Unofficial LineageOS 23.2 - Android 16 for Kompakt

[gezimos]

@twuki

I am positively shocked of how well this LOS version runs. For a really old, low spec device like Kompakt with eink display it runs very smooth. Of course no comparison to newer devices with OLED or other display hw devices. But still 3GB RAM, old processor and eink? Really amazing.

In 1.3 some more memory optimizations are coming, especially to handle the lag after booting. And app stalling.
After disabling the animations and optimizing the apps to be paged the device feels quite usable despite running a much newer Android version with a lot of patches on top. So I’m quite surprised as well

@twuki

I just find the speaker volume, esp when speaking to someone, too low. I believe, if I am right, it was louder with MuditaOS. Is there a way for you to increase speaker volume, esp during a call. I mostly do longer calls through speaker. Maybe it is 4G calls? They did sound louder with better call quality on official MOS.

This is interesting because I had to tweak the audio to allow lower levels, because the audio was so loud and other people could hear your conversation if they were too close to you. So I had to allow lower levels of volume for calls. If you can start a bug report, take a call, move the volume to max and then send the report to me on Discord and i’ll take a look. (developer options / bug report / full bug report)

I’ve always wondered if there’s different earpiece speaker batches on this phone because I’ve never had an issue with low volume, only with high volume. (it was the same for the loudspeaker, I had to patch the volume to allow lower levels of sound because it was insanely loud at night even at the lowest volume in MuditaOS).

@twuki

BTW: I am no developer but I flash aosp GSI quite a lot as I have quite a few devices (Jelly Star, Bluefox NX1 and more). I think when you follow gezimos perfect instruction on his page EXACTLY, it should work perfectly. Just follow exactly all steps and if something is not clear or not working ask him, don’t just continue. But I think all should be clear. I didn’t do a mtkclient backup as I couldn’t get it to work, neither on fedora nor macos. Don’t know what I did wrong but flashing KOS was no problem and almost never has been in my life. So I took the risk. If you are really, really unsure, just stick with MOS.

I’m glad you found the installation process easy. I know the amount of information can look overwhelming for beginners, but I didn’t want to be one of those “flash recovery, adb sideload and you’re done”.

@twuki

PS: When someone calls the AOD screen doesn’t jump to the calling screen, it just shows a black screen of someone calling and of course it is ringing, So without touching the phone, I can’t see who is calling with AOD on. Any way to fix this?

Are you using the default phone app or a different one? And make sure you have “heads-up notifications” turned on in Settings / Notifications.

If both are good, then if you can send me a bug report for this as well it would be helpful to see where the issue is.

You can join discord here.

Thank you so much for the review and for the coffee as well!

@twuki

And what ereader do you guys use? No one included of course in LOS. Which one is fast and best used with the quite small display?

Try Koreader with this patch that @wander made

KOReader, made to read like the Kompakt's own apps

@TechVampire Fixed in v0.1.3. In your Detailed list view the switch now hides the file type and size (“epub 2.6 MB”), while the reading progress and the “new” mark stay. It also holds after a restart, which was a second bug your screenshots helped find. To update, replace koreader/patches/2-kompakt-look.lua with the one in the new zip and restart KOReader. The switch now also sits under File browser → Settings → Mosaic and detailed list settings, beside “Show file properties”. The two are tied …