Evolution X 9.7 - 2024-12-26

What's New?

There's nothing really new in this release. If you're on 2024-12-25, you can keep using it, unless you want to experience these fixes. I'm tired from all these releases, so this is the last one for 2024. See you again in 2025.

ROM

• Prevent Xiaomi FOD from crashing the system – resolves #106
• Fix offline charger – resolves #60
• Fix network traffic indicator for some devices with older kernels (now even on SELinux enforcing kernels) – if it doesn't work, read this: #79 (comment)

Notes

• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.7 - 2024-12-25

What's New?

EDIT: Release has been reuploaded with some improvements.

Merry Christmas!

ROM

• Fixed some FOD & Bluetooth patches.
• Fix Play Integrity DEVICE verdict
• Fix network traffic indicator for some devices with older kernels – if it doesn't work, read this: #79 (comment)

Notes

• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.7 - 2024-12-22

What's New?

EDIT: Bluetooth (and FOD?) may not be working for everyone. Expect a new build within a couple of days. Make sure to test every build in DSU Sideloader before flashing it permanently.

Happy holidays to everyone! I wish you all a happy (early) new year, and remember to #KeepEvolving.

The Evolution X team is making good progress towards actually releasing A15 with all the features, however it's still not quite ready. I tried fixing the fingerprint issue, but didn't have much success, however I am willing to release both A14 and A15 if Evolution X will be ready by January.

ROM

• Synced with latest December version of Evolution X.
• Manually reapplied final Android 14 TrebleDroid patches (some devices might start/stop booting with this release, more likely to start booting).
• Backported some TrebleDroid patches from Android 15.
• Added additional Bluetooth patches.

Notes

• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 10.0 (Alpha, EOL) - 2024-11-19

What's New?

TLDR: I still recommend most people to use A14.

This is an alpha release. This build hasn't been tested as I've had some complications (I've tested previous builds). This time it should not be considered stable for most people.

IMPORTANT!

Yeah, that's a disappointment. Evolver is almost half empty, a lot of the features and apps are gone... and I can't do much about it. Android 15 is still early for Evolution X team and it seems like they've rushed Android 15 instead of trying to polish things before release. Don't blame me. LineageOS 22 (and consequently Evolution X 10.0) sources are still not ready, I don't know what they rushed.

Android 15 is for now EOL for me, I will go back to maintaining A14. This is a one-time courtesy build of A15. I will not release any more A15 builds until 2025.

ROM

• Android 15
• Synced with latest November version of Evolution X.
• Synced with latest TrebleDroid sources and actually properly applied patches this time.

Bugs

• Fingerprint does not work on many devices (mostly Samsung). Android 15 has massively changed how fingeprint HALs are detected. That commit cannot be simply reverted. I've tried fixing it, but ultimately gave up. TrebleDroid sources suffer from the same issue.
• Likely many more

Notes

• DO NOT USE THE OTA UPDATER
• DO NOT REPORT ANY A15 ISSUES
• Samsung Galaxy A53 5G users might experience some weird fingerprint behavior from me trying to fix it. Fingerprint still won't work. I do not care enough to rebuild it. I might add a KSU module to fix it in the future.

Evolution X 9.6 - 2024-11-17

What's New?

This is a likely the final Android 14 (Evolution X 9.x) release from me. See you on Android 15.

ROM

• Synced with latest November version of Evolution X.

Kept from previous beta release

• Added "Brighten screen" feature inside Phh Treble Settings > Misc settings > User interface - #52
• Added a "Force a specific number of SIM slots" feature inside Phh Treble Settings > Misc settings > Telephony (UNTESTED, WILL LIKELY LEAD TO INSTABILITY OF THE SYSTEM IF NOT USED PROPERLY) - #44
• Removed @chiteroman's bootloader spoofing patches.

Notes

• These builds were tested only on Samsung Galaxy A53 5G (running Exynos chipset). Other devices should boot just fine, but I'm not sure about additional bugs.
• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.5 (Beta) - 2024-10-28

What's New?

This is a beta release. Beware that not everything was properly tested beforehand, however it should be stable enough for most people. OTA will not be updated.

IMPORTANT!

LineageOS has been changing the SEPolicy, meaning that some devices might not boot anymore due to conflicts. I've already mitigated one of the commits. If your device doesn't boot this release anymore after booting the previous stable, open an issue and I'll make sure to include an appropriate patch.

ROM

• Synced with latest October version of Evolution X.
• Added "Brighten screen" feature inside Phh Treble Settings > Misc settings > User interface - #52
• Added a "Force a specific number of SIM slots" feature inside Phh Treble Settings > Misc settings > Telephony (UNTESTED, WILL LIKELY LEAD TO INSTABILITY OF THE SYSTEM IF NOT USED PROPERLY) - #44
• Removed @chiteroman's bootloader spoofing patches.

Notes

• These builds were tested only on Samsung Galaxy A53 5G (running Exynos chipset). Other devices should boot just fine, but I'm not sure about additional bugs.
• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.5 - 2024-10-12

What's New?

Yesterday's image was pulled due to issues with Play Integrity (Android superuser was unintentionally included). This image was tested and has working DEVICE verdict by default. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Important: Next release will remove bootloader spoofing patches by chiteroman due to an outdated keybox. You will have to use TrickyStore or BootloaderSpoofer from that release onwards.

ROM

• Synced with latest October version of Evolution X.
• Fixed exFAT SD card support on kernels without native exFAT support (Samsung & Sony Linux kernels lower than 5.4) - #17
• Implement Quick Settings clock padding settings - #40

Added in previous beta release, left unchanged since:

• Added Face Unlock.
• Readded Gemini app for Circle to search to function properly (if dirty flashing, you may need to update the Google app through Play Store, enable Google apps spoofing in Evolver and restart your device for it to function properly; not available on slim builds).
• Fixed overlays.

Notes

• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.
• Do not contact me on Telegram/Discord/Reddit/XDA/e-mail (yes, I have been contacted through all these). I will not answer Evolution X-related questions anymore. That's what's GitHub for.

Evolution X 9.4 (Beta) - 2024-09-21

What's New?

This is a beta release. Beware that not everything was properly tested beforehand, however it should be stable enough for most people. OTA will not be updated.

ROM

• Synced with latest September version of Evolution X.
• Reapplied some TrebleDroid patches.
• Added Face Unlock.
• Readded Gemini app for Circle to search to function properly (if dirty flashing, you may need to update the Google app through Play Store, enable Google apps spoofing in Evolver and restart your device for it to function properly; not available on slim builds).
• Fixed overlays.

Notes

• These builds were tested only on Samsung Galaxy A53 5G (running Exynos chipset). Other devices should boot just fine, but I'm not sure about additional bugs.
• If Samsung Audio HAL doesn't work after update, try to restart your device or wipe cache & dalvik cache from TWRP.
• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.4 - 2024-09-06

What's New?

This will be the last release for this month. See you again in October.

ROM

• Reapplied TrebleDroid patches to enable support for older Android kernels.

Notes

• These builds were tested only on Samsung Galaxy A53 5G (running Exynos chipset). Other devices should boot just fine, but I'm not sure about additional bugs.
• If Samsung Audio HAL doesn't work after update, try to restart your device or wipe cache & dalvik cache from TWRP.
• I'm trying to figure out why Face Unlock doesn't want to be enabled. I'll have this in mind for future versions, but I can't promise anything.
• Please report relevant issues only on GitHub.

Evolution X 9.4 - 2024-09-05

What's New?

ROM

• Synced with latest September version of Evolution X.
• OpenEUICC (for eSIMs) is integrated (but not tested!). F-Droid and Aurora Services were removed due to being deprecated.
• chiteroman's bootloader spoofing patches were updated and integrated.
• OTA Updater was added.
• Slim version was added. Thanks to @ahnet-69.
• Status bar padding was fixed. Padding can now be altered in Phh Treble Settings > Misc features > User interface. Thanks to @ChonDoit.
• Gemini app has been removed.

Bugs

• Weird display sizing on some devices (some apps might take up full screen height and therefore get covered by notch).
• Auto-brightness might not work on some devices (although I'm starting to think it's only my device that isn't supported).

Notes

• These builds were tested only on Samsung Galaxy A53 5G (running Exynos chipset). Other devices should boot just fine, but I'm not sure about additional bugs.
• If Samsung Audio HAL doesn't work after update, try to restart your device or wipe cache & dalvik cache from TWRP.
• I'm trying to figure out why Face Unlock doesn't want to be enabled. I'll have this in mind for future versions, but I can't promise anything.
• Please report issues only on GitHub.

Kept from previous version

• Synced with latest sources of TrebleDroid.
• ROM should be signed (Play Integrity was tested only on beta fingerprints).