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Disclaimer: OctOs is a WIP. It has been evaluated as being stable, and is suitable for daily use in most cases. While it may be considered stable, there may be unknown bugs. The development team is not responsible for any damage to your device or your information.
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Team OctOs presents Oct-L.

We maintain a current release record and change-log on our website: http://www.teamoctos.com

- Please Do Not Mirror our files without talking to us. We can do that ourselves should we desire to. -​

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is this Android 5 (Lollipop)?
A: Yes, this is Android 5.1.1

Q: What code is Oct-L based on?
A: Starting with Oct-L, we've rebased OctOs on the CyanogenMod 12.1 code.

Q: What happened to AOSP?
A: All Android code is based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Under previous releases, we tried very hard to limit the number of "Not from Google directly" repositories that we used. Unfortunately, issues with devices, the need for Code Aurora Foundation (CAF) repositories for Qualcomm devices, and compatibility issues meant fighting code more often than not. We decided that since the code-base for many repositories were the same across most ROMs, picking a starting point to build the user experience on outweighed the desire to craft code from scratch, or fix broken code to make it work with other changes we already had.

Q: Why isn't there XXXXXXX feature.
A: Shoot us a Suggestion if you want to see something added. While we are not going to promise to implement, we will always look into it

Q: But CM and all the others have..
A: ROM developers, including CM, build something they want to use. The ROM developer that includes something they won't run implies less than 100% effort to ensure it does work. As a team, we have similar goals and objectives. If XYZ ROM has a feature you want, and we don't include (or don't want to include), feel free to use XYZ ROM, or build your own custom version of Oct-L.

Q: Superuser or SuperSU?
A: Team OctOs uses SuperSU and is installed automatically.

Bugs:
Bugs happen. Our testers are very good at breaking things, but no where near as good as the rest of the Android public. In order to investigate and fix issues, we need the help of the users who are going to report them. The Android OS has many nifty features to help us in this, but only if we can engage the user to assist us.

Logs, Logcat, and the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB)
Like any other OS, Android has multiple log files that are generated and record the goings-on of the system. As a user, you have two basic ways to view and pull these to send to us. Without the information in the logfiles, there simply is not a whole lot of information to go on.

Log file APKs
Team OctOs recommends SysLog from the Android Market. This application will allow you to selectively pick any (or all) of the system logs, compress them into a .ZIP file, and allow you to save, email, move to your Copy/DropBox/Cloud Storage account, etc.

ADB Logcat
The Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) is a powerful tool available from Google as part of the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). Used for many things, being able to selectively see, in real-time, what your device is doing cannot be downplayed. While there is more setup involved, if you are doing consistent ROM flashing, you really should invest the time to get setup properly to do it.

ADB Logcat tutorial here: How to create a logcat log


Basic Instructions:
  1. Download ROM .zip file and MD5 file, and grab your favourite Android 5 based GApps package
  2. Reboot to Recovery (Note: Use Reboot to Recovery from Power Menu, Hardware-based boot to recovery, or adb reboot recovery - ROM Manager or similar software is NOT supported)
    --- TWRP is the ONLY recovery Team OctOs uses - We do not support flashing on CWM ---
  3. Factory Reset from TWRP
  4. Flash ROM and GApps .ZIP files
  5. Reboot

The Oct-L ROM installation script will automatically wipe /system, /cache, and /data/dalvik-cache. There is no need to do these before or after flashing the ROM unless you are instructed to by your GApps Provider

The foundation of the Android OS is the fact that is it open-source. We have all code we use internally in the creation of Oct-L available on our GitHub repositories.

Unless otherwise specified, all Oct-L builds use the device's stock CyanogenMod 12 kernel.

Team OctOs GitHub - http://www.github.com/Team-OctOs
Team OctOs Gerrit Review - http://www.teamoctos.com:8080
Team OctOs GPLv2 License - http://www.teamoctos.com/license/
Team OctOs Patreon Campaign - https://www.patreon.com/TOctOs

Want To Build Your Own?
Check out the ReadMe on our GitHub for Instructions


Special thanks to
  • Our testers, without which, there would be no public releases for OctOs

    We would also like to thank
  • CyanogenMod
  • OmniROM
  • LiquidSmooth
  • Anyone else who has ever submitted Open-Source code
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XDA:DevDB Information
Oct-L, ROM for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

Contributors
hedwig34, Grommish, bthorne79, CjKacz
Source Code: http://www.github.com/Team-OctOs

ROM OS Version: 5.1.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x
Based On: CyanogenMod 12.1

Version Information
Status: Testing

Created 2015-02-20
Last Updated 2015-04-27
 

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adamw1101

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Feb 20, 2015 at 3:31 AM
Good stuff

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Is it a guaranteed fail if you flash this using cwm? Or is it highly recommended you use TWRP?
 
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Feb 20, 2015 at 6:14 AM
Outstanding build. This was one of the easiest and painless installs in a while. No issues, at all,...... First boot less than 30 second and then off and running. This is donation worthy. Thank you for the build and support.
(Edited) Do you have a donate link? The one on your web page doesn't take me to any donate link and I didn't see one in your profile.

"Chance Favors the Prepared"
 
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Feb 20, 2015 at 2:25 PM
glockman4519 said:
Outstanding build. This was one of the easiest and painless installs in a while. No issues, at all,...... First boot less than 30 second and then off and running. This is donation worthy. Thank you for the build and support.
(Edited) Do you have a donate link? The one on your web page doesn't take me to any donate link and I didn't see one in your profile.

"Chance Favors the Prepared"
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Thanks @glockman4519 for the support. Glad you are liking OctOS. We will be fixing the donate link on the website. Thanks for letting us know about that.

EDIT: Donation link has been fixed. http://www.teamoctos.com/donate/
 
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Feb 21, 2015 at 12:58 PM
I looked at the CyanogenMod Theme Showcase in Play Store and I couldn't find a single positive review. Are there any good Black and Blue themes available for this rom? The white backgrounds are giving me a headache. So far I like everything else. This thing seems really fast.

Update: I tried to install ViPER4Android. Just like I've seen in all the Viper threads CM roms have a hard time with it. That's an absolute deal breaker for me. I'm not going to struggle with it. I'm restoring my KK backup now. I'm going to wait for a rom built on the manufacturer release like I originally planned.
 
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Feb 21, 2015 at 1:29 PM
So there's still the SMS/MMS twitch from the other CM12 builds, huh? Send a text message, it goes through; try to send a second and it hangs. enable airplane mode, then turn it off, and the next text goes through.

Anyone have any idea if there's a fix for this?

I also assume, though I didn't test it before I flashed back, that audio is hit or miss with video playback. On two other 5.0.2 CM based roms I tested, while watching a video with MX Player, audio would just stop working. No toggling or tweaking seemed to bring it back without a cache clear and reboot.

If I could get these two features consistently working, I'd LOVE to use 5.0.2 on my phone; it's wicked fast compared to KK. especially compared to TW, which is utter garbage, as we all know. :D
 
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stueycaster said:
I looked at the CyanogenMod Theme Showcase in Play Store and I couldn't find a single positive review. Are there any good Black and Blue themes available for this rom? The white backgrounds are giving me a headache. So far I like everything else. This thing seems really fast.

Update: I tried to install ViPER4Android. Just like I've seen in all the Viper threads CM roms have a hard time with it. That's an absolute deal breaker for me. I'm not going to struggle with it. I'm restoring my KK backup now. I'm going to wait for a rom built on the manufacturer release like I originally planned.
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Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/0-official-mega-cm12-theme-engine-t3006466ya go there are over 300 themes check it out

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JoeyDVDZ said:
So there's still the SMS/MMS twitch from the other CM12 builds, huh? Send a text message, it goes through; try to send a second and it hangs. enable airplane mode, then turn it off, and the next text goes through.

Anyone have any idea if there's a fix for this?

I also assume, though I didn't test it before I flashed back, that audio is hit or miss with video playback. On two other 5.0.2 CM based roms I tested, while watching a video with MX Player, audio would just stop working. No toggling or tweaking seemed to bring it back without a cache clear and reboot.

If I could get these two features consistently working, I'd LOVE to use 5.0.2 on my phone; it's wicked fast compared to KK. especially compared to TW, which is utter garbage, as we all know.

It works just fine for me
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