[Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Awesometic:
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# LineageOS

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 11, 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 repo. And if you would like to contribute to LineageOS, please visit out Gerrit Code Review. You can also view the Changelog for a full list of changes & features.

# What's working

Display/Touchscreen

LiveDisplay

Audio playback

Dolby Atmos

Headphone/Headset

Quad speakers

Video playback

HDR

Camera

Microphone

Sensors

Fingerprint sensor

GPS

Hotspot

WiFi

WiFi display

Bluetooth

DRM

Widevine L1

USB ADB/MTP

Samsung Doze

S-Pen

Palm rejection

SD Card

Power-off mode charging

# What's not working

LTE (SM-T825)

USB OTG

SELinux permissive

Data encryption

FDE deprecated since Android 13

FBE unsupported

Please see the "Known issues" part of this post

# Downloads

## LineageOS 21.0

Galaxy Tab S3 LTE (gts3llte, SM-T825)

Galaxy Tab S3 WiFi (gts3lwifi, SM-T820)

## Google Apps

NikGapps

The other Gapps will work too, but I only confirmed that NikGapps working

## TWRP Recovery

You must use this version of TWRP, don't try another version out there

TWRP 3.7.0 with no encryption

Galaxy Tab S3 LTE (gts3llte, SM-T825)

Galaxy Tab S3 WiFi (gts3lwifi, SM-T820)

After updating TWRP to this version, please do 'format data' that the menu requires enter 'yes', which clean up your current data

# How to install

Unlock the bootloader.

Download TWRP 3.7.0 with no encryption and flash the recovery image via Odin.

Download LineageOS 21.0 for Galaxy Tab S3.

Be aware of the board name.

Download GAPPS for Android 14 and the others you want to flash.

Enter TWRP recovery.

The first boot to TWRP might be very slow because of the unmatched file systems.

Format the whole system, data, cache partitions using the format menu.

You will type `yes` to do that.

Flash the images.

If you're going to install GApps or something, you have to install the LineageOS first.

Reboot the system.

Done.

# Known issues

Camera somewhat buggy

On webcam chat apps, there is a vertical green bar and the color is not properly displayed

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

OTG drives shows nothing even if it mounted

The side button on S-Pen is working but you must use the proper application that can handle the button event

Fast charging works (15W) but currently the kernel reports the wrong charging voltage and current

After booting, it shows a message that the system has a critical issue but it seems not. There may be but you can ignore that

Thank all of you for the feedback

# Sources

Device Tree

gts3l-common: https://github.com/awesometic/android_device_samsung_gts3l-common

gts3llte: https://github.com/awesometic/android_device_samsung_gts3llte

gts3lwifi: https://github.com/awesometic/android_device_samsung_gts3lwifi

Kernel: https://github.com/awesometic/android_kernel_samsung_msm8996

Vendor: https://github.com/awesometic/proprietary_vendor_samsung

# Telegram Groups

If you are interested in developing this potential machine, please tell me through PM then I will send you the invitation link.

If you need a general discussion channel for this potential machine or want to share the news of its Android projects from anyone to everyone, you can join our discussion group chat.

Galaxy Tab S3 General Discussion

# Buy me a coffee

If you like my efforts or would like to support me, please don't hesitate to buy me a cup of coffee.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/awesometic

# Credits / Special thanks to

Android Open Source Project

LineageOS Team

LOS17.1) @Valera1978 for his amazing previous work including his MSM8996 kernel

LOS18.1) @supermike86 and @samsuffit for testing LineageOS 18.1 for T820, which is I don't have one

LOS18.1) @bmwdroid and @cherepanov for confirming the LTE works

LOS18.1) @sebmue for letting me know that the useful information for palm rejection, and @ghostwheel for sharing its working source codes on Android 9

General) @switchgott for helping me in the development discussion and creating Telegram groups

General) All from our Telegram discussion channel, @EonOfBlack , Sands, David Becker, ...

LOS18.1) @LuK1337 for giving me a hint to fix the quad-speakers

LOS19.1) @followmsi , @html6405 , @ThE_MarD for giving me a hint to bring up Android 12

LOS19.1) @masdaster for the fix of MDFPP Keystore on our device

LOS21.0) @ivan_meler who helps me to bring up LineageOS 21