I recently acquired a Droid turbo and was surprised by the lack if development for such a nice device. I quickly learned this was mostly due to the locked bootloader that took a while to crack. But having the Maxx with unlocked bootloader, I'm still rather surprised by how little development there seems to be for these devices. Maybe I'm spoiled as my last rooted device was a Moto G which had more ROMs than you can flash in a day, mods galore and things such as MultiROM. That leads to my question...
Now that more ROMs have rolled out and bootloader can be pretty easily be unlocked, is anyone working on MultiROM for quark? I searched around and have seen no mention of it all all for Quark devices. Is there something preventing it or do we just need someone to work on it? It's handy, especially with a phone with decent storage and a variety of ROMs.
Sorry for the lengthy post and I don't mean this as a "someone needs to make this for us" post. I'm just curious as MultiROM seems to be available on most devices these days but no mention of it for Quark.
mbj731 said:
But having the Maxx with unlocked bootloader, I'm still rather surprised by how little development there seems to be for these devices. Maybe I'm spoiled as my last rooted device was a Moto G which had more ROMs than you can flash in a day, mods galore and things such as MultiROM.
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"How little development"? Your premise is faulty.
We have 9 Marshmallow ROMs, plus we had at least 5 Lollipop ROMs, and now we have a Nougat ROM before most other devices! We have a custom kernel maker -- for both Lollipop and Marshmallow -- and now that same dev is now giving us the Nougat ROM.
I've been flashing ROMs since at least 2010, have owned several Nexus devices. Plus have have configured and set up many friends' phones. I'm not a dev, but far from a newbie. I've never used MultiROM in my life and have no desire to.
However, yes we can always use more developers. Our CM dev @Skrilax_CZ got a Moto Maxx XT1225 and developed official CM for us, along with the very important kernel. Others like @bhb27 came along developed more ROMs with CM's kernel. He also developed a custom kernel and gave us official TWRP for Quark.
Except for CF's Verizon stock-based ROM, all other ROMs are based on the work of those two devs. But we do have a lot of Marshmallow ROMs, and we have one Nougat and will have more. Here's the list of current Marshmallow and Nougat ROMs. I'm not even going to bother listing Lollipop anymore -- but we had at least 5, maybe more. AICP (Marshmallow) is not mentioned since the dev never made an official thread and says he's not maintaining it anymore -- even though people keep flashing it and asking about it in his other threads (AOKP and Bliss). But that one and @iiWoodstocK's Brazilian adaptation make 9 Marshmallow ROMs for Quark. Plus of course Nougat.
There are devices like Nexus which may have more ROMs but that's a very respectable amount of development!
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Here's the current custom Nougat (7.x) Quark ROMs to choose from. More will be coming!
[ROM][7.X][All quark] crDroid Android
That ROM started on 7.0 right now, and is already 7.1.
Here's the current custom Marshmallow (6.0.1) Quark ROMs to choose from:
[ROM][All Quark][6.x.x]Resurrection Remix
Bliss Rom 6.4 by Team Bliss
[ROM][6.0.1][OFFICIAL][QUARK] MoKee OpenSource Project
[Rom] NEXUS EXPERIENCE 10.4 [MotoMaxx] (recently updated to Marshmallow)
AOKP - Android Open Kang Project[6.0.1][Marshmallow]
[Moto MAXX XT1225 / Droid Turbo XT1254][OFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 13.0[6.0.1]
[ROM][2016-09-17][Quarks][CM 13.0 Unofficial][6.0.1] (hybrid of CM13 and Resurrection Remix)
That list is in no particular order.
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You can also install a Marshmallow stock ROM released by Motorola for the Brazilian Quark. @iiWoodstocK adapted it so it runs on ANY Quark, including the XT1254 Droid Turbo or XT1250 U.S. Moto Maxx (clone of the XT1254). It will use YOUR radio, whatever you have installed.
[ROM][6.0.1][Stock][Odexed]MPG24.107-70.2 Brazilian 6.0.1 for XT1254[TWRP Flashable]
Stock 6.0.1 MPG24.107-70.2 (Brazil) for Verizon XT1254
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/development/rom-mpg24-107-70-2-brazilian-6-0-1-t3426234
I didn't include it in the list above, because while technically it is a custom ROM, the only "customization" was to allow it to be flashed via TWRP and to allow it to be used on ALL Quarks: XT1254/XT1250/XT1225. Otherwise, it's pure Motorola Marshmallow stock which was officially released for a Quark phone.
iiWoodstocK said:
this ROM is just factory Marshmallow with a modded build.prop. I didn't include any radio in the .zip, so it uses whatever is currently on the device. Aside from my build.prop tweaks, this ROM is even usable for Brazilian XT1225 users, but the device will say it's a Droid Turbo and contain useless CDMA build.prop lines.
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Major stock functionality that I have confirmed working as it should: Moto Display, Approach to wake, Wi-Fi, mobile data (LTE/3G), calls, etc. No Verizon VoLTE (yet). I have not tested Moto Voice as I do not use Moto Voice, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
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ChazzMatt said:
How little development? Your premise is faulty.
We have 9 Marshmallow ROMs, plus we had at least 5 Lollipop ROMs, and now we have Nougat before most others. We have a custom kernel maker, for both Lollipop and Marshmallow and he's the one who is now giving us the Nougat ROM.
I've been flashing ROMs since at least 2010, have owned several Nexus devices. Plus have have configured and set up many friends' phones. I'm not a dev, but far from a newbie. I've never used MultiROM in my life and have no desire to.
However, yes we can always use more developers. Our CM dev @Skrilax_CZ got a Moto Maxx XT1225 and developed official CM for us, along with the very important kernel. Others like @bhb27 came along developed more ROMs with CM's kernel. He also developed a custom kernel and gave us official TWRP for Quark.
Except for CF's Verizon stock-based ROM, all other ROMs are based on the work of those two devs. But we do have a lot of Marshmallow ROMs, and we have one Nougat and will have more. Here's the list of current Marshmallow and Nougat ROMs. I'm not even going to bother listing Lollipop anymore -- but we had at least 5, maybe more. AICP (Marshmallow) is not mentioned since the dev never made an official thread and says he's not maintaining it anymore -- even though people keep flashing it and asking about it in his other threads (AOKP and Bliss). But that one and @iiWoodstocK's Brazilian adaptation make 9 Marshmallow ROMs for Quark. Plus of course Nougat.
There are devices like Nexus which may have more ROMs but that's a very respectable amount of development!
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Here's the current custom Nougat (7.x) Quark ROMs to choose from. More will be coming!
[ROM][7.X][All quark] crDroid Android
That ROM started on 7.0 right now, and is already 7.1.
Here's the current custom Marshmallow (6.0.1) Quark ROMs to choose from:
[ROM][All Quark][6.x.x]Resurrection Remix
Bliss Rom 6.4 by Team Bliss
[ROM][6.0.1][OFFICIAL][QUARK] MoKee OpenSource Project
[Rom] NEXUS EXPERIENCE 10.4 [MotoMaxx] (recently updated to Marshmallow)
AOKP - Android Open Kang Project[6.0.1][Marshmallow]
[Moto MAXX XT1225 / Droid Turbo XT1254][OFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 13.0[6.0.1]
[ROM][2016-09-17][Quarks][CM 13.0 Unofficial][6.0.1] (hybrid of CM13 and Resurrection Remix)
That list is in no particular order.
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[ROM][6.0.1][Stock][Odexed]MPG24.107-70.2 Brazilian 6.0.1 for XT1254[TWRP Flashable]
Stock 6.0.1 MPG24.107-70.2 (Brazil) for Verizon XT1254
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/development/rom-mpg24-107-70-2-brazilian-6-0-1-t3426234
I didn't include it in the list above, because while technically it is a custom ROM, the only "customization" was to allow it to be flashed via TWRP and to allow it to be used on ALL Quarks: XT1254/XT1250/XT1225. Otherwise, it's pure Motorola Marshmallow stock which was officially released for a Quark phone.
Any questions go to those threads and ask.
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As I said, maybe I'm just used to having tons of options. I had a Moto G (falcon) for a while. It's a budget device from 2013 and they have Nougat ROMs, tons of MM and LP ROMs, MultiROM, several OS ports, custom kernels etc... I guess it makes sense that a cheaper phone will be easier to get in the hands of devs and more people will dev for them.
I'm not complaining... But the Quark section is much more quiet than I was used to with my old Falcon.
I appreciate all the work that anyone puts in to making custom ROMs etc. My main question here was inquiring on MultiROM. For someone who constantly flashes ROMs or tries different mods, kernels etc, it's awesome. Why backup/wipe/flash/setup all the time when you can seamlessly switch between ROMs? With 32 or 64gb of storage you could in theory have all 9 MM ROMs installed and boot to whichever one you felt like using at the moment. Weed out the ones you wouldn't use and have several to choose from without having to wipe/install or restore etc.
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is anyone working on MultiROM for quark?
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yes I already made Multi ROM TWRP to work on quark, I manage to install more then one ROM in the device and hit a problem when trying to load secondary ROM's have no idea how to fix so I never publish I don't see this as a major thing to spend my time on so I prefer to improve others project that works 100% and work on the bring up of Nougat for a example as I have very limited time and there is very little developer for quark that really know how to do things some things may never come to life, I my self now very little but I never stop improve my self...
So maybe some day I finish the project and make it fully work, next try will be when TWRP and MultiROM project are released official for Nougat.
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yes I already made Multi ROM TWRP to work on quark, I manage to install more then one ROM in the device and hit a problem when trying to load secondary ROM's have no idea how to fix so I never publish I don't see this as a major thing to spend my time on so I prefer to improve others project that works 100% and work on the bring up of Nougat for a example as I have very limited time and there is very little developer for quark that really know how to do things some things may never come to life, I my self now very little but I never stop improve my self...
So maybe some day I finish the project and make it fully work, next try will be when TWRP and MultiROM project are released official for Nougat.
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If I remember correctly from the moto G days, you had to have a patched kernel to work with MultiROM. I don't remember exactly what it was that was implemented within the kernel. It seems like MultiROM would be easily ported between devices since it's not specific to a particular device.. But that's only an assumption from someone who knows nothing.
I know nothing of developing, but wish I had a computer so I could try to help out.
Thanks for your work. If you have the TWRP file available, could you PM me a link?
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yes I already made Multi ROM TWRP to work on quark, I manage to install more then one ROM in the device and hit a problem when trying to load secondary ROM's have no idea how to fix so I never publish I don't see this as a major thing to spend my time on so I prefer to improve others project that works 100% and work on the bring up of Nougat for a example as I have very limited time and there is very little developer for quark that really know how to do things some things may never come to life, I my self now very little but I never stop improve my self...
So maybe some day I finish the project and make it fully work, next try will be when TWRP and MultiROM project are released official for Nougat.
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Just remembered, it was a kexec patch that the kernel needed in moto G. Not sure if that helps you any as I have no idea what it means. But pretty sure without it, you could load ROMs on the device but they wouldn't boot without the Primary ROMs kernel being kexec patched.
Here's a link to some info about porting MultiROM. I'll keep looking in to it and if I can get a PC, I'll even try to figure it all out.
https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom/wiki/Porting-MultiROM
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Just remembered, it was a kexec patch that the kernel needed in moto G. Not sure if that helps you any as I have no idea what it means. But pretty sure without it, you could load ROMs on the device but they wouldn't boot without the Primary ROMs kernel being kexec patched.
Here's a link to some info about porting MultiROM. I'll keep looking in to it and if I can get a PC, I'll even try to figure it all out.
https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom/wiki/Porting-MultiROM
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If I already made it I probably know all about it :silly: but of course knowing what is needed and make it fully work is another history, I know you may be excited to have it but is not my priority and will not be for some time I already do too much for this device.
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If I already made it I probably know all about it :silly: but of course knowing what is needed and make it fully work is another history, I know you may be excited to have it but is not my priority and will not be for some time I already do too much for this device.
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Oh, I understand. I wasn't pushing for you to make it. I was just pointing out a relevant thread. It seems pretty straight forward from that description as long as the device follows the guidelines of what works. But as I said, I'm no dev.
I can do without MultiROM but I don't know why people wouldn't want it or think it's not useful. For someone who loves to flash and use different ROMs it puts them one click away from multiple ROMs at boot.
Maybe I can come across a PC one of these days and tinker with it.
bhb27 said:
yes I already made Multi ROM TWRP to work on quark, I manage to install more then one ROM in the device and hit a problem when trying to load secondary ROM's have no idea how to fix so I never publish I don't see this as a major thing to spend my time on so I prefer to improve others project that works 100% and work on the bring up of Nougat for a example as I have very limited time and there is very little developer for quark that really know how to do things some things may never come to life, I my self now very little but I never stop improve my self...
So maybe some day I finish the project and make it fully work, next try will be when TWRP and MultiROM project are released official for Nougat.
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Just an update for this post. Multi-ROM has now been released by @bhb27, plus we now have SEVEN Nougat ROMs.
[ROMs][Quarks][List for Moto Maxx and Droid Turbo]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73459132&postcount=80
But as I explained in post #2, the "lack of development" for this phone was always a faulty statement. Development on this phone has been constant since the very beginning. We've had several ROMs to choose from and many tools and apps.
ChazzMatt said:
Just an update for this post. Multi-ROM has now been released by @bhb27, plus we now have SEVEN Nougat ROMs.
[ROMs][Quarks][List for Moto Maxx and Droid Turbo]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73459132&postcount=80
But as I explained in post #2, the "lack of development" for this phone was always a faulty statement. Development on this phone has been constant since the very beginning. We've had several ROMs to choose from and many tools and apps.
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Thanks Chazz
Downloading and trying...
Actually have RR Rom and i want to try the new Viper like 2nd Rom.
In a few days, i comment the result of my test.
P.S. Excuse me if i made mistakes w/english, im not so good w that.
ChazzMatt said:
Just an update for this post. Multi-ROM has now been released by @bhb27, plus we now have SEVEN Nougat ROMs.
[ROMs][Quarks][List for Moto Maxx and Droid Turbo]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73459132&postcount=80
But as I explained in post #2, the "lack of development" for this phone was always a faulty statement. Development on this phone has been constant since the very beginning. We've had several ROMs to choose from and many tools and apps.
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Thanks for the update.
The "lack of development" was already explained. There are plenty of ROMs to tinker with for the Quark and that is great... But venture in to the Moto G section and you will see just how many options there are for that device. I don't think it officially made it past KitKat and there are well over 9 Nougat ROMs, plus kernels, mods, etc for that phone and it's still kicking after 5 years or so.
It was never a knock on development of the Quark or "lack there of"....rather I was a bit surprised that there weren't more people with this phone and more devs pumping out builds like I was used to for the falcon. Not a big deal.
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Thanks for the update.
The "lack of development" was already explained. There are plenty of ROMs to tinker with for the Quark and that is great... But venture in to the Moto G section and you will see just how many options there are for that device. I don't think it officially made it past KitKat and there are well over 9 Nougat ROMs, plus kernels, mods, etc for that phone and it's still kicking after 5 years or so.
It was never a knock on development of the Quark or "lack there of"....rather I was a bit surprised that there weren't more people with this phone and more devs pumping out builds like I was used to for the falcon. Not a big deal.
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On my view "devs pumping out builds" is not always a great thing.
Some developer are only producing more without any care for quality or care to help in the improve of development, they are just using the known good recipe to build for that device from CM/LOS repos or wherever they fell is good, downloading the source give some commands and without any real development from they side producing a ROM, I know learn somethings takes time, but after some long time some developer don't ever try move from that side of just producing a ROM using others work to produce a ROM with they on changes/fixes and sharing that to others so the development can improve.
big community of developers working together trying to improve development great, great number of ROM/development projects not equal to that.
you are also trying to compara quark 2014 device to falcon 2013 device, a years of development on a much cheaper device is not far, as the cheapness will make it more available and popular, falcon was probably released on more markets then quark, and time will help to make people interested on to doing development to it, Droid Turbo 2 is another good sample of unpopular device for development.
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Is anyone currently working on building CM 14 for the Turbo/Maxx?
DREWHAMM974 said:
Is anyone currently working on building CM 14 for the Turbo/Maxx?
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Our official CM dev @Skrilax_CZ is working on CM14 -- just like he did CM12, CM12.1 and CM13. No device has official CM14 yet, just stuff thrown together. CM team has not released any CM14 ROMs yet.
Due to his kernel work, he's the only reason we have any custom ROMs at all -- they all use his CM kernel in their ROMs. Even BHM27 kernel is based on CM code @Skrilax_CZ wrote.
santi1993 said:
Will u develop CM14 from Moto X Style sources?
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Moto X Style does not have official CM14 yet. Yes, somebody has thrown together an unofficial CM14 for that device but lots of stuff doesn't work.
@ Skrilax_CZ will release official CM14 when it's ready.
Skrilax_CZ said:
I usually start porting when CM14 official nightlies start. CM14 is just too unstable right now. Although since I have 2nd MAXX, I might look on it a bit earlier
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Cobra04 said:
Nexus 6 STILL doesn't have stock Nougat so no rush.
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This is just speculation as to when the first official CM14 nightlies for any device will begin, not necessarily our Quark.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/cm14-release-date/
CM14 Release Date?
Expected on: October 2016 (2nd week). Read the below to know why we think so.
As said above, the work has started on the CM14 ROMs over at Github, the central station of the code. We already have ports of CM14 ROMs available for numerous devices, which we tried to list out in separate section below. Mind you, CyanogenMod has yet to release a ROM, as these ports are self-cooked (unofficial) ROM by users using the code available from CyanogenMod team.
Stable release of the CM14 would definitely take some time. When ROMs are stable enough to be used as daily driver, CM team will release them themselves. But let’s try to find out expected release date of that happening.
Let’s take an example. A real one. For Cyanogenmod 13, which was based on Android 6.0, it took nearly over one and a half month.
Google started rolling out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update on October 5 last year, and uploaded it to AOSP the same day too. But it was only on November 24 that Cyanogen team released their first build of CM13. So, that’s 50 days, around 1 month and 20 days it took CM team to fork out their first CM13 build for selected devices, while most of the devices received CM13 support only later on.
We can expect similar release gap between AOSP release of Nougat and CM14’s release. As Google released the Android Nougat as an OTA to Nexus devices on August 22, to which we add the Marshmallow time gap calculated above of 50 days, our expected CM14 release date would come to October 11, that is, second week of October 2016.
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Ok, I greatly appreciate it. I just got my Turbo a couple days ago and was just looking around. Once everything has been built I should be able to use the repos to port other CM based roms over to the quark devices. I'm in the middle of getting my build environment set back up since I havent done anything in quite a while. Please note though, I am not a developer. I'm just someone who knows how to build from source using other peoples work on device repos.
DREWHAMM974 said:
Ok, I greatly appreciate it. I just got my Turbo a couple days ago and was just looking around. Once everything has been built I should be able to use the repos to port other CM based roms over to the quark devices. I'm in the middle of getting my build environment set back up since I havent done anything in quite a while. Please note though, I am not a developer. I'm just someone who knows how to build from source using other peoples work on device repos.
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These are the Marshmallow ROMs currently available for our Quark devices, so you can keep up with what's being done for our device. Just a repost of mine from another thread. Once CM14 (Nougat) comes out, these will probably be updated. But there's tons of other ROMs out there people would love to have! So, thank you.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68810980
Here's the current custom Marshmallow Quark ROMs to choose from:
[ROM][All Quark][6.x.x]Resurrection Remix
Bliss Rom 6.4 by Team Bliss
[ROM][6.0.1][OFFICIAL][QUARK] MoKee OpenSource Project
[Rom] NEXUS EXPERIENCE 10.4 [MotoMaxx] (recently updated to Marshmallow)
AOKP - Android Open Kang Project[6.0.1][Marshmallow]
[Moto MAXX XT1225 / Droid Turbo XT1254][OFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 13.0
[ROM][2016-09-17][Quarks][CM 13.0 Unofficial][6.0.1] (hybrid of CM13 and Resurrection Remix)
That list is in no particular order.
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You can also install a Marshmallow stock ROM released by Motorola for the Brazilian Quark. @iiWoodstocK adapted it so it runs on ANY Quark, including the XT1254 Droid Turbo or XT1250 U.S. Moto Maxx (clone of the XT1254). It will use YOUR radio, whatever you have installed.
[ROM][6.0.1][Stock][Odexed]MPG24.107-70.2 Brazilian 6.0.1 for XT1254[TWRP Flashable]
Stock 6.0.1 MPG24.107-70.2 (Brazil) for Verizon XT1254
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/development/rom-mpg24-107-70-2-brazilian-6-0-1-t3426234
I didn't include it in the list above, because while technically it is a custom ROM, the only "customization" was to allow it to be flashed via TWRP and to allow it to be used on ALL Quarks: XT1254/XT1250/XT1225. Otherwise, it's pure Motorola Marshmallow stock which was officially released for a Quark phone.
iiWoodstocK said:
this ROM is just factory Marshmallow with a modded build.prop. I didn't include any radio in the .zip, so it uses whatever is currently on the device. Aside from my build.prop tweaks, this ROM is even usable for Brazilian XT1225 users, but the device will say it's a Droid Turbo and contain useless CDMA build.prop lines.
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iiWoodstocK said:
Major stock functionality that I have confirmed working as it should: Moto Display, Approach to wake, Wi-Fi, mobile data (LTE/3G), calls, etc. No Verizon VoLTE (yet). I have not tested Moto Voice as I do not use Moto Voice, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
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Any questions go to those threads and ask.
Hi,
up until 7.1.2 I used to run 2-3 roms in multirom, six or nitro as primary purenexus as secondary. However six's newest Oreo rom, it would install new kernel (i think) with it which does not support kexec (don't quote me on it either). Where as before I always used Kexec supporting kenrels such as franco, elemental and b14ckb1rd. Now I understand things very basic not in depth. And I understand why custom kernels for N6 might not be out already (since google didnt push out official oreo update for N6). My question for devs is should there be kernels out there in near future that would support Oreo and multirom same way it used to be till 7.1.2? Not asking for when not asking why not yet just asking if in future will it happen? If so (this question is just to understand) would that kernel be based on kernel for N6P or N5x or Pixel?
I would greatly appreciate if anyone can explain me. If a kernel developer wants to explain in great technical details I would love to read up. Thanks.
BTW the reason I asked this, is because in my experience, current custom kernels would not boot Oreo beta rom. and I am assuming they would not boot any future 8.0 roms as support for 8.0 is not listed under them only support for until 7.1.2 is listed. I am noob so feel free to correct me wherever i was wrong.
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BTW the reason I asked this, is because in my experience, current custom kernels would not boot Oreo beta rom. and I am assuming they would not boot any future 8.0 roms as support for 8.0 is not listed under them only support for until 7.1.2 is listed. I am noob so feel free to correct me wherever i was wrong.
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Devs are working on making Oreo stable with it's core features and when that's done the kernel and feature development will start picking up. As of now you'll have to wait but by experience from seeing older phones with dropped official support that has received newer Android versions by custom roms, multirom has worked so I don't see any issue. Only time will tell. Right now getting all core features stable is prio number 1.
Hello all. It's been quite a number of years since I've been in the custom ROM scene. Last I was around CM was the only ROM that had OTA functionality. I'm contemplating throwing a ROM on my moto g5s plus NA sanders XT1806, but at this point I'd like to have a semi - set it and forget it set up. Are there any ROMs available for this device that have a functional OTA system set up? I know I could install one by one and find out, but I'm hoping some users could chime in and save me the time. Searching there are no mentions of OTA in any of the ROM threads.
Thanks!
mikelebz said:
Hello all. It's been quite a number of years since I've been in the custom ROM scene. Last I was around CM was the only ROM that had OTA functionality. I'm contemplating throwing a ROM on my moto g5s plus NA sanders XT1806, but at this point I'd like to have a semi - set it and forget it set up. Are there any ROMs available for this device that have a functional OTA system set up? I know I could install one by one and find out, but I'm hoping some users could chime in and save me the time. Searching there are no mentions of OTA in any of the ROM threads.
Thanks!
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Pixel experience has a system update, but don't know if it's incremental or full or if it even works, never used it, or any auto updater.
AEX PE and Cosmic have OTA working, usually it's the defining feature in official/unofficial rooms right now.
I've used pe and aex's and I'm guessing cosmic works too.
Greetings Friends,
I have seen very little development or developers for this device is very rare because the A1 before releasing the Kernel already had development, and this device was already released the kernel but I still see little development.
Yeah i dunno why developers not intrested in this device
How long ago did they start selling these devices?
AsItLies said:
How long ago did they start selling these devices?
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Longer than A1 when it takes first customs
Before Launching the source code of the A1 Kernel and there were ROMS and Magisk modules for this phone, the participation is very minimal, I think they were all for the RN5.
I just hope developers will have a look at Mi A2. Is it too early to expect development?
MoldySoapBox said:
I just hope developers will have a look at Mi A2. Is it too early to expect development?
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Lineage for the A1 started 6 months after the release.
edit: Also the Pie update is near so probably nobody wants to waste time on bringing up a 8.1. based rom.
Another thing is that it has Treble GSI A/B support, so you can install a variety of already popular roms right off the bat. I know a custom kernel is under development that has both overclock and underclock as well. I am currently using the Arrow GSI rom and it works very well. I have xposed and root, I also get way better battery life than with the stock rom. The only bug I have is the front flashlight turns on when I use the front camera. You can flash any of the A/B roms on this site if you want more roms.
It even includes Pie roms and lineage os. I see no reason devs would want to spend time making something that already exists.
They will most likely work on kernel development/tweaks to fix bugs in the already existing treble roms, like the camera bug in the rom I am using.
Mention best ROM in your opinion you have ever used till date on MOTO G5S PLUS
Also please try to mention XDA link for your respective ROM .
Not to sound negative or unappreciative, but literally none of them have worked for me in the USA with Sprint as my carrier. If I try to change the carrier settings to work better (or at all) with Sprint, carrier services stops working completely until I reboot. This is the same with literally all the ROMs on this site. I don't know if they're using wrong or very region specific proprietary blobs when compiling or what, but it's the same thing with all the ROMs, including popular "unofficial" ROMs like Dirty Unicorns, LineageOS, etc. It's been a very disappointing experience after upgrading to the Moto G5S Plus from the Motorola Nexus 6 where I had so many more (working) ROM options available.
So, my answer would be the stock ROM. I recently flashed back to stock, unrooted Nougat, took the Oreo update, and since there really aren't any working ROMs available for me, I didn't even bother to root again. Sprint added a free 50GB/month wifi hotspot to each phone on my account and the Camera 2 API is active in Moto's stock Oreo ROM. Those were my two main reasons for rooting, and they're no longer needed. So, I'm just running stock Oreo with Nova Launcher.