LineageOS 15.1 Feature List Overview with Screenshots and Video

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LineageOS is the most popular custom ROM for Android smartphones and tablets. The team behind LineageOS recently announced the latest version of the custom ROM, LineageOS 15.1, based on Android 8.1 Oreo. All of Android Oreo‘s features are now available for users running LineageOS, including picture-in-picture mode, Autofill apps, notification channels/snoozing, and native support for theming. In addition, you can enjoy most of the great features that LineageOS is well known for, such as Privacy Guard, Live Display, Button/Gesture customization, and a plethora of great stock apps such as the Eleven Music Player and Snap Camera.

There’s a reason so many people love LineageOS, and it’s not just for all of the features we listed above. It’s because they take device stability seriously, and have gone as far as requiring their members to abide by a strict set of requirements outlined in the Device Support Requirements Charter. If you own a supported device and choose to flash an official build of LineageOS, you can be rest assured that your device will be running stable software that is also kept up to date against serious security vulnerabilities—perhaps well beyond the end of official manufacturer support.

If everything I’ve said sounds appealing so far, you may be interested in installing LineageOS onto your device. The only problem is that many new users don’t exactly know what they’ll be getting out of it. I just went through and gave a few reasons why it’s worth having LineageOS on your device, but some of you may be looking for the full feature list before you commit to installing this ROM on your device. Below, we’ve compiled a list of features in LineageOS as well as screenshots showing off every feature that may be available in your device’s build. At the end, we’ve also got a video running through the feature-set in case you prefer sitting back and watching TK go over LineageOS’ features.

The list below only shows features that are unique to LineageOS when compared to Google’s software as seen on the Nexus/Pixel phones. We omitted features present in the base version of Android 8.1 Oreo as the list would be unnecessarily lengthy. Furthermore, not all of the features listed below or shown in the screenshots/video may be present on your device. The features available are device-dependent, but for the most part this list should capture the available features of a given LineageOS 15.1 build.

LineageOS General Features

Audio/Media

Custom charging sounds

Unlink ringtone and notification volumes

Buttons/Navigation Bar

Add left/right virtual directional keys when typing

Button backlight customization (brightness and timeout) for hardware buttons

Camera button actions: use as wake key, focus button as peek and wake key, or launch (secure) camera.

Custom long-press action for recent apps button

Hardware button customization, for example Alert Slider Customization (without use of the Xposed Framework and a module) and swap recents/back button on OnePlus phones

Launch torch with long-press of the power key when the screen is off. (Supports automatic timeout after 1, 2, 5, or 10 minutes).

Long-press back button to kill app

Navigation bar tuner

Re-bind home long-press, home double-tap, recent apps press, and recent apps long-press. Actions include: do nothing, open/close menu, show recent apps switcher, show assistant, start voice search, in-app search, device sleep, launch camera, go to last app, start split screen.

Set volume keys to control media volume at all times

Swap behavior of volume keys with device orientation

Toggle software navigation bar, even on devices with capacitive buttons

Volume key cursor control when typing

Wake screen with hardware button press

Calls

Gradually increase ringtone volume during incoming calls.

Press home button or volume buttons to answer incoming call.

Display

Ambient display (device dependent): pulse notifications when proximity sensor detects a hand wave

Ambient display (device dependent): pulse notifications on removal from pocket

Battery light settings to show battery charge status when charging, battery is low, or when fully charged. Can also customize brightness levels of the LED when in Do-Not-Disturb mode

Display color temperature customization for day/night scenarios. Can be scheduled.

Notification light settings to show LED light during notification, missed call, or voicemail. Can set per-app light settings. Choose LED pulse length and color. Can also choose to have the LEDs active even if the screen is on. Can also customize brightness levels of the LED when in Do-Not-Disturb mode.

Picture adjustment: control hue, saturation, intensity, and contrast on supported devices. There is also an automatic outdoor mode that increases brightness and saturation automatically under bright sunlight.

RGB color calibration settings

sRGB and DCI-P3 color management profiles (device dependent)

Gestures

Touchscreen gestures when the screen is off. Available letters depend on hardware, but could be C/E/O/M/S/V/W/Z or ^,>,<. You can also swipe up/down/left/right with one finger, or use two fingers and swipe down. Actions include: do nothing, toggle flashlight, open camera, open browser, open dialer, view emails, view messages, play/pause music, skip to previous track, skip to next track, lower/raise media volume.

Performance

Extreme power saver to restrict device performance and background activities to save power. Can be enabled automatically at 5%, 15%, or 25%.

Performance profiles (Power Save, Efficiency, Balanced, Quick, and Performance)

Lock Screen/Security

Customize the size of the lockscreen pattern

Directly show PIN entry and skip the swype to unlock screen

FlipFlap is an app for devices with smart cover support; it allows you to answer, ignore, or end calls and show the time/date through the cover.

Privacy Guard—control app permissions such as keep awake, run in background, record audio, and much more.

Proximity wake (check the proximity sensor before waking the screen)

Scramble PIN layout

Secure apps behind a lockscreen

Toggle the dots/error visibility of the lockscreen pattern

Toggle root access in Developer Options

Quick Settings

ADB over network

Advanced location

Ambient Display

Caffeine (timer for screen off)

Heads up notifications

Live Display

NFC

Sync

USB Tethering

Volume panel

Status Bar

Clock settings: show AM/PM and/or center/right-justify.

Double tap to sleep

Pull down from the left or right side to quickly bring down Quick Settings

Show network traffic (upload only, download only, or upload+download). Can be automatically hidden when there is no traffic. Can be shown in kb/s, Mb/s, kB/s, or MB/s.

Show adaptive brightness toggle next to the brightness slider

Slide on status bar to control brightness

Status bar tuner

SystemUI

Accent colors: Default, Tomato, Cherry, Lavendar, Blueberry, Forest, Pumpkin, Banana, Cocoa.

“Automagic” accent color picker based on wallpaper or time of day. System-wide light and dark theme also available that can also integrate with LiveDisplay to automatically show a light theme during the day and a dark theme during the night.

Automatically append an app’s name to the filename of a screenshot

Disable lockscreen media art

Enable lockscreen rotation

Expanded Desktop

Lockscreen music visualizer

Power menu customization. Can add advanced options to the reboot menu, screenshot button (with long-press to take a partial screenshot), user switcher, and airplane mode toggle.

Unlock all orientations (rotate 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees)

Miscellaneous

Built-in weather provider settings

Change-log button in menu toolbar of LineageOS updater now takes you to the recent changes page

Download speed in notification

Easter egg replaced with LineageOS Mascot.

Group apps by category (app groups)

Pause/resume downloads.

Profiles support. Profiles can be triggered by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or NFC. Once triggered, you can choose what happens to the following radios: Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, Auto-sync data, Data connection, Portable Wi-Fi hotspot, or NFC. You can also choose what happens to Alarm, Media, Ringtone, and Notification volume. Finally, you can choose what happens to the ring mode, airplane mode, lock screen mode, screen brightness, ambient display, and notification light.

Show package name of apps in the app details screen

Sort apps by their size in settings

Stock apps have app categories

LineageOS Apps

AudioFX

Audio profiles: Normal, Classical, Dance, Flat, Folk, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Small Speakers, Custom

Reverberation

Bass/Virtualizer

Clock

Flip/shake to snooze or dismiss alarm

Dialer

Disable anti-falsing in call answer screen to make it easier to answer calls

Hide sensitive phone numbers from call log history

Reverse look-up with YellowPages/Zaba

Jelly

Advanced share to share a preview of the shared web page

LookLock: prevent other apps from reading the Browser’s content

Uses built in Android Webview (Chromium 64)

Trebuchet

Adaptive icons for all LineageOS apps

Colored notification dots

Homescreen rotation

Icon pack support

Icon shapes: circle, super ellipse, squircle, or teardrop

Notification dots toggle

Predictive apps: favorite apps will appear at the top of the drawer

Swipe down to show notifications

Toggle icon labels

TrebuchetGO for Android GO devices

Eleven Music Player

Beautiful music player re-built from the ground up based off of the previous Apollo app

Replace lockscreen background with album art

Shake to play the next song

Show music visualization

Song lyrics for tracks with srt files

Recorder

Minimalist audio/screen recording app.

Screen recorder can show a floating movable bubble to start recording. Can choose to toggle microphone during screen recording.

Snap Camera

Automatically enable maximum brightness

Codec choices for audio/video

Continuous shot

Countdown timer

Face detection

Headset shutter mode

High-framerate recording

Modes: Auto, HDR, OptiZoom, Portrait, Landscape, Burst, Candlelight, Sunset, Night, Beach, Snow, ChromeFlash, BlurBuster, Sharp photo, Tracking focus, Panorama, Pro mode, Bokeh

Noise reduction for video

QR reader mode that supports QR-encoded URLs, plain text, SMS, email addresses, contact cards, events, phone numbers, and location coordinates.

Red eye reduction

Shutter sound toggle

Time lapse

Video rotation

Video stabilization

Missing Features?

Currently, there appears to be one feature missing from LineageOS 15.1: Single Hand Mode. It is a feature that lets you use your phone with one hand, and it is based off of Huawei’s Single Hand Mode feature. We were told that no one on the team has yet tackled porting it over, so we can’t give you any idea on whether or not it will make it over to LOS 15.1

Finally, some of you may be wondering where the CyanogenMod Theme Engine replacement is. There is no theme engine because there doesn’t need to be one. Android 8.0 Oreo natively supports Sony’s Overlay Manager Service, which means that LineageOS doesn’t need to do anything to support custom themes. If you want to install a custom theme, then you can follow our tutorial here.

LineageOS 15.1 Software Feature Overview [Video]

Check out TK’s video on our YouTube channel, which goes over the feature list with a bit more brevity!

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