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[ROM] GalaxyICS

This is not a double post, in fact it's a reclaim of previous thread posted by Maclaw which is now no longer in our development team.
You can read on as to why has he been dropped right here:
http://galaxyics.com/news/view/47
GalaxyICS is a series of Android 4.0 ICS releases for legacy/unsupported devices, currently supporting:
Samsung Galaxy Gio
Samsung Galaxy Ace
Samsung Galaxy Fit
Samsung Galaxy Mini
These are about to come in too:
HTC Desire
HTC Desire HD
Samsung Galaxy S
And much much more!
You can download most recent releases at:
http://galaxyics.com/
(Including Maclaw era too)
Sources will be available soon, after we finish cleaning up.
Development team:
bagnz0r
marcin1147
People that made it happen in the past:
Maclaw
mikegapinski
tom3q

you are developing for release to all devices?
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Maclaw is out from develop???

AntiBillOS said:
Maclaw is out from develop???
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yeah because he has taked the money of donations to hi..
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AntiBillOS said:
Maclaw is out from develop???
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Yes, they fired him for stealing donations money (if I understood right).

So when will we get next update??
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sarvesh563 said:
So when will we get next update??
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So, they were robbed from donations yet you still ask for eta?
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I'm sorry for all my mistakes, all is explained with team and we're back in old squad ;-)

Macław said:
I'm sorry for all my mistakes, all is explained with team and we're back in old squad ;-)
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WTF???
WHAT HAPPEN WITH YOU GUYS???
its because i spam about money or no?

Well, I have a personal note I would like to put up here.
Maclaw is a good, talented developer. He made mistakes. But everyone does just that...
I did have my bad time period too. I was acting very childish then, but I grew up.

bagnz0r said:
Well, I have a personal note I would like to put up here.
Maclaw is a good, talented developer. He made mistakes. But everyone does just that...
I did have my bad time period too. I was acting very childish then, but I grew up.
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so now make the release for mini and fit at the time. because a lot of people with galaxy mini has donating without releases. damn it
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bagnz0r said:
Well, I have a personal note I would like to put up here.
Maclaw is a good, talented developer. He made mistakes. But everyone does just that...
I did have my bad time period too. I was acting very childish then, but I grew up.
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I beleve you guys be work toggether!
And galaxyics UP!
I think you good command and i wait you work toggether againe!
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gabrielking9 said:
so now make the release for mini and fit at the time. because a lot of people with galaxy mini has donating without releases. damn it
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I dont think that it time for asked and money its not all!

He stole the money for tickets cuz the Euro =D

Deshabilitado said:
He stole the money for tickets cuz the Euro =D
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Yes euro 2012 but now i dont think that good idea to joke. sorry

gabrielking9 said:
so now make the release for mini and fit at the time. because a lot of people with galaxy mini has donating without releases. damn it
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I have to agree with him. I have nothing against the team but, its been 3 months since we got the last update. And and that feeling of being excited is just fading. I sure hope we get a new update. Not ASAP, but surely soon. n_n

ok so everything is solved and your MONEY SCAM is also sorted out so now lets talk about UNIMPORTANT AND USELESS THINGS called UPDATE.......or wait should we enjoys other IMPORTANT discussions about SCAMS and burnt out mother board or maybe update which was to come last weekend??????
And yeah another thing what about the money donated by us which was spent by maclaw on his computer games,his parents,his gf,his bf,his dog or whoever......how are we going to get it back?????DONATIONS ALL THE WAY NO UPDATE AND YOU GUYS STILL HAVE GUTS TO SHOW DONATE BUTTON ON YOUR WEBSITE......we just wanted ics on our phone but in the end all of this got limited to a money scam and no development........i feel sorry for none other than myself for having a dream of good rom on my device which was broken by you all money thirsty people.......i will never ever believe in anything like this in my life again...thank you for all this..........

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ok so everything is solved and your MONEY SCAM is also sorted out so now lets talk about UNIMPORTANT AND USELESS THINGS called UPDATE.......or wait should we enjoys other IMPORTANT discussions about SCAMS and burnt out mother board or maybe update which was to come last weekend??????
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I agree. n_n

I can certainly understand why many of you are upset, but lets calm down, take a deep breath, and wait and see if new releases happen. We don't need page after page of rants that in the end accomplish nothing.

yes i agree and i am sorry for that......

hey are you people doing something with galaxyics.com as bugtracker is not [email protected]!

Arguments Between Developer's

The arguments between you guys have to stop, if you have an argument with another dev, don't take matters into your own hands! PM me, and it will be taken care of. It has gotten ridiculous how many arguments I've seen. It needs to STOP. Users are also welcome to pm me when they see an argument. Hacking your device has always been about fun and challenge, but just as important is keeping the community strong. Respect others! :highfive:

Yeah
:good::good::good::good::good:
Techno's Right:highfive:

I am always involved in fights cuz m the villain of this place Will follow your advice next time.

Its sad to see NextToICS thread alive,but USR's (evan's ROM) thread dead.

:good::good::good:
Techno's U r Ryt............

CharsiBabu said:
Its sad to see NextToICS thread alive,but USR's (evan's ROM) thread dead.
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I agree completely with U! Evanlocked is promising! It shoudln't hv happened!

Good to see a lot of you guys agree! Let me know if you see something where action needs to be taken!

techno-update said:
Good to see a lot of you guys agree! Let me know if you see something where action needs to be taken!
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Sure! we will let you know

Well said
Basing on what you said, this is really quite the right thing to do. To focus more on the development of our device and unite as one so that we can achieve what we always crave for; to develop our devices to unlock it's full capabilities.
This is the main concept of this forum i believe, and arguments will only create distractions for devs for fulfilling the goal. Although there are times that slight misjudgements are occuring, nevertheless lets not forget why where here guys.
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iplaygalaxyy for android

MOD i already sent you a PM about the USR rom
Please consider creeds statement and also the members voices
more power XDA

static28 said:
MOD i already sent you a PM about the USR rom
Please consider creeds statement and also the members voices
more power XDA
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Hi, please send your message, had some problems earlier don't remember getting anything else.
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techno-update said:
Hi, please send your message, had some problems earlier don't remember getting anything else.
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ok MOD

:good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

yes its true

Yup!!!!!
Respect Each Other!!!!!!!!! Yeah! :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

this is what i honestly feel about any CM development here
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I really miss those fights

deathnotice01 said:
this is what i honestly feel about any CM development here
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Bro, if only you knew how hard it is to build CM for ths device. This device is truly a peice of s##t. I have built nearly 30 builds already and it is just error, after error, after error. The latest push from Squadzone wont even build!!!!!!
Please be my guest and try it yourself. I honestly feel like giving up. No drivers for gpu, means no CM for this device. What a peice of crap

NanoSurfer said:
Bro, if only you knew how hard it is to build CM for ths device. This device is truly a peice of s##t. I have built nearly 30 builds already and it is just error, after error, after error. The latest push from Squadzone wont even build!!!!!!
Please be my guest and try it yourself. I honestly feel like giving up. No drivers for gpu, means no CM for this device. What a peice of crap
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yea i feel you dude,
thanks for developing one anyway,
we'll never have CM until broadcom release its sources,
SGY is a piece of crap,
regreted that i bought one,

deathnotice01 said:
yea i feel you dude,
thanks for developing one anyway,
we'll never have CM until broadcom release its sources,
SGY is a piece of crap,
regreted that i bought one,
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Same ! First time i thought that this phone is good... when i bought it ... then checked the ply store... almost all app are incompatible.... Ram is to low , internal also... hmph... Better buy Galaxy ace than this
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Optimus Black ICS surces available!!

Here they are:
http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource-detail.jsp?detailCustomerModelCode=LGKU5900
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Let's wait for Dhiru now

i don't know if it is useful but it seems like lg, TI and cm team are working to do a stable cm10 for OB
"TI recently completed work on OMAP3, so with LG’s assistance, this happened… Coming soon "
http://android.hdblog.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/optimus-black-cm10.jpeg

they have already ported the rom from ku5900 to p970 with kernel 3.0.8
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1899680

When I saw this the first thing came into my mind that "Why I am still using this ****ing galaxy i9003???"
OFFICIAL CM10 FOR OPTIMUS BLACK
http://get.cm/?device=p970

vishal24387 said:
When I saw this the first thing came into my mind that "Why I am still using this ****ing galaxy i9003???"
OFFICIAL CM10 FOR OPTIMUS BLACK
http://get.cm/?device=p970
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Same, not pleased.
See, i have an S3, great.
But i also have this shi-, and i expected more.

We have now official supprt of CM (CM10) and will have official ICS for P-970 Wait for more news.

koila33 said:
We have now official supprt of CM (CM10) and will have official ICS for P-970 Wait for more news.
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Dont jealous us buddy

is there anyone who would like to exchange my i9003 with ur optimus black :silly:

come on guys don't worry be happy.WE must hope that hillbeast and the others manage to bring kernel 3.x to our phone and i think it's possible

Mamica said:
come on guys don't worry be happy.WE must hope that hillbeast and the others manage to bring kernel 3.x to our phone and i think it's possible
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You still have hopes on hillbeast...?? Ha ha ha...
God bless u buddy.

We still have hope in him. I think that my hope will help me & if you don't have, why don't you have a try?????
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vishal24387 said:
Dont jealous us buddy
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Lol... Sory Bro

vishal24387 said:
You still have hopes on hillbeast...?? Ha ha ha...
God bless u buddy.
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Hahaha
So true... i have lost all hopes from hillbeast
The "K" kernel or whatever its been ages and still not out...
And the kernel 3.x i thought it is dead..
But there is some response from adi_pat.....
plzzz guyz come on
P.S : but i still have some hopes left !!
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I dont complain to any developer but i do to **** A** H*** Samsung who didnt gave us ICS. even our device was eligible and High end phone of its time bt still we got this.

Hey vishal.
I thing you are not posting the way you posted earlier.
You are loosing your maturity.
Dont take me wrong.
We expect from people like you to protect the interest of the developer.
But you r seriously making fun of him.
Dont forget all the efforts hillbeast did to get uart output.
The things you are saying can be said in a better way.
You are like flaming the developer which may angry him and enforce him to leave development.
Dont forget only he has intense kernel knowledge in i9003 community.
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crk1995 said:
Hey vishal.
I thing you are not posting the way you posted earlier.
You are loosing your maturity.
Dont take me wrong.
We expect from people like you to protect the interest of the developer.
But you r seriously making fun of him.
Dont forget all the efforts hillbeast did to get uart output.
The things you are saying can be said in a better way.
You are like flaming the developer which may angry him and enforce him to leave development.
Dont forget only he has intense kernel knowledge in i9003 community.
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Buddy actually I dont want to explain that why I posted in a rude way but there are many things going behind the curtain between the developers which you are not aware (but I am). So its not ur fault. You are right at ur point but you can look just one side.Other side is uknown to everybody.

vishal24387 said:
Buddy actually I dont want to explain that why I posted in a rude way but there are many things going behind the curtain between the developers which you are not aware (but I am). So its not ur fault. You are right at ur point but you can look just one side.Other side is uknown to everybody.
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So perhaps u can tell us what the 'other side' is?? I think all users have a right to know..
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crk1995 said:
Hey vishal.
I thing you are not posting the way you posted earlier.
You are loosing your maturity.
Dont take me wrong.
We expect from people like you to protect the interest of the developer.
But you r seriously making fun of him.
Dont forget all the efforts hillbeast did to get uart output.
The things you are saying can be said in a better way.
You are like flaming the developer which may angry him and enforce him to leave development.
Dont forget only he has intense kernel knowledge in i9003 community.
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i'm with vishal on this one ! crk1995.. u dont know things so i advice u to just calm down ! hillbeast is a knowledge person which would mean he could compile a kernel easily ! but honestly he hasnt done much ... even stock gingerbread kernel isnt out yet and its been months ! while adi_pat (aditya patange ) being a 10th standard boy (16 years old) having barely any knowledge compared to hillbeast, he backported ION and DSSCOMP with help of dhiru and Ooi Kai Sheng(14 years old developer) .... i expected a lot from hillbeast and i'm just disappointed... oh yeah for the record aditya also asked for his help and hes busy 100% of the time... i kno he has his personal life... we just wanted a little help in it ! even that he couldnt do ! i kno m rude but i just HAD to say this ! mayb we should send the device to some1 else !

Moving thread to General as it is not a downloadable ROM or Kernel. Closing since it was widely reported already.
I am not sure yet what is going on with hillbeast as I have not spoken to him myself, but I am watching this thread as it seems there might be an opportunity for some civil and professional conversation. I think some people are too anxious right now and need to calm down.

ask how to make transparent status bar cm10.1 albinoman???

please help me to make my status bar transparent
i have tried so many things, but its useless because i dont understand how to use apktool. seriously..
can someone give me a step by step instructions? thanks

Sorry. I think on aosp based roms it's impossible
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my problem are solved, i have a transparent status bar now (rom albinoman887). so you are wrong if you said that hehe

Sorry
How did you do it?
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Check this OUT!!!

leo31 said:
my problem are solved, i have a transparent status bar now (rom albinoman887). so you are wrong if you said that hehe
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Care to share how you did it? Thanks!

He probably didn't do it, guys. He's probably just trolling. Don't worry that you'r emissing out on anything.

hanisod said:
Sorry
How did you do it?
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Check this OUT!!!
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shawa2 said:
Care to share how you did it? Thanks!
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sure i will, just sent me a pm and i will give u the link sorry for late reply
and here is the screenshot
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He probably didn't do it, guys. He's probably just trolling. Don't worry that you'r emissing out on anything.
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whatever~ lalalaaa~ it is so funny because there's still so many small brained people like u
oh so u were a 'recognized contributor', what a shame on you

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sure i will, just sent me a pm and i will give u the link sorry for late reply
and here is the screenshot
whatever~ lalalaaa~ it is so funny because there's still so many small brained people like u
oh so u were a 'recognized contributor', what a shame on you
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But you can only share how you did it via pm? Can't share with the community publicly? That kind of defeats the whole point of open source development.
I'm more than happy to eat crow if you actually did this, but share your work in the forum so the entire community can benefit. That is what is in the true spirit of the xda community.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

Skipjacks said:
But you can only share how you did it via pm? Can't share with the community publicly? That kind of defeats the whole point of open source development.
I'm more than happy to eat crow if you actually did this, but share your work in the forum so the entire community can benefit. That is what is in the true spirit of the xda community.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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because u dont believe what i posted before. and seriously that is very offensive me. im not trolling here and dont worry, u can still enjoy the transparent status bar on my new thread.

leo31 said:
because u dont believe what i posted before. and seriously that is very offensive me. im not trolling here and dont worry, u can still enjoy the transparent status bar on my new thread.
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Well you made a claim that you did something that was largely thought to not be possible. You provided no support for your claim, just an insulting post to another user who made a legitimate point that he didn't think the mod was possible. You only felt the need to tell that poster he was wrong and offered no proof of such, then you disappeared for 6 days.
Why would anyone give that post the benefit of the doubt? Be insulted all you want. But your original post about this was fairly nasty by just saying "you are wrong". Then no one heard anything from you for 6 days. You cannot deny that looks an awful lot like trolling.
You also kind of made it seem like you personally made the mod, which you didn't. Im sure this wasn't intentional but it still kind of looked that way and some developers get testy about that sort of thing. You even used the actual mod developer's screenshots. When posting links to other people's work please always give the specific person who did the work proper credit so there is no confusion about who's work it is. And begging for thanks in any post like in your other thread is kind of lame. If your post is helpful to people, they will thank you. Begging for thanks kind of defeats the point.
I hope this helps you to become a more constructive member of this community. Thank you for sharing the transparent status bar mod you found!
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[Q] Lollipop For Xoom !

Any hope to get Lollipop for our Xoom ?

fairyshacker said:
Any hope to get Lollipop for our Xoom ?
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I found this when I got up a few minutes ago. However, until I test it and talk with others don't go getting excited. You could have someone trying to mess us up.
http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/motorola-xoom-mz601-3834.html
I'll get back with you soon.

Kingsman1 said:
I found this when I got up a few minutes ago. However, until I test it and talk with others don't go getting excited. You could have someone trying to mess us up.
I'll get back with you soon.
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I would absolutely not trust that website. All of the links in the header point back to the same page. It looks like an SEO hijacking attempt (and all the comments are like "thanks for helping me with my phone" which the Xoom is obviously not).

I'm attempting to work on my first rom, or at least help the community get L working. having trouble building a kernel atm =/

As far as I know, BigRushDog is working on Lollipop for the XOOM. Give it time and it may come...patience is a virtue!

NavarrB said:
I would absolutely not trust that website. All of the links in the header point back to the same page. It looks like an SEO hijacking attempt (and all the comments are like "thanks for helping me with my phone" which the Xoom is obviously not).
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I think you're right. I tried going to the base site and it was the same instructions, only for a Samsung phone with the same name and compliments attached.
I Dio know that there are several people here that are working on this issue.
Just wanted to let you know that it was these same wonderful people who worked so hard to bring us stable versions of 4.4.4, and this was within 2 months of Google's release of the upgrade. Thanks so much guys!

fake fake fake
NavarrB said:
I would absolutely not trust that website. All of the links in the header point back to the same page. It looks like an SEO hijacking attempt (and all the comments are like "thanks for helping me with my phone" which the Xoom is obviously not).
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Site is completely fake, don't even go there !

can we get a "Lollipop" for the M601 xoom please???
As many of us i still love my XOOM, too and the best thing in 2015 would be a safe and working and GOOGLE BULL**** FREE ROM for the xoom.
So anbody working on that ...... give us some hope + info if you work on it and if you need any kind of support.
SO FAR A BIG BIG THANK YOU !
the world is waiting for the ROM

TheMan0790 said:
As far as I know, BigRushDog is working on Lollipop for the XOOM. Give it time and it may come...patience is a virtue!
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Just wondering if there's any update on it?
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fairyshacker said:
Any hope to get Lollipop for our Xoom ?
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Last week Schischu wrote to tell us that he is hard at work on getting it done. I'm really becoming excited. I saw screen shots so believe that it's a near reality for us.

Hey guys,
I have a used MZ604 that I have been wanting to sell, but never got around to listing it. I would be more than happy to sell it directly to someone here for L ROM development purposes for less than $300. If there is another way I can contribute, I would like to know, as I am anxious for this ROM.
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Kingsman1 said:
Last week Schischu wrote to tell us that he is hard at work on getting it done. I'm really becoming excited. I saw screen shots so believe that it's a near reality for us.
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Can you link the source? I'd love to see it with my own eyes. =D
Sent from my Xoom LTE using XDA Free mobile app

Kingsman1 said:
Last week Schischu wrote to tell us that he is hard at work on getting it done. I'm really becoming excited. I saw screen shots so believe that it's a near reality for us.
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:good:

Seeing is believing!!!
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GUYS! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!! =D
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http://duckbox.info/android/omni-5/IMG_20150515_215210_1024x768.jpg
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2580256&page=119

Unless selinux can be disabled, or the ROM is available with it disabled by default, don't bother. Lollipop breaks user control big time!