S2 Pro - Basic Official ROM

bencebacsi

Dear users,
Yesterday's news: A stock (not UMI OS) Android 8.1 upgrade for UMIDIGI S2 Pro is being developed, but it will not be available via wireless update, you'll be able to install it only with SPFT. It's planned to be released in July. If I can get an earlier beta version, I will share it.
Edit 7. August, 2018: Finally an Android 8.0 upgrade for the S2 Pro was released in June but it cannot be installed on UMI OS based devices due to the Efuse partition protection. The resources used for UMI OS and Efuse development were held by a third party company (360OS) and are not accessible by any UMIDIGI staff - 360OS seems to be closed. Our efforts were unsuccessful to get those resources, so the current state is unchangeable. Officially this basic edition ROM is our solution to keep all UMI OS based UMIDIGI S2 Pro handsets usable. The management contracted with 360OS left UMIDIGI in January.

jipidou

bencebacsi replied at 2018-5-31 11:46
Dear users,
Yesterday's news: A stock (not UMI OS) Android 8.1 upgrade for UMIDIGI S2 Pro is being d ...

Will it be based on LineageOS or really a stock image adapted to the device ?

CustomRoms

WOW, That are REALLY REALLY REALLY good news. If its really Stock 8.1 and working fine, i might give Umi another chance.
Its just a no-go to abandon a phone that is like half a year old with no more updates and stuck with a shit system.

Im glad Umidigi listend to its customers.

CustomRoms

@bencebacsi, you said several times, if i remember it correctly, that a 8.1 update is not possible because the boot and recovery partition needs to be modified, which is not possible because of EFUSe. Does that mean 360OS Devs gave you the key so you can modifiy it now?
And does that further mean that there will not only be Android 8.1, which is great, but also root possible?

If its possible for Umidigi in ANY way, please enable us a rooting option.

Just give us the freedom we all demanded sooo long.

THAT would move Umi in a whole other light for me and for many other peoply here i guess.

MarcinP

jipidou replied at 2018-6-1 03:52
Will it be based on LineageOS or really a stock image adapted to the device ?

Pure stock Android

bencebacsi

CustomRoms replied at 2018-6-1 04:13
@bencebacsi, you said several times, if i remember it correctly, that a 8.1 update is not possible b ...

As far as I know, it will be stock Android 8.1 but still on top of the Efuse protection, since that protection cannot be removed through a USB or wireless connection. So if that's the case, rooting still won't be possible. We'll see what happens. I have no more information at the moment.

ujaeychiagorom

bencebacsi replied at 2018-5-31 11:46
Dear users,
Yesterday's news: A stock (not UMI OS) Android 8.1 upgrade for UMIDIGI S2 Pro is being d ...

Awesome!!!...just hope it's as good as it sounds.

toonstra

bencebacsi replied at 2018-5-31 11:46
Dear users,
Yesterday's news: A stock (not UMI OS) Android 8.1 upgrade for UMIDIGI S2 Pro is being d ...

Thanks for the good news, I am glad Umidigu wil continue support for our S2 pro.

maravilha00

bencebacsi replied at 2018-5-31 11:46
Dear users,
Yesterday's news: A stock (not UMI OS) Android 8.1 upgrade for UMIDIGI S2 Pro is being d ...

that sounds good at first sight. on second sight i would have immediately a question: will there be a software stock camera app included which makes real use of the second rear camera lens which allegedly is supposed to be functional but so far doesn't make any difference wether in picture quality nor in bokeh/portrait mode? as you and i and many other users perfectly are aware: a second lens which is really integrated and recognized by the phone's hardware to be processed accordingly, then a correct software for the stock camera app should be able to produce same portrait/bokeh shots as e.g. a XIAOMI Mi A1 which has rear cameras main 12MP and second 5MP (exactly like S2 PRO). even if second lens is interpolated to 5MP it's enough to produce the "dephth-of-field" calculation necessary to create the realistic portrait or bokeh effect.
i look forward to your corresponding info if available with greatest interest.
thanks

bencebacsi

maravilha00 replied at 2018-6-3 21:29
that sounds good at first sight. on second sight i would have immediately a question: will there b ...

I'm sorry but I have not been informed about any technical details of the Android 8.1 upgrade, so unfortunately the bokeh mode is not an exception. I wouldn't expect serious improvements.