the newest build did not work out, but now everything works!
[ASUS ZenFone 8] fneuf:
Thanks for your answer. I just saw a few pages earlier in the thread that stock camera app had been successfully isolated.

And also, from your experience, is the speaker experience the same on stock or custo ROM? That would imply DIRAC calibration, though software based, is not affected by the ROM loaded.

And truly yest, the ability to control the charging strategies would be a plus addition to LOS as a whole, not reserved to sake.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Meepaco:
Hello. Would it be possible to have a toggle or something to calm down the Volume on the phone.

Stock ROM has "outdoor mode" toggle that enables the speaker to get much louder. On lineage this seems to be enabled by default and/or integrated into the 25 Volume steps

Minimum volume for ringtones/alarms/notification are significantly louder than they should be (minimum on sake sounds like > 50% on other android phones). Volume button jumps are very large, this also affects Bluetooth and 3.5mm jack. Adjusting volume for music is ends up being too loud or inaudiblly quiet
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
I have not noticed an huge difference in the integrated speakers, they still sound amazing!
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sortebill:
So after reading the wiki and doing some searching, I tried flashing again and first it didn't work. I then flashed vendor boot again with the img file. After that I specified boot_a while flashing recovery.

C:\android>fastboot flash boot_a lineage-18.1-20220108-microG-sake-recovery.img

Then I sideloaded the corresponding Zip using sideload. After sideload, I wiped the device again just to be sure.

After I did this everything worked fine. Have you tried this?

Edit:

I have tried this method two times and it works each time. If you do not get your device to work, simply flash vendor boot again, then when flashing recovery, specify slot A when flashing. This seems to be the issue. I tried flashing both a and b and then it wouldn't boot again but I just reflashed vendor boot, flashed boot a, sideloaded the zip and did an extra wipe after finishing. Works like a charm.

Edit 2:

I used the LOS with microG build, but in my opinion this should not matter, the issues were the exact same when I flashed the regular LOS and the solution to the problem was the exact same. I have tried this solution with both regular LOS and LOS with microG, both times it worked after specifying boot_a on flashing the recovery.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] kimiivanovic:
Thanks for your help and for figuring out, what the problem might have been!

As I already updated here in post #254, it seemed, that the builds from january this year didnt work for me, but when i tried the builds from december last year, everything worked!

Edit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/rzc37p
as I posted the question on reddit as well, I want to specify, that IF the problem were the depending on what build I used, then I want to make clear, that with LOS build 20220107 it did not work out, as well with losmicrog20220108. What did work out was the losformicrog build 20211222, which might be corresponding to the "normal" los 20211217. Maybe these information help somebody else.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] dukekox:
I've had the same issues as @kimiivanovic and tested @sortebill instructions from post#258. I was not able to get it done with newest releases although I followed everything precisely and gave it several attempts. Tried both builds from losmicrog 08.jan.2022 and los 07.jan.2022.

Therefore I can't confirm that @sortebill's instructions are working for all. I did the same as @kimiivanovic and changed to older release 20211222. This was the only way to get LineageOS properly working.

Just to let you know that not only @kimiivanovic was struggling to get it done.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
Hi , is there any update on NFC? My payment would not be with gpay but my French bank app. I need to authentificate my phone with a digital key so maybe magisk would work.

Otherwise to the community, is there a way to get the vibration back? Beside the haptic feedback on the keyboard , I have nothing and it is quite annoying.

Again thanks to all
[ASUS ZenFone 8] roomanus:
Hi there, I'm on the latest LOS18.1-20220107 together with OpenGapps no root and twrp-3.6.0_11-0-I006D underneath. In my case the Vibration on Call ist just a little short hum, so it is present but not the way intended i assume... I hope, there'll be a way to improve that...

Another thing what was early mentioned: Fingerprint unlock flashes the whole Screen at max, on another device (OnePlus8pro) this is not happening, it only flashes the area for the print, maybe there is a chance to adopt the behavior from there?

Thanks to all as well...
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
I 'm on the last los4microg . is it better los and opengapps?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] topaza:
Hey guys,

what are you experiences with this phone in combination with LOS?

I read about heat issues with stock ROM. Is it also getting hot with LOS?

What about the finger print reader? Also read bad reviews on that. Can you confirm that it has issues or is there anyone where it just works as expected?

Any other issues?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Adaoh:
The most annoying issues that I have found is that the Fingerprint reader makes the entire display go to 100% brightness, instead of just the scanner part. But it works well apart from that. Also the Night light feature and other display calibration features are not functional at the moment, but the maintainer told me that he knew the source of the bug.

Other than that, the battery life is much better than stock (without google apps/services) The experience is much smoother as I think Asus removed some animations. I have used LineageOS, ArrowOS and OmniRom. Lineage and Arrow both have the display calibration issue, but omnirom only has the fingerprint scanner brightness issue, which is easily solved by a using a black background.
[ASUS ZenFone 8] roomanus:
Well, that's rather a decision of circumventing the presence of Google Apps on your phone i guess. I haven't used the microG builts so far, so i can't tell you anything about that, i guess that the actual not working functions are there as well...
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
No critical issue with Los4Microg

The brightness mentioned by roomanus is not an issue for me.

Not sure is battery is better (maybe I'm too hardcore user).

Camera could be better, vibrator does not work otherwise it is great
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
What is the difference between the two microg and opengapp?

Everything is working for me just trying for getting NFC
[ASUS ZenFone 8] roomanus:
well, the best is you read yourself:

1. https://microg.org/

2. https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps

Simplified, LOS guys port the pure AOSP to these different phones. If you want to use different functions like AppStore, Apps, Push Notification, etc. you need a framework to do so, there join Gapps Packages or MicroG the game...

Regarding your NFC: You are rooted, right? then you have to use Magisk and the relevant Modules to prevent you are not in order to get that function running. I'm not using NFC so i can't tell if it generally works (i'm not rooted at the moment...)...
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
I do not see the point of using gapps after installing lineage OS

Anyway not sure about the root, I have followed the installation process told for los4microg.

I'll look for magisk but not sure I'll be capable of doing it
[ASUS ZenFone 8] topaza:
Agree, from my experiences (with other devices) LOS+MG ist just LOS. They Add MicroG so that you don´t have to add GAPPS. But issues in LOS will be the same in LOS+MG. And issues that you experience in LOS+LG that are not related to Google Services will most likely also be present in pure LOS.

So from my point of view LOS+MG is always the way to go. But that depends an whether you want to get independent from that Google **** or if you do not care ;)
[ASUS ZenFone 8] topaza:
Thanks. What camera apps did you test and how much worse is the cam in LOS? Also what does vibrator does not work exactly mean? No vibration working at all? Is this a known issue that might get fixed?

Also some basic questions from my side:

How easily can I get back from LOS to stock? ASUS offers zip files that seem to be flashable with LOS recovery. Does this actually work and is everything included? Did anyone ever try that?

Also the boot loader unlocking is rather complicated with ASUS. I have to use their proprietary tool instead just issuing "fastboot oem unlock". Does this tool require any registration?

The LOS install guide states that I also have to flash a weird "vendor_boot.img". What does this thing do? Why do I have to flash it? Is there any thread or source code related to this? And will flashing the "asus".zip restore this partition as well?

Can I lock my boot loader after getting back to stock ROM or is it unlocked forever? Will anyone notice that it was unlocked?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] Malko007:
If i considered los is because I want to be as far as possible from the big eye ;)

But I want to still benefit from the world. That's why I'm looking to get vibration but also NFC on my Asus lol
[ASUS ZenFone 8] topaza:
I agree, if you can live completely without GAPPS, pure LOS is the best solution fore sure. I wish I could do that but to many apps that I really need depend on some google **** and microg is a good compromise here. ;)
[ASUS ZenFone 8] sabeltand:
Hi there

I have been trying to go back to stock on my Zenfone 8 the last couple of days, but without any luck at all.

I installed LineageOS with the official instructions on https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sake/install and i have tried the Asus official opt-out https://www.asus.com/Content/Android-12-Beta/ but when i run the update_image.sh it says "Get hwid failed!"

Is there any way to get back to stock?
[ASUS ZenFone 8] topaza:
Installing a Beta Version of Android 12 is most likely not the best option. ;)

Have you tried just flashing https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/ZenFone/ZS590KS/UL-I006D-ASUS-30.12.112.72-1.1.31-user.zip ?

Seems to be the latest Android 11 on ASUS Website for Zenfone 8. More options are listed here if you select "android" as operating system: https://www.asus.com/de/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-8/HelpDesk_Download/