Category: Android

Samsung may never release Android 9 Pie for the Galaxy Note 9 but XDA team has churned out the latest Android for the smartphone and you can run it now on it. Keep in mind that this is the first android 9 port for it so expect some bugs here and there. This build is only for test purpose only and not meant to be used as a daily driver.

Here is what is working – boot, wifi, camera (via footej app) and SD card.

How to install Android 9 on the Galaxy Note 3.

– Backup all your data (Important)
– Wipe /system, /data and cache.
– Flash the ROM in Note 3 TWRP and install GApps in recovery immediately after ROM installation  https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=280962
– Reboot

This is brought to you by Potato Open Sauce Project which is similar to AOSP firmware and that means you get vanilla android experience with no Samsung’s TouchWiz installed anywhere. The experience is quite similar to one found on Pixel series android phones. Potato Open Sauce Project team members have hand picked the best features and installed them into this Galaxy Note 3 ROM.

There are no bugs reported so far but as pointed out earlier, this is the first ROM for the Android phone so expect bugs.

If you want to underclock or overclock Samsung Galaxy Note 3 snapdragon edition, you can do so by downloading and installing this custom kernel. It is called Lolz-kernel and is meant to be installed only in snapdragon devices.

Lolz-Kernel feature list.

* Compiled with Bleeding Edge Toolchain GCC-8.2
* CPU governors: adaptive, smartmax, weathley, nightmare, alucard,intellidemand, impulse, intelliactive,lionheart and zzmoove.
* CPU Input boost by @Sultanxda (disabled by default).
* CPU Voltage Control.
* Disabled MPdecision.
* Intellithermal v2
* Hotplugs: , Intelliplug, msm_hotplug.
* CPU Overclock and underclock.
* GPU Overclock and underclock.
* GPU governors: kt-simple, conservative
* GPU: Adreno idler.
* Sound Control v3 by @faux123
* Kcal
* Schedulers: fiops, maple, fifo, vr, sioplus, tripndroid, zen and deadline.
* TCP congestion: westwood, reno, bic, hybla, htcp, vegas, veno, scalable, lp, yeah and illinois
* USB Fastcharge

How to install Lolz-kernel?

1. Download the kernel zip file from here – https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=5862345805528064859
2. Go to your Galaxy Note 3 TWRP > flash the kernel zip file and then magisk if you want root Galaxy Note 3.
3. Reboot.

Samsung stopped supporting the Galaxy Note 2 long time back but XDA is still pumping out ROMs and updates for this android phone. XenonHD ROM is now available for the device that brings you latest Android 7 Nougat on it. This obviously requires you to have Galaxy Note 2 custom recovery or TWRP onboard as that is the only way to install a third party, unofficial ROM on an android phone.

This Android 7 firmware is based on cyanogen mod 14.1 which means you get vanilla android experience – something that you find on Nexus range of phones. Please note that gapps are not preinstalled on it, but you can install them immediately after ROM installation in custom recovery. Download package from opengapps.org and install latest package from there.

Here are the features of the ROM:

XenonOTA
XenonHD Changelog
NovaLauncher, Adaway, Kernel Adiutor, SuperSU
Root, adb, dev options, advanced reboot & installing apks enabled by default
Pixel UI, navbar, wallpaper
Material sounds & icons
DayNight theme
Network indicator & battery bar in status bar
Live Volume Steps
DT2S on lockscreen
Custom Quick Settings Tiles
Removed unnecessary things
Under the hood improvements and optimizations

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If you are looking for vanilla experience on your Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+, there is no better ROM than the Resurrection Remix, whose developer has churned out many quality ROMs for various Samsung and non-Samsung android devices in the past. This is a ROM for Exynos devices only and bre5 vendor is needed before you install this ROM.

Installation instructions for this ROM:

* Install the S9+ TWRP and make sure it’s fully functional
* Download the build and flash it through TWRP. Download link
* Install the Gapps and addOnSU if you want. This will give you optional root access.

Default density is set to 560 on the S9 and if you think the text is too small, change it to 600/640.

This is a great ROM that is based on cyanogen mod, slim, omni and original remix firmware builds. It is a perfect mix of performance, features and customization. A lot of things have been tweaked by the developer and included in this ROM for the S9 and S9+. Everything works on the official Lineage build is working on this ROM.

If you just bought a Samsung galaxy S9 Plus and thinking of installing third party (custom) ROMs on it, you will have to get hold of its TWRP, which is a custom recovery. This will pave the way for installing all those amazing firmwares available on the xda developers.

Keep in mind that once you have installed TWRP custom recovery on your Galaxy S9+, your warranty will be voided as it trips knox to 0x1. Also, it is meant to be installed on only SM-G965F/FD/N exynos variants only.

Installation instructions for installing Galaxy S9+ (Plus) TWRP recovery are given below.

0. Make sure you enabled developer settings by pressing the build number several times and have the OEM unlock enabled
1. Boot into download mode by pressing: bixby, volume down and power
2. Download the latest Odin version, open it
3. Download the recovery file from below and put it into the AP tab. You can download it from here.
4. Untick “auto reboot” in odin and flash the file
5. After flashing, boot into twrp. Make sure to NOT allow system to be modified till you disable dm-verity! (otherwise your phone will be stuck at bootloop). Alternatively flash my stock patched kernel to the boot partition (install, install img, check the kernel, check boot partition, done). Find the patch kernel here
6. To disable encryption you need to format data