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Good afternoon Lenovo P2-community,
I bought the P2 this week and afterwards I realised , that the main developers wzedlare and EypCnn left to the Moto G5-community just in time.
What about other developers or those who want to become one, is there a chance to see continous builds of LineageOS e.g.?
It would be extremely sad if not..
Please update me - how are the odds for a revival of the P2 development?
Best regards
swatchfb
Edit:
It's done once and twice officially. Thanks @mikeioannina
Unless we get a Dev that takes donations or something like that.
I for one would donate for an official lineage OS.
swatchfb said:
Good afternoon Lenovo P2-community,
I bought the P2 this week and afterwards I realised , that the main developers wzedlare and EypCnn left to the Moto G5-community just in time.
What about other developers or those who want to become one, is there a chance to see continous builds of LineageOS e.g.?
It would by extremely sad if not..
Please update me - how are the odds for a revival of the P2 development?
Best regards
swatchfb
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Yes it's really sad to see a this much good device not having the development it deserves.Its competitor redmi note 4 which is inferior to p2 has a lot better development. I think this device isn't sold much like moto g5 plus and redmi note 4.Atleast here in India, sale is very less and other devices have been sold at least upto 100 times more.I am still skeptical about the development.P1 doesn't have a great development either.We have roms but they are buggy.Would have been nice to have wzedlare and egypcnn here
I would donate too...
Damn, why did they go to the Moto G5? It's clearly a downgrade -.-
swatchfb said:
I would donate too...
Damn, why did they go to the Moto G5? It's clearly a downgrade -.-
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Exactly Even I don't get it.And they had done so much work for 3-4 months,They almost gave us a stable rom.P2 is so much better than g5.If it would have been g5 plus i would have understood but g5!!!.I don't understand
Buy me a second P2 to dedicate to development and I will gladly continue the bringup to the point of full functionality. While I do have a P2 myself I can't afford messing with it too much as it's my work phone and I need it to be stable and reachable.
MrColdbird said:
Buy me a second P2 to dedicate to development and I will gladly continue the bringup to the point of full functionality. While I do have a P2 myself I can't afford messing with it too much as it's my work phone and I need it to be stable and reachable.
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You can compile builds brother,we are here to test .I will be your tester.But please be there for at least 1-2 years.
Just like I do with my mi 4,I test builds and the developer has been there for at least 2 years.
But plz do something for this awesome device:crying:
I'm definitely not going to do "blind-runs" and jeopardize other people's devices with builds I haven't tested myself.
Not only is it irresponsible but also extremely slow to do, even with a group of dedicated testers.
As if we knew how many people are interested in it, one could think about a collection of money.
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I'm definitely not going to do "blind-runs" and jeopardize other people's devices with builds I haven't tested myself.
Not only is it irresponsible but also extremely slow to do, even with a group of dedicated testers.
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How unstable can they be , if calling and internet works,I don't mind flashing that build.If we want something for our device,we will have to do this.
Maybe yes that can be slow,I agree.But I don't think we will be able to raise that much money to buy a new device altogether.I am still a student I can't contribute money
If you trust me enough to do this then you can always hit the Donate button linked to my XDA profile.
Just make sure you leave a note on your donation telling me what the money is meant to be used for.
If enough money accumulates for a amazon.de order of an P2, then I can just straight out buy a development device there.
That is the beauty of XDA though, if enough people want it, and each of those people dishes out 5-10 bucks, then financing something like this is easy.
MrColdbird said:
If you trust me enough to do this then you can always hit the Donate button linked to my XDA profile.
Just make sure you leave a note on your donation telling me what the money is meant to be used for.
If enough money accumulates for a amazon.de order of an P2, then I can just straight out buy a development device there.
That is the beauty of XDA though, if enough people want it, and each of those people dishes out 5-10 bucks, then financing something like this is easy.
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Let's see if we are able to ,but I don't think there are enough people to contribute.We will have to wait for a new developer.Hope he comes soon....
Your zuk z1 is in working condition?I mean you use it or not?
I would spend 20 bucks.
Maybe we should do a survey to see how many would follow
reality1234 said:
Let's see if we are able to ,but I don't think there are enough people to contribute.We will have to wait for a new developer.Hope he comes soon....
Your zuk z1 is in working condition?I mean you use it or not?
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It's working fine and is currently in the possession of my wife.
Although I must admit she isn't the easiest-going woman and the device has seen its fair share of scruff marks since I've handed it over to her.
Hey why start from scratch when we have almost stable builds... Just ask permission for maintainer or just fork the changes. We already have a couple of working ROMs that are risk free. If you could, then try developing on it. Improve it.
Like everyone said raising money for a device is very difficult and slow. Try making modifications to the official RR or unofficial LOS. You'll receive donations for that I'm pretty sure you will.
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Hey why start from scratch when we have almost stable builds... Just ask permission for maintainer or just fork the changes. We already have a couple of working ROMs that are risk free. If you could, then try developing on it. Improve it.
Like everyone said raising money for a device is very difficult and slow. Try making modifications to the official RR or unofficial LOS. You'll receive donations for that I'm pretty sure you will.
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Very well said ,this makes more sense. Why do extra work when wzedlare and eypCnn worked for 3 months,just continue from that.And they have already said that any developer can continue from their work. :good:
Yep, sad to see a great phone like the P2 no longer have any development on XDA
Having said that the latest Nougat stock ROM is pretty good, especially in its deodexed version, and rooted. Some tweaks are missing though, like Ambient Display (is there really no way to add that with an APK ?) and customization of the pressed on the HOME button (like double-press). Now that the source code is out would it take a lot of work for a developer to add some of these tweaks ?
Okay the two Turkish devs we had left, but this is going nowhere. While donations are always appreciated asking for money to continue the development is a matter of bad taste imo. I can try to continue the Resurrection Remix builds. Also porting roms from Redmi Note 4X (SD625) should be pretty easy as the hardware is very similar. I had ported thousands of roms for Oukitel K6000 Pro, I was the first who brought Nougat to this phone (Dec 2016, when the official Nougat arrived 5 months later) and then back in time the community was in the same position lacking development so I was just driven to try it by myself. After all source code and device tree are all there, almost anyone with a basic knowledge and free time can build a rom. Give it time and I'm sure that new devs will appear.
Meanwhile I opened a new test builds thread
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Okay the two Turkish devs we had left, but this is going nowhere. While donations are always appreciated asking for money to continue the development is a matter of bad taste imo. I can try to continue the Resurrection Remix builds. Also porting roms from Redmi Note 4X (SD625) should be pretty easy as the hardware is very similar. I had ported thousands of roms for Oukitel K6000 Pro, I was the first who brought Nougat to this phone (Dec 2016, when the official Nougat arrived 5 months later) and then back in time the community was in the same position lacking development so I was just driven to try it by myself. After all source code and device tree are all there, almost anyone with a basic knowledge and free time can build a rom. Give it time and I'm sure that new devs will appear.
Meanwhile I opened a new test builds thread
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It is easy to port from Redmi 4.I know it because I ported some roms in the past.
Take etc/firmware from p2.
Take kernel(zimage) from p2
Take fstab.qcom and ueventd.qcom.rc from p2.Then it will boot but you will have a lot of bugs.It is nice to see someone hustling for a rom.If you want to port from redmi note 4, you should also take whole /vendor folder.Good luck.
In @franciscofranco 's tweet today he's gone after Xiaomi and Google full swing! AndroidPolice followed suite and released an article on the lack of sources for our device.
So I'm thinking this is prime time to extract some sources.
What I suggest is everyone tag Xiaomi and google in a reply to his tweet, and retweet + like all his tweets. We can put a lot of pressure!
Links:
His tweet: https://twitter.com/franciscof_1990/status/953390057892835329
AndroidPolice article:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/16/xiaomi-still-hasnt-released-kernel-sources-mi-a1/
Why did you think it was a good idea to post another thread for the same topic?
Xiaomi just jerking us I feel like a fool to buy that phone better I brought moto g5s+
done supporting him. hopefully the source code will be release soon
cherryb8844 said:
Xiaomi just jerking us I feel like a fool to buy that phone better I brought moto g5s+
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Moto is far worse company now.
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Here's my tweet... Please retweet this folks, as much as possible.
https://goo.gl/sJm11w
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I re tweet the Francisco Franco too
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Moto is far worse company now.
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Agreed
Retweeted already.
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Mods :- I am assuming this is something which is allowed, going by the Z2 force thread linked at bottom of post. Please PM me if we are breaking any rules.
Hello All,
Most of you might be using my custom ROMs for griffin, I have been working on this device for 2 years but now I can’t see that this device is no longer progressing these days. sadly I can’t keep the device update as much as the old days due to school and stuffs… but I’m still working on lineage 15 & 16. now my friend ( @DD3Boh ) is interested to help in the development to bring up a cool kernel for us and help me in ROMs and more…
He worked on creating trees and bringing LineageOS to almost same msm8996 device (Lenovo Zuk Z2) even though he ported fully working kernel 4.4 to his device. Now, we think he should own the Moto Z to continue developing for it and give us a better kernel support.
Hence @TobiPeter created a PayPal pool and we are aiming for 180euro.
here's a link to the pool.
https://paypal.me/pools/c/89iKcS097m
This has been done before with the Moto Z2 force. In Z2 force's case the device got support once it was delivered to the dev. We are lucky to have DD3Boh, but you know official P roms is coming.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/z2-force/how-to/z2-developement-thread-getting-device-t3727688
Questions, queries, comments? Feel free to post.
Thanks. :highfive:
UPDATE 11Nov: @DD3Boh received the money and ordered device.
I'm more than happy to chip in some money to get this dev a phone. The continued development of the MotoZ is always welcome, and certainly appreciated, especially now that the official support has ended.
we found a cheaper device and pool goal changed to 150EUR
but this device deal ends in next 2 days
we hope to reach the goal
only 15EUR to go...
thanks for contributions guys
erfanoabdi said:
we found a cheaper device and pool goal changed to 150EUR
but this device deal ends in next 2 days
we hope to reach the goal
only 15EUR to go...
thanks for contributions guys
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Link says it's all gone Pete tong!? ?
Sent from my Moto Z using XDA Labs
O l l i X said:
Link says it's all gone Pete tong!?
Sent from my Moto Z using XDA Labs
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That's because we reached the goal!
The dev should have his device in about 2 weeks.
So, hello everyone. Yesterday the money pool reached the goal so it has been closed and I got the money immediately, so I've already ordered the phone. It'll arrive in about 15-25 days. Thank you to everyone who donated to let me buy this device, I hope to do a good job on it and to enjoy meanwhile. And let's #MakeGriffinGreatAgain
Just some hours ago I got, finally I would say, the device. Already flashed TWRP and @erfanoabdi's lineage build with my kernel. It's running really good and I'm enjoying this phone already. Now I can finally seriously work on this phone, thank you everyone for the support and I 'm sure you won't be disappointed
The pool has been removed
Can Chinese paypal users donate him through this pool？
News any? ?
Fujiwara_ said:
Can Chinese paypal users donate him through this pool？
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The pool has been closed some time ago as we reached the goal.
Now me and erfan are working together on this device to make it better day by day
If you still want to donate, you should be able to do so to my PayPal, but you don't need to, don't worry
Hi
Excited for v15 pro? There are many discounts available on all online retailers currently.
I am tempted to buy it for my mother after watching unbox therapy video. Camera seems nice.
Share your thoughts on device and performance here.
PS: anyone with device can share *#07# info and install treble app to check if it supports seamless updates would be nice.
I have it on pre-order, to be delivered by 6th. Its a decent device for its price. I shall share more once i get my hands on the device.
As far as development is concerned, please dont expect anything as Vivo does not releases any source. You can take a look at the Nex forums, users kept waiting and waiting and nothing from Vivo so dont keep any hopes. The only good part of this device is the Camera and OS based on Pie out of the box which till now is only available in the Nex dual screen edition and the V15/V15 Pro, later devices like the Nex/V11 Pro may get it later this year.
Got it for INR 26525.00 from flipkart.
KHARISHK said:
Got it for INR 26525.00 from flipkart.
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Nice .. share your feedback once you have the device in hand :good:
Funk Wizard said:
Nice .. share your feedback once you have the device in hand :good:
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Sure bro ty.
Also hope we can have a list of customization using adb.
KHARISHK said:
Sure bro ty.
Also hope we can have a list of customization using adb.
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I shall share my tips and tricks on a separate thread once i set up the device :good:
Edit: [Guide] Vivo 1818 | Mods, Tips & Tricks | Pro Setup without Root
KHARISHK said:
Sure bro ty.
Also hope we can have a list of customization using adb.
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Hi
I have a Vivo V5s/ Vivo 1601.
How can i root it??
I am a newbie and don't know much about these.
Please help.
Hi
I was planning to buy this phone, but wanted to confirm that will there be a nice development (custom ROMs, custom kernels, mods, etc) for this phone in future or will it be abandoned like note 6 pro.
And also who all developers got their phone.
Thank u.
[email protected] said:
Hi
I was planning to buy this phone, but wanted to confirm that will there be a nice development (custom ROMs, custom kernels, mods, etc) for this phone in future or will it be abandoned like note 6 pro.
And also who all developers got their phone.
Thank u.
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Unfortunately, none of us can predict the future. So the situation can turn out any way, irrespective of what people can guarantee.
The signs of this device getting plenty of development love is good. But there is absolutely nothing that guarantees developers won't abandon it.
a.cid said:
Unfortunately, none of us can predict the future. So the situation can turn out any way, irrespective of what people can guarantee.
The signs of this device getting plenty of development love is good. But there is absolutely nothing that guarantees developers won't abandon it.
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Well, yeah u are right, my brother had a redmi note 5 pro and now all developers shifted to poco f1.
It was a little dumb question btw
[email protected] said:
Well, yeah u are right, my brother had a redmi note 5 pro and now all developers shifted to poco f1.
It was a little dumb question btw
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If that is the case, you can expect a Poco F2 to come out in Q3 2019 as well. So that will always happen, since Poco will likely release an affordable flagship. There will be some migration happening then as well.