yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Ivan_Meler:
LineageOS 21.0 for hero2lte​

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

Working:

- Wifi

- Sound

- mali drivers

- USB tethering

- HW Backed video Playback

- Ril (Mobile data,calls, sms and stuff)

- Sensors

- Buttons

- Bluetooth

- Wifi HotSpot

- MTP

- 2D and 3D gpu acceleration

- HW encoding/decoding

- HWcomposer (HWC)

- Charging with device powered off

- Stuff I didn't test yet

- Camera

- GPS

- Fingerprint Sensor

- Mobicore

- SW codecs

Not Working

- Storage Encryption (WIP switching to FBE from FDE since FDE was removed in 13/14)

- Network trafic monitoring (WIP, same reason as bellow, uses BPF)

- BPF specific functions like fancy new GPU monitoring in Android 13/14

Keep in mind that some LineageOS features have not been completed yet this is not a device bug and please do not report those

Also do not post bug reports for known issues or bug reports without proper

a) Logcat

b) proc/last_kmsg (or proc/kmsg)

c) data/tombstones

d) dmesg

Install gapps right after installing the rom itself don't try to boot to system before that if you want to use gapps (Or wipe data before installing them)

NikGapps have been updated to 14

Make sure you are using latest official TWRP before installing rom older versions do not have proper android 12/13/14 support

Downloads:

GitHub Releases

Google Drive and Mega mirrors coming soon

md5sum 3ad2ef83443e833f406d881f3f708ad1

if you want to support the project feel free to buy me some coffee http://paypal.me/melerivan

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Donations help cover the build server cost and since I do this in my free time, and also cover the coffee for time spent debugging stuff

Feel free to join telegram group with early builds progress updates and some off topic stuff Join

Based On Android 14/U

Changelog

21.06.2024.

- Builds are now signed

- Added new modern usb hal (userspace and kernel)

- Fixed issues introduced in QPR2

- Improved UI performance

- Fied issues with secure apps (banking, seedvault, etc) related to keystore

- Performance and stability improvements

- Merged May security update

- Synced with LineageOS source

18.02.2024.

- Fixed sending of SMS messages

- Some selinux denials have been resolved

- Synced with LineageOS source

11.02.2024.

- Initial release

XDA:DevDB Information

LineageOS 21.0 for S7 Edge, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge

Contributors

Ivan_Meler

Source Code: https://github.com/8890q/android_kernel_samsung_universal8890/tree/lineage-21.0

ROM OS Version: Android 13

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.18.x
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] skyh144z:
thank you so much!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] mauam:
You're the man, thank you Ivan.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] silent7kamal:
dose the wifi breakdown or no?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] headzy:
Holy S7edge batman, he has done it again!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] mauam:
I've been surfing & have no wifi breakdowns. It works perfectly here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] maximesharp:
So far, everything that should work is working fine.

The only issue I have is this charging notification keep popping even when my device isn't charging.

View attachment 6067835
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] K4lxrd:
You can swipe delete every kind of notification in android 14. Swipe to delete is also applicable in this case as well
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] maximesharp:
I know, but it still coming back randomly.

Found out this morning that I can receive SMS but can't send them (error 0).

Check every settings, correct APN & SMSC, stock SMS app or Google Messages, clean install, but so far no luck.

Switch back to LineageOS 20, no issue to send SMS with the same settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] mattilinnanvuori:
Scan QR code - Pair device over Wi-Fi by scanning a QR code does not proceed further than state Pairing device...

Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 Patch 2

Build #AI-231.9392.1.2311.11330709, built on January 19, 2024

Runtime version: 17.0.7+0-17.0.7b1000.6-10550314 x86_64

VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.

macOS 14.3.1

GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation

Memory: 2048M

Cores: 8

Metal Rendering is ON

Registry:

external.system.auto.import.disabled=true

ide.text.editor.with.preview.show.floating.toolbar=false

Non-Bundled Plugins:

idea.plugin.protoeditor (231.9225.5)

I dirty flashed the initial release and NikGapps core and everything else seems to work.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] silent7kamal:
dose the wifi breakdown or not?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] mattilinnanvuori:
I have not had Wi-Fi break down.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] aljo2207:
This is great rom,thank you

Testing
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Ahmad-issa1999:
( Network traffic monitor isn't working ) ; is it the speed indicator that's shown in top of the screen or is it the data usage calculation ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] mauam:
That's a known bug as mentioned in the OP. Don't know if it affects the duc, probably not, but I didn't tested. S7E is my secondary & test phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] sam_ID:
Both I think...

When I still using LOS 20 (A13), both data usage and indicator doesn't show up...

Same when using VPN apps, it doesn't show the speed even from it's own apps (though it still can calculate the total usage of the VPN connection) ...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] Ahmad-issa1999:
This is sad , I really need the calculation .. can you please try using ( glasswire ) app ? It's a firewall to prevent apps from using internet ( data/wifi ) through a vpn connection , if it works and calculates the usage then it would be a good workaround , pleas report about it , thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] elnoby2006:
thank you very much!!!!!

everything working fine.

The only issue I have is echo voice within phone call & internet call is there any solution to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] MrBricker:
Also cannot send text message sms
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Rec] sam_ID:
I'm sorry, I now use LOS 19 (A12) as it is more stable than LOS 20 (A13) for now...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Ivan_Meler:
LineageOS 21.0 for herolte​

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

Working:

- Wifi

- Sound

- mali drivers

- USB tethering

- HW Backed video Playback

- Ril (Mobile data,calls, sms and stuff)

- Sensors

- Buttons

- Bluetooth

- Wifi HotSpot

- MTP

- 2D and 3D gpu acceleration

- HW encoding/decoding

- HWcomposer (HWC)

- Charging with device powered off

- Stuff I didn't test yet

- Camera

- GPS

- Fingerprint Sensor

- Mobicore

- SW codecs

Not Working

- Storage Encryption (WIP switching to FBE from FDE since FDE was removed in 13/14)

- Network trafic monitoring (WIP, same reason as bellow, uses BPF)

- BPF specific functions like fancy new GPU monitoring in Android 13/14

Keep in mind that some LineageOS features have not been completed yet this is not a device bug and please do not report those

Also do not post bug reports for known issues or bug reports without proper

a) Logcat

b) proc/last_kmsg (or proc/kmsg)

c) data/tombstones

d) dmesg

Install gapps right after installing the rom itself don't try to boot to system before that if you want to use gapps (Or wipe data before installing them)

NikGapps have been updated to 14

Make sure you are using latest official TWRP before installing rom older versions do not have proper android 12/13/14 support

Downloads:

GitHub Releases

Google Drive and Mega mirrors coming soon

md5sum c95e08dfa03f48452e91ea63e4866486

if you want to support the project feel free to buy me some coffee http://paypal.me/melerivan

BTC: 1Q823BsSbEKP62JFM7BjXiRCgF84qgcFST

ETH(erc20): 0x979a8e42551e62e6994d3762c9d9f0e76b5d87f9

Donations help cover the build server cost and since I do this in my free time, and also cover the coffee for time spent debugging stuff

Feel free to join telegram group with early builds progress updates and some off topic stuff Join

Based On Android 14/U

Changelog

21.06.2024.

- Builds are now signed

- Added new modern usb hal (userspace and kernel)

- Fixed issues introduced in QPR2

- Improved UI performance

- Fied issues with secure apps (banking, seedvault, etc) related to keystore

- Performance and stability improvements

- Merged May security update

- Synced with LineageOS source

18.02.2024.

- Fixed sending of SMS messages

- Some selinux denials have been resolved

- Synced with LineageOS source

11.02.2024.

- Initial release

XDA:DevDB Information

LineageOS 21.0 for S7 Edge, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S7

Contributors

Ivan_Meler

Source Code: https://github.com/8890q/android_kernel_samsung_universal8890/tree/lineage-21.0

ROM OS Version: Android 14

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.18.x
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] master373:
Finaly !! Thank you !!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Devolix:
Awesome!

That's a nice full wake-up call (I just got up). Can't wait to try it out later after breakfast. I'll report back then. Thanks for your hard work on this! Will also donate as soon as my Paypal finally works! Android 14 for S7, that's sick. Love it! Thank you @Ivan_Meler ❤️
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Devolix:
So far, works as expect. Needs some further tests to tell more about. I just noticed the LOS "Tutorial" was weird. The pin-pattern does not shows whole pattern (only later via settings) and I needed to chose a fingerprint method to - then - being able to skip it. No big deals, just noticed.

Photo quality (Open Camera App, NR-Mode, everything high quality), again, worse than from stock-image.

Regarding echo problem, not tested yet, but probably still remains, since its from v18 already.

Android 14 it says it should save more battery-power, lets see how that goes.

@Ivan_Meler I guess OTA is supposed to work already?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Ivan_Meler:
yep ota works, some lineage os settings in suw are indeed weird, also changelog in ota updater has been fixed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] yamabokra1:
Loved it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] TheHow7zer:
View attachment 6067972on every reboot I have a notification that the phone is connected to USB when it is not.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] TheHow7zer:
I'd like to give you a big thanks for making modern Android available on this old phone Ivan! I gave it a try last night, but there was one app that wasn't working for me and I just can't give it up (LMT launcher), it seems to be a known issue with the app itself being incompatible with a14. I also have a13 set up and running really well right now, so I'm back on that now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Devolix:
Same here, but at least can swipe it away.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Not_Rich:
I thought it was just me..

Made a donation to support the project.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
Very much thanks to @Ivan_Meler

May I ask: does formatting sdcard as internal memory work again in Android 14 / LineageOS 21?

🏮Answering myself:

I had successfully installed LineageOS 21 on my second Samsung Galaxy S7.

But then formatting the sdcard as internal memory had not worked, as same as with LOS 20.

Thats a pity. Because the Samsung Galaxy S7s in the regular just have 32 GB internal memory.

With Ivan's LineageOS 19.1 (Android 12) it is possible to use a very fast sdcard as internal memory easily and this works properly.

But not with the LineageOS 21...

So, on my humbly opinion getting run Android 14 on the Samsung Galaxy S7 is a nice showpiece of technique, but at the end of the day mostly worthless, because by just using sdcards formatted just as mobile storage one has always worry about the space.

Therefore my urgent question to you, @Ivan_Meler

: is it possible to implement sdcard-formatting as internal into LOS 21, or is it impossible?

Please give us an answer as soon as it is possible for you.

Thanks in advance, Ivan 👍

I need to know this, because if this is not possible, I have to worry about an other smartphone, maybe a Samsung Galaxy S10+, wich has up to 512 GB internal memory.

Anyone knows about a good LineageOS ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S10+?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Pappadam:
Dragi Ivan

Thanks a lot, for your great effort :)

I also can´t use this ROM, because my Mobile Host (Lycamobile) needs some special Sim-Tool attributes. Without them, I don´t have a signal.

The Sim-Tool does´t appear in the Apps folder. Is there an other way to start it?

I would be very happy, if you have an idea and would buy you even 100 coffees, if it works :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Devolix:
Out of curiosity, why you need so much space as internal storage? There is so so less that actual forced to save on internal, for the most apps you can simply choose to save on external SD card (photo apps for example). I also clean up a lot of apps regular and in general have music and movies on SD as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
First of all, thank you for your question, which I would be happy to answer in order to start the discussion about the usefulness (or not) of an SDCard formatted as internal storage.

I'm currently working with Ivan's LineageOS 19.1 on my main smartphone, and I'm very happy with it, especially since it reliably allows an SDcard to be formatted as internal storage.

For me, the smartphone is essential because I am severely disabled and now spend most of my time in a wheelchair due to severe walking difficulties. As a handicapped person I urgently need a smartphone that works accurately, this is essential for me.

What I write below is based on my level of knowledge, although I would be happy to be proven wrong because I believe that we all learn something new every day.

Am I wrong, or is it initially the case, that I cannot give the Android operating system, for example, the permanent instruction, that it basically always stores all user files, i.e. images, videos, texts, PDFs, audios, whatever, on one -mobile- formatted SDcard?

As far as I know, images and other user data on Android are always stored on the internal memory first. I would then have to constantly worry about moving these files manually to a mobile formatted SDcard.

Then, as far as I know, it's usually not possible to move that many apps onto the mobile formatted SDcard, so the small internal memory of the Samsung Galaxy S7 fills up with apps over time on the one hand, and always with some user files on the other, as mentioned above.

I attach great importance to keeping all the files I have in order (and as a severely disabled person, I have to keep it that way), that's how I handle it on my Linux PCs and notebooks, and that's how I want it on my mobile devices too I can handle it, but as far as I know, Android doesn't allow for a lot of things the way I would like, not even with additional tools (apps) - or I don't know them yet.

Since I no longer want to worry about it too much once I've created the organization system, but rather work a lot with mobile devices (it's the same on my PCs and notebooks), I prefer to have a very fast SDcard, so I can format that card as internal, so that the S7 has a uniform memory, that I no longer have to worry about.

That's why I'm a supporter of the SDcard formatted as internal.

But perhaps I'm missing essential information that would help me achieve my goal with an SDcard formatted as mobile.

I hope, that this longer explanation helps you guys to understand my needs better.

✌️

So, my question about the new LineageOS 21 is, if formatting an SDcard as internal could be actived or not by @Ivan_Meler

✌️
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] a.st:
Any idea, why i can´t install "NikGapps have been updated to 14" ?

edit: used basic-arm, full-ar,, just get error in sideload/package.zip (status1)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Pablobrown:
I installed Iván's rom with Android 14 for the first time and Google services so far everything has gone well. The only thing I have observed is that every time I turn on the phone in the notification bar the notification appears that the phone is connected with the cable but in reality it is not (the same thing happens to me that TheHohw7zer has published), it could be corrected .
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Pablobrown:
I could now install the NikGapps from the link that Ivan has in the post. I installed the ones from February with the core nickgapps and I have not had any type of problem on Android 14.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] dj3d:
I took it without any problems

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikgapps/files/Releases/NikGapps-U/10-Feb-2024/NikGapps-core-arm64-14-20240210-signed.zip/download

Before that I took the current TWRP

Download twrp-3.7.0_9-1-herolte.img.tar

Download page for twrp-3.7.0_9-1-herolte.img.tar

eu.dl.twrp.me

went through without any problems
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
Well folks,

have installed Ivan's new LOS 21 on my second Samsung Galaxy S7 and had worked with it today a few hours.

As I mentioned, I miss the formatting to internal memory of an sdcard.

But (!!!) beside that this brand new Ivan edition of LOS runs very, very unproblematic, very very smooth, very fast!

Like it. You have done again a great job, @Ivan_Meler 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

So, have to scratch my back of the head now very intensiv, and have to think the next days, what to do with my main S7, wich actually runs with Ivan's LOS 19.1...

I'm too old for that, guys... but it might be to do a system backup, and then...

Yeah 🤷🏻‍♂️😉👍🏼
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Thibou:
Hi,

I'm staying on LOS 18.1 because I can't cope with the new quick settings starting from 19.1, I may not update to 21 before a long time. But I still wanted to reply to you as I follow the amazing job Ivan is doing for our beloved S7.

Regarding your storage strategy it really depends on your habits. Storage needs will be different for every people.

It is possible that you really need more than 32GB of internal storage, but I just wanted to ask you if you are sure about this?

My phone is not packed with tons of apps as I am trying to use my phone instead of having my phone using me (phone tends to take too much of my attention, addiction thing).

But I think it has all the basics covered : music, email, messaging, call, weather, GPS, banking app, agenda

And still I have 19GB free out of the 32GB of the internal memory. Which lives quite a bit of space for the apps you may need (and there data) on top of what I have installed.

I have a 128GB sdcard (set as external storage) which has 84GB used with those main usages : 2GB of offline maps of my GPS app, 60GB of mp3 music, 15GB of pictures, 4GB of ROMS.

Is it possible that you are anxious about missing of storage without knowing how much headroom you would have with the sdcard set as external storage? It could be a stupid question but I wanted to ask it as you look concerned about having a reliable phone, but maybe this is making you want a bit to much compared to your real needs.

Having a part of the data on a partition (sdcard) set as external storage may require a little bit a tweaking in your habits but I don't think this as to be a deal breaker.

Anyway, maybe Ivan will solve your situation by bringing back the ability to merge the sdcard as internal storage, but if not there is probably a way to make it work for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
So, what is "Quick Share"?

Is "Quick Share" a part of LOS 21?

If not, why are you using it?

Actually @Ivan_Meler had not posted any update for his actual LOS 21 ROM for the S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] netra3441:
@Devolix why do you use public WiFi (WLAN is a german term for WiFi) with a smartphone?

If I would go outside, I would activate only my mobile connection in my Samsung S7, but never would enter a public WiFi, because this is too dangerous... read about "man-in-the-middle-attack" to understand what I mean...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] benni1989:
Hey everyone,

for me the always on display

works only for a couple of seconds then the screen turns dark completely even on the charger.

Is that a common issue with the S7 ?

With my S8 and Ivan' s Rom the AOD works perfect but the S7 does not.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] angrypizza:
led notification for charging, missed calls, messages etc not working. unless you restart the phone.... works for few hours then stops and needs restart again.... and fix for that ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Devolix:
Quick Share - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I would just use wired connection, AirDroid, or similar instead.

Wi-Fi is just a trademark (name) for WLAN (the technology). :)

WLAN = Wireless Local Area Network

Wireless LAN - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term "Wi-Fi Certified" to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing. Non-compliant hardware is simply referred to as WLAN, and it may or may not work with "Wi-Fi Certified" devices.

Why should I use mobile data traffic (what is limited/expensive) for simple (but traffic intensive) jobs like watching Youtube and Twitch? There is nothing much to protect, especially not anything that is not protected by other mechanisms such as 2FA or E2EE, especially not important data or even money transfers. In addition, I use VPNs anyway, which protect against MITM, Insecure WLANs or recent plans by German politicians to reintroduce illegal data retention. ;)