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I have a problem with the Acer "apps" on my a500.
when I launch the eReading, Games, Social and Multimedia shortcuts I get a force close on the process "ApinAp (process android com.acer.app)" I have tried to clear data in "ApinAp" but it did not help... it worked when I bought my A500 a week ago.
but I don't know when it stopped working.
if anyone have a solution or a good idea to try please don't hesitate to answer ;-)
Reset it. There's probably a bad app having it's way with your tablet and causing the instability. If it continues to happen on stock, send it back.
Start installing your apps back one by one with time in between to test. Eventually you'll be able to track down the one app you shouldn't be using.
I have the same problem. After rooting, I restored *a lot* of the backups from my 2.2 phone. I uninstalled some because they didn't play nice with honeycomb, but I still haven't been able to find the culprit. Also, restoring the backup from their original, pristine condition did not help. I would really appreciate it if anyone knows which app(s) is/are responsible for this.
Biologos said:
I would really appreciate it if anyone knows which app(s) is/are responsible for this.
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Ideally, you should post all the apps you've installed so anyone coming across this thread can scan what you have and have the chance to see an app that is knowingly bad.
You should always restore to a factory state to make sure it *is* a bad app though. That's the only way to verify if it's Honeycomb or a tablet hardware issue as being the cause rather than a rogue application.
Also, don't install *questionable* apps from *shady* sources. Eventually, this kind of thing will happen.
Well, I have installed lots of free apps, so it would take a while to post them all here. I have removed a few but it didn't help. It could be anything, of course, but I suspect it must be one that has root access. When I tried freezing a few likely culprits, it didn't change anything though.
Do you by any chance use morelocale 2?
I had some force closes and it was because my tablet was using a language that it didn't like (together with my Contacts) so I had to change some settings (use different locale or delete any custom characters from my contact list) and it worked.
I have the same problem. I restored apps from the android market because I couldn't figure out how to make market enabler work in the beginning. Ever since all the native apps are force-closing.
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Do you by any chance use morelocale 2?
I had some force closes and it was because my tablet was using a language that it didn't like (together with my Contacts) so I had to change some settings (use different locale or delete any custom characters from my contact list) and it worked.
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I have removed morelocale2 and the problem persists. However, Even after removing it, the added localisations seem to persist (for example, market is still translated to greek). Does anybody know of a method to completely remove its effects?
Removing locale won't disable it's effects. You can set it and them remove it and the settings will remain as you've set it.
You should reinstall it and then set it back to default settings and see if that helps you problem. My problem was an unsupported language that I've set in it and that caused crashes.
I redownloaded it and reset the settings to English (US). When I did that, the apinap force close message reappeared, so there must be some connection. Then, to make sure, I rebooted and tried the apps. Even though the new/old localisation was working as expected, the acer apps still force close, giving the same error as before.
Odd. Did you enter the info (in morelocale) manually or did you use the two selection buttons and pick the language from there?
I just picked it from the selection list.
Then it's not the same as my problem. But I still suspect that it has something to do with locale.
Do you have any custom characters under your contacts. Because that can cause problems (I've stumbled upon it when I was looking if anyone is experiencing the same crashes as I was).
If you do have them (any greek lethers and such) then try disabling google sync and wiping contacts and see if that helps. If it does than it's your contacts (some people reported that some unsupported characters and multiple notes could cause crashes on tablets).
If it still crashes then just enable sync again and restore the contacts.
I don't know what else you could do if you still experience crashes after that except a hard reset to check if that helps.
Thanks mate, I tried this too. In fact, I also removed everything with any Greek character at all. No luck at all, so I will give it a rest. I will just keep the apps in case they are needed for the 3.1 update.
I never used titanium backup, but if anyone is restoring a full backup set from this application and any honeycomb only settings gets deleted or written over by 2.2 information, you will probably have a crash..
just like flash 10.3 has 2 different libraries loaded, one for 2.2 and one for 3.0 , but only installed one of them, your device with flash will FC, when flash suddenly uses 2.2 libraries.. so not all backups and apps can be easily restored..
you will need to test the apps backed up, and avoid restoring any system settings.
Upon first launch these apps are installed
Apollo
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camera
Clock
Dev Tools
Documents
Downloads
DSP manager
Email
Gallery
Messaging
Movie Studio
OmniSwitch
People
Phone
Search
Settings
SIM Toolkit
Torch
Voice Dialer
I'd like to know which of these are actually supported.
I believe many of them have been abandoned by upstream, like Email, Calendar, Gallery, Messaging, etc.
Search should be removed, seeing as it hasn't been updated since like 1.5. Same with Movie Studio.
I disabled Apollo, Browser and Email within minutes, as there are better apps for their purposes.
VLC instead of Apollo, Firefox instead of browser and K-9 Mail instaed of email.
For some reason, Apollo, a third party app by Cyanogenmod gets included but not any other third party apps.
If third party apps are going to be included, there should be some kind of system as to what is included.
Is omnirom going to come with everything included or just what you need to get started?
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There are some open-source apps I'd like to include, but there are some issues (regarding package signatures) that make it difficult to properly include stuff that is also available on the Play Store.
Apollo's inclusion is mostly from inertia, I think that really needs a nuke and repave. Once it was submitted to CM it kind of just sat there. (I'm wondering if it was the victim of shady manuevering by the CM leadership like Focal was...)
Most of the other apps are included as part of AOSP - fixing these apps is something pulser is working on organizing in conjunction with some other projects.
In general, if an app doesn't automatically start a background service and is part of AOSP, we don't put significant effort into removing it since free space in /system achieves nothing for the user.
Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
Calendar
Browser
Voice dialer
Apollo
Camera
Dash clock widget
I generally freeze them after installing. Might use a script to flash and remove these after install
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Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
Calendar
Browser
Voice dialer
Apollo
Camera
Dash clock widget
I generally freeze them after installing. Might use a script to flash and remove these after install
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But a solid rom *must* include apps to cover that basic functionality, regardless of what else is availabe in the market. Preferrably it should include excellent apps to cover the basics like that. No calendar? No camera? No browser? Those are *must-have* apps to be included with any rom). Unless there's a replacement baked in, it would be a major slight to cut them out. It'd be better to leave what essential apps in as placeholders until superior replacements can be developed/incorporated, instead of just shipping with gaping holes in the ROM and telling users, 'You don't like a barren, crippled build? Ha! Go fish!'
That kind of thing reminds me of so many Linux distros who spend tons of time on slick graphics, but don't even include basic functionality (*cough-elemental-hack*), leaving users to fend with a half-assed barely functional experience. That is just an atrocious way to go about things, IMO.
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Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
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To add to what Culot said a post above: an AOSP ROM should include apps to cover that basic functionality, and provide a fully functional and useful experience, not only regardless of what else is available in the Play Store, but mostly because an AOSP ROM should be usable without even having Google Play Services.
For year+ now Google has been insisting that we give up the well functioning Google Now in favor of that abomibation of an app known as Google assistant. There is a beautiful workaround, a tiny app called Google Now Launcher, that is easy enough to configure as the default assist app. Problem is that at least once a week Android refers to the crappy Google assistant as the default. Sometimes that happens three times a day (today is one of those days). Is there a way to prevent the reverting? Is that an OOS bug or a general Android "feature"?
And if you are reading this Google, please get the message - talking to your phone all the time is plain idiotic. Sure, when I am driving it is helpful. When I am sitting in public it is plain dumb. Sure, with much hesitation you have provided Assistant with typing interface as the default, but it still wants to have a dumb "conversation" with me when I type. I don't want to have a "conversation" with a machine, just a list of search results. You are pretty good at the latter, but horrible at the former.
I'm still trying to work up a way to get a decent TTS voice engine on the NST, but what I have come up with so far may be of some use for Glow4 users who wish to try out TTS in reader applications with the Bluetooth capability.
First, SVOX, which was my primary target (because the voices are many and really, really good) looks hopeless. The engine installs OK and works all the way down to Android 1.6, but the voices--even the free "trials"--require PlayStore access to complete installation and SVOX is long gone from the PlayStore, so the whole thing just hangs. I've tried various dubious schemes provided by some users, including the full set of voice data, but they don't work because the app can't be made to see that the data is already present. At least that's my experience.
But Ivona! Also gone from the PlayStore, also works down to at least Android 2.1, and I just tried it on KitKat and it works very well there.
Here is a link to what is called a "complete" collection of voices as well as the engine: https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/dnspl3/tts_ivona_tts_engine_collection_all_voices/. Follow the directions for installation.
Alas, there are too few voices, and both English voices are female. I have a preference for male readers (please don't flame me...I have heard some very well-read audiobooks done by women) which is why I initially struggled with SVOX. That said, the Kendra voice is light-years ahead of the default Pico TTS voice or even some of the early Google TTS voices.
On KitKat, the change in engines is easy. Go to your Accessibiliy settings (well, if this is non-existent on a Glow4, someone will have to be creative...) and select Ivona, then configure the voice. This should result in a system-wide change. To test, I installed AlReader and opened a book. When I opted for TTS, Kendra started right up.
Alas, for the NST/G the story does not yet have a happy ending. The tts-extended service app does allow you to "change" the default engine, setup the default voice, configure it, etc. BUT, the vast majority of apps ignore these settings and use the Pico TTS engine and the dreadful voices included with that. According to the SVOX FAQ site:
Several apps support changing voices on Android 2.1: Talk To Me Classic, PDF to Speech, Smarter Alarm, Google Translate, and others. These apps use the Extended TTS API. Apps that don’t support the Extended TTS API, such as Google Navigation, only let you change the voice on Android 2.2 and later.
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I take it from that there must be magic code which is not present in, for example, AlReader, which would allow it to use the Ivona voice. Apparently this problem went away with Android 2.2. Naturally.
So...I'm still poking around for a work-around.
Edit: Eureka! See post #2 below!
[NST/G] AlReader speaks!
I have finally managed to modify AlReader 1.77 to work with the Extended TTS API. This allows the settings app to select the default voice engine and voice, rather than simply defaulting to Pico TTS (which is what otherwise happens in Android 2.1). Having said that, I can't claim it's always pretty. It seems like the much more complex voice data puts a bit of a strain on the NST/G. Once it gets up a head of steam, it's not bad, but it is a little slow to start. It "may" help to play a section of a book using Pico or even espeak (see below) and then exit the reader, go back to the settings app and reselect the voice engine for one of the Ivona voices. I'm not quite sure yet, still playing around. Curious? There's a bit of work to do. Here's how:
1. Install svox and espeak voice data to your sdcard. Here is a direct link to the Eyes Free project code repository: https://storage.googleapis.com/goog...gle.com/eyes-free/voicedata-(espeak+svox).zip.
Unzip the file and copy the two folders of voice data to your sdcard. Without these files present, the next step will hang because it tries to download this data from the Android Market.
2. Install the TTS Service Extended app from the Eyes Free Project repository. Here's the link: https://storage.googleapis.com/goog.../code.google.com/eyes-free/tts_3.1_market.apk. This is essentially an Accessibility Settings app for TTS which includes a pre-Google Voice api to enable voice engine selection for apps that use the api. It also installs the espeak voice engine (worse than Pico, really).
If you run the TTS Service Extended app you will find the espeak voice engine as an option (on the second screen of settings). Pico is the default.
3. Download and install the Ivona voice engine and any voices you want as described in the first post. I have tried both Kendra and Amy. Localization doesn't seem to be an issue for this business, so you can select UK English even if your device is localized for the US. Or, there are a few other English voice options (Welsh, Australian). Knock yourself out!
4. Open the TTS Service Extended app and go to the end where you can select the Ivona voice engine, then configure the voice. Back on the first screen you can set the default engine (Ivona) and select the Language to use. Don't check the box to have this app override the settings of whatever app is using the TTS service.
5. Install the modified AlReader 1.77 (attached below). If you currently use AlReader, you will lose all your settings unless there is a way to back them up and even then they might not transfer since this modified app has a new signature. Not sure about that. You cannot install this modified version over your current version, but must uninstall the old version first. Caveat emptor, blah-blah-blah.
I never did find a way to get the TTS option into the slider menu system on AlReader, so I ended up assigning it to a tap on the header. But you can also use one of the 9 action tap zones to assign a spot to TTS.
I'd reboot. If you have some trouble initially, try changing the default engine back to Pico or even espeak, let it read a bit and then go back to Ivona. That may sort it. In the end, there may be a buffering issue because of the size of the Ivona language files. It's a miracle that I actually figured out how to do this by examining the smali files of the decompiled app and comparing them with the smali files of the TTS Service Extended app. Some pattern matching and lucky guesses eventually bore fruit.
I'm working on the FBReader TTS plugin next. It seems like it should be simpler, but it's not
Hi, I installed Ivona succesfully but today Amy stopped working...I saw a message on the app saying "This is not downloaded from Play Store" French is still working..i tried everything (install, reinstall, restart...) so I tried to follow your instructions to install the tts extended, but I don't find where to extract the first two folders...I would appreciate if you make it clear, Amy was amazing...
Thanks!
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Hi, I installed Ivona succesfully but today Amy stopped working...I saw a message on the app saying "This is not downloaded from Play Store" French is still working..i tried everything (install, reinstall, restart...) so I tried to follow your instructions to install the tts extended, but I don't find where to extract the first two folders...I would appreciate if you make it clear, Amy was amazing...
Thanks!
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Just so I am clear before I start in on this, are you talking about the NST? It sounds like you did not at first have the TTS Extended app installed. I don't see how the Ivona voices could work at all without that on the NST.
I was exprimenting with responsivevoice.org - with tablet other than nook
Idea was to send text to his server as a HTML with settings and get it back as an audio stream.
Now they need to create an account to get access - but using it will be free.
Ivona
"Just so I am clear before I start in on this, are you talking about the NST? It sounds like you did not at first have the TTS Extended app installed. I don't see how the Ivona voices could work at all without that on the NST"
Yes, I downloaded the ivona apk(one for each language) and then installed also the Ivona Text-to-Speech HQ apk. After, i placed the audio folder into Android/obb/ and opened the different applications, and signed the learning agreement.
So i could choose the Ivona engine from Settings menu and it worked, I was using Moon Reader and I used it for several days until yesterday, when the unpleasant Samsung english voice surprised me.
Since then, I am only allowd to listen in french voice, that's how I arrived here. I got the apk you were talking about and the two folders but I dont know where to put them in order to get the app to work. It says: downloading from play store and then it closes.
Thanks for your reply!
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Yes, I downloaded the ivona apk(one for each language) and then installed also the Ivona Text-to-Speech HQ apk. After, i placed the audio folder into Android/obb/ and opened the different applications, and signed the learning agreement.
So i could choose the Ivona engine from Settings menu and it worked, I was using Moon Reader and I used it for several days until yesterday, when the unpleasant Samsung english voice surprised me.
Since then, I am only allowd to listen in french voice, that's how I arrived here. I got the apk you were talking about and the two folders but I dont know where to put them in order to get the app to work. It says: downloading from play store and then it closes.
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I cannot reproduce what you are describing. I don't understand your comment about the "Samsung" voice. On the Nook Simple Touch there are only the Pico TTS voices possible (and only if you install the voice data--svox at a minimum). The only way to get anything else is to install the TTS Extended settings app and find (or create) an application that supports this interim step toward Google TTS (which arrived with Android 2.2). That's what I describe in the second post. First the svox voices must be installed. Then the TTS Extended app. Then the Ivona engine app is installed. Then the Ivona voice data is copied into the Android obb folder as described.
After this, the Ivona voice engine is selected in the TTS Extended app and a particular voice selected. Now, I have only used this a little and not over a period of several days, so maybe there is a trigger somewhere based on time, but my understanding of these voices is that even when available on the Market, they were free, so I'm not sure why there would be a time limit.
My NSTG where I have this installed does have rudimentary GApps. I'm not sure if that matters.
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I cannot reproduce what you are describing. I don't understand your comment about the "Samsung" voice. On the Nook Simple Touch there are only the Pico TTS voices possible (and only if you install the voice data--svox at a minimum). The only way to get anything else is to install the TTS Extended settings app and find (or create) an application that supports this interim step toward Google TTS (which arrived with Android 2.2). That's what I describe in the second post. First the svox voices must be installed. Then the TTS Extended app. Then the Ivona engine app is installed. Then the Ivona voice data is copied into the Android obb folder as described.
After this, the Ivona voice engine is selected in the TTS Extended app and a particular voice selected. Now, I have only used this a little and not over a period of several days, so maybe there is a trigger somewhere based on time, but my understanding of these voices is that even when available on the Market, they were free, so I'm not sure why there would be a time limit.
My NSTG where I have this installed does have rudimentary GApps. I'm not sure if that matters.
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Thanks for your reply. Sorry if I wasn't clear, and I think I jumped into the wrong post. I am currently using a smartphone, I was looking for any help for my problem.
I will try to reset the phone because I was very happy with those voices.
Thanks again!
Hi everyone. I am getting an SM-G975F with the Exynos chipset. I was planning on flashing LineageOS on it but now I have stumbled upon MicroG for LineageOS and been doing a little reading up on it. Now I am not clear what the best choice would be from a privacy perspective.
My intention with LineageOS was to *not* install GApps and see how much I can make do with the default apps (i.e. the stock mail app, etc.). If that is my intention, then am I better off with LineageOS? or MicroG?
I don't really care about Google Apps. The only thing I can see myself struggling without is without some kind of semi-decent mapping application like Google Maps. Is there a decent alternative? Do I need MicroG for that? If I do cave and find I need Google Maps, then would I be better off with MicroG or LineageOS?
Also, is there a way to get Office apps (Word, Excel, etc.) on LineageOS? Or is that undesirable from a privacy perspective?
Lastly, is there a way to enable LTE bands 29, 30, and 46 on the SM-G975F model? These are enabled on the SM-G975W (Canadian) model, and I will be using the phone in Canada on Bell Mobility.
If these questions have been asked/answered elsewhere, can you please just drop a link?
Thanks,
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Hi XDA’ers
I thought I would provide an update on my experience thus far with LineageOS 19.1 on my Exynos SM-G975F and answer some of my own questions which I asked above. Maybe some of this is obvious stuff or maybe not. Maybe it will be helpful for others in the future.
The operating systemI installed LineageOS from the official lineageos.org website. I did not install GApps so I am operating without the Google Play Services.
While Android itself is open source, the “Google Play Services” are not. They are a proprietary library from Google that are included with most (all?) Android devices and provide a number of services, APIs, etc. to apps running on Android. It's not part of the operating system per se, but lots of apps require it. So, I am operating with LineageOS only without the Google Play Services.
As a side note, there is an open-source re-implementation of Google Play Services called microG. MicroG cannot be installed as an app but needs to be installed as part of the OS. There are basically two flavors of LineageOS that include microG. They are “LineageOS for microG” and /e/OS. Both of these include microG. Pure LineageOS on its own however includes neither Google Play Services (unless you install GApps bundle) nor microG.
I was surprised how small the download file was for LineageOS. It weighs in at just 777 MB. I am used to Samsung firmware that weighs in at about 6 GB. So, this seemed really small to me.
Upon first boot up I was impressed with how clean the operating system was. Not only is there no bloatware but there is basically almost nothing at all. There is a dialer app, an SMS app, a camera app, a calculator, and a mini browser. There is also a local-only address book (no link to cloud services) and a local calendar app. The browser is fairly limited but gets the job done. Notably there isn’t a mail app (although I understand that there used to be one on previous versions of LineageOS). So, I set about seeing what I could do.
AppsI installed the F-Droid app store but there are not any mainstream apps in there. Some of the apps in there might be good (I still need to explore it more) but I needed a solid email app. My company is on Office 365 so Outlook would be my first choice.
I stumbled upon APKPure and APKMirror. Both are very ad-filled spammy looking website that seems to be a web-based front end to the Google Play Store. Using these sites website, you can download official APKs for mainstream apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. Be very careful where you click. Lots of the ads on the site include "Download Now" type buttons that you can click on thinking you are downloading an APK but instead are clicking on a spammy ad. So, navigate carefully on these sites.
I was able to install Word, Excel, OneDrive and Outlook. This was huge because I needed a decent mail app. Being able to install OneDrive meant I could now sync my camera with OneDrive. All the Microsoft apps worked flawlessly on LineageOS even without Google Play Services. The one thing I noticed however is that Outlook does not give me notifications when I get a new email. I have to go into Outlook and swipe down to refresh. I believe this is due to the lack of Google Play Services. Maybe using microG would eliminate this problem (not sure). I can live with this for now but would obviously like a way to resolve it.
Installing Outlook synced the local Calendar and Contacts apps with my Outlook contacts and calendar so that worked great.
Bible AppsBoth the Olive Tree Bible Reader app and the ESV Bible app installed no problem from APKPure. Both of these are offline Bible apps (they download the whole Bible and can be used offline). I like Olive Tree because I have several translations (including the SBLGNT) and Olive Tree lets me switch between them. The ESV app is great because they have recordings and so you can hear Kristyn Getty or David Cochran Heath read the Bible to you in natural non-synthetic voices.
SignalI installed Signal directly from their website (they offer the APK directly on their website). Signal detects that it is being installed on a device without Google Play Services and so registers itself as a service and consequently I do get notifications for new Signal messages (unlike Outlook). I wonder if there is some way to make Outlook run the same way. I tried installing Microsoft Teams which we use at work but don't get any notifications when people send me messages. So that makes Teams pretty useless.
BrowserThe build-in default browser renders HTML/CSS just fine but is very limited in terms of features. When you install a progressive web app as an app on the home screen it works but launches in the full browser with the address bar visible which breaks the app-like experiance which is really the whole point of a PWA. So I set about trying to fix this. To my surprise I was able to install Microsoft Edge without ANY issues whatsoever. It works great and web apps pin to the home screen the way they should (and open as apps). So I made Edge my default browser.
KeyboardsThe default keyboard in LineageOS does not have stickers or GIFs. That is as it should be I think for a default built-in keyboard. But it does not support swipe typing either. This surprised me. It seemed like a huge step backwards to have to tap out every letter with my thumbs. Do people still type like that on their phones?!?! Oh, the humanity!
There is a microphone icon at the top of the keyboard for speech-to-text transcription. I used this all the time before on my Samsung S8+. But tapping it did nothing. Apparently I am missing a speech-to-text engine. This surprised be because Outlook has dictation built-in using Microsoft's engines and works well. But it only works in Outlook and not universally throughout the phone as it would if it was built-in on the keyboard.
I installed the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard and that gave me stickers, GIFs and... swipe typing! Woo Hoo! But I was really hoping it would give me speech-to-text since I dictate almost all of my text messages. I figured it would use Microsoft's engine like Outlook does since it was a Microsoft app. But tapping the microphone on the SwiftKey keyboard promptly tells me that I need to download "Google Voice Search".
Microsoft AuthenticatorI installed the Microsoft Authenticator app for 2FA and it installed just fine. But it was impossible to add any accounts by scanning the QR codes. I think this is due to notifications not working properly, probably also due to the lack of Google Play Services or microG.
Outstanding IssuesSo, the outstanding issues I have right now are:
Microsoft Authenticator is non-usable. This is a huge issue for me
No speech-to-text transcription from keyboard
No notifications in Microsoft Teams
No notifications in Microsoft Outlook (this I can live with).
What I LikeWhat I like about LineageOS is the clean, minimalistic design of the operating system. I am not pushed into any particular "ecosystem" be it Google, Samsung, Microsoft or Apple. I can decide which ecosystem I want to participate in and to which extent. For example, I could download Outlook without downloading Edge and I don't need to backup my photos to OneDrive unless I want to. You can do this, to some extent, with OEM versions of Android, but it requires ignoring and disabling things. Come to think of it, that is really what an operating system should be - a platform for running apps, not an on-ramp into an ecosystem.
What irritates me is that not all apps work as they should. It seems like Google Play Services is an important part of the mix and many apps fail to function properly without it. Signal seems like one exception. It detects that you are not using Google Play Services and adapts the functioning the app accordingly.
Just a minor update. I tried several diffrent TTS engines (Pico TTS, Flite TTS, RHVoice) and none of these gave me text typing.
I ended up installing Speech Services by Google and it worked. I was surprised that it worked considering I do not have GApps (and thus no Google Play Services) and no microG on my phone.
So, I guess I can live with a little Google on my phone, but I would have preferred to find an open-source alternative or, barring that, a Microsoft alternative.