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[ROM][14-02-13][Flinny] Andromadus - AOSP4.2.2[9]

Andromadus - Test Builds
To start with here you will find test versions of ROMs built by me from the Andromadus github repo http://github.com/Andromadus, think of them along the same concept as nightly builds just not every night These are development ROM's, if you want to run bleeding edge development ROM's and at least know how to use adb and logcat then you might find something of interest here. If you require something that works 100% of the time all of the time then this might not be for you. That said you can always give it a try and if it doesn't work restore your previous nandroid backup!
What IS Andromadus?
Initially it was a group of people who got together to make ICS work on the HTC Desire Z because nobody else seemed to want to support devices with physical hardware keyboards/trackpads. Whilst the idea stays the same It has grown slightly to support some other hardware and some of the work we have done is now used in many other devices. Andromadus builds of CM10 or CM10.1 are basically CM sources with a few additional tweaks or additions to support our phones.
1. New versions will be added as and when I feel there are enough changes to warrant one, don’t ask when the next version is coming.
2. If we decide to release a "Stable" version of these roms they will be published in another Andromadus thread.
Direct all your queries with release versions to that thread and in the same vain do not discuss these releases anywhere but here.
3. I will do as best I can to answer questions but if you don't get an answer from me I'm sure somebody else will be along to help. Help each other and I have more time to spend fixing things!
4. Don't ask for what's changed since the previous version, have a look at the recent submits on the Andromadus github if you want to know or wait for the mini changelogs when I post a new release.
5. If there is something in particular to test it'll be mentioned!
6. As always if you didn't wipe between installations then at least verify that the problem exists on a clean install before posting here. Nandroid/superwipe/install/check at the end of the day you can always restore your nandroid if the problem is reproducible on a clean installation. If you can't be bothered to try this then I really can't be bothered to try to help you :>
7. All that said ensure you make a nandroid/backup before hand. I take no responsibility for what you do to your phone with these ROM.
8. Whilst I can't stop you I would rather these builds were not used as a base for any ROM/MOD/ETC. The source is all available if you want to do your own builds with which you can do whatever you like.
9. Tell us what works/what's worse/what's better but don't ***** when something breaks or isn't fixed yet, report it and move on.
10. Sometimes people forget that we do this for fun, for ourselves, and sometimes your super important issue is way down on our personal list of things to be fixed.
If you ignore any of the above you will in turn be ignored.
Now that's all out of the way as always have fun
As usual you need to flash the ROM then GAPPS.
Checkout http://andromadus.flinny.org for links/files/changelog's
This a team/community effort, I'll not list everyone who has helped along the way here that list is in the beta thread but I will say thanks to all of them again and obviously anyone that has been missed.

Reserved

Build 5 was pretty stable, interested to see what has changed.
Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus

Build 5 was first build i used of AOSP 4.2 and it was fantatic experience, i never expected 4.2 to work so flawlessly on desire s so fast after release. And to be honest i did not see many bugs.
So i flashed build 6 and i was not disapointed, as you said you will release only stable and advanced releases and it was the point with 4.2 build6.
It would be nice to see official changelog, but i have noticed some nice little resize job done and few small glitches fixed.
I just found one thing i dont know how to fix. On android keyboard swype Lithuanian dictionary doesnt work. It is not in official list until i refresh it and then it pops up and i install it ( it worked well with build 5) and with build 6 it just doesnt work, and when i return to dictionary list there is no Lithuanian dictionary again .

Sensors are not working properly. When i make a call, screen turns off even when i don't block the sensors and it stays that way till the time call is going
Sorry man posted it in wrong thread. Its for andromadus cm 10.1 but do look into the matter as its really is irritating
Sent from my Desire S using Tapatalk 2

Thanks for the info..

Why there is no Google Now on lock screen? Only unlock option...
I have latest gapps, updated Google Search etc.

Taranis said:
Why there is no Google Now on lock screen? Only unlock option...
I have latest gapps, updated Google Search etc.
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That's just the way it is for 4.2, Google made it that way.

I thought I saw videos on YT with Google option on 4.2...

Taranis said:
I thought I saw videos on YT with Google option on 4.2...
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Yeah, that is for devices with On Screen buttons (Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4/7/10). For those, the buttons are replaced with a dotted circle on the lockscreen, swiping up from which opens Google Now. Since AOSP doesn't officially support any device without hardware buttons, Google probably thought that it would be best to remove the option from the lockscreen, since swiping from the buttons opens that anyways

Trouble with bluetooth
Hi,
Thanks for your work on this rom!
I would like to report an issue with the Bluetooth functionality in this (and earlier) versions of this rom. In my circumstance it doesn't produce an error of crash.
For example. My phone is connected with a handsfree carkit (parrot) and when entering the car it recognizes the phone, asks for pin code and 'gets connected'. The problem is that the phone is not visible (as usual) on the handsfree device and the overall functionality does not work.
If I can be of any assistance in this I'll gladly be of help.
Thanks for your work!

Well Google switched the bluetooth plugin in 4.2 from bluez to bluedroid. It has been causing issues across devices, even Nexus 7 has issues. As Flinny said we can't do much unless someone upstream fixes it.
Read more here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35093862
Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus

Anyone know why the sound disappear?. notifications, alarms, ringtones, ect.

Thanks for the enlightenment!
suku_patel_22 said:
Well Google switched the bluetooth plugin in 4.2 from bluez to bluedroid. It has been causing issues across devices, even Nexus 7 has issues. As Flinny said we can't do much unless someone upstream fixes it.
Read more here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35093862
Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus
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Flinny, almost everything works great.
Issues I found (AOSP build 6):
- laggy Camera animations (not very important, maybe it cannot be better),
- high Android OS battery usage (battery really lasts less),
- dictionaries other than English doesn't work with swype keyboard feature,
- some people wrote about bluetooth audio issues.
ROM is very smooth, hope it will be smooth in next builds. Great work!

Taranis said:
Flinny, almost everything works great.
Issues I found (AOSP build 6):
- laggy Camera animations (not very important, maybe it cannot be better),
- high Android OS battery usage (battery really lasts less),
- dictionaries other than English doesn't work with swype keyboard feature,
- some people wrote about bluetooth audio issues.
ROM is very smooth, hope it will be smooth in next builds. Great work!
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camera animations do lag sometimes and some pictures you take tend to not show up in gallery after you have taken them.
As for battery all i can say is :highfive: battery is almost same in all 4.0/4.1/ 4.2 roms AND it is not at all bad here. I managed to get from full charge(100%) to 81% in 30 hours. I doubt many roms can do something like this in low-med usage.
Other then that this rom is my personal favorite until someone release 4.2 rom with better theme or perfomance.
The only thing i lack in here is conservative cpu governor and maybe little undervoltage.

Taranis said:
Flinny, almost everything works great.
Issues I found (AOSP build 6):
- laggy Camera animations (not very important, maybe it cannot be better),
- high Android OS battery usage (battery really lasts less),
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+1
Who can tell me how can I put GPS shortcut on quick setting ??I have everything I need except GPS shortcut...

Anyone else have an issue where Calendar just wont sync at all to any Google account? I don't have the options to sync calendars under any of the google accounts I've set up on the device. Tried reflashing, clearing app data etc.
Apart from that, great rom. Super nice battery life.

noponies said:
Anyone else have an issue where Calendar just wont sync at all to any Google account? I don't have the options to sync calendars under any of the google accounts I've set up on the device. Tried reflashing, clearing app data etc.
Apart from that, great rom. Super nice battery life.
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Clean or dirty install?
By dirty install remove Google accound(s) and then add your accound(s) again.
Worked for me!

For JB4.2 based roms (CM10.1 and AOSP4.2)
if you use a BT headset and are having problems with the mic give this a try.
download the following file.
http://andromadus.flinny.org/libbt-vendor.zip
extract it
Push it to your phone with adb - from the command line
adb remount
adb push libbt-vendor.so /system/vendor/lib
adb reboot
try it now.
Give it a try again and tell me if it all works... If all goes to plan new builds soon
Nick.

[Q]Please, help with horrible video playback - CM10.2.1

Hi, since CM10.1 I am unable to play any video smoothly even YouTube and those recorded by the cell camera. The image quality is horrible, looks like there is no bilinear filtering applied just a horrible "nearest neighbor" algorithm, and any video player aren't able to play with hardware acceleration since with it enabled or not the performance and image quality is the same. I would post some pics, but I can't because of less than 10 posts rule .
How to troubleshot this? Any idea of a possible cause? Any help/tip will be appreciated
I tried reverting back to CM10.0 Stable to see if the problem still happens there, but for some reason the android keyboard keeps crashing and I can't even type my wifi password or the google credentials to download youtube to test it. The phone is running CM 10.2.1 stock kernel just did a full wipe and clean install too.

S.A.Dude said:
Hi, since CM10.1 I am unable to play any video smoothly even YouTube and those recorded by the cell camera. The image quality is horrible, looks like there is no bilinear filtering applied just a horrible "nearest neighbor" algorithm, and any video player aren't able to play with hardware acceleration since with it enabled or not the performance and image quality is the same. I would post some pics, but I can't because of less than 10 posts rule .
How to troubleshot this? Any idea of a possible cause? Any help/tip will be appreciated
I tried reverting back to CM10.0 Stable to see if the problem still happens there, but for some reason the android keyboard keeps crashing and I can't even type my wifi password or the google credentials to download youtube to test it. The phone is running CM 10.2.1 stock kernel just did a full wipe and clean install too.
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Can you try some non-CM ROM and verify if this isn't a hardware issue?

smit.sanghavi said:
Can you try some non-CM ROM and verify if this isn't a hardware issue?
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Thanks, tried the stock rom and it worked there, then I installed CM10.0 to see if it would work again and it is!

S.A.Dude said:
Thanks, tried the stock rom and it worked there, then I installed CM10.0 to see if it would work again and it is!
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Don't know what went wrong but it's good that it's fixed... :highfive:
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk

[ROM][GT-I9305][NOUGAT][7.1][Cyanogenmod 14.1][UNOFFICIAL]

Disclaimer (partially borrowed from MIT license) - WARNING:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. If you loose your data, brick your device, any other damage or anything else happens (e.g. your cat eats your dog), it is YOUR PROBLEM and YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Your device warranty is most probably void after installing this.
To avoid any confusion let me explain my position. I still have a felling that some people don’t understand this. I didn’t create this, I only fixed some problems (mostly closely related to i9305 device) and built it. It is a big difference, similar to buying versus building a house. Buying a house is not a simple thing (at least in my country) and you’d probably need to do some changes and repairs before you can start living in it. But building a house is something completely different and much more difficult. The work I’ve done on these CM builds is more like buying a house. The see the list of people who "built the house" go into Settings on your phone, section About phone and then Contributors. It is a really long list. Thanks to all of them
Also, please, keep in mind, that I am only sharing results of my hobby.
Now, please, proceed to the this post for the build (I’ll probably change this to more traditional OP after the code stabilizes, but now I’d like to keep track of history, instead permanent rewriting the OP.)
Thanks @nels83 for several commits.
Sometimes it takes me a while to publish new build. But there are also other builds from @mad89 - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_ohj9exsQJMSU84MGxkbFdnYUk

OK, so here is the first taste (which I know about) of CM 14 (Android 7 Nougat) for Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE - i9305. Before You even think about installing it on your device, please, keep in mind the warning from OP. Consider the build experimental - AFAIK CM 14 has not been even officially released yet. Be prepared to restore your current system. You have been warned and you can download here:
cm-14.0-20160930-UNOFFICIAL-i9305.zip
Please expect bugs.
Basically all hw is working (I didn’t do any thorough testing, I’ve just checked the basic functionality):
- RIL - data (2G, 3G, LTE), in/out calls, I didn’t check SMS
- wifi
- bluetooth
- GPS (with one minor glitch - see notes bellow)
- camera (I can take photos, but there is some problem with video recording) and flash light
- probably all the sensors (accelerometer, magnetic field, orientation, pressure, light, proximity, etc.) I haven’t checked them one by one, but also haven’t noticed any sensor functionality missing
- NFC
Notes, problems, etc.
- mobile data probably won’t work after first boot, reboot fixes it
- as mentioned above, there is one GPS glitch - I can get the fix, no problem with that, but the list of satellites (e.g. in SatStat) contains sometimes SBAS satellites. This is probably some software error (there is quite big change in gps code) or I’ve found hidden hw functionality (I don’t think so, I am not sure if I can even receive signal from these satellites in my area).
- I can’t access developer setting menu
- there was a bug in the camera code, which was also in cm 13. This bug caused crashes when the preview started, I don’t understand how the camera can work in cm13...
- the recovery image is too big to fit into recovery partition
- selinux is permissive
- I’ve finally fixed the annoying bug in kernel, which caused kernel panic (and phone reboot) when there was missing camera firmware. Beside thisi, the firmware is now loaded from system partition
- there are probably many other bugs, the development is still in progress
Code changes:
All the code changes I did to make this work are in attached diff file (code.diff) and this repo. Many of them are quick & dirty fixes (just to make it work). I am planing to do it properly and upload on github. There is also attached roomservice.xml, which I*used and list of commits and some screenshots.

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OMG WHAT RIL WORKS
YOU ARE A LEGEND
i'll help to test in 2 weeks time, exams now. Just ended school and its 9pm whew
(even i9300 hasn't gotten it yet)
btw1: why isnt your thread xda:db yet
btw2: since a kernel takes 6 minutes to build i'm making one right now just for fun to see if it works. will upload later lol. at the same time start backing up stuff slowly.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767098439
for those who are already testing this rom to try. I have not tested it myself, please back up system beforehand.

Hey, so good to see you here with such good news about your CM14 alpha. Keep up the good work and thanks a lot to spend your free time with this hobby.
When I'll have free time, be sure I'll test your builds and report.

Awesome. Never expect to keep this phone this long when I bought it 2012 and now 7.0 :laugh:

RIL works before i9300... This must be magic, the least buggy build you can publicly get for the i9300 is a build where nothing works, not even WiFi, but here RIL works too, and WiFi, amazing work :good:

What is this sorcery? How in GOD's name did you achieve this feat? My internet was down for ~30 minutes and this is what I see first thing. HOW? I swear I will have to donate some money to you @p.a.n because reasons. If you can PM me some info as to how i can donate some money, I'll be more than willing to.

Hi everyone,
thanks for the support (@西村大一 thanks for offering the donation, I appreciate it, but I`d like to keep money out of this).
There is no magic involved, Just good old plain debugging and RIL wasn`t the most difficult one. The fix for camera, even if it looks simple, was more difficult. I was overlooking the solution for long time, maybe because the code works in cm13 (this I consider magic).
@limjh16 what do you expect from building the kernel? There some important fixes there, but it doesn`t make much sense without the rest.
Maybe some of my fixes may help i9300 porting. It would make sense (e.g. I suppose the kernel version is at least similar, so finit_module syscall has to be changed back to init_module).

Thanks Pan for your work! I will try it. ?
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Hi Pan wich version of Opengaps should I install? The 7.0 android version?
Thanks
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p.a.n said:
Hi everyone,
thanks for the support (@西村大一 thanks for offering the donation, I appreciate it, but I`d like to keep money out of this).
There is no magic involved, Just good old plain debugging and RIL wasn`t the most difficult one. The fix for camera, even if it looks simple, was more difficult. I was overlooking the solution for long time, maybe because the code works in cm13 (this I consider magic).
@limjh16 what do you expect from building the kernel? There some important fixes there, but it doesn`t make much sense without the rest.
Maybe some of my fixes may help i9300 porting. It would make sense (e.g. I suppose the kernel version is at least similar, so finit_module syscall has to be changed back to init_module).
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Okay, I respect your decision. One bug to report is external SD card. It doesn't get mounted in fstab, but it gets detected as dev/block/platforms3c-sdhci.2 (if that is the sdcard) without any problems. I'll look into the fstab and add some mount point for sdcard and see if i can make it to work.
Dev settings menu is multiple tap on build number and works without any issue, WiFi works, RIL works, haven't tested the camera, calls work, everything is fine and dandy. Once the SDcard problem is fixed, it is good for daily driving needs.
The GPS 'Glitch' you talk about is not a glitch per say. It is supposed to help with GPS somehow (see this wikipedia article to feed your brain information). And as a little tip, after the first boot, just reboot once to get 3G/LTE/Whatever if you're not near WiFi. Smooth runner, daily driver candidate.

mop09737 said:
Thanks Pan for your work! I will try it.
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Hi Pan wich version of Opengaps should I install? The 7.0 android version?
Thanks
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7.0 ARM yes, Pico or Nano are recommended

Very nice work p.a.n. It's already mostly working and very smooth.
Yeah i can confirm, external SD card is not avialable in system. I found another one too, com.android.phone process is crashing when entering dialer/settings/ call settings/call barring.
Pardon my nebulous language without logcats but I noticed one thing about that camera crashes. For me, it's often happening when i try to launch app with camera access and there is another one(or more) in recents menu which had accessed camera. Clearing all apps in recents can bring back access to camera but sometimes only reboot can help, hard to reproduce exactly same scenario. Fast opening and switching beetween diffrent apps with access to camera preview (eg cm cam, googlecam, camerazoom, instagram, fb messanger) can quicly cause these crashes too. Maybe there is some kind of dependency/lock / timming or ram management issue which causes that. Thanks again for great work.

I confirm SD card is mor available. SMS is working, GPS also.
Is not possible to setup weather source for clock widget.
Is not possible to change battery icon
Thanks.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using XDA-Developers mobile app

p.a.n said:
@limjh16 what do you expect from building the kernel? There some important fixes there, but it doesn`t make much sense without the rest.
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Well I was tired from studying and wanted to take a break
Nothing more than just a little experiment.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using XDA Labs

God damnit, hate to be the first one.
Could any one please test the front camera ?
NVM: Crashed once, working now

can i install this rom On gt i9300???
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

FaySAL Majoka said:
can i install this rom On gt i9300???
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no.

Hi Pan! I just wanna say, "thanks" for all your hard work for this device. I've been using your builds ever since winxuser switched phones. You're doing great work, keep it up!
Cheers,
eages.

FaySAL Majoka said:
can i install this rom On gt i9300???
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If you want a brick then go ahead. Otherwise get the i9305.

Android 9.0 Pie Now Rolling Out (Update Pulled)

Hey everyone
Very glad to announce that the Android Pie 9.0 Update is now rolling out to Razer Phone 1 devices right now!
I personally want to thank you all for being so patient, I know this was a long time coming but thank you for holding on and sticking with the team.
Now go get your pie update!
PSA: Game Booster is broken.
I'll get this passed on asap but for now just reset game booster
(System settings>game booster> tap the reset icon on the top right hand corner) and don't change any settings for now.
EDIT 2: The update has been temporarily pulled due to the Game Booster issue.
I'll let you all know when the rollout starts again.
EDIT 3: Update is live again folks! However there's an issue with the do not disturb function if you have it on its making the camera force close.
It's been reported and hopefully we'll see a fix soon.

When I try launch game there is black screen, I can hear the sounds and play but the screen is black....

I just received the update as well in US

I just got the update. not happy at all. Don't like the new UI but even worse games don't work. Black screen and also the camera app crashes every time i try to open it. Doing a factory reset hasn't helped either.

raynor1985 said:
I just got the update. not happy at all. Don't like the new UI but even worse games don't work. Black screen and also the camera app crashes every time i try to open it. Doing a factory reset hasn't helped either.
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Mine updated first thing this morning. Dont mind the new UI and not had issues with the camera (Google Apk or the Razer camera) but like you no games.
I did as some mentioned above and reset Game Booster and didnt touch the settings on it also put Cortex on as well. All my games work now but theyre all set to what ever Booster defaults are.
The only other thing ive noticed is i now get 4G+ which i didnt before.

download link?
Flashed stock just for the download and no update. wasted my time. flashed LOS 16 again.

Can't open camera after upgrading to 9.0 .
has to use facebook messenger to take photos !
Google Chrome crash all the time !
damn stupid phone.

leepc said:
Can't open camera after upgrading to 9.0 .
has to use facebook messenger to take photos !
Google Chrome crash all the time !
damn stupid phone.
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Everything was working apart from games when i first did the update. Thought something might have messed up so i did a master reset on my phone. Everything still works even games with the booster reset tweak. Put the google camera apk on as well as better options than the stock Razer camere app and thats fine too.
(Update - just resetting Booster worked for a while then the games stopped displaying again so ive disabled Booster now and everything is working as it should be)

Don't suppose anyone has the update backed up for us poor people who missed it

This

Nothing to announce just yet I'm afraid everyone.
Soon as I know something I'll let you all know on the usual channels.

Update available

cobben said:
Update available
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Most things seem to work, do not have a simcard in it to test with.
Only problem so far:
Razer Camera app & Gcam FC.
Open Camera works with back lens, FC when switching to front lens.
Clearing app data does not help.
Reinstalling Gcam does not help.
Razer Camera cannot be uninstalled.
??
Edit:
Left it alone for awhile, and all the camera apps started working.
??

Should have updated the security patch to September 2019

Can someone capture the ota link or zip please?

I updated before they pulled it and no new update now. Game booster still black screens games.
Anyone installed new firmware and game booster working?

Here's the OTA link: https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../3d911fb507d6efdf1cf66552a5f15a3a8f465dba.zip

anyone can boot twrp with the new update? I need to extract the boot.img for magisk and it's not working for me D:

I hope some enlightened dev can pull the useful bits from this update (if it is working) and use that to fix the quirks on phh's Pie treble build. I never got the camera working with it (I can live with the BT bug)

guillermohs9 said:
I hope some enlightened dev can pull the useful bits from this update (if it is working) and use that to fix the quirks on phh's Pie treble build. I never got the camera working with it (I can live with the BT bug)
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this build of camera work fine for me MGC_6.1.021_RP1_V1.3.2-BSG. it is in the forum (don't know the exact address). The only con I have with the pie is that the battery drains fast (6% in 8 hours standby) or it might be my phone which needs a battery change.
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Kantana said:
I updated before they pulled it and no new update now. Game booster still black screens games.
Anyone installed new firmware and game booster working?
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game booster working on mine with new update.

Best Android 12 Rom So Far

Hi guys,
after almost 2 years with MIUI, Android 10 and Android 11 with MIUI 12.5, I would like to try a custom Android 12 rom before selling the device after the summer and buy something new.
As usual, there's a lot of custom roms. Even with A12. Onestly I would prefer to focus on a specific rom avoiding to try all the possibilities, this phone is my daily driver at the moment.
So I can see CrDroid, Evolution, Aosp, Voltage, Arrow... etc etc. Maybe seems a newbie question but which could be not a best rom but the first one to be tried ? Mainly I'm using the X3 to make call ( of course ), surf the web ( of course ), take photos to my children ( so the quality is very important for me ) and use it for GPS ( Mapy CZ and Here Maps ). With an eye on the battery duration...
Which A12 rom could be a good initial attempt ? Not so hard to be installed, I don't want to spend hours in bootloops or issues eheheh.

PYCON said:
Hi guys,
after almost 2 years with MIUI, Android 10 and Android 11 with MIUI 12.5, I would like to try a custom Android 12 rom before selling the device after the summer and buy something new.
As usual, there's a lot of custom roms. Even with A12. Onestly I would prefer to focus on a specific rom avoiding to try all the possibilities, this phone is my daily driver at the moment.
So I can see CrDroid, Evolution, Aosp, Voltage, Arrow... etc etc. Maybe seems a newbie question but which could be not a best rom but the first one to be tried ? Mainly I'm using the X3 to make call ( of course ), surf the web ( of course ), take photos to my children ( so the quality is very important for me ) and use it for GPS ( Mapy CZ and Here Maps ). With an eye on the battery duration...
Which A12 rom could be a good initial attempt ? Not so hard to be installed, I don't want to spend hours in bootloops or issues eheheh.
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If you want something stable with good long-time support, there's only Lineage, ArrowOS and maybe AospExtended
If you take lot of photos, ArrowOS offers you unlimited storage in Google Photos. In Lineage you can add that feature using a Magisk module.
I went with ArrowOS for the unlimited photo storage and a few pixel features.
I have found a phone app that automatically records all calls and a Gcam that makes great photos.
Everything is better than MIUI really

On other phones, I was happy using AOSP Ext and CrDroid. What about this last one? I can start trying Arrow maybe...

PYCON said:
On other phones, I was happy using AOSP Ext and CrDroid. What about this last one? I can start trying Arrow maybe...
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CrDroid should be good as well.
The developer made a break of 2 - 3 because he gave the phone to his wife but now it continues to receive regular updates.

Noter2017 said:
If you want something stable with good long-time support, there's only Lineage, ArrowOS and maybe AospExtended
If you take lot of photos, ArrowOS offers you unlimited storage in Google Photos. In Lineage you can add that feature using a Magisk module.
I went with ArrowOS for the unlimited photo storage and a few pixel features.
I have found a phone app that automatically records all calls and a Gcam that makes great photos.
Everything is better than MIUI really
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Could you provide the name of that phone app that records calls and gcam which makes great photos?
I am looking for exactly the same thing as the op. Right now on stock but it is so sloow

no1geek said:
Could you provide the name of that phone app that records calls and gcam which makes great photos?
I am looking for exactly the same thing as the op. Right now on stock but it is so sloow
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Here you go
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AOSP dialer has to be installed in Magisk.
GPay SQLiteFix is a fix to make Google pay work, has to be flashed in Magisk as well.
After installing Aspen (GCam mod) create a folder called ConfigsSettings8 on your phone's storage and paste the aspen2.xml there.
Start Aspen, double click on the black area of the screen and select aspen2.xml

@Noter2017: I'm curious here about your setup, so a few questions?
Is Bluetooth working alright with external audio devices?
Does GPS work reliably?
Is general wireless connectivity stable?
Can advanced reboot be enabled easily?
Is button navigation possible and can buttons be reversed?
I see you have Magisk, so no questions about rooting...

pnin said:
@Noter2017: I'm curious here about your setup, so a few questions?
Is Bluetooth working alright with external audio devices?
Does GPS work reliably?
Is general wireless connectivity stable?
Can advanced reboot be enabled easily?
Is button navigation possible and can buttons be reversed?
I see you have Magisk, so no questions about rooting...
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1) Bluetooth works fine for me. I use it with my Mi Band and a portable speaker. Personally I never had problems with Bluetooth, no matter which ROM I used.
2) I use GPS on a daily basis and it also works.
3) Works. With a speedtest get 400 Mbps on my 5 GHz WiFi at home (1 Gbps cable).
4) Can be enabled in Settings - Gestures
5) I use button navigation and didn't face any problems. You can revert the layout in Settings - Gestures - System navigation
Only problem I face after moving to ArrowOS 12.1 was that some backups made with Migrate didn't work. A few apps would crash immediately (Tailscale, for example) after starting (had to clear storage), my taxi app asked to verify my credit card again which didn't work. Had to remove and add the same card again.
Also customization is pretty much absent which might be a problem for some people.
I had a long free weekend, so I decided to spend a few hours upgrading. If the ArrowOS wouldn't have worked reliably, I would have changed ROMs to something else. ArrowOS 12 is EOL and I will stick with ArrowOS 12.1 till the end of the year. Really getting too old to do clean flashes all the time

I think CrDroid 12 (8.4) is superior. I use it with ANXcamera and Magisk