And why would we pay for leaked pictures? Cant we just find them online for free?
[Bounty][Progress] Lineage Os for Samsung Galaxy S8(+)
- Thread starter Kulwinder Singh
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nobody is forcing u to donate bro.u will get the rom even if u dnt donate.we are not donating for pictures.we are donating for aosp rom for s8
how far has the development come. Is it possible to have the AOSP rom this year, or will it take a lot of time before we get our hands on the rom ?
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Would this be exynos only? I would happily donate for a version that can work under the stock kernel on snapdragon phones...
Before some jumps in and says "BUT BUT BOOTLOADER!!1!1!1!1" rooted SD s8/s8+ has dm-verity turned off and selinux in permissive so there is nothing keeping us from totally new system and data partitions we just can't run a different kernel. Given that snapdragon runs on tons of devices I'm guessing jts got a decent number of things in it.
Before some jumps in and says "BUT BUT BOOTLOADER!!1!1!1!1" rooted SD s8/s8+ has dm-verity turned off and selinux in permissive so there is nothing keeping us from totally new system and data partitions we just can't run a different kernel. Given that snapdragon runs on tons of devices I'm guessing jts got a decent number of things in it.
I would say it is, until the Snapdragon models get a bootloader unlock. Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't make ROMs or anything like that, but LOS or any other ROM other than stock must have a kernel compiled for that ROM, to suit your device's hardware.
It's like saying I'm currently running Resurrection Remix, but then I'm going to flash Pure Nexus, but still have it run the Resurrection Remix kernel (as in, not to flash the boot.img that comes with PN). The phone probably wouldn't pass the boot screen.
Just like on older HTC models, say the One X with S-ON, I can't just come from stock, flash LOS and not then manually flash the boot.img included in the LOS ROM zip and expect my phone to boot into LOS.
No offense intended, bit you are mistaken I think in regards to how Linux and android work I think
You don't (or really really shouldn't) need a matching Linux kernel to use any distribution of Linux out there, and Android should be included unless I'm REALLY missing something. You need a kernel that supports your hardware and runs Linux stable, the rest has the same interface no matter what
. So, has anyone ever tried? Kernels outside android can run all sorts Linux configurations and as long as all the hardware is supported there really isn't any dependencies on specific kernel apis or anything that a version of the Android programs and other tools could easily or reasonably depend on. Now getting it to start correctly could be difficult without root filesystem control, but that is something that can be worked around (although admittedly that could easily wind up really hacky)
If it's a matter of the rom dev(s) saying "I tried this and it broke for x reason" or "stock kernel is missing module y that gets patched to the source and stock won't have it" then sure I understand. However if no one really has tried and is going off cargo cult info passed by word of mouth between people who don't really understand Linux and android then I don't buy it
To be clear: I am NOT NOT NOT talking about the amazing rom devs who spend countless hours toiling away for huge chunks of their personal time to bring our community these amazing platforms, and you obviously have to know your stuff to build one, but I need to hear it from the horse's mouth before I believe it
We may have dm-verity turned off but regardless of that and selinux permissive we haven't figured out how to turn off secure boot so the phone won't let us boot anything but firmwares from samsung.
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