[ROM][ANGLER][6.0.1_r3][MMB29M] PhotonAOSP [12/15/2015] | Layers 4.0

[Shawn5162]

Introduction:
Welcome to PhotonAOSP! Photon AOSP is a lightweight, performance/feature packed AOSP based ROM for the Nexus family of devices. The goal of this ROM and Project PhotonAOSP as a whole is to take AOSP and modify it with useful and important features that everyone loves and uses daily. Note that this ROM will never have as many features as BlissPOP, PureNexus, Pac-man ROM, etc. but will only contain necessary features such as ones found in Omnirom, Chroma, etc. PhotonAOSP delivers (and will always continue to do so) the latest AOSP source code with Google's latest security patches.

Instructions for Installation:

1. Download latest ROM build
2. Reboot into TWRP
3. Make backup (optional)
4. Wipe Data/Cache/System and Factory reset (if coming from another ROM)
5. Wipe Cache (if updating from a previous build of PhotonAOSP)
6. Flash ROM
7. Flash GApps
8. Reboot

Features:

[LIST]
[*]Based on 6.0.0_r26
[*]Rooted with SuperSU 2.52
[*]Busybox added
[*]Developer options enabled by default
[*]SystemUI tuner enabled by default 
[*]0.5x and 0.75x animation speeds added
[*]Customizable hostname added
[*]Multiwindow enabled 
[*]Layers 4.0 support 
[*]Wake on plug enable/disable option 
[*]Double Tap to Wake option
[*]WiFi Calling support
[*]Project Fi support
[*]Full VoLTE support
[*]Materialized AOSP apps
[*]DocumentsUI file explorer enabled
[*]SELinux Enforcing 
[*]Addon.d support
[*]Int.d support
[*]Advanced reboot added
[*]Added stock Google audio sounds (from factory images)
[*]Added stock Google wallpapers (from factory images)
[*]Added cLock
[*]Support for long click settings shortcuts from QS panel
[*]Disabled force encryption
[*]Disabled tethering checks
[*]Removed device verification checks 
[*]Disabled full screen keyboard in landscape mode
[*]Download speed shown when downloading a file
[*]Apps being optimized are shown during first boot
[*]Lots of AOSP fixes and stability improvements
[*]Added improved cache scrolling 
[*]Enabled native AOSP clear all button 
[*]Added CDMA APNs 
[*]Doze enabled
[*]Ambient display support
[*]Double press power button to launch camera
[*]Added Apollo music player
[*]Added omnirom’s MonthCalendarWidget 
[*]Volume rocker wake support
[*]DSP Manager support (and DSP audio tweaks)
[*]Viper4Android in Enforcing mode support 
[*] Emoji support on AOSP keyboard 
[*]AOSP Day/Night theme support [WIP]
[*]And many more things...
[/LIST]

Changelog: LINK
Download: ROM-20151215 | Recovery-20151127 | GAPPS

DONATE: PayPal Link
NOTE: Every donation motivated me and helps me to continue this project. If you like my work a donation is always appreciated

Update Schedule:
ROM updates will be bi-weekly (twice a week). Unless told otherwise all ROM updates can be dirty flashed. Check Github for all of the latest fixes and feature additions.

 

[Shawn5162]

Reserved

Bugs/Issues:

• If you get a "It appears your vendor image may be out of date. Please flash the latest vendor image for your device." error flash latest Google vendor image

Here are some notable links:
ROM Source: LINK
Kernel Source: LINK
Google+ Community: LINK
GerritCodeReview: LINK

Credits/Honorable Mentions:

Specific people:

• @Sykopompos - For helping out with issues along the way
• @joshndroid - For helping out with issues along the way
• @TheCrazySkull - For helping out with issues along the way
• @zephiK - Because I used his Chroma repos as referance
• @BeansTown106 - For letting me use his proprietary vendor repos from PureNexus
• @Chainfire - For SuperSU

Organizations/Projects:

• AOSP (Android Open Source Project)
• Omnirom
• CyanogenMod
• PureNexus
• Chroma
• Frank ROMs

 

[otisman]

Sick much alohas

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

 

[saumil007]

Coooool

 

[iakeco]

Very interesting

 

[wooddale]

So this isn't CM based at all then from what I have read I think. I love CM options but I'm in a poor signal area and the CM kernels or whatever mess with data reception. Thanks

 

[Shawn5162]

So this isn't CM based at all then from what I have read I think. I love CM options but I'm in a poor signal area and the CM kernels or whatever mess with data reception. Thanks

This ROM is completely AOSP based....NOT CM BASED AT ALL...But still contains some great features (many of which are found in CM) like cLock, volume rocker wake, etc. But since it uses the AOSP kernel you should get great reception. Also the ROM supports WiFi calling, Band 12 LTE on t-mobile, and full VoLTE!

 

[wooddale]

This ROM is completely AOSP based....NOT CM BASED AT ALL...But still contains some great features (many of which are found in CM) like cLock, volume rocker wake, etc. But since it uses the AOSP kernel you should get great reception. Also the ROM supports WiFi calling, Band 12 LTE on t-mobile, and full VoLTE!

Sounds great Shawn soon as I get a break in the Thanksgiving stuff Im gonna load er up and give er a try lol. Thanks.

 

[akellar]

This ROM is completely AOSP based....NOT CM BASED AT ALL...But still contains some great features (many of which are found in CM) like cLock, volume rocker wake, etc. But since it uses the AOSP kernel you should get great reception. Also the ROM supports WiFi calling, Band 12 LTE on t-mobile, and full VoLTE!

Cm kernels for Nexus devices are aosp

 

[wooddale]

Cm kernels for Nexus devices are aosp

Well don't know what it is then but every phone I have had and I've had many doesn't run as well on CM. Again I'm in a poor signal area maybe that has something to do with it. Not that it means that much but even in strong signal area download speeds are less.

 

[akellar]

Well don't know what it is then but every phone I have had and I've had many doesn't run as well on CM. Again I'm in a poor signal area maybe that has something to do with it. Not that it means that much but even in strong signal area download speeds are less.

Were any of the other devices Nexus devices? If not the degradation in signal was due to non open source ril.

 

[sherlock5545]

Well don't know what it is then but every phone I have had and I've had many doesn't run as well on CM. Again I'm in a poor signal area maybe that has something to do with it. Not that it means that much but even in strong signal area download speeds are less.

The CM kernel for now is the same one used on AOSP. Later down the line they may go the caf route, which is what they did for the N5. In fact, if you go on the CM download page you can find two Nexus 5 downloads: hammerhead and hammerheadcaf, the first works with AOSP kernel, the second doesn't.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

 

[Shawn5162]

Cm kernels for Nexus devices are aosp

Only partially true...I am using an unmodifed aosp kernel...the kernel cm uses has multiple changes made to it. I am not 100% sure any of those commits cause data issues, but it is quite possible.

 

[akellar]

Only partially true...I am using an unmodifed aosp kernel...the kernel cm uses has multiple changes made to it. I am not 100% sure any of those commits cause data issues, but it is quite possible.

Not really, kernel has almost nothing to do with reception or data

 

[wooddale]

Not really, kernel has almost nothing to do with reception or data

Ya like I said not sure why but has just been my experience. I'm on Verizon to so maybe that's a factor. I can't wait for Fi to get here if it ever does so I can just try GSM to see if it makes any difference.
Do we need to flash vendor?

 

[Shawn5162]

Ya like I said not sure why but has just been my experience. I'm on Verizon to so maybe that's a factor. I can't wait for Fi to get here if it ever does so I can just try GSM to see if it makes any difference.
Do we need to flash vendor?

No. Vendor is already symlinked in rom...Just flash rom and gapps

 

[wooddale]

No. Vendor is already symlinked in rom...Just flash rom and gapps

Thanks gonna flash soon as I can take a break from Thanksgiving.

 

[Heisenberg]

Added to Nexus 6P index thread:

[INDEX] Huawei Nexus 6P

 

[TheDeathly]

Shawn, does your rom have proper tweaks for layers so that text on ambient display is visible? On this rom I'm on currently when I have a layer applied it makes the ambient text black making it impossible to read. It also has this. http://i.imgur.com/tFkwcYm.png

Thanks.

 

[Shawn5162]

Shawn, does your rom have proper tweaks for layers so that text on ambient display is visible? On this rom I'm on currently when I have a layer applied it makes the ambient text black making it impossible to read. It also has this. http://i.imgur.com/tFkwcYm.png

Thanks.

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