I’m very happy running e-1.8.1-q-20230207257879-dev-jasmine_sprout (Android 10) on my old Xiaomi A2.
I don’t need a new phone, as this one has all the HW I need (but a barometer ).
Anyway, an improvement on FW is very interesting to me, as menus and features on the Android 13 versions fully match my expectations.
I’ve tested flashing all from e-2.6 to e-3.1.4. Everything works very nice for me, but these problems keep on all versions:
Camera app shows the picture, but hangs when triggered (any camera app).
No audio on phone calls
Video playing (YouTube, local mp3…) is stepped with no audio.
I’ve checked this with two different phones, so is not a HW problem.
The fact is that, as i’ve said before, ROM 2.8 [UNOFFICIAL] (Android 14) fulfills all my expectations, and works nicely on my A2…. but the problems related.
I’m quite expert on programming, but never got on Android SDK. I presume that this problems would have an easy fix. But no idea.
sorry, sourceforge have deleted some files because not enought downloads,
i will rebuild during the night…
(my 16GB of RAM computer is not able to build modern a15 but old a11 it still can)
wow, it was longuer than for a Samsung device…(double time)
I’ve checked it and everything works 0K, but this is just an Android10 → Android11 upgrade over the version I’m using ‘till now.
What I’m looking for are the new features (mainly the clean setup menus and the emergency call features) from releases e-2.6 and onwards. But these releases always exhibit the referred camera and audio problems.
As I said on my first message, I’ve checked all available versions from 2.6 to 3.1.4.
Curiously, 3.1.4 apart from first-time rebooting some times, shows as 2.6 after installed.
And problems still there.
With e-2.3-r all works good
but it lacks of the new “settings menu” structure that I’m looking for, mainly for the emergency call features, the power menu, etc
e-2.3-r looks as an small improvement over 1.8 (Android 10 → Android 11)
The only versions with the new menus are 2.6 and higher (2.6, 2.6.3, 2.8) but none of them works with camera and audio.
And 3.1.4 looks a faulty build: internally shows as 2.6 but has no new menus.
e-2.3-r is the best full-working e/OS available today for the Xiaomi Mi A2.
I’ve tried a lot of procedures to install 2.6 or higher, to get the new nice UI, menus and features, but allways camera is failing and there is no audio at phone nor media apps.
I’ve just updated from 1.8 to 2.3 for my daily use, with no issues at all. On the next days, I’ll check the improvements from this update.
I’ll never buy a $1000 phone, as this A2 fullfills all my requirements for just one tenth the price. And I have two .
Thank you at all the contributors and members helping me.
one who knows android a bit may search how differs android 11 than newer android in their way deal with the feature you miss.
a tweaker may simply generate a .DIFF
against the old Github Lineage Official “android_device_xiaomi_jasmine_sprout” [android 11] source tree the /e/ team use to build their “community” former “dev” branch from witch i compiled my (unofficial)“LEGACY” release
and the Github Unofficially upgraded “android_device_xiaomi_jasmine_sprout” source tree the “XDA dev” and @ronnz98 use to build android 13 based UNOFFICIAL Lineage and /e/.
also compare with similar xiaomi devices source tree supporting newer LineageOS.
I’d be interested in running the 3.1 build on my A2, but it doesn’t seem to install correctly, the latest that even boots is 2.8. @ronnz983.1 cannot be installed via local update and flash via adb just results in boot loop until it falls back to 2.8
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