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[MOD] MultiROM (sharing kernel)

I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps. Sorry for inconvience.
this is beta release. for p900 only.
I'll write full instruction later. For full description see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
I'm not sure that everything is stable, so I dont publish source code. I dont want to distribute buggy sources. thanks for understanding.
for stock firmware only. for now. use stock frimware as primary. you can flash cm as additional.
Installation:
1. https://yadi.sk/d/RVXpEgc6c4GKo - this is modded recovery. flash via odin
2. https://yadi.sk/d/CHl8wTYYc4GMZ - patched kernel. (patched my 1.3 pro kernel)
https://yadi.sk/d/D2riVhEgc4GPP - multirom main program
flash through modded recovery patched kernel and multirom.
uninstallation:
https://yadi.sk/d/jc4uxZeCc4GRb - flash this uninstaller through recovery, then flash original twrp
known issues:
- 1920x1200 resolution in twrp
- in List Roms installed roms dont shown
- in multirom boot menu touchscreen downt work. use buttons (vol-,vol+,power)
multirom apk from play store doesnt support this release.

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bonuzzz said:
this is beta release. for p900 only.
I'll wrote full instruction later. For full description see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
I'm not sure that everything is stable, so I dont publish source code. I dont want to distribute buggy sources. thanks for understanding.
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I saw earlier that you had plans for this, but I didn't expect it to happen this quickly.
Anyway, great initiative.

WOW
@bonuzzz,
nice to see you here. Actually I bought this high end class tablet because of its specifations and over standarts. Still is the most powerful tablet in market.. But somehow it always lacked development and support of developers. Recently maybe the price is dropped so it started make owners smile little bit.
I was almost giong to change it, but still there is no powerful alternate..
I would like to be a tester of multiboot. because I would love to see ubuntu desktop in this tablet.
Thank you!

m_carleone82 said:
@bonuzzz,
nice to see you here. Actually I bought this high end class tablet because of its specifations and over standarts. Still is the most powerful tablet in market.. But somehow it always lacked development and support of developers. Recently maybe the price is dropped so it started make owners smile little bit.
I was almost giong to change it, but still there is no powerful alternate..
I would like to be a tester of multiboot. because I would love to see ubuntu desktop in this tablet.
Thank you!
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it's not so difficult to run ubuntu desktop here, but it wiil be very big problem with drivers. I thought about ubuntu, but now I'm not going to have a deal with it. I advice you to look linux deploy

Great job
bonuzzz said:
it's not so difficult to run ubuntu desktop here, but it wiil be very big problem with drivers.
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Here are some drivers for the GPU. I will look into it.
http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/features/mali-t6xx-gpu-user-space-drivers/

ESmazter said:
Great job
Here are some drivers for the GPU. I will look into it.
http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/features/mali-t6xx-gpu-user-space-drivers/
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If you could get it working it would be great.

arcadia2uk said:
If you could get it working it would be great.
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I'm currently having a lot of work with multirom, so I think I'll not have time to deal with ubuntu

bonuzzz said:
I'm currently having a lot of work with multirom, so I think I'll not have time to deal with ubuntu
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My appreciation was actually meant for ESmazter saying: I will look into it

oops, i haven't noticed esmazter's phrase

I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps.

bonuzzz said:
I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps.
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I was still hoping to get the minor issues resolved, notably the issue with Rom's installer are not shown in the installed ROM's section.

Any possibility of porting this to Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)? The hardware is almost exactly identical. Really like your work, keep it up!

hhairplane said:
Any possibility of porting this to Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)? The hardware is almost exactly identical. Really like your work, keep it up!
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I dont have any plans to port to other devices. It doesnt fully working and I dont have any progress with it...

Do you mean the first (pre multirom install ) flashed rom kernal is the only kernal that boots regardless of the chosen rom, is multirom a separate bootloder that is chainloaded by the original bootloader? Does multirom have a config file describing the various kernals with different filenames if so can it be manually edited? Does multirom mount emulated system partition images or are their actual multiple prexisting system partions in the mbr that multirom can choose from ? What would quilify as similar roms, stock and omni are they similar enouph ?

brock28 said:
Do you mean the first (pre multirom install ) flashed rom kernal is the only kernal that boots regardless of the chosen rom, is multirom a separate bootloder that is chainloaded by the original bootloader? Does multirom have a config file describing the various kernals with different filenames if so can it be manually edited? Does multirom mount emulated system partition images or are their actual multiple prexisting system partions in the mbr that multirom can choose from ? What would quilify as similar roms, stock and omni are they similar enouph ?
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I dont recommend to use this multirom because it has the bug with sharing kernel. So you need to use similar roms as primary and as additional. I dont have an idea how to solve it at this moment.

[Q] Help for a Newbie in P7

Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM (Sorry I really dont know he defrance total newbie ) , but I dont want to lose the support of Google or the Google Market , what should I do , can anyone help me in that ???
give me details and tell me what to do
thanks

look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/asc...7en-rom-v3-0-emui-3-0-4-4-2-18-11-14-t2945104

darkzero2022 said:
Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM (Sorry I really dont know he defrance total newbie ) , but I dont want to lose the support of Google or the Google Market , what should I do , can anyone help me in that ???
give me details and tell me what to do
thanks
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If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10

Ziolek67 said:
If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10
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Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2

It's proberly better staying on 4.4.2 than on lolipop. Many bugs on lolipop.
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darkzero2022 said:
Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2
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Ok than lest go to update.... I will waiting for yours requests for help

darkzero2022 said:
Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2
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Wow do you realize android 5 has been out officially for a week or two and pretty much every phone apart from nexus which uses the software directly from Google themselves who make android, still don't run it yet and expect to be running it in 2015.
Not even big teams that use the aosp code directly such as cyanogen or paranoid have got a stable fully functional rom out yet.
It takes time for the 3rd party developers to customize and test android for there devices once the official version gets released as they all use the final source code which only has been out 3-4 weeks.
Also no company apart from Google is much better, Samsung are still rolling out 4.4 to some of there devices with some like the s2 still on 4.2 and end of life presumably others will jump straight to lollipop from 4.3 etc.
Also on rooting what do you wish to achieve by doing so?
Rooting can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing with devices like ours.
Take a look for example at all the posts in this forum asking to downgrade their l10's from emui 3 to 2 which they upgraded to custom versions etc without thinking and the issues they now have with boot loops and stuff.
If you want to run xposed you can find many people with similar things recently in this forum that can't get it to work.
Also rooting etc you lose the ability for any future updates via OTA and recovery and would need to manually update your device potentially bricking it every single time which bricking means you can no longer use your device and have to buy a new one.
Also are you capible on the PC with using it, command prompt Linux shell etc and doing things like installing Windows and other things.
If not then rooting is not for you.
Also do you know how to code in Linux C etc and know the workings of the Linux os, if not then there is no way you are going to make a custom rom. All you might be able to achieve is just repackaging someone else's ROM with minor edits and even then the tools to do that mainly use Linux to run as it's native windows doesn't have all the stuff Linux has natively in this regard.

Ziolek67 said:
If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10
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drguild said:
Wow do you realize android 5 has been out officially for a week or two and pretty much every phone apart from nexus which uses the software directly from Google themselves who make android, still don't run it yet and expect to be running it in 2015.
Not even big teams that use the aosp code directly such as cyanogen or paranoid have got a stable fully functional rom out yet.
It takes time for the 3rd party developers to customize and test android for there devices once the official version gets released as they all use the final source code which only has been out 3-4 weeks.
Also no company apart from Google is much better, Samsung are still rolling out 4.4 to some of there devices with some like the s2 still on 4.2 and end of life presumably others will jump straight to lollipop from 4.3 etc.
Also on rooting what do you wish to achieve by doing so?
Rooting can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing with devices like ours.
Take a look for example at all the posts in this forum asking to downgrade their l10's from emui 3 to 2 which they upgraded to custom versions etc without thinking and the issues they now have with boot loops and stuff.
If you want to run xposed you can find many people with similar things recently in this forum that can't get it to work.
Also rooting etc you lose the ability for any future updates via OTA and recovery and would need to manually update your device potentially bricking it every single time which bricking means you can no longer use your device and have to buy a new one.
Also are you capible on the PC with using it, command prompt Linux shell etc and doing things like installing Windows and other things.
If not then rooting is not for you.
Also do you know how to code in Linux C etc and know the workings of the Linux os, if not then there is no way you are going to make a custom rom. All you might be able to achieve is just repackaging someone else's ROM with minor edits and even then the tools to do that mainly use Linux to run as it's native windows doesn't have all the stuff Linux has natively in this regard.
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Thanks For your Valuable words,
I really enjoyed them and get my mind open
well I do have Good Experience in linux and Command line , C Programming actually didnt go deep with it really ,
But i think I will stick to your opinion and wait ,and while I do so I will learn more about the whole subject ,and maybe increase my knowledge in this Field . (Android Programming - the C Programming - how things work in Android , ROMS , ETC)
but would you mind telling me from where to start ???

darkzero2022 said:
Thanks For your Valuable words,
I really enjoyed them and get my mind open
well I do have Good Experience in linux and Command line , C Programming actually didnt go deep with it really ,
But i think I will stick to your opinion and wait ,and while I do so I will learn more about the whole subject ,and maybe increase my knowledge in this Field . (Android Programming - the C Programming - how things work in Android , ROMS , ETC)
but would you mind telling me from where to start ???
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Apologies if I came across about abit hard this forum has had allot of impatient people jumping in recently trying to run Emui 3 on l10's then asking to downgrade as you may have noticed the other teams like paranoid are already dealing with lots of people saying there to slow for not having lollipop out within a hour of aosp.
I had the same issue running a custom Minecraft server that people got really angry then refused to play and bad mouth the server if we didn't update that day when update time for us was about a week given the number of customizations we had 41 plugin's in the end, sometimes longer if there were more changes the mod and custom server devs had to deal with.
Emui 3 and lollipop has more bugs more as it's new from what I found I may start a proper consolidated emui talk thread later for those running it opposed to all the l10 when are we getting it out help me downgrade threads.
The place I think you should start is to download the source code for your version from the emui webpage and start analyzing it out of interest.
There's another Dev on here doing the same thing so you might want to contact him for info.
Also there are tools on Linux that easily let you unpack stock image files and the ext container and repack them.
That way you can see the full file structure and how a rom is packaged.
It's good just to see what's inside roms and how the first roms are usually made by a repackage before source.
I will stress the same as above that while these are starting points you would need to know what you are doing and something more hackable like a cheap nexus or or Chinese tab (about $50 USD) with easy upgradable firmware something would be better to start on.
Also grab down the android tools with eclypse for Linux, the sdk virtual device and have a play around making a app and stuff also you can edit the virtual rom safely etc.
The Linux version of the tools is far superior as you can natively mount the virtual ext cards for host file transfer and do other things which you can't under windows.
By ext above I mean the virtual partition files which are either ext 3 or 4 last time I looked.
I'm not a coder myself and I only did basic stuff in the past as I had a Chinese android 2.2 tablet the MID ones as my first device, I used a custom rom on which was just a repack with file system changes with bloat removed etc.
I looked into this out of interest and curiosity, each rom update I repacked it with the apps I used so I didn't need to reinstall them, there was probably a better (proper) way than just unpacking the ext file system from the img adding my apps in to the deploy folder and repacking.
Also I unpacked a APK weather app etc to make changes and use a custom background and others like themes to grab icons and assets this is a good start with looking at app packages and how that all works as well as making your own app in various tools eclipse for one which is the official tool but there's hundreds of android programming softwares online even to do simple stuff as make a stand alone html5 app from a webpage.
The tools on Windows I found were lacking and harder to find for the rom stuff, with Linux it was built into the system a lot of things.
What Linux is the best for doing Android stuff I don't know so that will need to be researched.
As mentioned devices can be dangerous for custom stuff especially newer ones with bootloader security, the older Chinese style ones and some others you could reflash easily from sdcard with a update.img file as they didn't contain that lock out security on boot and debugging.
I nearly bricked a few devices in the past, once having to rely on the bootloader and Android Commander a powerful tool and device terminal to mount the partition rw while in the bootloader to rename a file backI renamed as a test that caused the system to stop booting.
You can still get some tabs that do that about 50 USD on eBay etc I think.

darkzero2022 said:
Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM...
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I'd strongly advise that you wait. My experience. You can root v4.4.2 VERY easily using vroot. Wait for lollipop, honestly. Is a nightmare recovering your position if you try to move now.
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10 using XDA Premium HD app

information please

This is not so much a note 9 question but i am in the note 9 port of the forum and it deals with the android system.
I am trying to learn a few things about android OS. I would like to make a rom and know there are some good tuts on xda.
I happen to be a hands on learner. By that i mean i like to learn by doing so tuts are good but dont pinpoint my want.
I have a android streaming box. It is from what i have read a china clone with a rockchip 3328 chipset and a 8723 wifi chip. It seems the company i bought it from put out their firmware but its very buggy and there is no twrp for it but it dose have root. But not supersu. If i install supersu the binaries are out dated and if you update them it will bot boot.
Ok anyways my question is can i open the system img and change the launcher because no launcher seems to work just by downloading from the store. and edit the systemui and framework-res because it seems somewhere the notification bar and the nav bar are gone on the ui. I then would pack it up again and install like normal firmware.
What pratfalls will i encounter and if there is any write ups on something like this please let me know.
Lastly and it may be way beyond the scope of this post. What is the process of mak8ng or rebuilding twrp to work with my device i would really like to give that a go too.
Thanks for any input.

NUBIA Z20 Android 10 update

A custom rom for nubia z20 has been released but I dont know if it works. Can someone install it and make a video about it? PM me / post everything here if it works. Make a video about it or something like that. I found that it might work but I am not sure if it has the "dual screen switcher" and the camera modes. My phone is not rooted and I can't do it . If yours is, try and post updates here. If its good, we might try it too.
link: www.getdroidtips.com/android-10-nubia-z20/
We will wait for updates from users.

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These type of article get build with whatever phone exist, unless you port all the proprietary blobs of nubia into the GSI ROM I doubt you will have somehing usable installing this ROM

RomanLeFrais said:
These type of article get build with whatever phone exist, unless you port all the proprietary blobs of nubia into the GSI ROM I doubt you will have somehing usable installing this ROM
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I didn't know that. Thanks for informing us.

Question GSI Anyone? (maybe some dev interest?)

Opening up this thread in hopes some interest can be made.
Since the beta version of Android 13 dropped, I decided to boot into GSI roms to achieve root. To my surprise, not only did the GSI rom boot, but I was able to go through the google setup like a champ. Every now and again, I load different GSI roms to test and I am currently using Google QPR2. As it stands the following works:
What Works
Opening and closing the device actually works and renders content in open and closed state
Cellular/wifi radio works
Touchscreen works but there's issues (see below)
Camera works (albeit not as well as the pixel camera ports)
Notifications fully work
Android Auto works
SMS works
There is a very big problem with using the GSI - the device detects inputs from both screens whether opened or closed. So here's a list of what doesn't work:
Not working
Touch input (as previously described)
Phone features (phone vibrates but dialer never displays)
Battery isn't optimized (given)
If you want to test it and provide some feedback, I am using this GSI rom:
Android 13 GSI binaries and release notes | Android Developers
Notes and downloads for Generic System Images for Android 13 QPR beta builds.
developer.android.com
As always to install GSI roms, bootloader must be unlocked. To install, use DSU Loader. It's a rather painless process

domineus said:
Opening up this thread in hopes some interest can be made.
Since the beta version of Android 13 dropped, I decided to boot into GSI roms to achieve root. To my surprise, not only did the GSI rom boot, but I was able to go through the google setup like a champ. Every now and again, I load different GSI roms to test and I am currently using Google QPR2. As it stands the following works:
What Works
Opening and closing the device actually works and renders content in open and closed state
Cellular/wifi radio works
Touchscreen works but there's issues (see below)
Camera works (albeit not as well as the pixel camera ports)
Notifications fully work
Android Auto works
SMS works
There is a very big problem with using the GSI - the device detects inputs from both screens whether opened or closed. So here's a list of what doesn't work:
Not working
Touch input (as previously described)
Phone features (phone vibrates but dialer never displays)
Battery isn't optimized (given)
If you want to test it and provide some feedback, I am using this GSI rom:
Android 13 GSI binaries and release notes | Android Developers
Notes and downloads for Generic System Images for Android 13 QPR beta builds.
developer.android.com
As always to install GSI roms, bootloader must be unlocked. To install, use DSU Loader. It's a rather painless process
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hello and thank you very much for this feedback. after having watched this forum for a very long time, it is time for me to buy this magnificent smartphone because I have always used gsi pixel experience roms. but I would still like to have your opinion on the sound quality of this beast because on no comment and test nobody talks about it

Bwhite... said:
hello and thank you very much for this feedback. after having watched this forum for a very long time, it is time for me to buy this magnificent smartphone because I have always used gsi pixel experience roms. but I would still like to have your opinion on the sound quality of this beast because on no comment and test nobody talks about it
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GSI depends solely on a bootloader unlock. Unless you get an older device that hasn't been updated, I wouldn't purchase the device with the assumption that root is easy...

domineus said:
GSI depends solely on a bootloader unlock. Unless you get an older device that hasn't been updated, I wouldn't purchase the device with the assumption that root is easy...
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Yes indeed I understand that. but I read on the forum that unlocking the bootloader was back on a september update. but the question I ask myself more is the sound quality of the dual speakers. anyway thank you very much for your answer.

Bwhite... said:
Yes indeed I understand that. but I read on the forum that unlocking the bootloader was back on a september update. but the question I ask myself more is the sound quality of the dual speakers. anyway thank you very much for your answer.
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I'm not sure. THere are some who tried who weren't able to bootloader unlock for the September update or afterward.
Sound quality is subjective but I had zero complaints from the speakers

domineus said:
I'm not sure. THere are some who tried who weren't able to bootloader unlock for the September update or afterward.
Sound quality is subjective but I had zero complaints from the speakers
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ok thank you for all this useful information.

Sorry for the stupid question, but what is GSI? is this a custom rom?

NeoGoku123 said:
Sorry for the stupid question, but what is GSI? is this a custom rom?
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Generic System Images (GSIs) | Platform | Android Developers
developer.android.com

domineus said:
Opening up this thread in hopes some interest can be made.
Since the beta version of Android 13 dropped, I decided to boot into GSI roms to achieve root. To my surprise, not only did the GSI rom boot, but I was able to go through the google setup like a champ. Every now and again, I load different GSI roms to test and I am currently using Google QPR2. As it stands the following works:
What Works
Opening and closing the device actually works and renders content in open and closed state
Cellular/wifi radio works
Touchscreen works but there's issues (see below)
Camera works (albeit not as well as the pixel camera ports)
Notifications fully work
Android Auto works
SMS works
There is a very big problem with using the GSI - the device detects inputs from both screens whether opened or closed. So here's a list of what doesn't work:
Not working
Touch input (as previously described)
Phone features (phone vibrates but dialer never displays)
Battery isn't optimized (given)
If you want to test it and provide some feedback, I am using this GSI rom:
Android 13 GSI binaries and release notes | Android Developers
Notes and downloads for Generic System Images for Android 13 QPR beta builds.
developer.android.com
As always to install GSI roms, bootloader must be unlocked. To install, use DSU Loader. It's a rather painless process
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Considering this for a x fold plus.
Were you able to fix the issues and if not, to what to extent are the effects. For example, with the battery not optimized how does it last and with the dialer not displaying are you able to answer the call? Touch input I assume is mostly an issue when using the larger screen (i.e. you accidentally input from the front screen).

NikG25 said:
Considering this for a x fold plus.
Were you able to fix the issues and if not, to what to extent are the effects. For example, with the battery not optimized how does it last and with the dialer not displaying are you able to answer the call? Touch input I assume is mostly an issue when using the larger screen (i.e. you accidentally input from the front screen).
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I wasn't able to fix them but I didn't try. I don't have the dev machine to try and fix the issues and rebuild a LoS GSI to get it working. Which is a shame :/
But given that I have had a really good time with it otherwise because I like the potential of it