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The best rom/kernel for the batery life ?

Yo i search the best rom and kernel for the G model

Not really sure man. I think its up to you to test them out and see which one gives you the best battery performance for your needs.

Yough said:
Yo i search the best rom and kernel for the G model
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Just use Lineage with a totally black Substratum theme and Llama Sweet EAS kernel

Thanks for your advice, I had no big needs I just watch videos on Netflix ^^

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Just use Lineage with a totally black Substratum theme and Llama Sweet EAS kernel
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Can you confirm that this is working? I've been wanting to use a black substratum theme for ages, but until now I didn't dare to, since substratum doesn't officially support LineageOS as far as I know. On top of that I read a couple of comments of people having issues

|Furō| said:
Can you confirm that this is working? I've been wanting to use a black substratum theme for ages, but until now I didn't dare to, since substratum doesn't officially support LineageOS as far as I know. On top of that I read a couple of comments of people having issues
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You're right, but I meant LineageOS as in an LOS-based ROM more than LOS itself. Most custom ROMs run better than LOS and have a bunch of features.
You may know that Substratum uses "OMS" to do the overlay stuff, so if you want a ROM with full substratum compatibility, it's as easy as finding one with the necessary commits, like NucleaROM or RR (I prefer NucleaROM over all of the other LOS-based ROMs to be honest). Just look at the description of the ROM for 'oms support'. Or you can try, I'm sure that I used Substratum on LineageOS stock for some time and I was getting 7 hrs SOT with heavy usage

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You're right, but I meant LineageOS as in an LOS-based ROM more than LOS itself. Most custom ROMs run better than LOS and have a bunch of features.
You may know that Substratum uses "OMS" to do the overlay stuff, so if you want a ROM with full substratum compatibility, it's as easy as finding one with the necessary commits, like NucleaROM or RR (I prefer NucleaROM over all of the other LOS-based ROMs to be honest). Just look at the description of the ROM for 'oms support'. Or you can try, I'm sure that I used Substratum on LineageOS stock for some time and I was getting 7 hrs SOT with heavy usage
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Alright, so thats how it is. But you say you had it running on LOS? Did you experience issues, or why don't you have it running anymore? To be honest I would currently prefer not flashing a new rom, since I'm kinda dependent on my phone working right now and at the moment, it works mostly fine would still love to use a totally black substratum theme though

|Furō| said:
Alright, so thats how it is. But you say you had it running on LOS? Did you experience issues, or why don't you have it running anymore? To be honest I would currently prefer not flashing a new rom, since I'm kinda dependent on my phone working right now and at the moment, it works mostly fine would still love to use a totally black substratum theme though
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You have LOS on your phone though, right? If so, why don't you try? It's not like you have to flash anything so you can't brick your phone...
I think I used it on LOS yeah. But I prefer stock over custom ROMs by far. And now that the MiFavor 5 ROM is out (with the Android 7 QS tiles) I don't have any reason to use the buggy and laggy custom ROMs
I swear LOS was the worst of them all when I used it back in Feb/March. The worst thing was that a bunch of apps simply didn't feel like working...

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You have LOS on your phone though, right? If so, why don't you try? It's not like you have to flash anything so you can't brick your phone...
I think I used it on LOS yeah. But I prefer stock over custom ROMs by far. And now that the MiFavor 5 ROM is out (with the Android 7 QS tiles) I don't have any reason to use the buggy and laggy custom ROMs
I swear LOS was the worst of them all when I used it back in Feb/March. The worst thing was that a bunch of apps simply didn't feel like working...
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Yes I do. Personally I don't feel like it's that bad so you think it's save to try it out?
Hmm so you feel like stock is better right now? I switched to LOS because I was kinda mad at the stock rom (at least the German one) since updates weren't coming at promised times and when they did come they were full of bugs like apps not working and more.... Which was mostly fixed afterwards, but I wasn't that happy with the situation. I also didn't like the look and feel, which now wouldn't be as much of a problem, since I'm using Nova + KLWP to change most of the visuals. Is the "Tiles-App" with more QS tiles working with stock now? It didn't when I went to LOS. How's battery life? What are your main reason to go back to stock?
And least but not last.... How would I get back to stock? Just flashing a zip from the ZTE website?
And another weird thing which didn't bother me too much until now: I bought my phone in Germany so I had the G model. Ever since going to LineageOS, which included unlocking the boot loader etc. My phone tells me /shows up as the U model.... Is that bad in any way? Other than that it seems to work alright though

|Furō| said:
Yes I do. Personally I don't feel like it's that bad so you think it's save to try it out?
Hmm so you feel like stock is better right now? I switched to LOS because I was kinda mad at the stock rom (at least the German one) since updates weren't coming at promised times and when they did come they were full of bugs like apps not working and more.... Which was mostly fixed afterwards, but I wasn't that happy with the situation. I also didn't like the look and feel, which now wouldn't be as much of a problem, since I'm using Nova + KLWP to change most of the visuals. Is the "Tiles-App" with more QS tiles working with stock now? It didn't when I went to LOS. How's battery life? What are your main reason to go back to stock?
And least but not last.... How would I get back to stock? Just flashing a zip from the ZTE website?
And another weird thing which didn't bother me too much until now: I bought my phone in Germany so I had the G model. Ever since going to LineageOS, which included unlocking the boot loader etc. My phone tells me /shows up as the U model.... Is that bad in any way? Other than that it seems to work alright though
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-I like stock because it runs better, and even though I thought I would hate ZTE's UI, I actually like it after using it for a long time. And the 5.0 UI is awesome, nuff said. They use blur on the volume pop-up and when you pull down the status bar.
MiFavor 5.0 is not official, it's just the A2017 ROM that's been ported by the Russians. You need to install a special A2017 bootstack (it seemed really dangerous but it's not that bad really) and then the system zip, which formats /system anyways. After that you have to format /data (which will format the internal storage too, just saying) because of the encryption, and it should boot just fine.
I have an A2017G too and flipped out when they f00ked up with B02 with Google Play Store, then B03 with exfat, and went to LOS. Then i tried to go back and DFU-bricked my phone. After I fixed it I preferred to stay stock, and in B04 they fixed everything there was to fix. Tried NucleaROM, best so far but it still has that WIP feel...
Anyways, make a backup of your current system on an SD card if you want to go 5.0.
The A2017U thing is normal, it's because the universal bootloader is actually the U bootloader without the NON-HLOS.bin which you flash later via the A2017G-MODEM.zip (which is ancient lol)

Thank you again for your aid! I have another question....
I downloaded substratum now and installed some themes but somehow I can't get them to work...
For example "Flux" tells me everything went good and I need to restart, but nothing changes after the reboot...
Swift Black has some errors compiling :/
Any ideas?

|Furō| said:
Thank you again for your aid! I have another question....
I downloaded substratum now and installed some themes but somehow I can't get them to work...
For example "Flux" tells me everything went good and I need to restart, but nothing changes after the reboot...
Swift Black has some errors compiling :/
Any ideas?
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well, it's not working with LOS then. I guess I used it on RR

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well, it's not working with LOS then. I guess I used it on RR
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Alright thank you! How did RR compare to LOS?

|Furō| said:
Alright thank you! How did RR compare to LOS?
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Okay but laggy. again, I prefer NucleaROM, you should check that one if you'll change ROMs

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Okay but laggy. again, I prefer NucleaROM, you should check that one if you'll change ROMs
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I will thank you! You are awesome! So I can just flash that rom over LineageOS? Or do I have to wipe my phone first?

|Furō| said:
I will thank you! You are awesome! So I can just flash that rom over LineageOS? Or do I have to wipe my phone first?
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The best would be wiping everything, but you can try wiping system only. after that if the phone doesn't work well just wipe data

It seems to be that all the ROMs have bugs or are laggy. Stock is best right now if my research is correct.

Stock...
Edit* with a few things added and removed...

So I am running Nuclear Ron now, everything went smoothly and I've got Magisk installed correctly for root access. So far when I'm using the rom I love everything and substratum works well as well.....
But.... Whenever I turn of the screen it almost immediately reboots... when using my phone I don't get any random reboots, but when the screen is off it restarts every time. This is a real bummer and I keep my phone off most of the time right now, to prevent the reboots every minute :/
Any ideas what the reason for this issue could be? Would love to stay with this rom, but only if I can get this fixed!
I Uninstalled substratum and the substratum themes by the way, but that didn't help either...
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

I get phenomenal battery life and speed on NucleaROM. Stability is so-so, however.

Stock AOSP Oreo on Mate 9

https://www.xda-developers.com/stock-android-oreo-huawei-mate-9-project-treble/amp/

wmfreak said:
https://www.xda-developers.com/stock-android-oreo-huawei-mate-9-project-treble/amp/
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Let's hope more to follow.

His latest update has me super excited. He says it's now fully functional. Awesome work!!

Not quite fully functional
moxiot said:
His latest update has me super excited. He says it's now fully functional. Awesome work!!
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I read the article along with the update, It's not quite fully functional, still quite a ways from being a working rom but he has shown that project treble does work and is somewhat viable. from looking at his screenshots the ril (sim stuff) is not working yet, I made some suggestions to him regarding his build that might fix that but he hasn't gotten back to me. Still not there yet but at least it shows that a generic AOSP Android can be installed and booted (at least the system and data images) by virtue of project treble. There are still a lot of things that are closed source relating to the hardware on our device and the SoC itself.

NFC not working, BT is wonky, FPS is not enabled, Keyboard is crashing when opening numbers/special chars, no HotSpot/Tethering, RIL does somewhat work but requires some more work on the actual device overlay.
But the essential things are working, Video Enc/Dec, Camera (Video, Photo), LEDs, Audio, HWC, vulkan, WiFi, BT (atleast its visible when i scan for it), power hal, maybe i forgot a few things ..
I've tested a self-compiled build on my H8 Pro, and thats the result, so i'd expect some similar situation for the Mate 9.
Regards

OldDroid said:
NFC not working, BT is wonky, FPS is not enabled, Keyboard is crashing when opening numbers/special chars, no HotSpot/Tethering, RIL does somewhat work but requires some more work on the actual device overlay.
But the essential things are working, Video Enc/Dec, Camera (Video, Photo), LEDs, Audio, HWC, vulkan, WiFi, BT (atleast its visible when i scan for it), power hal, maybe i forgot a few things ..
I've tested a self-compiled build on my H8 Pro, and thats the result, so i'd expect some similar situation for the Mate 9.
Regards
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Thanks for the report. Let's hope to see a stable build in the near future.

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OldDroid said:
NFC not working, BT is wonky, FPS is not enabled, Keyboard is crashing when opening numbers/special chars, no HotSpot/Tethering, RIL does somewhat work but requires some more work on the actual device overlay.
But the essential things are working, Video Enc/Dec, Camera (Video, Photo), LEDs, Audio, HWC, vulkan, WiFi, BT (atleast its visible when i scan for it), power hal, maybe i forgot a few things ..
I've tested a self-compiled build on my H8 Pro, and thats the result, so i'd expect some similar situation for the Mate 9.
Regards
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Did a build myself for the HiKey 960 reference board that uses the same SoC as the mate 9 and am doing a generic arm64 build right now, I'll be testing the both out when I get a chance. I think that I might have a little more luck with the HiKey build as it is the same SoC. It's a work in progress but project treble is showing some promise. I'm looking at making a flashable (in twrp) that will install the AOSP build (whichever one works)

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Did a build myself for the HiKey 960 reference board that uses the same SoC as the mate 9 and am doing a generic arm64 build right now, I'll be testing the both out when I get a chance. I think that I might have a little more luck with the HiKey build as it is the same SoC. It's a work in progress but project treble is showing some promise. I'm looking at making a flashable (in twrp) that will install the AOSP build (whichever one works)
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Thanks my dear friend for your work and interest on our beloved Mate 9.

Thanks
albertobom said:
Thanks my dear friend for your work and interest on our beloved Mate 9.
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You are very welcome, this all is a work in progress but from what I see so far project treble is going to make development easier in the future. I might try installing the boot image from my HiKey build to see how that works, it's the same SoC as our devices so it "should" boot, it's kernel version 4.9 which is the latest and supposedly greatest so we will see. If it doesn't boot I can always flash back the stock Oreo boot image.

I got a spare Mate 9 and can install and test stuff, happy to help

I'll keep that in mind
Exelios said:
I got a spare Mate 9 and can install and test stuff, happy to help
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I'll keep that in mind, I will be uploading my system.img and custdata.img for both builds when this one gets finished (takes forever on my old PC) they can be flashed via fastboot provided your bootloader is unlocked. I'll post the links after I get them uploaded.

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I'll keep that in mind, I will be uploading my system.img and custdata.img for both builds when this one gets finished (takes forever on my old PC) they can be flashed via fastboot provided your bootloader is unlocked. I'll post the links after I get them uploaded.
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Sounds good, yes my device is unlocked and on Oreo beta with oreo TWRP and everything, I'm not new to this

revjamescarver said:
I'll keep that in mind, I will be uploading my system.img and custdata.img for both builds when this one gets finished (takes forever on my old PC) they can be flashed via fastboot provided your bootloader is unlocked. I'll post the links after I get them uploaded.
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Only progress on this?

Rebuilding
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Only progress on this?
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I'm rebuilding, there is a thread on AOSP here https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble so I'm following the work there to see what changes to the framework need to be made, my build hung at 99% so I ended up starting it over, I think my build machine is running out of memory and the Java compiler is chocking. his v2 build boots and is mostly functional you can download it on his thread. His build is based on the 8.0.0-vts_r4 testing branch and mine is the 8.0.0_r34 release branch. You can download a build based on his changes and the vts branch here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wMa_dgkWrqbC9i4GxUNOQlH0qIwffPph/view?usp=drivesdk

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I'm rebuilding, there is a thread on AOSP here https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble so I'm following the work there to see what changes to the framework need to be made, my build hung at 99% so I ended up starting it over, I think my build machine is running out of memory and the Java compiler is chocking. his v2 build boots and is mostly functional you can download it on his thread. His build is based on the 8.0.0-vts_r4 testing branch and mine is the 8.0.0_r34 release branch. You can download a build based on his changes and the vts branch here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wMa_dgkWrqbC9i4GxUNOQlH0qIwffPph/view?usp=drivesdk
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Thanks. Can you confirm Galileo satellites are being picked up with AOSP Oreo? Should see EU flags in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gpstest
See stock ROM results at http://www.startlr.com/we-tried-galileo-huawei-mate-9-already-sees-the-european-satellites/

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tiennemannes said:
Thanks. Can you confirm Galileo satellites are being picked up with AOSP Oreo? Should see EU flags in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gpstest
See stock ROM results at http://www.startlr.com/we-tried-galileo-huawei-mate-9-already-sees-the-european-satellites/
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Haven't tried it out, it's supposed to but I'll have to check that out, there was a report of taking a very long time to get a fix off GPS, but nothing specific to Galileo.

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Haven't tried it out, it's supposed to but I'll have to check that out, there was a report of taking a very long time to get a fix off GPS, but nothing specific to Galileo.
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Yeah, saw the same (that's why I'm curious).

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Yeah, saw the same (that's why I'm curious).
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Yeah, the whole ASOP and treble thing is definitely a work in progress and it's going to take a little time to get that all working with the phone hardware properly but once it gets all figured out it is going to make updates easy and open the door to a lot of possibilities with custom ROMs

revjamescarver said:
Yeah, the whole ASOP and treble thing is definitely a work in progress and it's going to take a little time to get that all working with the phone hardware properly but once it gets all figured out it is going to make updates easy and open the door to a lot of possibilities with custom ROMs
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Indeed, this stuff is exciting. My mate 9 should arrive tomorrow.... Can't wait.
Is the kernel compiled too from AOSP, or is that pre-compiled already in a boot.img?

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tiennemannes said:
Indeed, this stuff is exciting. My mate 9 should arrive tomorrow.... Can't wait.
Is the kernel compiled too from AOSP, or is that pre-compiled already in a boot.img?
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No, in order to use the AOSP build you have to install Oreo beforehand, there are beta builds available for a few of the mate 9 variants right now but the "official" Oreo updates should start rolling out sometime in December. I had downloaded and installed the beta for the US variant.

[ROM][DUMPLING][UNOFFICIAL]AOSP-Extended[8.1.0]

KEEP THIS THREAD
## I am not a developer, im just compiling the rom and sharing it with yous. I cannot fix bugs. If a real developer wants to take over and try and fix bugs. Go ahead. Ill take my thread down and let you go ahead
Download for AEX:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569954558
Device tree: https://github.com/GZOSP-Devices/device_oneplus_dumpling
Kernel: https://github.com/GZR-Kernels/kernel_oneplus_msm8998
/// https://github.com/GZOSP-Devices/dev...msm8998-common
Github sources: https://github.com/AospExtended
Thanks to the GZOSP Team for their kernel & device tree sources.
Full Credit to @quake73 who compiled this first rom and made this possible. He's apart of the oneplus 5 forums and has been kind enough to let me share his work. Please thank him.
I didnt get this to boot encyrpted from oos but i am running it encrypted and it booted. If you find a way to run it encrypted, please tell everyone as this is a test atm
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
Open beta 3 firmware 17/02/18
Full wipe/FORMAT data
Install rom
(optional) Unoffical gapps 8.1.0
Magisk 15.3 (Magisk recommended)
no verity zip op5 v2
reboot
Whats working on the first build
Boot
Camera
4g
Calls and text
whats not working
Idk you tell us?
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Pixel experience rom 8.1.0 here (not aosp extended). Don't know if i should make a new thread in the right place after what happened.
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850493350
I just flashed this now and testing it now. It boots.
Front camera doesn't work in pixel experience.
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XDA:DevDB Information
ASOP-EXTENEDED, ROM for the OnePlus 5T
Contributors
Jamie_oppo, @quake73
ROM OS Version: 8.x Oreo
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: Open beta 3
Based On: AOSP
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2018-02-17
Last Updated 2018-02-17

Something's not right. Either my XDA app is screwed up, or there are like 30 different versions of this same thread all created a second apart.

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Something's not right. Either my XDA app is screwed up, or there are like 30 different versions of this same thread all created a second apart.
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+1

gorilla p said:
something's not right. Either my xda app is screwed up, or there are like 30 different versions of this same thread all created a second apart.
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omg so sorry. I thought my browser was broken. Thats me pressing refresh. Help!!! Modirators . Please close all but this one

Only thing that seems to be missing. Is pocket detection. Other wise I haven't found any bugs.

Yay! This ROM was my favourite on the Moto Z Play! And now Extend on our OP 5T! Outstanding!!! [emoji4]
Sent from my [device_name] using XDA-Developers Legacy app

Just in case u got lost in all my threads (sorry again). Here's some screenshots

Jamie_oppo said:
## I am not a developer...
Full Credit to @quake73 who compiled this first rom and made this possible. He's apart of the oneplus 5 forums and has been kind enough to let me share his work. Please thank him.
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Per the sticky posted in the Development section titled "Device Forum Rules (Please Read before posting)," all ROMs posted there must be your own work. ROM shares may be posted in the How-To section.
Be sure to follow the forum rules and posted stickies when posting.
THREAD MOVED

Nice share.:fingers-crossed:
Just tested playing around for 10 min. works fine.

I don't know if I missed something but I followed instructions to flash the rom but after waiting for 1 hour, I couldn't get the rom to boot. This also happens on the Pixel Experience rom you shared in your original post.
I flashed Lineage OS 15.1 after trying and that rom booted after 3 minutes, so I think the issue is in the roms.

Is always on display included?

awells845 said:
I don't know if I missed something but I followed instructions to flash the rom but after waiting for 1 hour, I couldn't get the rom to boot. This also happens on the Pixel Experience rom you shared in your original post.
I flashed Lineage OS 15.1 after trying and that rom booted after 3 minutes, so I think the issue is in the roms.
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Are you on open beta 3 firmware? If so are you decrypted or encrypted. For me. It didn't boot while encrypted. But it did while being decrypted.
Same with pixel ex. If it doesn't boot in 3-10 min. Its not going to boot

Jamie_oppo said:
Are you on open beta 3 firmware? If so are you decrypted or encrypted. For me. It didn't boot while encrypted. But it did while being decrypted.
Same with pixel ex. If it doesn't boot in 3-10 min. Its not going to boot
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Yeah I used Beta 3 firmware before flashing the rom. Managed to get it to boot after decrypt (format data in recovery)

Just flashed it and was happy to see it has Slim Recents.
Very cool ROM. Will keep an eye on it!

CZ Eddie said:
Just flashed it and was happy to see it has Slim Recents.
Very cool ROM. Will keep an eye on it!
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Can you check if always on display is included?

Danish2980 said:
Can you check if always on display is included?
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I'm 95% sure it does. I'm not using this rom. I need my oos cam so I'm back on ob3. I can't confirm 100% but I think it does.

Guys. Again from the same dev, nitrogen os.
Here's his work. I've not tested it on my device. If someone wants to test nitrogen os 8.1.0. U might need to be decrypted. Check if mist things work. Check if front camera works also. Gl hopes it works. Currently I don't have time to test it.
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569955655

3 minutes to boot?
awells845 said:
I don't know if I missed something but I followed instructions to flash the rom but after waiting for 1 hour, I couldn't get the rom to boot. This also happens on the Pixel Experience rom you shared in your original post.
I flashed Lineage OS 15.1 after trying and that rom booted after 3 minutes, so I think the issue is in the roms.
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Honestly even 3 minutes is too long for a boot on this device. It's got 6 - 8 gigs of ddr4 ram with a snapdragon 835 - if the boot is taking longer than 1 minute I start to get worried about a bootloop. Usually it's a 15 - 30 second process on the first boot, and even shorter on reboots.
Am I crazy wrong about this? I swear my boots never take longer than a moment.

preference said:
Honestly even 3 minutes is too long for a boot on this device. It's got 6 - 8 gigs of ddr4 ram with a snapdragon 835 - if the boot is taking longer than 1 minute I start to get worried about a bootloop. Usually it's a 15 - 30 second process on the first boot, and even shorter on reboots.
Am I crazy wrong about this? I swear my boots never take longer than a moment.
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Format data in recovery then copy the ROM and Gapps to the device and flash. Should solve the issue. It did for me.
I sold my 5T. OnePlus are rumoured to go into administration soon over the company collecting and selling customer's data in China. Various members of the company have left, it was just this week that Adam Krisko from OnePlus left and he's one of the developers of Oxygen OS. It was a good wave for OnePlus.

Jamie_oppo said:
Guys. Again from the same dev, nitrogen os.
Here's his work. I've not tested it on my device. If someone wants to test nitrogen os 8.1.0. U might need to be decrypted. Check if mist things work. Check if front camera works also. Gl hopes it works. Currently I don't have time to test it.
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569955655
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Tested ROM with ob1 & ob3, fp not working
If you click picture(front & back cam) holding in portrait mode pictures are forced to landscape.
Rest is Good

Root in order to increase battery on Pixel 3A or 3A XL?

I am wondering if it makes sense to root the Pixel 3A XL in order to remove system apps and increase battery? Has anyone come out with a ROm that is mostly just stock, but with all of the junked removed? I don't really need root access like most people do. I just want to use the basic features of the phone "camera, internet browsing, email, finger print reader, etc and get the most battery life possible. I use an app like greenify to kill apps but that doesn't work on system apps. Is LineagOS this sort of thing?

A custom kernel will do far more for battery savings then rooting will. And there are several Roms in various states of completion in the works right now, including my own but not very many I would consider ready for prime time and none Ive seen yet that are what youre looking for. Stock AOSP is very different then stock Google and typically when a Rom dev goes that far they also add lots of other customizations which may or may not be to your liking.

ctfrommn said:
A custom kernel will do far more for battery savings then rooting will. And there are several Roms in various states of completion in the works right now, including my own but not very many I would consider ready for prime time and none Ive seen yet that are what youre looking for. Stock AOSP is very different then stock Google and typically when a Rom dev goes that far they also add lots of other customizations which may or may not be to your liking.
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Thanks for your response. Could you point me in the direction of where I can read about and follow the progress of the projects you are referring to?

dr0832 said:
Thanks for your response. Could you point me in the direction of where I can read about and follow the progress of the projects you are referring to?
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There are a couple on here and the 3a XL forums. Im sure all the big dev teams have unofficial builds for both devices as well. As I build my own Rom I dont keep up on this too closely though.

dr0832 said:
Thanks for your response. Could you point me in the direction of where I can read about and follow the progress of the projects you are referring to?
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Agree. Custom kernel might be all you need at first.
I switched to a custom kernel by flair2 for a different reason, as I was looking for LZMA compression support for TWRP, but I'm quite happy with the battery benefits that kernel brought to my Pixel 3a. You can find it here - https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/development/kernel-pixel-3a-xl-elementalx-1-01-t3931185

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Agree. Custom kernel might be all you need at first.
I switched to a custom kernel by flair2 for a different reason, as I was looking for LZMA compression support for TWRP, but I'm quite happy with the battery benefits that kernel brought to my Pixel 3a. You can find it here - https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/development/kernel-pixel-3a-xl-elementalx-1-01-t3931185
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Will this work on the Pixel 3A XL as well? I assume they are the same besides the size.

dr0832 said:
Will this work on the Pixel 3A XL as well? I assume they are the same besides the size.
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Kernels for these devices are interchangeable.

pasha_d said:
Agree. Custom kernel might be all you need at first.
I switched to a custom kernel by flair2 for a different reason, as I was looking for LZMA compression support for TWRP, but I'm quite happy with the battery benefits that kernel brought to my Pixel 3a. You can find it here - https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/development/kernel-pixel-3a-xl-elementalx-1-01-t3931185
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Are you running it on Android 9 or 10? I haven't updated to 10 because I have heard of issues with battery life after doing this update.

dr0832 said:
Are you running it on Android 9 or 10? I haven't updated to 10 because I have heard of issues with battery life after doing this update.
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Battery on 10 is better than on Pie. I get roughly 10% better battery since updating. My guess is those experiencing it didnt clean flash 10 and just took the OTA.

Is there a guide that explains how to do that? I'm pretty inexperienced with all this.
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Battery on 10 is better than on Pie. I get roughly 10% better battery since updating. My guess is those experiencing it didnt clean flash 10 and just took the OTA.
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dr0832 said:
Is there a guide that explains how to do that? I'm pretty inexperienced with all this.
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A clean flash involves a factory reset. Be sure to back up any files to a different storage medium (PC, cloud, etc.) Once backed up, just use the factory image provided by Google.
Main page (has instructions): https://developers.google.com/android/images
3a December image: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/sargo-qq1a.191205.011-factory-c5ec22ee.zip
3a XL December image: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/bonito-qq1a.191205.011-factory-af411823.zip
The included .bat file (bat for windows, sh for Linux or Mac) is what you run. Be sure you get the latest fastboot drivers so you have no issues flashing in fastbootd. For future updates, just flash the stock boot image before taking the update or download the next month's image and delete the -w flag in the bat/sh file. That is the wipe switch.

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Are you running it on Android 9 or 10? I haven't updated to 10 because I have heard of issues with battery life after doing this update.
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I started using EX kernel on 9 to get permanent TWRP, but still using it now on 10, where we don't have TWRP. So I like that kernel a lot.

I have come to the conclusion on which custom Rom is best for the Note 4

Since buying this Sprint Note 4 I have tried 4 different custom ROM. 1 touch-wiz, and 3 AOSP. My opinion Detux Corp Rom v9.0-Zelfania'sLove is the absolute best in terms of looks, stability, customizing and response. This along with BeastMode-r61-UN7 kernel makes it a perfect combination for a phone that is now 6 yrs old.. . I did have a few issue, during the first few installs, as I have not dealt with a Touch-whiz ROM in a few yrs. Every thing about this Rom is superb. With plenty of customizing, and tweaking, you really do not need to add anything else to make this Rom stand out over the others.. One issue I did have was with viper4Android. With the option to install in Aroma, after installing it would not work like it was suppose to. It would never process or change any aspect of audio that I choose.. Once I Re did the Rom again, after trying a few AOSP, I downloaded the Viper4Android APK separate, along with the preinstalled busybox, it works flawless. Also it was very lagging, and would often be impossible to get it to to anything until it finally settled, but was worth the wait.. Right now nothing of note, is wrong not even Bluetooth, which seems to be a big issue on AOSP ROMS. Even with help on how to correct Bluetooth issue, it would still persist and never work correctly..

Just purchased two ZeroLemon batteries for my Note 4. The original works just fine, but wanted to have extra, for when this thing actually dies.. Of course I will swap out batteries at least once a month, and always have one fully charged and ready to replace, when I'm either at work or out and about.. I did purchase a new original Samsung battery, that was still in it's original box off of Ebay. But when it came, and I charged it and installed it in the phone. The phone would immediately shut off or just reboot.. Battery Man date was Mid 2017, but is defective. So went looking at alternatives, and settled on ZeroLemon as they have a good reputation.. Plus both with free shipping was $30 from their site.. Most aftermarket batteries, you can seem to only buy via Amazon or Ebay.. This is the route I did not want to go, so I'm glade I went to ZeroLemon..

Please can you send me screenshots of this detux corp rom

bahaa66 said:
Please can you send me screenshots of this detux corp rom
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It's under the Android Development here in the Sprint Forum of the Note 4, along with screen shots.

Dtux rom and screenshots
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/development/rom-dtuxrom-v5-redemption-t3424993
Dtux rom Original and Dtux rom with GRX touchwiz home V8 .zip added

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doubledragon5 said:
Since buying this Sprint Note 4 I have tried 4 different custom ROM. 1 touch-wiz, and 3 AOSP. My opinion Detux Corp Rom v9.0-Zelfania'sLove is the absolute best in terms of looks, stability, customizing and response. This along with BeastMode-r61-UN7 kernel makes it a perfect combination for a phone that is now 6 yrs old.. . I did have a few issue, during the first few installs, as I have not dealt with a Touch-whiz ROM in a few yrs. Every thing about this Rom is superb. With plenty of customizing, and tweaking, you really do not need to add anything else to make this Rom stand out over the others.. One issue I did have was with viper4Android. With the option to install in Aroma, after installing it would not work like it was suppose to. It would never process or change any aspect of audio that I choose.. Once I Re did the Rom again, after trying a few AOSP, I downloaded the Viper4Android APK separate, along with the preinstalled busybox, it works flawless. Also it was very lagging, and would often be impossible to get it to to anything until it finally settled, but was worth the wait.. Right now nothing of note, is wrong not even Bluetooth, which seems to be a big issue on AOSP ROMS. Even with help on how to correct Bluetooth issue, it would still persist and never work correctly..
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I agree, Dtux rom is the best of the best on Sprint Note 4 MM.
https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-store-update-brings-dark-mode-and-one-ui-design/
I didn't expect this to work with 6.0 mm but OMG! Nugut on MM, no way !!! but it did, WoW.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays Doubledragon5

doubledragon5 said:
Since buying this Sprint Note 4 I have tried 4 different custom ROM. 1 touch-wiz, and 3 AOSP. My opinion Detux Corp Rom v9.0-Zelfania'sLove is the absolute best in terms of looks, stability, customizing and response. This along with BeastMode-r61-UN7 kernel makes it a perfect combination for a phone that is now 6 yrs old.. . I did have a few issue, during the first few installs, as I have not dealt with a Touch-whiz ROM in a few yrs. Every thing about this Rom is superb. With plenty of customizing, and tweaking, you really do not need to add anything else to make this Rom stand out over the others.. One issue I did have was with viper4Android. With the option to install in Aroma, after installing it would not work like it was suppose to. It would never process or change any aspect of audio that I choose.. Once I Re did the Rom again, after trying a few AOSP, I downloaded the Viper4Android APK separate, along with the preinstalled busybox, it works flawless. Also it was very lagging, and would often be impossible to get it to to anything until it finally settled, but was worth the wait.. Right now nothing of note, is wrong not even Bluetooth, which seems to be a big issue on AOSP ROMS. Even with help on how to correct Bluetooth issue, it would still persist and never work correctly..
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Ported kernels of r56 to r61 successfully

Overclocked, hell Yea!!!

Mr. JAVI said:
Overclocked, hell Yea!!!
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I'll have to give that a try on my day off LOL

doubledragon5 said:
I'll have to give that a try on my day off LOL
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The Mods .zip available in the link below removes the once alway by default. Let you choose without forcing you to set default app.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/development/rom-t3568075

doubledragon5 said:
I'll have to give that a try on my day off LOL
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Check this out

5DQ15 bootloader and Modem running on a Lollipop custom rom, system root and Samsung theming full functioning as it should.
Cons= camera is blurted but I'll see if I can port or modify the files. Perhaps flash the modified r61/r56 Marshmallow kernel. Experimentation and observation.

Check out SuperSu Pro V2.52

I kept having issues with BusyBox. I finally found where it was pre-installed but it took me a while, I will admit. The Busybox by Steritson or what ever, was showing it was installed to the /sbin/. However, I discovered it was in device/ data/local/ and there it was Busybox. The screen shot is from after I manually deleted it with my root file manager . Yea, I took a bit of a risk but it did fit well with me. It just didn't look right.
Next, I unistalled previous bbox applets from within the app. I rebooted and ran the app to see if all was bbox was removed. a. Tgen I denied it root , forced stoped cleared cache, data and unistalled. nd indeed. I now use l Busybox app to Jrummy. Looks good so far but will see. Anyway, system/xbin for syatem root and syatem/sbin or system/bin for syatemless root.

Mr. JAVI said:
5DQ15 bootloader and Modem running on a Lollipop custom rom, system root and Samsung theming full functioning as it should.
Cons= camera is blurted but I'll see if I can port or modify the files. Perhaps flash the modified r61/r56 Marshmallow kernel. Experimentation and observation.
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Which Lollipop custom rom?

doubledragon5 said:
Which Lollipop custom rom?
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Hello my friend, Its good to hear from you. I'm running the Ultimate Note 5 hybrid rom (MOAR). Hears the link if you interested.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/development/rom-t3330135

Which kernel did you use? How is your battery life? I never did like battery life with the marshmallows ROMs

I gave it a shot, but wifi doesn't work... So back to UN7

Yea, I never almost never use Wifi but I couldn't get my hot spot to work. Blurred camera, no Wifi and no hot spot. My Bluetooth works. I have an old back from my previous Note 4, I was wondering if I should flash the modem partitions . Freaking fused 5, binary 4 bit the bog one. Dam!!
Im using the besst mode 2.2 ZL by @freeza. I think I try porting the r56 boot.img to the .zip of the R 2.2 ZL kernel zip. I appreciate any input or suggestions @doubledragon5

Mr. JAVI said:
Yea, I never almost never use Wifi but I couldn't get my hot spot to work. Blurred camera, no Wifi and no hot spot. My Bluetooth works. I have an old back from my previous Note 4, I was wondering if I should flash the modem partitions . Freaking fused 5, binary 4 bit the bog one. Dam!!
Im using the besst mode 2.2 ZL by @freeza. I think I try porting the r56 boot.img to the .zip of the R 2.2 ZL kernel zip. I appreciate any input or suggestions @doubledragon5
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I can care less about hotspot. But if we can get Wi-Fi to work that would be fantastic