Custom kernel for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is now available. It is for the SM-N950F/FD/N and SM-G95XF/FD/N variants. If your variant is not listed, try this custom kernel that can be used to overclock / underclock note 8. Flashing custom kernel will make your device lose its warranty and knox will display 0x1. Here are the features of this kernel.
Here is how to install the kernel on Galaxy Note 8
0. Have a working recovery and encryption removed!
1. Download kernel from here and copy it to your sd card
2. Boot into twrp recovery mode (press bixby + volume up + power)
3. Flash kernel
4. Flash any other file which affects ramdisk (Magisk or SuperSU)
5. Reboot
Features of the Iron kernel for Galaxy Note 8
– Build with latest 6.4.1 GNU GCC toolchain
– Build with BQK6 kernel source code
– Latest Linux version 4.4.104, is always up to date
– Performance and Batterylife improved
– Choose between different CPU governors: performance, powersave, userspace, ondemand, interactiv (default), conservative, schedutil
– Includes latest BQK6 ramdisk
– I/O schedulers: CFQ (Default), No-op, Deadline, BFQ
– NTFS enabled
– TCP (Network) control: Bic (default), Reno, cdg, cubic, dctcp, Westwood, Highspeed, Hybla, HTCP, Vegas, Veno, Scalable, LP, Yeah, Illinois, Lia, Olia, Wvegas, balia
– Selinux is set to permissive
– Supports Private Mode
– F2fs on /data partition
– Init.d support
– All samsung security related configs disabled (as knox, tima, restrict rooting)
– Boeffla wakelock control