[hammerhead] Unlegacy Android

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Introduction

Unlegacy-Android started out as the OMAP4-AOSP Project. It was created in late 2015 in order to maintain a clean and organized place for pure AOSP support for various OMAP4 devices, such as the Galaxy Nexus and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 series. Over time this evolved to support more than just these devices, but still maintains its roots of supporting "legacy" devices that no longer receive "official" updates: hence Unlegacy Android was born. In our opinion, these ROMs are how the official updates would look.

On top of AOSP, we only include changes which are necessary to support the hardware, be secure, and get acceptable performance. Current features for hammerhead include:

- BFQ IO scheduler (official kernel 3.4 release), set up so GUI processes have the highest priority
- Last upstream (kernel/msm) hammerhead kernel tag merged
- Enhanced backlight map for lower min brightness
- Night display blue light filter (GLES-based)
- KCAL & PCC color temperature interfaces
- Other security patches & minor bug fixes
- F2FS support from K4.4 backports
- SELinux in Enforcing mode

 

Android 7.0–7.1.2 "Nougat" (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version of the Android operating system. First released as a beta build on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update, though the LG V20 was the first new smartphone released with Nougat.

Nougat introduces notable changes to the operating system and its development platform, including the ability to display multiple apps on-screen at once in a split-screen view, support for inline replies to notifications, as well as an OpenJDK-based Java environment and support for the Vulkan graphics rendering API, and "seamless" system updates on supported devices.

 

Features?

There isn't much to say here – this is AOSP, if you install GApps, you pretty much get the same thing that's running on the Nexus devices (see second post). The aim of this project is to create a fast and stable ROM, as close to AOSP as possible without diminishing usability. Occasionally, small non-AOSP features may be implemented, provided there is a clear need and they make sense on hammerhead.

 

 

Install:

(prerequisite installed latest TWRP Recovery)

- Download ROM
- Download OpenGApps
- Take a nandroid backup
- Full wipe and factory reset (recommended)
- Flash ROM + OpenGApps*
- Reboot.
- Enjoy!

* An important hint: as this is a pure AOSP ROM, installing GApps tends to be problematic. In order to try to avoid installation issues, be sure to install OpenGApps togheter with the ROM, before booting the system for the first time. If you experience any issues with the Google applications, be sure to go into Settings -> Apps, and grant every permission to every Google application – most importantly, Google Play services.
In the case of an upgrade, be sure to re-install the GApps package, as upgrading wipes /system. You shouldn't need to re-set the permissions afterwards.

NOTE: to install this ROM, unlocked bootloader and custom recovery are required.

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