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Code:
YOU are doing modifications to your device.
YOU are responsible for what you do.
We are not responsible for any damages, data loss or any type of unexpected,
bad or damaging results! If you have **SERIOUS** problems with this software,
please contact the developers or maintainers. We are not liable for anything
bad that happens to your device.
Some people occasionally describe them as heroes.
Don't be stupid and bet on that though, please be responsible for what you do.
We prohibit you from overclocking to 1337 GHz, thinking that an OEM would
replace your glorious space heater etc.
We recommend you to take the advice above regardless.halogenOS Checklist
Although no data should be lost or damaged by the flashing process,
we advise you to follow the following steps if you are coming from another rom:
- Please take a full nandroid backup!
- Please copy your back up to an external device.
- Backing up your Internal Storage is also recommended.
- When completed, please clean flash the build!
Although you usually can dirty flash halogenOS over other ROMs, considering the other
ROM has the same Android version, it is not guaranteed. In case of serious
crashes please do a clean flash.
If you get app crashes after dirty flashing over XOS 6 or another ROM, please just
clear the app data of those apps, and it should work fine then.
Common stuff
Highlights:
- Reworked Lockscreen Visualizer
- Modern Services -> Google Assistant etc.
- Substratum
- Full media support (FFMPEG, video codecs, ...)
- Great Audio quality, no distortions, no crap
- Optimized many portions of the system including surfaceflinger, inputflinger, System Server, and more
- Super fast boot
- Superuser-capable
- Great battery life
- Soundmod support (not all soundmods work on Nougat, it's not our fault)
- addon.d support (backups your gapps etc. when flashing new build - don't wipe system before flashing!)
- init.d support
- BusyBox
- Super smooth
- Signature Spoofing toggle (Support for MicroG)
- Support for trusted third-party WebViews like Chrome
- Long press on home for assist toggle
- Kernel optimizations
- Any Gapps should work fine
- Dexpreopt for faster (first) boot time and less space consumption on data partition
- Upgrade & Boot the ROM in just 5 minutes - no more endless waiting for flashing a new build
- Very high compatibility with other ROMs
How to update the ROM:
- Download the latest zip
- Reboot into TWRP (Please use official TWRP)
- Do not wipe anything
- Flash the ROM
- Optional : Flash GApps and/or SuperSU
- Reboot
You don't need to wipe Cache/Dalvik.
You don't need to flash gapps again. There is some magic going on which keeps your GApps. Just make sure that you don't wipe system before flashing.
You don't need more than 5 minutes.
Credits
CodeAurora
CyanogenMod
@CurioZuk
And everyone else who contributed and helps us!
In case you feel left out here, please contact us!
XDA:DevDB Information
halogenOS, ROM for the Xiaomi Redmi 2
Contributors
Rahif M
Source Code: https://github.com/halogenos
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Based On: CAF
Version Information
Status: No Longer Updated
Created 2017-02-10
Last Updated 2018-10-06
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