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[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Galaxyninja66:
I am still not getting IMS registered or VOLTE available... BUT... I was able to make a call over 2g. At least, the LTE indicator disappears during the call and it is just the signal bars.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LuK1337:
That change was unrelated to IMS registration.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mhier:
@LuK1337 Thanks for still working on this device. I thought you had given up on it and we would be stuck with LOS19, now I see I thought wrong :-) Donation is out! (I have not yet updated and hesitate a bit to do so, since it is my daily driver... In a few weeks I will surely give it a try!)
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MadMaxPN:
Can anyone recommend some minimal gapps, who works good with LineageOS 19.1 ?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] samhhmobil:
MindTheGapps-12.1.0

Nevertheless LOS 19.1 (and there is yet 20.0) needs more hardware ressources as the pioneer has, reaction time is quite bad, if you use some more apps. I recommend the latest build of LOS 17.1, which runs much smoother on pioneer.

Just my 2¢, samhhmobil
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MadMaxPN:
This is not minimal, i only need play store and contacts.

I'm not a heavy user, i only use Viber, YouTube, Opera, i hope it will work better than stock rom.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MadMaxPN:
Anyone tried Core NikGapps or similar lightweighted gapps ?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
People who have updated to lineageos 20 on this phone, how's the Aperture camera app? Does it work well with this model?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
I use this camera app: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LuK1337:
Is there any reason to use it over Aperture? Both of them are CameraX based anyway, so not like quality will be any different.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
I have it because I actually had DOS on the XA2 but that no longer runs on the XA2. I liked it at the time because of its setting options, but now I've just kept it.

I'm more of a beginner and if it works I'll stick with it.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
This is good. Thanks. If I decide not to update to Lineageos 20, at least I can get a decent camera app.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] cihom:
Is the new L20 branch ready and suitable for daily driver usage now on that device please ?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Hichem2006:
I use it as my daily drive and it's fast and smooth, sometimes it kernel panicks but that's alright
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] samhhmobil:
Due to the fact, that there is no thread for LOS20 on pioneer, I try it here...

There is bug, when charging control is activated. I limited charging to 90% (it means, the system stops charging at 90%, even if the charger is plugged in).

I did switch off(!) "Wake on plug" (Settings -->Display), that the screen will not be activated, when charging starts. With all my other devices (Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi) this works correct. But on the Sony pioneer the screen wakes up every few minutes, when charging control is active (even if no charger is plugged in, that's very strange).

If charging control is switched off, everything works as it should, the screen does not wake up, when charging starts.

Is there any possibility to fix that?

@Stricted ?

@cdesai ?

Thanks a lot,

samhhmobil
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
I cannot reproduce this on my 2 devices.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] samhhmobil:
I have to correct myself...

The issue doesn't depend on charging control.

Even if no charging control is enabled, but the phone should "sleep", frequently the screen wakes up, independent of the charging level, and independent of connection to any charger.

So... what happens in the background? Which (system) app wakes up the screen frequently? Installed is just only LOS20, and Magisk 26.4, nothing else...

Even I tried a factory reset (wipe data), but nothing did change with this issue.

Strange...
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Malizor:
I migrated to LOS20 recently and I don't have this problem (no Magisk though, only Gapps).
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
Just like me, but I have no connection to Google apart from Aurora. All apps except Magic-Earth, an older version, are from F-Droid. I don't use Magisk.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
So XA2 got Lineageos 21/ Android 14 officially!
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Malizor:
Did someone upgrade yet? Is there any known issue on Lineage 21?

It's great to have new versions, but the downside is that no more build are provided for earlier releases so we are kind of forced to upgrade to get security patches, without knowing if it's really ready yet.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] samhhmobil:
It works!

No issues found yet.

samhhmobil
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Paulkw:
I have upgraded. So far 2 minor issues I've had. The network icon is showing exclamation mark all the time, and last night discovered the button on my headset doesn't work anymore (for pausing/resuming playback).

Also, I don't seem to be able to find custom font face selection and status bar icon styles anymore, only size. And setting shortcut tiles seem to be permanently in dark mode.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
I have flashed it on a replacement XA2. At first glance, it looks good and seems to be running, but I won't be able to say more about it for another 2-3 days.

Is not the case for me
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Paulkw:
Ok. Maybe on some devices. I've filed a bug but they already know about the issue. Btw, I was upgrading from 20.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
Me too
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] steve8x8:
Can we have separate threads for Android 13 and 14, @LuK1337 ? This one will become too clobbered, I'm afraid
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] matjon:
As a workaround, you could try

adb shell settings put global captive_portal_mode 0

See https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/186993/captive-portal-parameters
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
I can't find anything unusual or disturbing. Then I also flashed an XA2 Plus and it runs just as well.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Speed?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LuK1337:
Velocity?
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
🤣🤣🤣

Just checking if the phone feels clunky/slow to use. I have passed this phone to the elders on my family and they have been minimal needs from it in terms of apps. Trying to understand if I should update their phone or leave it where it is.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
Honestly, what do you expect from an XA2 or XA2 Plus, a racing egg carton?

I'm one of the older ones and I'm happy if I don't have to change or set up my smartphone every 6 weeks. I don't need 5G or other technology that many younger people can no longer live without, not to mention the environmental impact of discarded electronics.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
I never said anything like that. Pretty presumptuous of you to think so. I am not expecting the phone to perform like a Samsung Galaxy phone does.

However when I used it last, it was with Lineageos 19/Android 12. I had some social media apps, couple of personal email accounts, some basic card games to occasionally kill time and some music apps to stream music. I needed to access office email, which meant there was some device MDM enforced through Microsoft Intune. With this setup, within a couple of months, I had reached a point where I would click something and the phone would take ages to load the app or respond (again not expecting a 1 sec response here).

Hence I decided to pass it along to family members that have minimal needs. Some just need WhatsApp, calling, texting, etc. All I am asking is how the phone is now performing under Android 14 as logically each OS iteration expects more resources at its disposal and I struggled 2 OS versions ago.

The likes of my parents aren't great with tech and if they can't get the phone to work at a reasonable speed, I won't hear the end of it and will be accused of sticking junk onto them. Since I am not using the phone anymore, I can't try it myself.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Egon77:
Don't be so sensitive, well, I think if you use an old XA2 or XA2 Plus from 2018 then you have to live with the limitations in terms of speed and can't leave all possible apps active but have to close them. I also don't use the device for gaming. Apps like Magic Earth, K-9, Threema and Mull work well if you open them individually and, if possible and it is, don't let Google apps call home every 2 minutes. F-Droid offers many alternatives to this.

I can't understand why each operating system version logically makes more resources available on this device. It got slower from version to version.
[Sony Xperia XA2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Paulkw:
To add my 2 cents, I'm also a basic user. I didn't notice performance got better or worse with 21, compared to 20. Things like Chrome and GBoard are a bit laggy. I'm considering upgrading device but I love my XA2. One thing I noticed is (subjectively) slightly better battery performance on 21.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
I just got my Xperia 1iii. It's great, but I don't want all the Google crap on it. Disabling the Google services just makes it throw errors about how every bloody app on the phone won't run without Google Play Services (like phone, serious? Phone?!) The errors throw so frequently it pretty much makes the phone unusable. Previously I uploaded an AOSP build onto my XA2 Ultra and it lacked all of the Sony apps, and the "fixed" ones (like Musix) would often crash for no reason.

Since part of the Xperia 1iii big deal is its photography and video app capabilities, I am hesitant to upload a custom build and lose my Sony apps. Is it possible to start with a factory Xperia firmware and rip all the Google crap out of it and replace things like Phone and Contacts with non-Google versions? Is it possible to build an AOSP firmware following the Sony Developers guides without the Google crud but with the Sony Xperia apps.

I love the Sony stuff (brand whore mode active.) I just want a de-Googled Xperia, with all my Sony apps which make the Xperia an Xperia. I don't need anything any more fancy than that. Is that so much to ask??
[Sony Xperia 1 III] spine6:
Hi, you can try to flash CN firmware if you don't want google apps installed.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] kevinmcmurtrie:
Sony is using Google's apps on the Xperia 1 III. Phone, Messages, Contacts, Photos, Mail, Maps, Clock, Settings, Files, etc. Some people maintain the original AOSP apps that might be good replacements.

Sony's camera and video apps are really bad so I wouldn't miss them. I'm keeping the bootloader locked a bit longer only to see if 5G gets fixed in the US model.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
Is going from Google running in the background to a Chinese firmware really any better?

If I can replace the Google versions with AOSP versions, I could conceivably then disable the Google services. What's so bad about the camera and video apps on the 1iii? They seem quite capable and I thought were part of Sony's flagship system. I am disabling 5G network and only using LTE and lower on my phone, so that part does not bother me.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] kms108:
There is a trick to disable most google, I got rid of some google and the one push button on the side for google assistant, but you have to start the phone from scratch. and if you want to return back to normal, just reset your phone, I don't have my phone now, yesterday I got a good price and traded for Samsung S8 tablet. the Xperia 1iii, bad battery life.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
Thanks. That gives me some hope, then. Do you have any tips?
[Sony Xperia 1 III] kms108:
I can't give you the exact details, as i don't have my phone now, but these are the instructions.

You have to hard reset the phone, with the phone offline and no data going through the phone, for the normal setup it should give you the option in the form of ticks, once setup, all the apps ticked off should not show, and the google assistant button does not work.

hope this works for you.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
Thanks. Unfortunately, the only check options I have are for location and a sub-option. I must accept the Google terms in order to complete setup. I am going to put APKs for the Simple Mobile Tools on my SD card, install those, and set them as my default applications before I start disabling Google apps and the Google Play Service. I will put it on-line later and see what happens.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
HA! I unlocked the bootloader in preparation for compiling AOSP. In the meantime I decided to go hog wild and start uninstalling applications via adb. I wound up getting it into a boot-loop and had to re-lock the bootloader to restore with the Xperia Companion. I will be diving back in later this week. I think I know what I removed which broke it.

Are there any limits to the number of times I can unlock and re-lock the bootloader? I imagine going at this with reckless abandon only to find that I reach some kind of limit.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
With the boot-loader re-locked, I did some more work in the adb shell and the package manager.

While looking up the various packaged installed on the phone, I found this very helpful blog post:

Remove Android system applications (an example)

How to remove android preinstalled applications (an example)

fekir.info

I found these packages installed on my Xperia 1iii with the latest Android 11 update, build 61.0.A.23.20.

Spoiler content hidden.

I pasted these adb uninstall commands into the adb shell and rebooted the phone.

Spoiler content hidden.

Like the blog post, there are plenty of replacements for the applications I will need. Simple Mobile Tools has a phone dialer and a contacts manager. GMaps can be reasonably replaced by HereWeGo. QKSMS for messaging. And more.

Now I will install Blokada NetGuard to see what else is communicating with Google behind my back and see how to excise any of those, then put it on the wireless. Soon to follow will be inserting my SIM and trying out the phone. Fingers crossed and I will report back in a couple of days, on the other side of AT&T 3G.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
Just to note, sooooo many applications, including Sony's apps, attempt to access Google.

As well, while I was testing apps and data the system decided to update. Which turned out to be an upgrade to Android 12. Thankfully, none of the applications I uninstalled came back.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
There must be something lingering in the system. Apps which worked on an AOSP build with no Google services at all continuously crash: AcuRite, Accuweather, and Opera. The previous two would complain they could not work without Google Play Services but worked fine after tapping OK. Now they just crash. This is disappointing.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] SEHoldOver:
All has been going well. The apps that do not work are not a big deal, but Software Update keeps crashing. I used "App Inspector" to help figure out what is going on, and it appears the Software Update app is making a call to com.google.android.gms (Google Mobile Services,) which I have uninstalled. Does this seem reasonable to anyone?

It concerns me that I may not be able to receive future updates if I do not have GMS operational on my phone.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] Tsuchimursu:
You can always manually update newest firmware with sonys EMMA (https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/flash-tool/download-flash-tool/). Not as good as auto updates but if you just remember to do it often it's good enough.
[Sony Xperia 1 III] treff89:
It's possible to de-google nearly completely. With root+magisk+Debloater and Systemizer, i've replaced most apps for their old Sony equivalents (including Album, Contacts, Phone, Calculator). It takes a little trial and error with versions to get it fully working but worth the effort.

Haven't managed to get rid of Messages yet for Sony's old Messaging.

Then I also use MicroG so I get Whatsapp push notifications and offline cell-based location, but it's not compulsory.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] LuK1337:
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 12, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project, with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. LineageOS does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

All the source code for LineageOS is available in the LineageOS GitHub organization. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit our Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the changelog for a full list of changes & features.

Instructions :

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

Downloads :

https://download.lineageos.org/discovery

Reporting Bugs

DO NOT Report bugs if you're running a custom kernel, or you installed Xposed

Grab a logcat right after the problem has occurred. (Please include at least a few pages of the log, not just the last few lines, unless you know what you're doing.)

If it is a random reboot, grab /sys/fs/pstore/console-ramoops and /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-ramoops-0. (Do not bother getting a logcat unless you can get it just before the reboot. A logcat after a reboot is useless)

Remember to provide as much info as possible. The more info you provide, the more likely that the bug will be solved. Please also do not report known issues. Any bug not reported in the bug report format below may be ignored.

What is your--
LineageOS version:
LineageOS Download url:
Gapps version:

Did you--
wipe:
restore with titanium backup:
reboot after having the issue:

Are you using--
a task killer:
a non-stock kernel:
other modifications:

Provide any additional information (observations/frequency of problem/last version it worked on/etc) as needed:
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
I'm gonna try to flash this today,

any gapps recommendation perhaps please?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
also second question, does this rom recieves OTA updates?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] LuK1337:
No.

No.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
installed and rom is nice everything is fine, except.. Can't get connection to Internet, tryed reseting APNs, writing them on my own, can't get connection to Internet no way... :(
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
please ignore post above, turns out it was only my sim card issue.. :(
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] Vlackrs:
Ty i will test it this weekend.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] michaaa62:
Awesome ROM, flawless!

Thanks for keeping this old phone alive.

But i hate the look of Android12...
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] BrandonTGS:
Yes, same here... I am building Android 11 (last amazing version IMO) for my Xperia 5 at the moment, I dont know how to port LineageOS 18.1 but I am building a SODP AOSP ROM atm.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] 奶茶G:
May I ask if the system cannot be updated, have you deleted anything to keep the data?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] drakost:
I am facing issue with SIM2. only one sim is detected at a time.. Any help?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] LuK1337:
Can you try to run these commands and let me know if that fixes it? You'll need to enable "Rooted debugging" in developer options before running these commands. FYI

adb root
adb remount
adb shell "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LineageOS/android_device_sony_nile-common/6aa83e6e8cc00638004bbb3eca6eb347b16e1bbb/rootdir/etc/init.qcom.rc -o /vendor/etc/init/hw/init.qcom.rc"
adb reboot
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] drakost:
It worked! You are a life saver

Is it a temporary fix or permanent?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] LuK1337:
Permanent, now that you confirmed that my patch works.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] drakost:
It stopped working again after the restart... The same issue persists!
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] LuK1337:
Ehh, restart again? idk.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] drakost:
SIm 2 works and Sim1 doesn't. 😅😅
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] drakost:
Might be a bit late. Everything works now.. Took a few restart to fix this. But everything is fine now.

Thank you for the ROM. Amazing work!
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] andro971:
first of all thanks for god job

plz i want ask you about crash of dvb finder and other apps on Lineage 19.1 how to fix that plz?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
I was trying to sideload days ago from 16 to 19, but first boot never came out, it was just stuck on logo no matter how long I waited.. Any fix for that please?

also second question, long ago when 19 first became available and I tryed clean flash it and it booted, I had annoyance wich wasn't possible to turn off back then, it was when unlocking device with fingerprint it was vibrating everytime, so I'm inteteresed does 19 nowdays still vibrates when doing fingerprint unock ?? if does, can it be turned off somehow?

Thanks!

<3
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] AndreyAleks:
It's too lack info. What guide did you follow?

Try to flash the Stock first. Then, flash the LineageOS 19.1 according to https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/discovery/install

As for vibration on fingerprint - it's present, and I didn't see any way to disable it.
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
Well I run 16 LOS for a long time now and wanna upgrade it so I followed this guide only .. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/discovery/upgrade

but, since 19 still vibrates , I don't want that so Ill skip for now,

anyway thank You for reply and information!

Best regards
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] maxis123:
does it matter if i have installed magisk and lsposed in current rom when trying to sideload new release maybe?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] AndreyAleks:
The staff camera app takes photo in 3376x4496 (when set to 22.9 megapixels in settings).

Does everyone have that?
[Sony XA2 Ultra ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] AndreyAleks:
maxis123, about fingerprint unlock and vibration - I have found that it doesn't vibrate when in battery saving mode.