Hello there
To begin with I had a Huawei P9 Lite, which I de-googled without root or unlocked bootloader. Short story I used adb tools to remove many packages. In the end everything worked well, but no matter what I did, I couldn't use GPS.
Now I bought a used OnePlus 5T(compatible with Lineage OS) and after a bit of struggle I installed the custom ROM. Everything is great, but again no GPS
I searched the internet and tried many things, installed MicroG services via F-Droid , as well as many UnifiedNlp apps and back-ends. In the end neither OSM maps can track me, nor google maps in the browser...I saw some guides using TWRP to install MicroG, but I am afraid I would lose data on the phone.
The question is what's the problem and is it normal to happen on stock Lineage OS? And if so what I must do in order to have proper GPS and tracking functionality for offline use of maps? Preferably without erasing data on the phone. I would also welcome links to other guides.
Update:
After the next Lineage OS update I was able to connect and use GPS, even without MicroG and the various back-ends, which I uninstalled.
The problem is if I haven't used it in a while it takes 5-10 minutes to find me no matter if I use OSM maps or GMaps WV(a great app, which sandboxes the web version of google maps in a single, manageable application with no history).
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I am having major issues with android auto since Oreo
Essentially, what is happening is that the Android Auto app itself will work with two and only two apps. They are Google Maps and Google Play Music.
My problem is, none, and I truly do mean no other 3rd party apps will work with Android Auto.
I should also restate that this is a problem with the Android Auto app itself, so let's pretend no head unit or car is involved. This can be replicated on just the phone.
Here's the behavior:
-Open android auto
-Open any 3rd party app (Let's say IheartRadio)
Either one of two things happen next:
-Instantly get a screen that says "IHeartRadio Doesn't Seem to Be Working"
OR
-IHeartRadio starts like it should, and is able to play music for about 15 seconds, and then I get "Doesn't seem to be working" screen
-This happens for every 3rd party app, not just IHeart, but Plex, TuneIn, Radio Scanner, EVERYTHING except Google Play Music and Google Maps.
I should also state that Android Auto and 3rd party apps worked without a hitch, absolutely flawlessly in Nougat.
And, I've asked around the OP5t forums here and nobody is having the same problem.
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What I've tried so far (And hasn't worked)
-Re installing Android Auto
-Re installing every 3rd party app and re-trying
-Installing a custom ROM (Oreo) (Same exact behavior right after factory reset flashing new rom )
-Tried installing 3rd party apps from a non google play source
-Flashing OOS 8.0 Stable, as well as OB4 thru factory wipes
What I haven't tried:
-Re-locking the bootloader and flashing back to OOS nougat (Would this even help?)
I'm totally at wits end here, folks. I bought the OP5t to accompany my new car as my old phone couldn't handle android auto, this is one of the most imporatnt features to me.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Would flashing back to nougat and locking the bootloader like the phone was brand new help me? I've never seen such a problem that persists through clean flashes.
Thank you kindly everyone,
Hey!
I had this exact same problem.
I managed to solve this.
I am on OOS Open Beta 4.
Install latest:
Android Auto:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-auto/
Android System Webview:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-system-webview/
Google Maps:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/maps/maps-9-74-0-release/
Google App:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-search/google-search-7-23-24-release/
Google Play Services:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-12-2-21-release/
After installing all the apps, reboot your phone.
Android auto should work smooth again!
Just FYI, the bootloader status (locked/unlocked) has nothing to do with this.
Nick502 said:
Hey!
Android auto should work smooth again!
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Hey there, first and foremost, thank you so much for taking time to respond! I tried your suggestion, but I'm still not having any luck
I'm going to keep messing around with it, but thank you again for the reply.
captainstarbucs said:
Hey there, first and foremost, thank you so much for taking time to respond! I tried your suggestion, but I'm still not having any luck
I'm going to keep messing around with it, but thank you again for the reply.
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Ohh that is really weird. Make sure you install all the Google Beta apps, and also the latest Android Auto version.
Are you using the Red Dash cable?
Nick502 said:
Ohh that is really weird. Make sure you install all the Google Beta apps, and also the latest Android Auto version.
Are you using the Red Dash cable?
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Yes, I'm using the dash cable that came with the phone, but this problem is isolated within the android auto app. I don't need to connect it to the car to get the issues I'm having. Just launching the app on the phone itself and starting up a 3rd party app will trigger the "seems to not be working" screen.
If I connect it to the car, the same behavior happens. No issue with the connection to the car since I'm still able to use Maps and Play.
I'm considering flashing back to nougat to see if it works and OTA'ing til I get stable 8.0 and dirty flashing OB4 today.
UPDATE!!!
I got it working, and how I fixed it was a total PITA, but it works and I'm on OOS OB4.
Here's what I did:
1. Download the first available nougat OOS and flash it. Factory wipe from stock recovery. Once booted, install android auto and 3rd party apps. Test if it works, if so...
2. Sign in google account and update to 5.0.4 via OOS updater
3. Once rebooted into 5.0.4, take OB4 and stick it onto root, and reboot to recovery again
4. I dirty flashed OB4 over 5.0.4 and it seems to work fine!
I haven't tested this in my car yet, I will be on a long drive tomorrow and update results.
Waze on android auto
Waze is working parallel to google Maps without any problems. When you open navigate both programs are shown.
Damn I just noticed it. My maps work but I tried to open Google play music and got the same error.
That was the one thing that consistently worked for me. Which rom are you on?
So, this is what I know:
There are at least 2 apps that must be flashed just after LineageOS is flashed, before the first boot, otherwise I won't be able to install them and have them working correctly.
1 .addonsu for root access
2. gapps for google apps and play store access.
However, I cannot seem to find if there is anything else that I must install at flash time if I intend to use it.
In addition to that concern, which applications in-general should I install after booting into lineageOS?
I mean, I definitely want to know all of the network and internet activity my phone is engaged in. After all, my main reason for changing from Android to this is so that google can't track everything I'm doing and listen-in on my microphone. (They admitted to this, by the way, regarding their in-home devices. Is it really a stretch to think they aren't doing it to anything they control that has a microphone?) Is there perhaps a good LineageOS app that will report to me all of the network and internet activity going on with my phone?
Does anyone have some sort of list in their mind or maybe linked somewhere that is a good general list for a beginning user to lineageOS?
Is there some kind of LineageOS app store with it's own app that I could flash?
I'll be installing to my Nexus 5x bullhead, so that means Lineage 15.1, since that's the supported one for that phone. I'll probably try to upgrade to 16 once I get 15 installed with the apps I want. -- Oh wait, I guess I can't until someone comes out with a nightly 16 build for bullhead.
And of course, thank you for taking the time.
Congratulations. You are well prepared. One point, nobody told you, yet: after installing lineageOS, you can quickly and easily flash other roms and addons. So it's no problem to flash lineageOS and nothing else. So you have no Google spyware to block afterwards.
You can flash lineage4microG that has f-droid app store, which is far more trustworthy than Google play store.
You can flash addonsu or magisk at the time you recognise you really need root. Rooting is nothing you should do just for fun.
After trying various no-GApps configurations, you maybe come to the conclusion, you need GApps. In that case you best flash rom and GApps and root and and install a firewall like AFWall+ (Netzwerkdatenverkehr kontrollieren) - https://f-droid.org/app/dev.ukanth.ufirewall
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Congratulations. You are well prepared. One point, nobody told you, yet: after installing lineageOS, you can quickly and easily flash other roms and addons. So it's no problem to flash lineageOS and nothing else. So you have no Google spyware to block afterwards.
You can flash lineage4microG that has f-droid app store, which is far more trustworthy than Google play store.
You can flash addonsu or magisk at the time you recognise you really need root. Rooting is nothing you should do just for fun.
After trying various no-GApps configurations, you maybe come to the conclusion, you need GApps. In that case you best flash rom and GApps and root and and install a firewall like AFWall+ (Netzwerkdatenverkehr kontrollieren)
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I did. I installed TWRP. Then I sideloaded lineageos, not the microG one though. I sideloaded addonsu, and an OTA zip I found for fdroid. I also sideloaded orbot and orwall, but I think orwall prevented things from connecting to the internet. I hope orbot is sufficient. It uses TOR and sets up a VPN profile that you can then set to never allowing connections without the VPN, which I hope means that all traffic is routed through orbot's TOR connection.
I don't think I'll need google because I think that I'm more safe with privacy concerns downloading apks from an unmonitored third party site like apkmirror than putting google stuff on my phone. And I also found out about yalp, but we need a google account apparently to get the apps from the play store that way. I downloaded swiftkeys from apkmirror, and that gave me a keyboard that I could use like normal android has.
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I did. I installed TWRP. Then I sideloaded lineageos, not the microG one though. I sideloaded addonsu, and an OTA zip I found for fdroid. I also sideloaded orbot and orwall, but I think orwall prevented things from connecting to the internet. I hope orbot is sufficient. It uses TOR and sets up a VPN profile that you can then set to never allowing connections without the VPN, which I hope means that all traffic is routed through orbot's TOR connection.
I don't think I'll need google because I think that I'm more safe with privacy concerns downloading apks from an unmonitored third party site like apkmirror than putting google stuff on my phone. And I also found out about yalp, but we need a google account apparently to get the apps from the play store that way. I downloaded swiftkeys from apkmirror, and that gave me a keyboard that I could use like normal android has.
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That's hard core
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Next escalation level postmarketOS
I can't install neither Mapfactor Navigator nor Here WeGo on my Mi Max 3.
Running lineage-16.0-20191011-UNOFFICIAL-nitrogen. Firmware is 10.something
With Navigator: I tried it on a fresh install of Linage, tried it on a fresh install of AospExtended-v7.0-nitrogen-20191115-1506-ALPHA either for good measure but to no avail.
I got both APKs on my SD-card, click either to install, yes, all rights, it says it got installed successfully but on first start it crashes to reboot after a few steps - farthest I came was downloading some maps.
But most of the time it crashes directly after choosing between free or TomTom maps
HERE is basically the same thing, different steps in setting up, but crashes right before it gets to what it's supposed to do.
As you can surely tell by the description, I'm a newbie, so please use simple explanations...
Edit: Just installed Xiaomi.eu 11 and Navigator works fine. I just really, really don't like this OS for it's intrusiveness, so any suggestions still welcomed
2nd Edit: Solved! When switching back from Xiaomi.eu to Lineage, I had the infamous error 7 and had to edit the updater script file. This somehow had the side effect that I could install Mapfactor Navigator and it seems to run flawlessly now.
So I guess thank you for reading...
No, might as well use the opportunity for a general thank you to this forum - without you guys I would be forced to use my phones as the manufacturers intended them. And who wants that.
I am using an LG V20, recently I have successfully installed Lineage OS 18.1.
I'm scared of the amount of junk apps (ads, useless, third-party,...) that are available inside LG's firmware (and you can't remove them without root - but you can only root on Android 7), so I decided to try another OS.
After installing Lineage OS the first thing I noticed is that I can't customize the buttons on navigation bar, I tried searching google for custom instructions but most of them are instructions for the old version of Lineage OS, I can't find the custom buttons on navigation bar on this latest version (or maybe I'm wrong?). Please help me?
I have used System App Remover to see all system apps, there are more than 200+ system apps (including GApps), I've looked a few times, only a few apps can guess the function. functionality, or only a few app packages can be recognized (less than 80 apps in total are recognisable and searchable on Google). I want to ask which system apps can be safely deleted?
I tried flashing the LOSdiet file and android debloat script with TWRP although the flash was successful BUT NO apps was removed.
UPDATE: I feel that installing the whole GApps is really unnecessary as Google Play Store and Google Play Services can be downloaded on Google, just 2 apps Google Partner Setup and Google Services Framework are enough. If in the firmware file these 2 applications are available, I think installing GApps is not necessary.
Thanks.
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I am using an LG V20, recently I have successfully installed Lineage OS 18.1.
I'm scared of the amount of junk apps (ads, useless, third-party,...) that are available inside LG's firmware (and you can't remove them without root - but you can only root on Android 7), so I decided to try another OS.
After installing Lineage OS the first thing I noticed is that I can't customize the buttons on navigation bar, I tried searching google for custom instructions but most of them are instructions for the old version of Lineage OS, I can't find the custom buttons on navigation bar on this latest version (or maybe I'm wrong?). Please help me?
I have used System App Remover to see all system apps, there are more than 200+ system apps (including GApps), I've looked a few times, only a few apps can guess the function. functionality, or only a few app packages can be recognized (less than 80 apps in total are recognisable and searchable on Google). I want to ask which system apps can be safely deleted?
I tried flashing the LOSdiet file and android debloat script with TWRP although the flash was successful BUT NO apps was removed.
UPDATE: I feel that installing the whole GApps is really unnecessary as Google Play Store and Google Play Services can be downloaded on Google, just 2 apps Google Partner Setup and Google Services Framework are enough. If in the firmware file these 2 applications are available, I think installing GApps is not necessary.
Thanks.
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Installing GApps is really not necessary. But in that case you will miss many features. Including play store. But you can install f-droid and aurora store.
LineageOS is not meant to torture you with bloatware. Even if you don't use the preinstalled apps, they will do no harm.
And you can debloat unrooted stock ROM with adb.
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Installing GApps is really not necessary. But in that case you will miss many features. Including play store. But you can install f-droid and aurora store.
LineageOS is not meant to torture you with bloatware. Even if you don't use the preinstalled apps, they will do no harm.
And you can debloat unrooted stock ROM with adb.
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Yes, but it has too many deprecated apps, I am discussing on reddit, hope they remove them in next update.
habaka said:
Yes, but it has too many deprecated apps, I am discussing on reddit, hope they remove them in next update.
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Mail already removed with android 10 to 11 version upgrade.
kurtn said:
Mail already removed with android 10 to 11 version upgrade.
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MMS has been deprecated although it still exists.
Hello, I am with Lineage OS (19-20230130-NIGHTLY-gauguin) and for about a week Google Play has stopped working.
It opens normally but when trying to install or update it gets stuck in downloading and then goes to failed. I have enough memory space and haven't made any changes to the device other than updating Lineage OS from time to time via the built-in updater.
I have installed Aurora market and connect it to my google account but the same thing happens when I try to install or update an app: it stays downloading and then fails.
Things I've tried, without success:
- Clear cache and data from Google Play, Google Play Services and download manager.
- Uninstall updates in the Google Play app.
- Uninstall the app from Google Play by fastboot and reinstall it.
- Remove my Google account from the phone and put it back in and sync it.
Any ideas?
Could you figure out where it fails? Perhaps it's "just" the network:
I have an adblocker on my router and lately I couldn't login into several sites properly until I switched from WLAN to mobile.
Alternatively you could try
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
It's like Google Play Store without the need for an account.
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Could you figure out where it fails? Perhaps it's "just" the network:
I have an adblocker on my router and lately I couldn't login into several sites properly until I switched from WLAN to mobile.
Alternatively you could try
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
It's like Google Play Store without the need for an account.
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Thanks for your response. It shouldn't be the network because I'm able to navigate properly. Anyway, I tried both wifi and phone data with the same result. Also, it started happening just a week ago and I have been using the same connection all the time so I would discard it be network related.
Aurora I tried already and gave the same problem as Google Play.
san000 said:
Aurora ... same problem as Google Play
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Oh, weird, didn't expect that at all...
SigmundDroid said:
Oh, weird, didn't expect that at all...
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Indeed it's weird... I thought it could be an issue like this but in my case I didn't do an upgrade to a higher LineageOS version, just normal updates.
BTW I love your username
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Lineage OS (19-20230130-NIGHTLY
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Hang on a second, just tried my FP3 which was on 20230123 and updates working (there was one: Android Auto). Now updating to 20230130 and checking again...
Still updating...
Someone in that reddit link mentioned mindthegapps... I vaguely remembered that I was slightly annoyed/confused with the directions given in the LOS wiki:
OpenGApps vs MindTheGapps
https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps
Finally decided to go with MindTheGapps... do you recall your choice?
Ah, it finally finished updating: Aurora is up and working (at google translate installed like a charm and works).