[ROM][OFFICIAL][6.0] Omni 6 Nightlies

[kldoc]

What is Omni?

Omni Gerrit Review

Disclaimer

#include 
/*
 * Your warranty is now void.
 *
 * I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
 * thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
 * do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
 * before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
 * you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you. Hard. A lot.
 */

Because of the nature of Xposed framework, NO SUPPORT will be given to those running Xposed framework on Omni 6
CHANGELOG:

[CENTER]

2016-02-01:
Nightlies started :)

2016-01-22:
-Omni Dialer lookup is back
-Lots of changes/fixes
-Kernel leak fixes

2016-01-06:
First build of the year :)
-Omni JAWS (Just Another Weather System)
-Update to Android 6.0.1 r10 ( Include latest security updates)

2015-12-30:
Last build of the year :)
-Chromium is included in this build, and unless poll results change within the next 2 days, it will remain
-lots of bugfix

2015-12-19:
-New boot annimation
-selinux enforced (use system-less supersu beta to get root)
-some bugfix (check gerrit for the changelog)

2015-12-11:
Android 6.0.1 update
A few backported features and bugfix

2015-12-04:
Silent mode back
some bugfix

2015-11-29:
revert clang usage that was breaking sensors (as seen on CyanogenMOD's github)
Latest commits were actually cherry-picked from mako's device tree on CM-13 github.

2015-11-28:
some QCOM camera fix
some deprecated stuff removal
wifi check added (taken from Nvidia shield)

2015-11-19:
add dex2oat speed filter (speed up initial boot and attempt to fix facebook app cache regeneration at reboot)

2015-11-15:
Update to Android 6 r26
In-call audio fixed, force dex2oat uses no-swap, codecs handling

2015-11-9:
DRM blobs updated (Google play movies works, Netflix should work as well, but I can't test it), some more blobs added ( from Nexus 7 2013 )

2015-11-8 (new build):
Doze power saving mode, drm handling should be fixed, media codec updated
2015-11-8:
Use accelerometer for doze, and custom battery lights

2015-11-7:
First update, bugfix and backports

2015-11-5: 
Initial Release[/CENTER]

DOWNLOADS:
Omni 6 Nightlies for Nexus 4 / Mako

You MUST DO A FULL WIPE before flashing nightlies, whether you are coming from homemade builds (aka my builds), or a previous version of OmniROM. Be certain to do a full backup of your data, apps, call logs, sms/text and so on before flashing. If you were to flash nightlies over my own builds or your custom made builds, or any other ROM, you would end in a bootloop
GAPPS must be flashed BEFORE initial boot, they will NOT work properly if you flash them afterwards !!!
Don't update gapps on nightlies update, only initial flash requires it. Updating gapps on next nightly would break those, and ROM would become unusable.
You MUST use this version of supersu, latest beta system less
Supersu beta System less


KNOWN BUGS:

[CENTER]* You tell me[/CENTER]

Omni only supports TWRP recovery, use any alternate recovery at your own risk.
RECOMMENDED TWRP

Source
OmniROM Source​

Only a few changes are taken from CyanogenMod, but thanks to them for those
CyanogenMod Source​

XDA:DevDB Information
OmniROM 6, ROM for the Google Nexus 4

Contributors
kldoc, MaR-V-iN, Maxwen, Entropy512, Xplodwild, Jiangyi
ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow
Based On: AOSP

Version Information
Status: Nightly

Created 2015-11-05
Last Updated 2016-04-25

 

[kldoc]

Reserved

 

[pinkman1]

Thanks, I will give it a try

 

[dragos281993]

A list with the features would be very appreciated.

 

[kldoc]

A list with the features would be very appreciated.

Hi! Wow, Marshmallow includes a ton of features, do you want me to make you a list of them? I don´t think so.
Whatever, features in 6.0 are practically the same than the Omni 5.1.1 ones, just some of them are disabled temporaly.
Wanna know what are the features in 5.1.1? Flash the OmniRom nightly for 5.1.1, or, if you want to make the process faster, directly flash this 6.0 build.
Enjoy!

 

[dragos281993]

Hi! Wow, Marshmallow includes a ton of features, do you want me to make you a list of them? I don´t think so.
Whatever, features in 6.0 are practically the same than the Omni 5.1.1 ones, just some of them are disabled temporaly.
Wanna know what are the features in 5.1.1? Flash the OmniRom nightly for 5.1.1, or, if you want to make the process faster, directly flash this 6.0 build.
Enjoy!

I simply asked. All the other ROMs have a list with the basic features in the description, so it was a matter of time before someone came here and asked you for one. Also, flashing a ROM in order to find out what features it has, it's counterproductive. I've got free time when I come home from work, and the last thing I want to do is experiment with ROMs that I have no idea what features include and what don't. I usually read the description of a new ROM, see if it has what I'm interested in, and then decide if I feel like flashing it or not.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

 

[PVL_93_RU]

Hi! Wow, Marshmallow includes a ton of features, do you want me to make you a list of them? I don´t think so.
Whatever, features in 6.0 are practically the same than the Omni 5.1.1 ones, just some of them are disabled temporaly.
Wanna know what are the features in 5.1.1? Flash the OmniRom nightly for 5.1.1, or, if you want to make the process faster, directly flash this 6.0 build.
Enjoy!

Wow, dude, it's just a question

 

[herna]

Wow, dude, it's just a question

Actually I said him to write that, just is some kind of advice for all the users.

Backing up current ROM, and testing this ROM is something that could take you just 5 minutes.

Sometimes is really tiring to get messages from hundred of users asking about features, when they can be seen on our OmniRom github or by testing it. We don't provide a feature list as almost all ROMs do, we see that unnecesary, but we asure that the experience with our ROM is going to be great.

Actually the features included for Omni are the next ones:

We are not and probably we never were a feature bloated ROM, as other ROMs do as DU or CM does. Our ROM is just a clean AOSP one with minimal but nice features and with an optimized performance.

We, and also me, will be adding some features to it recently, I just finished yesterday on solving issues for my device, now is time for features.

Anyway sorry if reply was some kind of "unrespecful" but this way I wanted to prevent 50 posts asking for the same think.

I wish you to enjoy the ROM and tell us your feedback

Cheers!

Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

 

[brandonabandon]

kernel source?

 

[kldoc]

kernel source?

As mentioned in the main thread, everything is on OmniROM's github or OmniROM's gerrit (in case it's not merged yet).
I try myself to publish non-official builds with available source for everything.
There is one (very tiny) difference between device_lge_mako used in this build and the one present in the non merged commit though, i've added "selinux=permissive" to make your life easier with root process while supersu is still not possible with selinux enabled, but this will never get merged, OmniROM intend to provide a secure ROM.

Here is again the link to OmniROM's github (copy of main thread link with url to kernel repo):
https://github.com/omnirom/android_kernel_lge_mako/tree/android-6.0
Have fun !

EDIT: In case the question rise, kernel is based on the work of Dmitry Ginsberg, except that I did track all the commits in his patch and cherry-picked all of them from google's git, only defconfig was taken from his patch. I removed the cpufreq_stats which is supposedly not implemented in Qualcomm S4 pro, even though some devs are trying to make an implementation, I won't probably include any of this in OmniROM's kernel, this for a few reasons, the first one being that I don't have the C/CPP knowledge to fully understand kernel's changes that "might" break things, second one being that I truly wish Nexus 4 kernel to stay as close as possible to AOSP, which is OmniROM's policy anyway
If one would want to submit patches to support some new features in the kernel, they are more than welcome to do so, patches will be reviewed by people with required experience and knowledge

 

[bdasmith]

Not going to try this because of rude dev's....

 

[brandonabandon]

Not going to try this because of rude dev's....

Thanks op for the thurough explanation. Im looking to optimize and hack a personal build and was experiencing boot issues.

 

[kldoc]

Not going to try this because of rude dev's....

As mentioned by @herna, he actually told me to write this answer. I am myself not rude by any mean, and try to give my users as much support as I can. I do work on OmniROM as a hobby, as I'm not even an IT professionally speaking. Currently chain testing gapps packages to be able to recommand one that works perfectly on Omni 6 for Nexus 4.
I am truly sorry if the tone of the message actually did offend people, doing so was not my intention. I published this homemade build to show people progress was being done on OmniROM 6 and let people play a bit with it, but since I knew it was a very early build not meant to be used as a daily driver, that's why I did tag the thread with experimental status, to avoid people with very few free time to actually try to use this ROM as a daily driver, or even features, as many things are yet to be fixed, and that's the reason why @herna actually told me to write this, to avoid the need to give support for bugs that are being solved and need time to be fixed. Because we are all doing this in our free time, none of us is getting paid to do this, we do that by passion for Android and its community.
I once again perfectly understand the message was rude, and I'm sorry if this offended people, I, in future, will avoid to answer with such a tone, and give more complete explanations why some questions can't get straight answers.

In the meantime, I really advise people who don't have much free time to spend on ROM flashing to stay away from this build for now, as it's really intended for people with knowledge and free time to get it running well. Rest assured I'll publish new builds as bugs are being solved in order to improve your experience
Have fun with OmniROM !

 

[bdasmith]

As mentioned by @herna, he actually told me to write this answer. I am myself not rude by any mean, and try to give my users as much support as I can. I do work on OmniROM as a hobby, as I'm not even an IT professionally speaking. Currently chain testing gapps packages to be able to recommand one that works perfectly on Omni 6 for Nexus 4.
I am truly sorry if the tone of the message actually did offend people, doing so was not my intention. I published this homemade build to show people progress was being done on OmniROM 6 and let people play a bit with it, but since I knew it was a very early build not meant to be used as a daily driver, that's why I did tag the thread with experimental status, to avoid people with very few free time to actually try to use this ROM as a daily driver, or even features, as many things are yet to be fixed, and that's the reason why @herna actually told me to write this, to avoid the need to give support for bugs that are being solved and need time to be fixed. Because we are all doing this in our free time, none of us is getting paid to do this, we do that by passion for Android and its community.
I once again perfectly understand the message was rude, and I'm sorry if this offended people, I, in future, will avoid to answer with such a tone, and give more complete explanations why some questions can't get straight answers.

In the meantime, I really advise people who don't have much free time to spend on ROM flashing to stay away from this build for now, as it's really intended for people with knowledge and free time to get it running well. Rest assured I'll publish new builds as bugs are being solved in order to improve your experience
Have fun with OmniROM !

Thank you for your kind explanation. I'm willing to experiment now

 

[kldoc]

Thanks op for the thurough explanation. Im looking to optimize and hack a personal build and was experiencing boot issues.

You actually need this unmerged commit to be able to boot:
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/15224/
I didn't merge it yet to allow modifications and keep things clean in the meanwhile, stlport is actually needed, that's the main modification to allow boot if you set selinux to permissive, if you want selinux enforced (no root at the moment), you'll also need the selinux policy changes.
This commit doesn't include permissive selinux, because it's not needed for boot, but if you need it, and don't know how to set it, let me know, i'll give you where and how to set it up.

Hope that solve your boot issue If you still have troubles booting despite that commit, please provide some logs so I can see what's wrong
Have fun

 

[kldoc]

for those who might have issues with Google Keep force closing, I discovered that last version from play store actually doesn't work, you need to install an older one:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/keep/keep-3-2-435-0-android-apk-download/

 

[kldoc]

I've just uploaded 2 screenshots, don't be alarmed by the "!" next to my wifi icon, I'm in China, google services are blocked, that's also the reason why there's a key, vpn ...

 

[hashtask]

Google keep, Gmail and maps didn't work as expected. As you mentioned Keep kept force closing. Maps and Gmail refused to accept sign in. I downloaded the apks from apkmirror. They work fine now.

The rom is awesome as usual. Thanks kldoc. One feature missing or is a new marshmallow feature is that the phone doesn't unlock after entering just the pin. You have to tap enter.

 

[kldoc]

Google keep, Gmail and maps didn't work as expected. As you mentioned Keep kept force closing. Maps and Gmail refused to accept sign in. I downloaded the apks from apkmirror. They work fine now.

The rom is awesome as usual. Thanks kldoc. One feature missing or is a new marshmallow feature is that the phone doesn't unlock after entering just the pin. You have to tap enter.

Thank you for your feedback ! Really happy to see it went rather well for you
Pin code auto-unlock was an option in Lollipop, have to admit I don't like this security wise. Just checked, and yes, Google removed the option.
I had less issue than you with Gapps, I used banks gapps, that I modified to include Google Now launcher, apart from keep, everything ran well from play store, but I use inbox, not gmail, might be the difference here.
Actually making a new build as I write this mail to verify the update process, will post it here once I'm done verifying that nothing is broken.
I managed to trick location, even if it was much more difficult to accomplish than on Lollipop, allowed me to be located in US and enable google now. Google now on tap also works from what i can see.

 

[TheeWolf]

I've just uploaded 2 screenshots, don't be alarmed by the "!" next to my wifi icon, I'm in China, google services are blocked, that's also the reason why there's a key, vpn ...

Where are the screenshots?