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An XDA developer user has ported entire ROM of Samsung Galaxy S8+ to Note 5. Supported Note 5 models include N920T/W8, N920CIG, N920CD, N920SKL and N9208. Despite being a third party firmware, everything is working as expected. This is the latest Android Nougat firmware with all security patches. The developer has added in his own mods too that include:

* AOD brightness control (2 state)
* Show/hide Power Menu on Lockscreen
* Enable/Disable Safe Volume Notification
* Show/hide Keyboard Switching Notification Icon
* Battery options
* Some features include enable/disable fingerprint wakeup, persistent notification, notification reply directy on lockscreen
* more features will come later
* virtual button option

CSC/OMC collection has been updated and modded for XXV, ATT, TMB, INS, TEL, RWC, XID, KTC, ITV, PHN, DBT, PAK, TUR, BRI, XME, XEF, THL and BTU.

How to install the ROM:

– Download ROM, Kernel, OMC-CSC
– Prepare yourself to not get lost of available aroma options.
– Know well your operator CSC/OMC code. Boot into Note 5 TWRP.
– Install ROM
– Install CSC/OMC and choose right one
– Then install Kernel (because aroma do not support file larger than 2GB).
– Full wipe required.
– If you see kernel is not seandroid enforcing, it is normal because I use new selinux stuffs. Nothing to worry.

Android 7 Nougat is available for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 / N8013 2012 model. This is the latest version of android and it is great to see such old tablet running it just fine. This is brought to you by the Lineage OS team that designed it to increase performance and reliability over stock android. However, since the android 7 nougat is still in alpha stage, do not install it if you want a stable ROM.

So how to install this ROM on your tablet?

First make sure you have CWM recovery or N8000 TWRP installed on your Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Then, download the ROM from here and gapps; wipe everything; put the ROM on micro SD card and install the ROM. Make sure to flash gapps immediately after installing the ROM. Do not reboot before installing gapps.

So what is not working. The stock camera application isn’t working but if you install Google Camera from playstore, you should not have any problems. Cursor is by default shown when S-pen is in use. You can easily disable it by going into Settings > Inputs. Also, keyboard does not work: enable hardware keyboard in settings. SElinux is set to permissive.

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We have great news for HTC U11 users. TWRP custom recovery is available for download which means now you will be able to flash custom ROMs on it. If you do not have custom recovery, there is no way to install a third party ROM or even install system level hacks. You will also need custom recovery on your HTC U11 if you want to overclock or underclock it as it lets you install custom kernels that lets you do it. The only thing that is not working on HTC U11 is encrypted backups so do use them.

How to download and install TWRP on HTC U11?

First, you will need to download and install ADB drivers and platform tools from the Android SDK on your computer. Get the TWRP for U11 from here and rename IMG file to twrp.img. Then on your phone, go to Settings > About and tap on the build number seven times to enable developer settings. Then go into developer options and turn on USB debugging.

After that, on your computer, fire up command prompt and type in the following commands.

adb reboot download
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot reboot

That is it. If you did everything correctly, TWRP custom recovery should now be installed on your HTC U11 android phone.