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[BOUNTY] $$$ for CyanogenMod on the Samsung Galaxy S2

NOTE: donations will be deposited directly to the DEV that comes up with a proven working ROM
[OP] will keep the To Be Donator list updated frequently as people pledges their donation.
The Samsung Galaxy S2 is one of the best and maybe the most powerfull phone at the moment. It will surely be a very popular phone. We really need to get the most popular Custom ROM, CyanogenMod on the device.
This is a bounty thread for developers who are able to provide a stable CM7+ CyanogenMod ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S2
I'm gonna start with $20
Please write the amount you are willing to donate in this thread.
Bounty: $3394
Go here for a list of all donators.
There are Nightly Builds available for the SG2 now.

Put me in for $50
This is how much i hate touchwiz

Im in UK, but ill donate the equivalent of $30.
I hate TouchWiz too. CM would be awesome...if not CM then just any stock Android ROM.

I'm a poor student so $5
(when it is ported, please send a pm regarding it, I'll probably forget)

$10 here......
If fully hardware accelerated that is

$20 here, but hardware acceleration is a must!

$20 here too

CM with working camera, Voodoo Sound and comparable battery life - will earn a $20 from me

FYI, you can just get a different launcher instead of touchwiz, but CM7 doesnt have the hardware acceleration that samsung has in several apps (including the browser) Trust me, browsing will never be as fast with CM as it is with samsungs tweaks. With the SGS1 there was a lot to tweak, but samsung learnt from its mistakes. (see ext4 by default, no bootlock, flash, better gps, etc)
I will put down another 10 only if it will be custom cm made for the sgs2, incorporating all the current hardware accelerations. (which will be unlikely since CM uses android source and not samsung source)
Just look at the difference in quality between custom 2.3.3 roms based on official firmware and cm7.1 for SGS1..
Edit: Please note in OP that my donation requires samsungs tweaks in browser acceleration etc and audio/video codex. (this is not the case for the SGS1, my reason not to use cm7/miui) (nice everyone is updating their post with these requirements, im not the only one!)

I put down your offer, because we all want the full experience with hardware acceleration, if possible.

As much as I like CM, I got really used to MIUI. I am really hoping for an MIUI port.

Good for you, but that doesn't belong in the bounty thread

djsaad1 said:
As much as I like CM, I got really used to MIUI. I am really hoping for an MIUI port.
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MIUI is based on CM
GS2 cant get MIUI unless it gets CM first

ok, who is going to be the main lead in this operation, and what are your plans to handle the donations?
and who / where is the donation going to
we need all that answered before we can approve this [BOUNTY] otherwise this is going to be locked down real soon

Go on then I will donate $50 too.

AllGamer said:
ok, who is going to be the main lead in this operation, and what are your plans to handle the donations?
and who / where is the donation going to
we need all that answered before we can approve this [BOUNTY] otherwise this is going to be locked down real soon
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Well, I wanted to know here how to get CM support for the Samsung Galaxy S2, someone suggested that I should open a Bounty Thread.
If we got a large enough amount together and a dev is interested in programing CM for the S2 then we would donate the money via paypal. I would write to every participant in this thread and check with the dev if he received the money. Would that be ok with you?

ro-mann said:
Well, I wanted to know here how to get CM support for the Samsung Galaxy S2, someone suggested that I should open a Bounty Thread.
If we got a large enough amount together and a dev is interested in programing CM for the S2 then we would donate the money via paypal. I would write to every participant in this thread and check with the dev if he received the money. Would that be ok with you?
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I would suggest from past bounties that the best way to do this would be to keep this going "as is" and wait until a developer has produced such a ROM, and then users can choose to donate to them via their donate link. The OP can be edited to reflect this and point them to the person who got it running on the device.
Since it's not done yet though, no money should be getting paid around (for your own protection since it might not happen), and there will obviously be no specific recipient at this point until the task is achieved...

Well, that's ok with me. So we'll keep collecting donators until a dev comes up with a ROM.

Stitch! said:
FYI, you can just get a different launcher instead of touchwiz, but CM7 doesnt have the hardware acceleration that samsung has in several apps (including the browser) Trust me, browsing will never be as fast with CM as it is with samsungs tweaks. With the SGS1 there was a lot to tweak, but samsung learnt from its mistakes. (see ext4 by default, no bootlock, flash, better gps, etc)
I will put down another 10 only if it will be custom cm made for the sgs2, incorporating all the current hardware accelerations. (which will be unlikely since CM uses android source and not samsung source)
Just look at the difference in quality between custom 2.3.3 roms based on official firmware and cm7.1 for SGS1..
May the fourth be with you all
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it's pretty obvious that samsung DOES have the browser hardware accelerated. i know the original galaxy s got updated by samsung to do the same hardware graphics update. but how do we know for sure, is there any official info on this?

ragiut1 said:
Put me in for $50
This is how much i hate touchwiz
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Get LauncherPro then?

Lets help emwno, he's helped us

I want to thank all users who have been generous in helping get the device to developers. It looks like we have one on the way now and I am looking forward to seeing new custom rom options. However I want to remind everyone that emwno has been with us from the beginning and is responsible for getting us a working recovery and striving to improve on the device and porting of Roms. He has limited resources but continues to work to improve our options as users. For him to proceed he needs help with testers but particularly with getting a device so he can test. I want to thank Speedy Gonzalez for working to set up a donation site and to arrange to buy and send a device to emwno. We are at $120.00 now. Can we all help?

rfb813 said:
I want to thank all users who have been generous in helping get the device to developers. It looks like we have one on the way now and I am looking forward to seeing new custom rom options. However I want to remind everyone that emwno has been with us from the beginning and is responsible for getting us a working recovery and striving to improve on the device and porting of Roms. He has limited resources but continues to work to improve our options as users. For him to proceed he needs help with testers but particularly with getting a device so he can test. I want to thank Speedy Gonzalez for working to set up a donation site and to arrange to buy and send a device to emwno. We are at $120.00 now. Can we all help?
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BOOM BAM: 4MD51980KL488070Y
Agreed. This guy is doing quality work, responding to questions/feedback, and giving us things to flash. AND HE DOESN'T HAVE IT YET. Let's get him some hardware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/donatetome.php?u=4238752

@rfb813 thankyou for your appreciation and your consistent donations, im glad you like my work @elmwood thankyou for that huge donation

very close to get emwno a new N8 we have $217 already :fingers-crossed:

Thanks, let see if we can put it over the top. A little extra: 93B206827B439332N

Man, to have a kernel dev and a rom dev both, this fast into the device lifecycle?
6XM99503S6802261X

we have $288.50 for Emwno N8 hope we get the rest by the end of the week :fingers-crossed:

Speedy Gonzalez said:
we have $288.50 for Emwno N8 hope we get the rest by the end of the week :fingers-crossed:
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OK its now $300.00 8MU6359448391723H. Lets go users! We're almost there!

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Here's a little more to add to the pot

Thanks to all who have donated. We are almost there and we need to get this over the top.
Remember Emwno was responsible for the CWM recovery we are using today, the CWM that is in the Note 8.0 Toolkit. He is working on developing an OC kernel for the Note 8 as well as the TWRP recovery. In addition he has been trying to port CM10 over to our device. All this without a device of his own to work on and test. He has been working with some of us to resolve the problems but with a device he could self test. Just think of it within a few weeks we could have a TWRP recovery, a new overclockable kernel, and some ported ROMs. Emwno along with Beantown106 would open up our device to new levels of customization. We have less than $100.00 to go. Lets get over top this week!

some more 48P0850760629935V

Another little bit the the cause 0714232551279951L
Thanks for the work you have done already

I wasn't going to donate because I'm not a fan of CM 10 on galaxy note products, hate to lose my pen features. But I wanted to show my appreciation for your hard work. I couldn't give much but I'm sure this will help you get closer. Thanks for everything
Confirmation number: 48D49480KE715921P

$351.22 very close they have the N8 at Amazon for $399 free shipping and I don't know how much to ship to Pakistan when I checked Fedex was $90 international saver but maybe $40 by USPS parcel ? I don't know

Just hit donate button but found out that PayPal does not support Thailand yet. Is there any other way to donate? I maybe able to give some more for him.

shaoran_ojo said:
Just hit donate button but found out that PayPal does not support Thailand yet. Is there any other way to donate? I maybe able to give some more for him.
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The donation goes through a site set up by Speedy Gonzales here in the US. Thanks for considering the donation. Go ahead and make it.

This thread suddenly become slow like the whole N8 forums

Speedy Gonzalez said:
This thread suddenly become slow like the whole N8 forums
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It's because we haven't gotten any love from developers.. All I want is for Beanstown to drop 1 just 1 rom. Then I would be super happy

The devs do love us.
emwo has
- gotten Clockwork working
- gotten a bootable custom kernel off the ground
That's two major pieces of dev love for a device the fellow doesn't have yet.
In progress he has
- twrp recovery, which is very nice
- a fully functional kernel
- a CM10.1 for those who want it.
If you're not into cm10.1, that's cool, but you won't have to run it to get mileage out of that kernel and the recovery.
But this dev has done so much for our devices and shown us much love. and thank you for contributing.

Yes Emwno has been supporting us since the beginning. We are almost there to get him a device. We need another $100.00 to get the device and send it to him. With the device in hand he should be able to finis the TWRP Recovery, get us a new OC Kernel and Port Roms from the Note 2 and Note 10.1. We supported Beans lets get this finished and get all the goodness for our device. He has demonstrated that he wants to be a part of our community.

Verizon model ROM

If I was to start developing a custom ROM based on the latest ICS update for the Verizon model of this tab.... would there be any interest ?
I ask because last time I took the time to do one for the Verizon SGT (the original 7 incher) there wasn't that many interested "customers"

NRGZ28 said:
If I was to start developing a custom ROM based on the latest ICS update for the Verizon model of this tab.... would there be any interest ?
I ask because last time I took the time to do one for the Verizon SGT (the original 7 incher) there wasn't that many interested "customers"
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I would be interested.

NRGZ28 said:
If I was to start developing a custom ROM based on the latest ICS update for the Verizon model of this tab.... would there be any interest ?
I ask because last time I took the time to do one for the Verizon SGT (the original 7 incher) there wasn't that many interested "customers"
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Even if there isn't many "customers", there's always the personal challenge, satisfaction and self education Good luck
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UpInTheAir said:
Even if there isn't many "customers", there's always the personal challenge, satisfaction and self education Good luck
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True.. I'm past all that at this level and it would just be the time invested. Sounds like it's not worth it. Heh

If you did an ICS rom and left the samsung video player in it and added ntfssd (from google play) or compiled your own kernel that would use exfat or ntfs (TWRP supports exfat) for large file support I would test it.
Keep in mind ICS has been done, but If you could figure out how to port kitkat to the device that would be awesome. Kitkat is supposed to have great memory management. The galaxy 7.7 only has 1GB of system memory HC ran fast on it but ICS is a bit of a dog even with bloat removed and tweaks applied. The port of PAC rom to the i815 gave me issues due to incorrectly signed files in the rom.

I haven't checked the general section on this forum for a long time but yea I still use my i815 quite often and the lack of stock development has been extremely disappointing. But there is a lot of driver work afaik particularly with the IR and LTE. I don't have a data plan on my i815 anymore but from time to time I may throw my phone SIM in there. Biggest thing for me over the other ROMs is having the function of the full hardware. I personally dislike touchwiz thoroughly with the exception of multiwindow features
So yea
I would definitely be interested there are likely a few others who would be interested but don't frequent this section. The i815 info thread I think still have a decent number of subscribers.

NRGZ28 said:
True.. I'm past all that at this level and it would just be the time invested. Sounds like it's not worth it. Heh
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Any further thought on this?

Currently I use in my car as a glorified GPS I might do a rom for it in the future

[HDX 8.9] Let's get CM

Hi guys,
I come to request your help to get CyanogenMod 10.1 to work on the HDX 8.9.
Reading the cyanogen wiki, I get a booting ROM with logcat but no more (I get the pretty cyanogen logo sometimes ...)
I hope some of you can help with their knowledges in order to get a working CM on our beautiful tablet
I attached the current logcat, and you can find a git repo with device files here : https://github.com/ptiwee/android_device_amazon_apollo
There is for sure huge mistakes/leaks, so don't hesitate to help.
Thanks

I wasn't aware that with the locked bootloader that you could flash cm due to not being able to flash a kernel to run with cm.
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donharden2002 said:
I wasn't aware that with the locked bootloader that you could flash cm due to not being able to flash a kernel to run with cm.
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Stock kernel + CM ROM = Hybrid OS. It is doable.
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count me in
Mineturtle33 said:
Stock kernel + CM ROM = Hybrid OS. It is doable.
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So let's do it! One happy community working in concert to get cm working on our beloved device! I'm in and will help in any way possible.

I can try to build it. I don't have a HDX 8.9, I have an HD 2, so I can't test it. And I'm awful at building ROMS :silly: but I can try, and I know how.

AOSP user
Just an observation regarding my experience with my (7") HDX, to date. And I'm all for a CM or AOSP custom ROM. Like some other folks, I got the Kindle Hdx to have a good hardware platform at a good price - I can live without an Amazon OS!
I'm not a developer, just a tinkerer -- 'tho I've had a fair amount of experience playing with various ROMs -- on Motorola devices and now on my new Kindle HDX -- with a BIG THANKS to HashCode for his ongoing work with SafeStrap!
My current "ROM of choice" -- and the one that works best (and most stable) for me is Cpasjuste's aosp-4.2.2-thor-0 (ver. 0) first published in the HDX Android Development forum on January 12th. (Note: ]NOT his 4.2.2-1 published Jan. 24)
BTW: Another BIG THANKS to Cpasjuste for all his work, too! and thanks to all contributors!
I have tried all the thor-gapps roms available to date -- but the AOSP 4.2.2-0 works best for me. PS: I only use Kindle reader and that works on all roms if you use the older version that LinearEquation links to in different forums. If you use a lot of Amazon services -- well that's what the Amazon OS is for!
PS: for the few users who have commented on Google Maps not rendering properly on any of the Amazon based or thor-gapps roms -- it works perfectly on the aosp 4.2.2-0 rom that I mention above.

[instructor sa;50018690]Just an observation regarding my experience with my (7") HDX, to date. And I'm all for a CM or AOSP custom ROM. Like some other folks, I got the Kindle Hdx to have a good hardware platform at a good price - I can live without an Amazon OS!
I'm not a developer, just a tinkerer -- 'tho I've had a fair amount of experience playing with various ROMs -- on Motorola devices and now on my new Kindle HDX -- with a BIG THANKS to HashCode for his ongoing work with SafeStrap!
My current "ROM of choice" -- and the one that works best (and most stable) for me is Cpasjuste's aosp-4.2.2-thor-0 (ver. 0) first published in the HDX Android Development forum on January 12th. (Note: ]NOT his 4.2.2-1 published Jan. 24)
BTW: Another BIG THANKS to Cpasjuste for all his work, too! and thanks to all contributors!
I have tried all the thor-gapps roms available to date -- but the AOSP 4.2.2-0 works best for me. PS: I only use Kindle reader and that works on all roms if you use the older version that LinearEquation links to in different forums. If you use a lot of Amazon services -- well that's what the Amazon OS is for!
PS: for the few users who have commented on Google Maps not rendering properly on any of the Amazon based or thor-gapps roms -- it works perfectly on the aosp 4.2.2-0 rom that I mention above.[/QUOTE]
So is there any downside? Random crashes? Reboots? Anything?
@Mineturtle I'd be happy to test ish for you. What do u need?

Cpasjuste's AOSP ROM for thor has differing issues by release. Release 0 has rendering issues in which almost all games, youtube, and music were unbearable to use/broken. Release 1 has some rendering issues still, but youtube and music work. However, release 1 also has the quirk that no system dialog boxes actually render on screen. You can touch them, but you can't see them. It's weird and kind of frustrating, but do-able.

Ptiwee said:
Hi guys,
I come to request your help to get CyanogenMod 10.1 to work on the HDX 8.9.
Reading the cyanogen wiki, I get a booting ROM with logcat but no more (I get the pretty cyanogen logo sometimes ...)
I hope some of you can help with their knowledges in order to get a working CM on our beautiful tablet
I attached the current logcat, and you can find a git repo with device files here : https://github.com/ptiwee/android_device_amazon_apollo
There is for sure huge mistakes/leaks, so don't hesitate to help.
Thanks
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Looking at the logs it seems your primary problem is with the opengles drivers/libraries as it can't init opengles.

Cpasjuste said:
Looking at the logs it seems your primary problem is with the opengles drivers/libraries as it can't init opengles.
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So what do we do now? how can i help?

Lets push it harder
Guys i read through everything and i believe since this tablet blows the nexus out of the water.i think we should push kitkat i understand we need ot start somewhere and 10.1 is a great starter platform to get devlopers on it and ive been trying to get a starter rom to get this show on the road fo rmyself i think we should keep up this thread and submit it cm personally.:highfive::laugh:

wazedubstep said:
Guys i read through everything and i believe since this tablet blows the nexus out of the water.i think we should push kitkat i understand we need ot start somewhere and 10.1 is a great starter platform to get devlopers on it and ive been trying to get a starter rom to get this show on the road fo rmyself i think we should keep up this thread and submit it cm personally.:highfive::laugh:
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There is a thread about a bounty to unlock the boot loader. I think that's our best course of action. An unlocked boot loader gives us so many options. The bounty is for the 7 inch HDX but the hardware is almost identical I would be surprised if it didn't work for both. If we get the bounty high enough we could recruit some low level programmers to our cause.
This is my 69th post... hehe... I'm such a little kid at heart

gutts10 said:
There is a thread about a bounty to unlock the boot loader. I think that's our best course of action. An unlocked boot loader gives us so many options. The bounty is for the 7 inch HDX but the hardware is almost identical I would be surprised if it didn't work for both. If we get the bounty high enough we could recruit some low level programmers to our cause.
This is my 69th post... hehe... I'm such a little kid at heart
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In. That case its settled let's start a bounty page and get this show on the road :laugh::laugh:

wazerdub said:
In. That case its settled let's start a bounty page and get this show on the road :laugh::laugh:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2580428
here ya go... do a little pledge and lets see if we can get a potential programmer a free hdx on our behalf

Could someone make this CM possible

So I need to make some posts
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The bootloader is locked down pretty tightly. I do not think it'll ever be unlocked.
Root is possible on previous updates and may be possible soon on 14.3.2.2
But that's probably all we'll get
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Would work on safe strap if we ever get root. My 16 gig is full as it is though... safe strap made the available memory show too small

[BOUNTY][vk810] $135 KICKSTART KITKAT/LOLLIPOP ROM DEVELOPMENT

users of the vk810 are currently prepared to fork over $135+ to the Developer that produces a working L build, doesn't have to be 100%, but it needs to have the basics; data, GPS, wifi, etc... Any takers?
BOUNTY SET TO $135!!

Note: I sold the tablet and am no longer in the bounty. Sorry.

@adrianrom
Contact this guy.
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EdenGottlieb said:
@adrianrom
Contact this guy.
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who is that? spelling mistake maybe?

cammiso94 said:
who is that? spelling mistake maybe?
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He's an xda dev that posted great lollipop rom for v500
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I'd be willing to donate as well. Getting the tablet free. Should be here tomorrow.

I will add $10 if it has working LTE, Wifi, GPS and Bluetooth.

razgriz8426 said:
I will add $10 if it has working LTE, Wifi, GPS and Bluetooth.
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All of those things should be covered with the $100, we'll just say that we have the bounty set to $110 or so. Anyone want to put on top? Lets get in touch with a developer to get this rolling!

Do u users have a working kitkat tree?

a2441918 said:
Do u users have a working kitkat tree?
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we have a semi-working CM11 devicetree/kernel ported from the non-LTE model (LTE data/GPS doesn't work, everything else seems to work)
I'm still trying to understand more about kernel development/porting, just not much time to look at it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2759270

Why do you want Android 5.0 so bad to the point you want to pay money? I'm mean specifically, what in it is such a big deal that you need it NOW?
Why not just go buy a Google Play Edition if you want Lolipop that bad?
There's more to life than obsessing over having the lastest O/S version

Well a bounty is less than a gpe tablet lol. So there's that.

jazee said:
Why do you want Android 5.0 so bad to the point you want to pay money? I'm mean specifically, what in it is such a big deal that you need it NOW?
Why not just go buy a Google Play Edition if you want Lolipop that bad?
There's more to life than obsessing over having the lastest O/S version
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users of this great, underestimated beast of a tablet, that for some reason LG dumped some unoptimized garbage on to it, then "replaced" it with tablets with WORSE hardware, are really missing out on what this tablet can do. What it needs is a build that will run perfectly on it. Furthermore if it works half as good as it should, it would be better than what LG is currently doing with it.
Lets get a dev to get 4.4 working with radios, and we'll go from there. We may have to wait for a dev to pick up this device, with that; I am also willing to allow the dev my device as a start.

I'll add 50 to it

I would just like to see CM11 or CM12.. The tablet would run so much better.

It's starting to look like a significant amount of people are buying this tablet with the recent promotions by Verizon. I really hope that a dev can pick this up and see if they can get us a working ROM. I'm in the process of prepping a server to do some of my own ROM builds for the LG G3. Wish we had a working base because I don't have the knowledge to do anything but compile the builds.

Even a custom kernel would be nice so we could boost the CPU back to the 1.7 that the other models run at.

I'll kick in $20 for this. Would be nice to be cm12 or even GPE rom with working data (or not at this point).

I just got this tablet from verizon about 2 weeks ago, I dont consider myself a dev in any shape or form but I have done enough to know what can break my device and what cant, a while back I successfully ported a rom to a cheap Chinese tablet I owned a while back, I am going to look into porting a (hopefully) lollipop rom to our VK810, gonna take me some time and who knows if I will even be successful, just wanted to let everyone know someone is trying..... I will let you know if I make any progress....

Prepare your bounties guys !
Development is in full swing. We'd see some love for developers in coming weeks !