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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bmwdroid:
@Manlycookiebear probably no one will give you a guarentee.

What I found helping me in the past was:

1) backup in TWRP boot+system and data one after another (to reduce failure possibilities) onto SD as mobile storage.

2a) flash new ROM dirty and reboot. if it starts: be happy.

2b if that doesn't work restore system backup and test if it boots:

(Although I did that already without restoring system first and that worked afterwards as well.)

if it does: wipe system and flash new ROM, Gapps and Magisk

2c in case 2b didn't work or it doesn't start afterwards: do a full wipe INCLUDING "FORMAT DATA"

flash ROM

reboot to system after wiping caches.

ROM starts? setup a bit without connecting to wifi/mobile and reboot to TWRP

flash Gapps and Magisk and reboot to system.

If it starts, reboot to TWRP and restore DATA.

If it starts (mostly does for me) all is back.

This will imho not work (even if, I wouldn't recommend it) when switching Android versions (12 -> 13).

Sometimes Data restoration doesn't work and you have to set it up all freshly.

When you didn't do a fully clean (incl Format Data) installation it's imo not worth reporting bugs or anything else.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] vonschau:
Any news on an update? Have still some app, which wouldn't run. Anybody got sonicare to run?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] pacopoor:
hi. My tablet is freezing and I cannot do anything when it start, after 2 days with changing official rom I can access tablet for 4 mins only. I activate developer option and click usb debbuging but I couldnt find oem lock option to deactive. I cannot install any unofficial rom. I just access download mode. but when i try to install twpr it says only only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed. is there any one that can help?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bmwdroid:
As long as you couldn't activate OEM unlock option you will afaik not be able to flash anything other than stock ROM.

If it was mine I would:

1 access download mode,

2 flash latest stock via Odin >3.12 on a Windows PC,

3 set it up just a bit WITHOUT ANY CONNECTION to wifi or mobile (btw which one do you have).

4 Set manually time/date to somewhere last year (if it isn't)

5 reboot,

6 let it connect to the world to get exact time/date,

7 look in activated dev option if OEM unlock option appears.

8 If not, wait seven or more days and check again.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] KeepingItCuttingEdge:
April update by chance?

Any progress on camera issue with video chat apps?

THANKS 🙏
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bouuman:
That would bei AWESOMEtic! ;)

(19.1 + 20 Patchlevel + Bugfixes) 🙏
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Older Fogie:
Yes, I have 2 S3s, and right now it's a choice between slow with Zoom or fast without Zoom. Can't say the comments about this in the various S3 threads have been encouraging, though. Has this occurred in other ROMs for other devices, or is this unique?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] vonschau:
Is there any news lately from awsometic.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Robalo:
Hello everyone, I've read this whole topic. So in summary, in addition to the things mentioned in the first post, Netflix in HD is also not working within newest build?

What about Wi-Fi stability? Unfortunately, several people have complained about it, which effectively discouraged me from installing 19.1, is it any better in this version?

also is this one working with Samsung Keyboard Cover?

And a general question, is work on this ROM still in progress? I would be happy to support the developer. I just need working LTE, stable Wi-Fi and mic/audio working in conference apps.

Personally, I don't think anyone would need a newer version of Android for this tablet, so it would be beautiful if support ended with a possibly stable version of Android 13 (or even 12L, to be honest).

I appreciate the developer for his contribution so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] MachineMasher:
I think we established that, as long as you don't use the S-Pen, wifi is very stable in this ROM.

If you use the S-Pen, the next time the screen turns off (eg. device left idle), the device will reboot and wifi will stop working until you do a manual reboot, at which point it will recover.

I used the ROM for months and never once had a problem with Wifi because I never use the S-Pen. Then, @kotoy1982 suggested that this always happened after use of the S-Pen. So I tried using the S-Pen and, lo and behold, I experienced the problem for the first time ever.

Because I virtually never use the S-Pen, this pretty much a non-issue for me. So...I don't think the question should be whether the wifi is stable - the question is whether you use the S-Pen very much and are OK with having to reboot after you use it (if you ever use it).

I don't use the Samsung Keyboard Cover, but I do use a third party cover that was built specifically for the Galaxy Tab S-3, and it works just fine including automatically shutting off when the cover is closed. I have also tried using the third party bluetooth keyboard that came with the cover and it worked, but haven't used it extensively.

The biggest issue for me with this ROM is the lack of sound in Zoom and other calling applications. If that one could get fixed, the ROM would pretty much meet all my needs.

EDIT: Added the comment about lack of sound in Zoom.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
@Awesometic Hi man! There is a way to bypass the MAC address problem? I have two galaxy tab s3 with LineageOS 20 but the have the same MAC Address (ending with ....eb:5c:d8), and this is a mess for my LAN network. How can i solve the problem? It seems that LineageOS 17 doesn't have the problem, but since LineageOS 18 the problem appear and the MAC address is everytime the same.

Please help!!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] lameware:
Somebody please point me an app or a setting wich can disable hardware keys while drawing on screen. Lineage is the best with battery, but it's really hard to hold hand high while trying not to touch the back button. Stock android handles this okm but line age doesn't disbale keys.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] eried1:
Interesting. This seems to be a general issue for Samsung devices on LOS19.1 and later.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Sage:
There are apps in the play store that allow you to increase it
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] NXA888:
Hi I've done a clean install and flashed Nikgapps, everything besides bluetooth seems to work.

When I activate bluetooth it goes connecting... connected... disconnected... and this pattern repeats without beeing able to connect over bluetooth.

Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] yagueitor:
Uhm is this discontinued?

Its been a while since last update.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EmmaWLove:
pls update
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] vonschau:
Would be great to have an update :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] chrysopra:
I looks like Awesometic is the only one providing lineage ROMs for the S3. (Whilst the S3 is not his only supported device) Also he seems to be focused on keeping 18.1 up to date concerning security updates, while (due to lack of time?) 19.1 and 20.0 remain in a hibernation state.

Without further help from a skilled programmer it`s quite unlikely we see any significant progress with this specific ROM. :cry:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] square_eyes:
TLDR: Any way to stop BT from constantly crashing (going on and off)?

Long version:

Been using this mostly OK for keeping this great tab alive. Browsing, Spotify, Netflix. Even BT headphones for the kids listening to music were working for quite a while.

But lately the BT is constantly crashing. It's turning BT on and off repeatedly at a high frequency. I struggled even to get the taps in to forget the paired devices. Can't clear cache on the system BT app as it's greyed out.

Any tips? BT is super important for us, not just for headphones but my kids Lego WeGo app (which only runs on tablets, not phones).
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Zatoichi.88:
@Awesometic Sir, can you please try to fix once again this issue?

Audio bugs

No sound for the microphone and speaker in voice calls, such as the regular phone call or voice chat with a meeting app.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Hello all,

Finally we can flash the LOS ROM without any bothering preparation. But it requires a specially built one that is named 'TWRP 3.7.0 with no encryption', so anyone who wants to try Android 13 based ROM must install this version of TWRP first.

Please check the original thread and changelog, and please leave a comment if you have an issue while using this ROM.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Please make a backup of your data and please do clean install even if you are coming from the previous LOS 20, and I also would like to fix the audio and Bluetooth problem 🙈
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] MachineMasher:
Probably going to stick with the 18.1 version for now because I like having the mic and sound work during my Zoom calls. But it's great to know you're working on that. Thanks @Awesometic!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Andy_Vie:
I always was an early adopter of your Roms, having L20 for a long time, very statisfied with it. I really appreciate your latest update. Just hat a problem with new twrp, as I was on f2fs with previous version. So I had to convert to EXT4 before flashing new twrp. Newest version runs as smooth and flawless as previous version, now having also latest security patches. Thank you very much @Awesometic.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Sorry I need to change the kernel in recovery to support F2FS. By the way, is F2FS good enough? Some users report that F2FS is not that stable, so I choose the stock based kernel for recovery since in that environment we don't need much features/improvements but need stability.. I should have to notice this for you anyway 😓
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Andy_Vie:
I did not notice any problem with F2FS, I am not sure how many used this anyway, so let's stay on stable EXT4 :) Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] kotoy1982:
Thank you so much for your hard work on the update!

Does this version still have the spen problem? (causing the system to reboot)

The process that can trigger the bug:

1. completely shut down and restart. (Away from the s pen)

2. After entering the system, *finger only* , repeate opening app, turning off the screen, turning on the screen, opening another app ...... everything is fine.

3. Pick up the s pen and do any operation on the screen. (like draw a circle in the note app)

4. Close the screen, then the LineageOS logo animation will appear and the system restart.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] neophyte006:
Hey @Awesometic, first of all: GREAT Job you're doing providing these nice firmwares to our devices. I would have a rather technical question on how deep the adaptation of the firmware goes, especially regarding the audio processing. Unfortunatly I have not tested in depth the audio quality before flashing Lineage, so maybe you can give me an Answer. Is AKG audio processing Part of the firmware aswell and has It been transfered to this Lineage OS? My guess is that AKG provides a Gstreamer plugin to Samsung to put it into the audio signal chain. If that is not the case, would it be possible to make it work in this Version of Lineage OS?

Thanks in Advance

Felix
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Yuanhao Jun:
issues

1.When hibernating, the SD card is disconnected from power (not sure). This is evidenced by the fact that hibernation of the SD card with the adoptable enabled as internal storage may cause the device to stutter and not be able to read applications that have been moved to the SD card.

2.CPU won't boot at full power (even if thermal-engine is disabled). This is evidenced by dropping the frequency from 2.1ghz to 1.47ghz once cpu utilization reaches 100% when gaming or marking.

3.Sometimes the device will reboot abnormally, without warning. This has been manifested by the sudden reboot of the device when I was playing "Phigros" and "Cytus II".

(Translation support provided by DeepL)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] KeepingItCuttingEdge:
I us Nova Launcher instead of the included Pixel Launcher. (If you haven't tried it, it's a FABULOUS app! Go to their website and get the current beta -- the latest beta is not on the PlayStore.) Nova Launcher Beta 8.0.8

There was a trick to getting rid of the bottom on-screen navigation bar in your 12L release and it worked. I have followed the instructions and it works but then after the last step to re-enable the physical buttons the on-screen returns.

I apologize if this question has already been asked...

THANKS

I was able to remove it by using ADB to disable the Pixel Launcher if that's a help at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] 908070:
@Awesometic

Thank you for the Update! T820 runs very well. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EmmaWLove:
@Awesometic

LineageOS 21.0 for Galaxy Tab S3 :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bozkurtum:
Friends, how do we root this ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Sorry for the late reply,

If there is something that tunes the audio (can be a Gstreamer plugin), it may be in audio blobs or kernel, or the framework Samsung composes, or an app that can be hidden by the system.

If the tune is processed by the blob or kernel, yes our device also uses the AKG tune since all the ROMs I provide currently use the stock blob from the firmware and I didn't change anything to do with audio in the kernel.

But if it needs Samsung frameworks or something an app, unfortunately it can be very hard to take advantage of AKG tune.

I'm not sure there is a way to check if the tune is applied, but I don't know about that deeply 😅
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
We can root the system using Magisk or Lygisk, please search it on XDA then you can easily get the information.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bozkurtum:
After installing this ROM, device IMEI number was deleted
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Are you using LTE one? As the thread says LOS 20 doesn't support LTE 😅
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
Hi @Awesometic

there is a solution for the mac address problem?

At this moment if you flash 2 devices with L20, L19,L18 the mac address is the same so you cannot use the devices in the same network.

Is there a way to fix this?

Many thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Yuanhao Jun:
Hi, after installing the OTA update on Nov 16th, the audio latency has become abnormally large, 26ms before the update and 250ms after the update. how can I fix it?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Hello,

I find a flag for the wifi configuration. Can you add the following code to the bottom of the

vendor/etc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini

?

I am not sure it works with just rebooting, if it is not working I will test it on my side after building a new ROM with that config.

gEnableMacAddrSpoof=1
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Ah okay, I will prepare a new ROM, please recheck it with the new ROM that will be provided.

Available within 12 hours..
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
OK thanks i will try during the weekend.

To be sure: you need i change the ini file, check that after a reboot the mac address spoofing feature is available and working (check if tha mac change)? Correct?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Yes, but to do that you need to root your device since that is not under user accessible partition.

If you can't test it soon, I think I can upload a new version because there's an audio problem that is because of switching to the LOS-UL project I think, so you can try it with the new ROM that will come soon
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
Ok thanks this should be perfect!

Let me know when the new ROM will be available so i will flash it directly
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trinomad:
The task bar on bottom of the page is always enabled, what is not nice as some bottons or information in some apps are hidden behind it.

I dont find anything in the settings to hide it (automaticall) - have I overlooked it? Or ist it a bug, I dont think its a feature.

Any help?

I am on the new 16th Nov release. Anyhow GREAT work ... Thanks Awesometic
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
The new version uploaded, please check OTA
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
I think we need to search for how to hide that bottom bar 🤔 If it can be by a patch, I will apply that on the source tree
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
Thank you

I have tried but the MAC addess is still the same....
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] kekesed97:
I can say that audio tuning isn't working.

I'm testing it using Sony WH-1000XM5, connecting to Samsung Tab S3 (LOS 20) and Poco F5 (MIUI 14), both are supposedly support Dolby Audio. On my Poco F5, I can hear that audio effects are being applied, but on Samsung Tab S3, the output are just flat, nothing is changing.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
Hmm okay, I can confirm this issue. I will fix it and upload a new ROM soon
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] NotALongUsername:
Hey will this work on my SM-T825N0?

Here's its information:

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jam687003:
Awesome work!

Two S3 with new life now.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ringo982:
@Awesometic Do you think there is something else we can try?

I cannot understand why on L17 it was working fine. If i keep my S3 and i flash L17 the mac address is "correct" (is different for each S3 i flash), but if on the same device i flash L18-L19-L20 the mac address start to be for every LineageOS version the same and also start to be the same for each S3 i flash with theese 3 versions.. it is every time 00 : A0 : C6 : EB :5C : D8

:(
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bmwdroid:
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[Android Head-Units] marchnz:
It's an fyt based unit uis7862. Head over to FYT forums
[MX Player] RayRay10:
Both seamless and non seamless refresh rate switching support would be nice. It's the only thing missing from mx player to make it a perfect player...

Please do it...
[G1 Android Development] dagentooboy:
First off.... We don't have any way to get root on any phone that has the official RC30 update.

Second is there any way to emulate RC30 so that we can try to hack it (without loading the t-mobile update on my phone)?

Third for the HW people is there any JTAG on this thing? I don't want to take mine apart but if there is some way to get JTAG we should be able to mod anything

and last but not least is there anyone that has an RC30 phone that T-Mobile won't take back and you can't sell on ebay (like a broken screen or something)?

I am glad I got root on mine in time but I think we need to try to help the people that didn't get it in time... and once the RC19 phones run out all new phones will have RC30+ and our community will be limited to the people that got their phones at RC19.
[G1 Android Development] d0nkey:
this post needs a BUMP

For this phone to reach its maximum potential, it will either need a) tmo/google to create everything (yeah right), or b) everyone to be on a rooted device.

In its current state, its not worth the money. In fact, the only reason i bought one was because i knew i had to buy one quick otherwise risk not having root. Of course, i also understood that its highly probable that we will get root on tmo RC30 phones, but i wasn't willing to risk it.
[G1 Android Development] dagentooboy:
what about the boot loader? can we get into the phone via the boot loader and flash it?
[G1 Android Development] stagman1777:
bumped for those of us that have the official ota 30. I am very new to linux so I am trying to learn on the fly. I do not want to brick my phone though. So any of you linux gods, please help us lay people out!
[G1 Android Development] dagentooboy:
I was hoping to brainstorm but I haven't heard any more ideas or anyone that can tell me one way or another what ideas have been tried and failed.
[G1 Android Development] jkiller122:
So if you have the ota RC-30 update you basically can't do anything to modify your phone yet right,I just want a way to get rid of the market cache or put it on my sd card, Im up to 16 mb of market cache and it keeps growing by the day and my phones internal memory is down to 15 mb,is there anyone who can help with this.
[G1 Android Development] stagman1777:
Already talked about in other forums...(market cache) it will go away once you have litlle space left. Bump
[G1 Android Development] jkiller122:
oh, I didn't know that,thanks for the info
[G1 Android Development] korndub:
hey all, im getting my hands on a rc30 non-rooted phone and i would be more than happy to hack on it if you all give me direction. maybe we can find a way to get root for all the poor people who got the ota.

pm me if you want me to try anything on it.
[G1 Android Development] The Great NY:
wish i could help, but i have no clue abut phone hacking.....

im a super motor head thats builds cars and has a fetish for technology.

root for us would be great.........RC30 ota victim here.
[G1 Android Development] korndub:
fortunately i got root on my personal g1....im always glued to xda developers, but ive got a second one that is for us to test on and no worries if it gets bricked....
[G1 Android Development] card13:
yeah nobody has any clue at t-mobile how to downgrade from rc30. in fact most of them don't even understand hot to manually upgrade/downgrade the firmware on the g1. I called google, they just gave me google.com/support (no live support reps, and the site is no help at all), htc's #'s are tech support=888.356.2375, and hotline=866.449.8358, i'm calling them 2morrow. I just ran Zenmap it says port 8081 is open that's it, I ran intensive portscan, it also says blackice-icecap is running on that port.
[G1 Android Development] yochaigal:
I'm very interested in what you find out. I accidently upgraded my rooted phone (fat fingers!) to RC30.
[G1 Android Development] dagentooboy:
so has anyone figured out how to use the bootloader for an SD update?

Is there any way to get chroot to work and mount the Filesystem RW from the update screen and add an SU program?

what is under that small void sticker under the back cover (WARNING if you remove that sticker I am betting your warranty is bad)?

are there any other key combinations that would get us into a better debug mode?
[G1 Android Development] stagman1777:
Bump, so at least we have it up for a little while longer...