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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?
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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.

ubuntu

So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.

I will like to see this if we can get dual boot [emoji14]

and what about miui 6? there is recently released miui 6 patchrom. Do you know miui? I am asking you this because we are two and we want to port it but we have weak knowledge. Maybe you can help us
and this is how miui 6 look like
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=34895&extra=page=1&page=1&mobile=no
and there are some of thousands official themes for miui
http://en.miui.com/thread-112322-1-1.html

First of all i don`t think it`s nice of you to come in here and state there's no real custom roms out there for the Note 4, there's a lot of movement in the threads and developers work their butt off providing the latest and the best experience for the device. That said, let`s say i`m willing to give you a N910F donor device for development purpose, what have you got to show for it? Being a newbie ( at least your XDA account shows it ) there doesn`t seem much that shows anything worth to mention.
You sure this ain`t a cheap way of getting yourself a Note 4?
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Let's face it, there are too many touch wiz roms, and nothing really "custom" out there for the Note 4.
So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.
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intheair86 said:
Let's face it, there are too many touch wiz roms, and nothing really "custom" out there for the Note 4.
So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.
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if you already have a TMO n4, why would you need a donor device?
and if dual boot works it's even easier to try it all
but porting Ubuntu does sound like a fun project, maybe you can use cm12 stuff to speed up the porting :fingers-crossed:
and i would love to help but i have no idea about porting and i'm already busy with n4 and s6 edge development
good luck though! :good:

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First of all i don`t think it`s nice of you to come in here and state there's no real custom roms out there for the Note 4, there's a lot of movement in the threads and developers work their butt off providing the latest and the best experience for the device. That said, let`s say i`m willing to give you a N910F donor device for development purpose, what have you got to show for it? Being a newbie ( at least your XDA account shows it ) there doesn`t seem much that shows anything worth to mention.
You sure this ain`t a cheap way of getting yourself a Note 4?
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My apologies, you are correct about custom roms. What I meant is we don't have MIUI, Firefox, etc. Yeah skinned versions of Android, yet some people like them.
I want to do something no one else has done, and bring something to the table.

intheair86 said:
My apologies, you are correct about custom roms. What I meant is we don't have MIUI, Firefox, etc. Yeah skinned versions of Android, yet some people like them.
I want to do something no one else has done, and bring something to the table.
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I've only ever worked with twizz roms before but have now got a dedicated linux machine. I was trying to teach myself to compile from source but Ubuntu sounds very interesting and would love to be involved but not sure how much help I'd be

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I've only ever worked with twizz roms before but have now got a dedicated linux machine. I was trying to teach myself to compile from source but Ubuntu sounds very interesting and would love to be involved but not sure how much help I'd be
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That's all I have now is my ubuntu laptop.
What I found out is ubuntu touch is based on cm10.1.
They don't have 3g/4g/let working for some systems.
I am reading about how to compile. Hensel why I need a donor device, just in case I super brick. Bricking out my only phine would suck.
I haven't figured out how to pm, so if anyone can talk to me like via Skype, and help me learn. PLEASE!

intheair86 said:
That's all I have now is my ubuntu laptop.
What I found out is ubuntu touch is based on cm10.1.
They don't have 3g/4g/let working for some systems.
I am reading about how to compile. Hensel why I need a donor device, just in case I super brick. Bricking out my only phine would suck.
I haven't figured out how to pm, so if anyone can talk to me like via Skype, and help me learn. PLEASE!
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Why would I donate you a Note 4 to brick it? lol.
Sounds like a fun project according to me. Did not heard ubuntu ported since note 2.
But have not enough money to give away a note 4.

NOTE 4 running Ubuntu/Windows10
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.

Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.

Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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Casper1619 said:
If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.
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I also have a N910T and am willing/would love to be a part of this and help get Ubuntu working on my Note 4. I will help in any way I can.. I have been searching for a port of Ubuntu for some time now so I was VERY excited when I saw your OP. I know this might sound odd but the main reason I wanted to run Ubuntu was for native development. In the same situation as @sawdoctor I have also been trying for about a year to compile a kernel but for some reason I just can't figure it out ha. I don't have my computer with me during the day but I have my phone and plenty of time so I was looking for a way to compile the kernel source with my device. And although I obviously don't know that much about development, I figured what better way to start that running Ubuntu. It's crazy to me i couldn't find one single guide or post about how to build a kernel with the phone you want to run it on. Seems like it should be easy ha. I have have tried termux, gnu-root, cc-tools, kbox3,........you name it and I have a TB of it ha. So all rambling aside, just let me know what or if you need anything

Casper1619 said:
If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.
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Your Help would be greatly appreciated, currently I'm working in the graphics, the note 4 has a high pixel sensitivity and the Items are very small, resizing things isn't working too well so I'm trying to figure out away to enlarge buttons and Icons
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noob4598 said:
I also have a N910T and am willing/would love to be a part of this and help get Ubuntu working on my Note 4. I will help in any way I can.. I have been searching for a port of Ubuntu for some time now so I was VERY excited when I saw your OP. I know this might sound odd but the main reason I wanted to run Ubuntu was for native development. In the same situation as @sawdoctor I have also been trying for about a year to compile a kernel but for some reason I just can't figure it out ha. I don't have my computer with me during the day but I have my phone and plenty of time so I was looking for a way to compile the kernel source with my device. And although I obviously don't know that much about development, I figured what better way to start that running Ubuntu. It's crazy to me i couldn't find one single guide or post about how to build a kernel with the phone you want to run it on. Seems like it should be easy ha. I have have tried termux, gnu-root, cc-tools, kbox3,........you name it and I have a TB of it ha. So all rambling aside, just let me know what or if you need anything
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I have created a kernel that works ok for now I'm still working on audio and other small glitches that are probably being caused by the kernel I will post kernel and rim soon that way you guys can help me debugging!

Xcion54 said:
Your Help would be greatly appreciated, currently I'm working in the graphics, the note 4 has a high pixel sensitivity and the Items are very small, resizing things isn't working too well so I'm trying to figure out away to enlarge buttons and Icons
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I don't suppose ubuntu has DPI optimizations like android does it?

Casper1619 said:
I don't suppose ubuntu has DPI optimizations like android does it?
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Not at all, Ubuntu isn't sizing things properly and it's almost impossible to use the touchscreen to click buttons, can only be used with a mouse, just getting otg to work was a pain to plug in a mouse, there's some options In Ubuntu for resizing but they don't help that much.

Xcion54 said:
Not at all, Ubuntu isn't sizing things properly and it's almost impossible to use the touchscreen to click buttons, can only be used with a mouse, just getting otg to work was a pain to plug in a mouse, there's some options In Ubuntu for resizing but they don't help that much.
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Hmm. Well maybe resizing everything could be an acceptable approach but if windows and android have different "skins" maybe we could make a custom gnome launcher that works better with the small screen, but as far as the drivers and the kernel, is it stable, and what model have you compiled it for?

Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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if you finished your project, i'd love to try it on my device.

Hey bro. Any progress? i just ran across a kde plasma active installer for nexus 7 that uses multirom to flash linux to ext sd. Would it maybe be possible to adapt the script to our device being that we have EFIDroid and Multisystem?

I've been working on porting Halium (needs for Ubuntu touch now) to my device, I haven't gotten the graphics to work yet but with the work I've got done so far we could get the graphics working then get other OSes that support Halium working (I.e. plasma os, sailfish, and possibly even post market os) if your still trying to get this working let me know and I'll contribute what I can to help, I still DD my n910p cause I like the form factor of my note 4, hate the glitchy issues that sprint forced into its software though. I have gotten Ubuntu to boot to a headless system setup, but that's not useful for what my end game is, its just a step in the right direction.

CM port

Hi everyone,
I have juste created a thread asking for the official port of CM on this device (I can't post the link because I'm new....), section device requests.
Be free to comment the post (even a +1) , I am sure you can find the link we google, and we have to prey that they will take a look at it
Kisses

Won't happen until Alcatel releases the source code and given that the phone was just released to canada as recently as June 30th you can expect to wait a couple of months for that.

Just want I want a bug filled rom that gets rid of one problem and another pops up. I just love when we all use cm and the Bluetooth crashes all the time, disconnects, and overall bearly works. I love when the wifi disconnects and you have to restart the phone just to get it to work.
Sorry I'll stick to the stock rom where everything works perfectly fine.

Wont be any cm roms until we get twrp first. Im shocked more devs dont own this device.

fix-this! said:
Wont be any cm roms until we get twrp first. Im shocked more devs dont own this device.
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It hasn't even been out 2 months yet. It's an off name most are not familiar with and alcatel's first true shot at an enterprise/flagship level device. It has threads on slickdeals.net advertising it's low price...it will eventually get support by either the source being released or a new exploit being found that can be used to provide temp or perm root...once someone has root they can pull the recovery and boot partitions and development can begin.
It's unrealistic to expect developer's to be jumping all over this phone so soon. I'd never even heard of it till I was looking to buy a zen phone 2 and found so many articles comparing it to the idol 3.

Woukd be nice to have it or either dirty unicorns crdroid or omnirom ^^ now that we have a working TWRP

gecko702 said:
Woukd be nice to have it or either dirty unicorns crdroid or omnirom ^^ now that we have a working TWRP
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it really would xD. Although, I feel like Id miss the stock rom. Even though it is quite slow. TWRP works amazingly!

capeorigins said:
it really would xD. Although, I feel like Id miss the stock rom. Even though it is quite slow. TWRP works amazingly!
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yeah id miss it too but meh lol but theres the dolby atmos app that has been ported from a lenovo ROM that should work with our speakers and also there can be a way to port the colorOS camera app from oppo phones those can take up to 50mp shots because they use sony sensors even on the one plus one has been achieved an yet it has the same sony sensor also hopefully xposed framework could work on us because of the adaway for youtube ^^

Well if someone's working on a CM port I'd be interested in helping to test it.

Thatd be nice id help too for testing purposes im a very heavy user and this phone has been keeping up with me lately

I'll throw my vote in for a cm port. as well as another tester if needed. Dont have tons of experience, but I'll be happy to help where I can.

well im pretty sure theres going to be a bounty thread for it or any other rom ^^

hi guys,
i just ordered this phone and soon within this month hopefuly will land in my hands in india.
my question is cant we use sources of other SD 615 phones like MI4I, YUreka and TCL M3G to develop rom for our device/ or cant we use their roms with our stock kernel ???
as TCL M3G is already having cm 12.1 and MIUI V6 and several other roms on movilesdualsim forum

yash_rathore25 said:
hi guys,
i just ordered this phone and soon within this month hopefuly will land in my hands in india.
my question is cant we use sources of other SD 615 phones like MI4I, YUreka and TCL M3G to develop rom for our device/ or cant we use their roms with our stock kernel ???
as TCL M3G is already having cm 12.1 and MIUI V6 and several other roms on movilesdualsim forum
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Can you use the computer chip from a v8 chevy in a v8 ford? The software has to match to the hardware. How is the software going to control the screen when they have different digitizers? Different sound cards. Just as with your pc the drivers have to match the hardware.

Just pray to the phone Gods they roll out a 5.1 update and release it...

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Just pray to the phone Gods they roll out a 5.1 update and release it...
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hahaha praying here too but we need their source code so that someone can work on a ROM for us

One of the CM maintainers, contacted me here on a PM today and requested files from the device. The work on the CM port will be started probably the next week. I will not disclose his ID for now in order to save him from possible questions on PMs. Probably CyanogenMod soon will be available for the Idol ... I just spread the news.

Cool, looking forward to it!

petrov.0 said:
One of the CM maintainers, contacted me here on a PM today and requested files from the device. The work on the CM port will be started probably the next week. I will not disclose his ID for now in order to save him from possible questions on PMs. Probably CyanogenMod soon will be available for the Idol ... I just spread the news.
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Thanks for the update! It's been quiet for a little bit regarding a CM port. Good to see it's still WIP.

While I look forward to having trees to build with, I find it kinda funny that they asked for files when a couple of them have the device already. Unless the files are from a different version?
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Update on the current dev status.

thanks to xc-racer99, humberos, and the beautiful vmware.... no wait, f#ck you vmware.
In the coming days, there will be builds of omnirom 5.1 coming out. I just finished my windows 10 install and I'm deciding how to setup my build OS for the future.
Pics or gtfo? Ok, http://i.imgur.com/XrkWPuQh.jpg
Cya guys. For early testing, harass hhp
Cheers to whoever is still here.

OMG
you guys are legends. i had a fascinate a while ago, but i come back to troll here. and whattya know.
if i still had my fassy i'd totes mcgotes test this for you guys. but great job, it's nice to see someone still cares.

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OMG
you guys are legends. i had a fascinate a while ago, but i come back to troll here. and whattya know.
if i still had my fassy i'd totes mcgotes test this for you guys. but great job, it's nice to see someone still cares.
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I have two fassys your getting my dev one after I declare these builds stable. You aren't getting my extended battery one with 64gig sd. No, that's my baby.
hhp also has two fassys.
and the reason for this development is because I absolutely adore the WM8994. this phone is like a toyota supra to me.
and that this is the original galaxy s, which went from rfs to ext4, bml to mtd, linux 2.6 to 3.0.101(Someday 3.4 , and now to f2fs and lp gives it sentimental value to me aside from the audio. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288093 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233273 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=956349 http://project-voodoo.org/history Supercurio is right up there with NWavguy for me. Equipped with chainfire3d I used to adore this little thing. Oh the nostalgia. but I digress, off to listen to some flacs while this source finishes syncing. Hope to see you around.

Ophidian_DarkCore said:
I have two fassys your getting my dev one after I declare these builds stable. You aren't getting my extended battery one with 64gig sd. No, that's my baby.
hhp also has two fassys.
and the reason for this development is because I absolutely adore the WM8994. this phone is like a toyota supra to me.
and that this is the original galaxy s, which went from rfs to ext4, bml to mtd, linux 2.6 to 3.0.101(Someday 3.4 , and now to f2fs and lp gives it sentimental value to me aside from the audio. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288093 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233273 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=956349 http://project-voodoo.org/history Supercurio is right up there with NWavguy for me. Equipped with chainfire3d I used to adore this little thing. Oh the nostalgia. but I digress, off to listen to some flacs while this source finishes syncing. Hope to see you around.
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dude please don't send me a fassy lol
im a teenager and my parents would get worried
and yea the fascinate was always a kickass little music player device, but i'm not the biggest audiophile in the world and Qualcomm's DAC does the trick for me just as well as the Wolfson dac in the fascinate did. lol

skepticmisfit said:
dude please don't send me a fassy lol
im a teenager and my parents would get worried
and yea the fascinate was always a kickass little music player device, but i'm not the biggest audiophile in the world and Qualcomm's DAC does the trick for me just as well as the Wolfson dac in the fascinate did. lol
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That made me giggle a little too much. LOL
I'm a teen too, I just tell my parents to **** off. They know I work on 'stupid' stuff.

Ophidian_DarkCore said:
That made me giggle a little too much. LOL
I'm a teen too, I just tell my parents to **** off. They know I work on 'stupid' stuff.
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were you part of the lollipop port for the fassy? or are you just a close bystander?

aries kernel and aries-common was already updated. the only work that needed to be done was to bringup the device tree. i provided the files to xc racer and helped him with partitions. then i tested the build and showed him what needed to be fixed. he is responsible for the bringup, i'm responsible for debugging, and humberos did the kernel. several people did aries-common. i'm now going to be the maintainer for this device. and will be responsible for improving performance, compatibility, and doing bug fixes. the kernel still needs a lot of work.
EDIT: and hhp was my tester and will remain so.

New to everything here
Hello everyone, I am new to this website as well as flashing and ROMs. Could someone help me get started on how to flash this lollipop onto a Samsung Mesmerize? (US Cellular version of Fascinate)

adinatale978 said:
Hello everyone, I am new to this website as well as flashing and ROMs. Could someone help me get started on how to flash this lollipop onto a Samsung Mesmerize? (US Cellular version of Fascinate)
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1) Update recovery to newest TWRP or CWM Touch.
2) Reboot to recovery
3) Factory reset
4) Wipe cache/dalvik cache
5) Install CM12.1 (for your device)(dont reboot when done)
6) Install GAPPS (for your version it's open gapps 5.1, google it)
7) Reboot when finished.
8) Wait for 1st boot to finish.
9) Enjoy!
Edit: This is assuming you have already downloaded all necessary files and have them copied to your SD Card.

Ophidian_DarkCore said:
thanks to xc-racer99, humberos, and the beautiful vmware.... no wait, f#ck you vmware.
In the coming days, there will be builds of omnirom 5.1 coming out. I just finished my windows 10 install and I'm deciding how to setup my build OS for the future.
Pics or gtfo? Ok, http://i.imgur.com/XrkWPuQh.jpg
Cya guys. For early testing, harass hhp
Cheers to whoever is still here.
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My fascinate is my best dev device I have! My only other dev device is my LG Lucid, but it is very buggy and I can't get binary blobs or even compile for it. My other devices have locked bootloaders, that's no fun.
FYI, Ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE desktop environment is probably the best dev environment, because Unity just takes too much power!

pcwizzy37 said:
My fascinate is my best dev device I have! My only other dev device is my LG Lucid, but it is very buggy and I can't get binary blobs or even compile for it. My other devices have locked bootloaders, that's no fun.
FYI, Ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE desktop environment is probably the best dev environment, because Unity just takes too much power!
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bbqlinux, check it out mayne

nice

Ophidian_DarkCore said:
thanks to xc-racer99, humberos, and the beautiful vmware.... no wait, f#ck you vmware.
In the coming days, there will be builds of omnirom 5.1 coming out. I just finished my windows 10 install and I'm deciding how to setup my build OS for the future.
Pics or gtfo? Ok, http://i.imgur.com/XrkWPuQh.jpg
Cya guys. For early testing, harass hhp
Cheers to whoever is still here.
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Hey, I hate Windows Vista, 8, 8.1 and 10. get ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE.

pcwizzy37 said:
Hey, I hate Windows Vista, 8, 8.1 and 10. get ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE.
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screw off with that. i have arch on my p4 box. i'll let you see my kernel later hehe. ubuntu even with lxde would make me puke. i sont even have a mouse plugged in. tty1
p.s. windows 10 pro makes me happy. uefi bios updater. alpha drivers for everything. all 'paid' version software. vmware ws pro puts out enough power for me to make every now and then builds ok. i grew up on xp.
as you can tell though, im a rolling release type of guy. anything less is unacceptable.

Porting uBPorts 5.1

Hello everyone, I have recently started trying to port UBPorts (formerly Ubuntu Touch) to my trltespr, I get the code to start compiling but I keep hitting errors.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/477/porting-to-samsung-galaxy-note-4-sm-n910p
Is the link, in case anyone wants to follow. I created this thread to see if anyone else is trying to do the same thing as well as serve as a general progress update. Im sorry if this is in the wrong spot, but seeing as UBPorts isnt exactly and android OS I wasnt sure where to put it. I know some people may ask why, the simple answer, Im tired of Android and want something different. I am also contemplating porting Halium, if anyone has any interest in helping with either port, or is currently trying and would like to consolidate their efforts with me, please let me know, Ill update this post as well as the thread I linked with updates on what Im doing and how its all going.
Thanks for Reading.

Sorry for the double post, but I managed to get Halium to compile, the kernel to boot, and thats about it so far, running into an issue with getting the rest on the phone, I can post the files and any info to get Halium working if anyone wants it, but that is gonna be when I have a working gui (features are a different story)
#== Edit ==#
Halum is booting into pre-boot, it is having trouble from there though. It mounts the images (system.img and rootfs.img) just fine in the pre-boot environment, however if I try to continue the boot process from there, the phone kicks me out, then refuses any new attempts to connect. I am working on getting my git repo synced with my local repos so anyone that wants to help can do so.
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I managed to get all the files on the phone, phone successfully gets to pre-boot environment and that is where everything falls apart, I'm trying to figure out the root cause of the issue, however its going to be slow going with the Holiday season apon us (those who celebrate at least) I will update when I have something to update with (hopefully a partially working port, but no promises)

Sorry for a third post, I hope mods are understanding since I haven't received any replies to this thread.
So Update since it's been awhile, I now have halium able to boot, I get ssh access and when I ssh in it says Ubuntu 16.04, that's the good news. The bad news now, I still get no GUI on the phone screen, and it appears to be a mount issue which I am working on. I can release the files I have now if anyone wants them, however I prefer to wait till I have a working GUI.
Poll Time,
Once I get ubports to boot and give me a GUI should I work on getting a Ubuntu dock setup working or try and port something like LuneOS, Plasma Mobile, or even sailfish to the note 4? Let me know your thoughts as well as any thoughts you have for ubports on a note 4.
Cheers

Do you try ubports / halium 7.1... Msybe with sources here: https://github.com/underscoremone/unified_android_device_samsung_trlte
Don't know, but maybe you get more support from community

I actually have made a lot of progress from my last post on here. I am actually in the telegram groups which have given me a lot of useful info, I am still trying to get the GUI working though. Thank you for the reply and keep an eye out for a update in the next few weeks (depending on my free time)
jasousa said:
Do you try ubports / halium 7.1... Msybe with sources here: https://github.com/underscoremone/unified_android_device_samsung_trlte
Don't know, but maybe you get more support from community
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I'm in the same stage... trying get GUI. SSH is OK. My device is samsung galaxy J5 2016
Telegram, in fact, is the best place to get help, and the guys behind the ubports and halium are very good.
Regards
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Update:
I have managed to get Ubuntu to boot and bring up SSH, still no GUI but the android container does start and stay running now. I have a list of things I can try from here to see if I can get a GUI that with any luck I can get working today (depending on RL) I am hoping to have this working and giving me a GUI by the U.S. Christmas holiday. I will post the files as they are now if anyone is interested.
Update Edit:
I finally got the Ubuntu Touch boot screen, It hangs there ATM which I will be working on shortly, I still have a long ways to go before I'd consider it "complete" but I hope it will be completed enough to use as a daily test platform, I could use people to help with testing if anyone is interested.

So Big Update:
I got past the boot screen, I now have a full GUI with working WiFi and working touchscreen. Not much else is working. I could definitely use people to test this distro, so if you are interested in using Ubuntu Touch on a Galaxy Note 4 PM me and I'll get you setup for testing. I only have a sprint variant of the note 4 but if you have a different variant it shouldn't take much to get that working as well.

So the list for anyone interested/curious
Working:
WiFi (doesn't auto-connect)
Touchscreen
GUI
File Access
USB networking
Not Working:
Cellular (ofono is having permission errors)
Bluetooth (haven't looked at yet)
S-Pen (kernel disables it for some reason)
Rotation (sensor values aren't seen)
Audio (haven't looked at yet)
Status Light (works with hybris-boot, not halium-boot)
Vibration/Haptic Feedback (works with hybris-boot, not halium-boot)
I'm sure I forgot something, but that's off the top of my head. I welcome anyone volunteering to help move items from not working to working, if not then I will eventually get there, but don't expect this to be a complete ROM until next year at the earliest.

tigerpro357 said:
So the list for anyone interested/curious
but don't expect this to be a complete ROM until next year at the earliest.
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Does any other stylus respond as a Wacom device?

harrypotnik3 said:
Does any other stylus respond as a Wacom device?
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Sorry for the delayed answer, I only have the S Pen so I cant say for sure.* The capacitive stylus' that you can buy basically anywhere do work though.* I haven't really had time to continue my work on this port, I have made some progress as I can get rotation to work, and there is a lot of things that work in the terminal however they don't carry over to the GUI for some reason.* I can release the files here if you want to try other stylus' and let me know what works for you.

Hello; I have an old Note 4, T-Mobile (US) variant that I'd like to do something interesting with and UBPorts seemed promising. Then I found your thread. How are things going with this project? I would love to test this for you on my device if you think it might be working. Thanks for the all the good work!

There is a T-Mobile port in progress already, there are a couple things left to resolve for this port as well, how would you like to get started?

Its always nice to se new things for our phones.
This one is really a breakthrough for the Note 4
Having a Ubuntu touch working on Note 4 is a whole new level in development in Android phones.
We are very lucky to have so charismatic devs among us, even better if they are working on our phones.
For that, we are thank full @tigerpro357, for what you are doing here.
I know its just the first steps, I know that these are just the beginning, but they are showing us what wonderful things we can expect in the future.
Thank you ,
KUDOS

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I'm not really sure... I guess I'd just like to flash it on the phone and see what happens, what works and doesn't.

ccellist said:
Hello; I have an old Note 4, T-Mobile (US) variant that I'd like to do something interesting with and UBPorts seemed promising. Then I found your thread. How are things going with this project? I would love to test this for you on my device if you think it might be working. Thanks for the all the good work!
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ccellist said:
I'm not really sure... I guess I'd just like to flash it on the phone and see what happens, what works and doesn't.
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Ok, I can tell you whats currently not working, or working, I will advise you this is currently not ready to be a daily driven ROM, in call audio doesnt work, YT causes crashes, camera causes crashes (cause I havent finished applying the patch to my repos) theres a couple other things as well, I need to make a propper list for everything rather than go off memory

Thanks so much for the info. Not to worry, I wasn't planning on using it as a daily driver, I really just want to play around with it, kick the tires so to speak.

logosA said:
Its always nice to se new things for our phones.
This one is really a breakthrough for the Note 4
Having a Ubuntu touch working on Note 4 is a whole new level in development in Android phones.
We are very lucky to have so charismatic devs among us, even better if they are working on our phones.
For that, we are thank full @tigerpro357, for what you are doing here.
I know its just the first steps, I know that these are just the beginning, but they are showing us what wonderful things we can expect in the future.
Thank you ,
KUDOS
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Very nice

UT on note4... You guys are amazing.
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