LineageOS 18.1 for Odroid-GoS

[notime2d8]

LineageOS 18.1


Working:
Controls and Buttons
Battery info and charging
USB devices -Storage, audio, input, Bluetooth
Hardware accelerated graphics
Hardware video encoding/decoding
Backlight
Bluetooth Audio
Audio - speaker & Headphones
GPU - no Vulkan support
Mouse mode - with d-pad
Suspend/Resume
Ethernet support
All Hardkernel recommended WiFi sticks should work except RTL8821CU

Current Issues:
Navigation without a touchscreen




SD Card partitions :
p1 vfat32 Boot
p2 ext4 System partition
p3 f2fs Data partition
p4 exfat Roms partition



Controls mapping

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		|---------------------------------------------------------------|
		|    L1      L2               Vol- Vol+             R2      R1  |
		|---------------------------------------------------------------|
		|              Select                         Start             |
		|       up           |-----------------------|            X     |
		|   left  right      |                       |          Y   A   |
		|      down          |       LCD Display     |            B     |
		|                    |                       |                  |
		|                    |-----------------------|                  |
		| Menu Mouse                                          Home Back |
		|---------------------------------------------------------------|      

Special Thanks:
@Hardkernel -For the awesome device
@crashoverride - For answering random questions and work on the original kernel
@joy - For help with the kernel
@zztfoxdev - For hours of testing
@macromorgan - For support, testing, and work on kernel and device tree.
@voodik - For answering random questions and help with WiFi drivers.

[notime2d8]

Updates:

11/19/2021:

• Gapps GO is included in this image by request.

• Kernel and and disk I/O tweaks to improve streaming

• Fixed some apps crashing on start, gamepass, Chiaki, etc.

• Updated to latest MPP and RGA drivers

• Kernel updated to 4.19.193

• Synced with latest Lineage sources.

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[b]8/7/2021:[/b]
[list]Updated partitioning thanks to a great developer named @turtle. The userdata partition in android is now 16GB, and the rest of the space on the card is used automagically for an Exfat partition where users can put Roms and Apks.  [/list]
[list]Random tweaks -  disk I/O tweaks, memory usage tweaks, changed to deadline I/O scheduler, added support for rtl8188eus Wifi sticks, changed to Schedutil CPU governor.  [/list]
[list]Tweaks to Android - disabled all debugging, removed battery logging, switched to jemalloc memory allocator, changed screen dpi to 140  [/list]
[list]Tweaks from Proton AOSP Roms - replaced ArrayMap with HashMap for performance, Optimized ApplicationInfo creation, switched to arm-optimized-routines for arm64, disabled native stats collection service  [/list]
[list]Removed additional services[/list]
[list]Kernel updated to 4.19.172[/list]
[list]Synced with latest Lineage sources.[/list]

3/23/2021:
[list]Updated Gapps and fixed slowdown from last update on the Gapps build.[/list]
[list]Random tweaks - a compiler flag, a build property, a background process, etc... [/list]
[list]Fixed right joystick mapping to HatX/HatY instead of Rx/Ry. This should fix detection in Moonlight and Steam Link but breaks Retroarch.[/list]
[list]Synced with latest Lineage sources.[/list]

3/5/2021:
Enabled suspend/resume after USB patch from @valadaa48
Updated Gapps and added missing packages.
Fixed USB Storage.
Fixed Mouse mode using the D-pad and R1
Added automatic WiFi module loading, with major help from @voodik
Added the "lowram" property back.
Fixed right joystick mapping to Rx/Ry instead of HatX/HatY. This should fix detection in Retroarch.
Changed from Performance to Schedutil governor for longer battery life.
Synced with latest Lineage sources.

2/8/2021:
Added USB Tethering - should also work for modems that use the USB Ethernet interface.
Synced with latest Lineage sources.

2/7/2021:
Really fixed video encoding/decoding - it was fixed, but missed the last upload.
Synced with latest Lineage sources.
Removed the "lowram" property - It caused random slowdowns.
Tweaked kernel parameters - trying to improve disk i/o and freezing.
Got rid of the error on boot that says "There's an internal problem with your device".

1/27/2021:
Synced with latest Lineage sources
Fixed video encoding/decoding -something broke when I updated the pre-built libs.
Fixed screen initialization - I increased the screen init delay & reset times in the DTS.
Added lineage recovery to kernel - Haven't tested what use it has, but you need to edit the boot.ini and remove  "skip_initramfs" to boot into it and add it back to go into Android.
Fixed screenshots and screen recording.
Updated kernel from 4.19.158 to 4.19.161
Changed from Schedutil to Performance governor - Don't know if I'm sticking with this change.
Tweaked the device init for faster boots - Removed some "waits", starting some services early, starting the boot animation early, mounting userdata partition late as the fsck slows down the boot process. So now the boot times are faster and the boot animation starts up quicker as it no longer waits for the fsck to finish first.
Added the "lowram" property back

[notime2d8]

Current Etcher Image Download:
Note: A 32gb minimum SD card is needed.

lineage-18.1-20211119-odroidgo3.zip - Gapps






Prior Release Files:

lineage-18.1-20210903-odroidgo3.zip - No Gapps

lineage-18.1-20210323-odroidgo3.img - Gapps

lineage-18.1-20210323-odroidgo3.img - No Gapps

[mad_ady]

Congratulations for all the hard work for you and your contribuitors!
Doesn't Android on sd card feel sluggish?

[notime2d8]

Congratulations for all the hard work for you and your contribuitors!
Doesn't Android on sd card feel sluggish?

Not that I've found yet. I'm usually only doing one thing and have yet to see a bottleneck from the SD card except with boot times and a stock load out of gapps. Games and movies run without lag. There shouldn't be an issue if background processes and apps are limited. I ran out of ram and r/w's on the sd for the first time after installing gapps.

[Shoesy]

Are the sticks working correctly in Steamlink client?

[notime2d8]

Are the sticks working correctly in Steamlink client?

Yes, also the new steam link app also lets you do remote desktop with very little lag, like little enough to watch a video and the audio is in sync on both... I'm super excited about that. I didn't get any joystick drifting issues either.

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[notime2d8]

First post updated with a download link for a flashable image and also the individual files to flash manually if you prefer that method. The manual files are 1.5GB, 128mb, and about 20mb for the boot folder. The flashable image is 8GB.

One minor issue with this release is that the screen remains blank as it boots so you don't know when it's done booting. The first boot takes a full 4 minutes, boot times usually take a little over a minute after. Once the device boots you have to press the power button twice for the screen to display.

Let me know if you try it out and how it works for you. Hope you like it.

Edit: Forgot to mention gapps is added to this build. I added the "go" version of GMSCore so ram usage on it is low. I also removed a few apps that would come on a stock Android device to save ram.

[valadaa48]

Not sure if you tried or not but for suspend support in Linux I just use a hook to rmmod dwc2 and re-add it pre-suspend, post-suspend. On the BE ESP8089 is also compiled as a module and does a similar dance as well.

[notime2d8]

Not sure if you tried or not but for suspend support in Linux I just use a hook to rmmod dwc2 and re-add it pre-suspend, post-suspend. On the BE ESP8089 is also compiled as a module and does a similar dance as well.

Android doesn't have that function. The Androidx86 project has a power driver for Android 10 that does what we want but the patch is going to take some work for 11. Mostly the ability for the power driver to unload modules and as a normal non-root function.

[valadaa48]

Not sure if you tried or not but for suspend support in Linux I just use a hook to rmmod dwc2 and re-add it pre-suspend, post-suspend. On the BE ESP8089 is also compiled as a module and does a similar dance as well.

Android doesn't have that function. The Androidx86 project has a power driver for Android 10 that does what we want but the patch is going to take some work for 11. Mostly the ability for the power driver to unload modules and as a normal non-root function.

Ah yes, that would have been too easy I suppose!

[animeware]

This is awesome good work. I'm excited to get my Odroid Go Super to test it out. does it need to be formatted as exfat on sd card?

[notime2d8]

This is awesome good work. I'm excited to get my Odroid Go Super to test it out. does it need to be formatted as exfat on sd card?

No, you can just download the etcher image and flash it. It will format the sd card for you. The only thing you may want to do after is resize the data partition to use all of the available space on your sd card.

[zztfoxdev]

So this is ONLY for the Odroid Go Advance Super (new device).

It will not work on OGA 1.0 or 1.1, right?

[notime2d8]

So this is ONLY for the Odroid Go Advance Super (new device).

It will not work on OGA 1.0 or 1.1, right?

Correct, unfortunately. Since my images don't include a copy of the bootloader, I need to use a separate boot.ini between the two. I also had to increase the dpi, used higher resolution resources, and a higher resolution boot image.

I will do a oga 1.0 & 1.1 build soon, after I work out a few issues. This was posted for the OGA-S as I was working on adding it and had nothing released for it yet. Next release will be for all devices.

[zztfoxdev]

Awesome!

Take all the time you need, you guys have been working so much on this.

[Slaminger]

I feel like I'm trolling posting up on this so early. But I finally got Android booting on the Odroid GoS. I thought it would be a simple affair but I ran into bootloader issues, kernel issues, and screen initialization issues. Two of those I still need to fix before I can actually release a flashable image.

But Android looks good with the high resolution, videos look awesome, and the main thing I was looking for, steam link now actually displays correctly!!!!

I also still need to trim down my gapps package to reduce ram usage and boot times. But things are looking good so far. The list of working items is correct. Suspend and resume is working but it breaks USB, don't know if I'm going to disable that or not. I haven't found a workaround or patch for it yet.

I'm looking forward to this. you can send me a PM if you want some help with kernel stuff, i've built a fair number of android images from source.

[notime2d8]

Posted an update in the second and third posts. Video showing screen recording in action. I didn't have anything cool installed to record though.




Should I include a default set of emulators or not since some may not want them?

Should i reduce the card image size down to 2gb for faster downloads? Everyone would have to re-partition their SD card data partition then.

I tried a script in the init.rc that checks for a data partition, if not found, create one with remaining space on the disk. Android would not wait for the script to finish and crashes as it cannot write any data. But since recovery is working I'm going to see if that can be used to setup and partition drives. I may need to try to get TWRP working. I will post in the other thread on this as I need to solicit help as i don't know scripting well enough.

[Slaminger]

best to leave it as a single image install so end users dont have to do much in my opinion, not everyone is tech smart with stuff like that. also, does wifi need to be set up during first boot? i skipped it and tried to do it later and whenever i turn it on, it goes back off again. Im using the Odroid branded low power 2.4ghz wifi adapter.

[notime2d8]

best to leave it as a single image install so end users dont have to do much in my opinion, not everyone is tech smart with stuff like that. also, does wifi need to be set up during first boot? i skipped it and tried to do it later and whenever i turn it on, it goes back off again. Im using the Odroid branded low power 2.4ghz wifi adapter.

I still need to figure out a solution for supporting different wifi modules. Do you know which chipset it uses? I can send you a kernel in a few minutes. I only have drivers for RealTek RTL8811AU and RTL8821AU enabled.

Also thanks for trying it.

[Slaminger]

best to leave it as a single image install so end users dont have to do much in my opinion, not everyone is tech smart with stuff like that. also, does wifi need to be set up during first boot? i skipped it and tried to do it later and whenever i turn it on, it goes back off again. Im using the Odroid branded low power 2.4ghz wifi adapter.

I still need to figure out a solution for supporting different wifi modules. Do you know which chipset it uses? I can send you a kernel in a few minutes. I only have drivers for RealTek RTL8811AU and RTL8821AU enabled.

Also thanks for trying it.

happy to help i plan to test some video and emulation stuff shortly, i can side load apps for now too while we get wifi workin.

Mediatek Ralink RT5370N is a cost-effective, highly integrated USB Wi-Fi single chip containing an 802.11n MAC and baseband, a 2.4 GHz RF, PA, LNA and T/R switch on a single chip. It supports a 150 Mbps PHY data rate and fully complies with 802.11b/g/n specifications

– MediaTek(Ralink) RT5370N chipset (VID:PID = 148F:5370 )

I also have the Odroid Module 5a which is Realtek RTL8812AU chipset (ID = 0bda:8812)

[notime2d8]

best to leave it as a single image install so end users dont have to do much in my opinion, not everyone is tech smart with stuff like that. also, does wifi need to be set up during first boot? i skipped it and tried to do it later and whenever i turn it on, it goes back off again. Im using the Odroid branded low power 2.4ghz wifi adapter.

I still need to figure out a solution for supporting different wifi modules. Do you know which chipset it uses? I can send you a kernel in a few minutes. I only have drivers for RealTek RTL8811AU and RTL8821AU enabled.

Also thanks for trying it.

happy to help i plan to test some video and emulation stuff shortly, i can side load apps for now too while we get wifi workin.

Mediatek Ralink RT5370N is a cost-effective, highly integrated USB Wi-Fi single chip containing an 802.11n MAC and baseband, a 2.4 GHz RF, PA, LNA and T/R switch on a single chip. It supports a 150 Mbps PHY data rate and fully complies with 802.11b/g/n specifications

– MediaTek(Ralink) RT5370N chipset (VID:PID = 148F:5370 )

I also have the Odroid Module 5a which is Realtek RTL8812AU chipset (ID = 0bda:8812)

This Kernel should get your RTL8812AU stick going and also works for RTL8811AU and RTL8821AU.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fj_gxM ... sp=sharing

Edit: 9:16pm CST I added the Ralink drivers as well can you test that too?

[Slaminger]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

[notime2d8]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

Does the drive work in file manager? If so then it's Android's scoped storage new in Android 11. Apps can't access external storage. I've been copying files to the emulated storage. I'll look for a fix for this.

[Slaminger]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

Does the drive work in file manager? If so then it's Android's scoped storage new in Android 11. Apps can't access external storage. I've been copying files to the emulated storage. I'll look for a fix for this.

im using the file manager, it says click to grant access but when i click it says access denied

[notime2d8]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

Does the drive work in file manager? If so then it's Android's scoped storage new in Android 11. Apps can't access external storage. I've been copying files to the emulated storage. I'll look for a fix for this.

im using the file manager, it says click to grant access but when i click it says access denied

Lol, I just tried it and got it too....That's a new one for me.

[Slaminger]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

Does the drive work in file manager? If so then it's Android's scoped storage new in Android 11. Apps can't access external storage. I've been copying files to the emulated storage. I'll look for a fix for this.

im using the file manager, it says click to grant access but when i click it says access denied

Lol, I just tried it and got it too....That's a new one for me.

check the storage permissions of the build, it could be disabled

[notime2d8]

Ralink not working, Realtek is, i also noticed if i connect a usb drive and try to access it, i get auto denied, even if i format it via android

Does the drive work in file manager? If so then it's Android's scoped storage new in Android 11. Apps can't access external storage. I've been copying files to the emulated storage. I'll look for a fix for this.

im using the file manager, it says click to grant access but when i click it says access denied

Lol, I just tried it and got it too....That's a new one for me.

check the storage permissions of the build, it could be disabled

I need to swap out that google Files included in my Gapps package with a newer version or swap to the Lineage file manager.

Edit: I also need to add firmware for that ralink WiFi module.

[Slaminger]

I've got retroarch and Kodi running. The internal partition is tiny tho, why not just give it the full 8 or 16gb?

[notime2d8]

I've got retroarch and Kodi running. The internal partition is tiny tho, why not just give it the full 8 or 16gb?

So the boot partition is 3gb to make it easy to add files, then the system partition is 1.6gb, vender 128mb, and the rest is data.

If you flashed the image to a card larger than 8gb, you can resize it or delete and redo the data partition manually in gparted to make use of all of the space. I haven't found a way to automate this yet.

[Slaminger]

I've got retroarch and Kodi running. The internal partition is tiny tho, why not just give it the full 8 or 16gb?

So the boot partition is 3gb to make it easy to add files, then the system partition is 1.6gb, vender 128mb, and the rest is data.

If you flashed the image to a card larger than 8gb, you can resize it or delete and redo the data partition manually in gparted to make use of all of the space. I haven't found a way to automate this yet.

Play store seems to be storing to the internal memory?? I've installed retroarch, Kodi, vlc, psp and mupen, now I'm out of space. Also, after i used Gparted, the first boot came up as console instead of android, all i had to do was plug in a keyboard and press escape a couple times and its back to normal, but im not sure what that was about, have you seen that as well? And can we kill that error message that keeps popping up whenever it takes a few seconds longer to respond than android wants? the app not responding one, its not really necessary as we know its responding just with a low ram and low power cpu so its takes a moment.

On the moonlight topic, the error says This ROM doesn't support hardware accelerated h.264 playback. Linux does via rockchip and SDL, but RK works better. I can however connect to moonlight and get onto my PC. just cant launch games.

Plex is stuck at a loading screen that never continues, ive left it for 20 mins now.

PSP works, Retroarch works, VLC works, Playstore is working, testing more apps throughout the day, will report back any issues/error messages.

[phil8715]

I can't get the WiFi to find any network or connect using my dongle.
It has worked with other OS on the OGS.

[notime2d8]

I can't get the WiFi to find any network or connect using my dongle.
It has worked with other OS on the OGS.

Can you try the kernel posted here? Do you know the model/brand or chipset?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fj_gxM ... sp=sharing

[phil8715]

It's an XVZ 600mbps dual band 2.4ghz / 5ghz Wi-Fi dongle.

Bought from Amazon.

I downloaded the kernel which was an image, I don't know what to do with it or where it's supposed to go.

[notime2d8]

It's an XVZ 600mbps dual band 2.4ghz / 5ghz Wi-Fi dongle.

Bought from Amazon.

I downloaded the kernel which was an image, I don't know what to do with it or where it's supposed to go.

It replaces the "Image" file found in the boot folder. But looking at Amazon that may not work. The driver I'm using only supports Realtek 8812AU and 8821AU chipsets. Your WiFi stick seems to be a Realtek 8811CU and will not work. The other Linux based distros can load WiFi drivers based off of their USB ID's and can support many. I haven't found a way to do the same in Android as most Android devices don't need to support multiple different WiFi drivers. And i can't include both drivers as they conflict, it has to be either or.

[phil8715]

I swapped the image file and tried all three of my dongles. None worked I also tried to connect via my mobile phone network via the hot-spot.

It doesn't find any local WiFi networks at all. Whether one of them is mine or my next door neighbours.

Just don't understand why they could've have included built in wifi, wouldn't have cost much more.

[dj5927]

Sega Saturn emulator yaba sanshiro fails to install. Is there any way?

[notime2d8]

I swapped the image file and tried all three of my dongles. None worked I also tried to connect via my mobile phone network via the hot-spot.

It doesn't find any local WiFi networks at all. Whether one of them is mine or my next door neighbours.

Just don't understand why they could've have included built in wifi, wouldn't have cost much more.

Can you try this image here, I built with drivers that should support one of your devices RTL8811CU & RTL8821CU? And yes, linux WiFi sticks and drivers are kind of a mess.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMMXdC ... sp=sharing

Hardkernel does have a WIFI driver/module loader that finds and loads the correct driver for most WiFi sticks for Android. I just haven't been able to get it to work with my build. But it's on my to-do list.

[phil8715]

I swapped the image for the one in the last post. As soon I was booted it up the Hardkernel splash screen came on then the screen went off and said system failure. Something about kernels.

[notime2d8]

I swapped the image for the one in the last post. As soon I was booted it up the Hardkernel splash screen came on then the screen went off and said system failure. Something about kernels.

Can you try it again? It may not have copied to your card correctly? I've re-uploaded it and tested it on mines. That screen comes up when it doesn't detect a Image file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMMXdC ... sp=sharing

[skyway1985]

I'm running into the same issues with the Wifi, none of the chipsets that I have work. Gave the image swap yo posted a try and it booted fine after swap, but still isn't reading any of them. no matter what the RTL8188EUS I have doesn't work, nor the RTL8821CU that I just got a few days ago. even tried an old belkin, lol. BTW thank you for the incredible work. This will be great to have on a spare SD to fiddle around with.

[rooted]

I swapped the image file and tried all three of my dongles. None worked I also tried to connect via my mobile phone network via the hot-spot.

It doesn't find any local WiFi networks at all. Whether one of them is mine or my next door neighbours.

Just don't understand why they could've have included built in wifi, wouldn't have cost much more.

Can you try this image here, I built with drivers that should support one of your devices RTL8811CU & RTL8821CU? And yes, linux WiFi sticks and drivers are kind of a mess.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMMXdC ... sp=sharing

Hardkernel does have a WIFI driver/module loader that finds and loads the correct driver for most WiFi sticks for Android. I just haven't been able to get it to work with my build. But it's on my to-do list.

If you contact @voodik he may be able to guide you in including more drivers, he does it on his Lineage OS builds.

[notime2d8]

I swapped the image file and tried all three of my dongles. None worked I also tried to connect via my mobile phone network via the hot-spot.

It doesn't find any local WiFi networks at all. Whether one of them is mine or my next door neighbours.

Just don't understand why they could've have included built in wifi, wouldn't have cost much more.

Can you try this image here, I built with drivers that should support one of your devices RTL8811CU & RTL8821CU? And yes, linux WiFi sticks and drivers are kind of a mess.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMMXdC ... sp=sharing

Hardkernel does have a WIFI driver/module loader that finds and loads the correct driver for most WiFi sticks for Android. I just haven't been able to get it to work with my build. But it's on my to-do list.

If you contact @voodik he may be able to guide you in including more drivers, he does it on his Lineage OS builds.

Yes, I asked for their help to get wifi display working but ran out of time as it was hard to test without a good way to do adb logging. And the only way I can is over WiFi.

And it looks like the changes in Android 11 wpa supplicant broke WiFi for the rtl8821cu, rtl8811cu, and the esp8089. The kernel I posted works for Android 10 and my epub rtl8821cu but that same kernel doesn't work in Android 11.

[notime2d8]

Just posting because I uploaded a small update yesterday. I got USB tethering working, I remember someone asking about it. USB to ethernet dongles should work as well.

[avionyx]

So I've flashed a 256gb SD card with LineageOS 18. Upon flashing and unplugging/plugging the SD card back into my computer, it reads drives E, F, G, and H with F, G, H wanting to be formatted. When I insert the SD card into my OGS and have ATV booted up and go to Settings > Storage, it only reads the system partition of 4gb. How exactly do I set up my 256gb SD card to be used in it's entirety?

[mad_ady]

You'd need to use gparted (from a live usb) to resize the last partition to fill the disk.

[rooted]

You'd need to use gparted (from a live usb) to resize the last partition to fill the disk.

Acronis Disk Director for Windows can do it.

[avionyx]

You'd need to use gparted (from a live usb) to resize the last partition to fill the disk.

Ok, so I just put Gparted on a USB flash drive. Do I boot up my computer with this USB drive plugged in and my 256gb SD card plugged in as well?

[notime2d8]

You'd need to use gparted (from a live usb) to resize the last partition to fill the disk.

Ok, so I just put Gparted on a USB flash drive. Do I boot up my computer with this USB drive plugged in and my 256gb SD card plugged in as well?

Yes, and there are 4 partitions. Boot, system, Vendor, and userdata. They should be about 2gb boot, 2.7gb system, 128mb vendor, and remaining ~2gb for userdata.

You're wanting to expand the 4th, userdata partition to take up all of the remaining space on your sd card.

The partition is set as a f2fs filesystem. If gparted doesn't support that, you can delete the 4th partition, and create a new partition with the ext4 filesystem using all of the remaining space.

Always be careful, make sure that you're on the sd card and not your computer hard drive.

[tfres747]

Some of the button mapping doesn't seem to be working for me. I am trying to use the key that is marked mouse, but I'm not getting anything. I have an annoying Discover Trust banner I am trying to get rid of and none of the buttons seem to be allowing me to do so.

Appreciate help!