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[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
So I've ran into a problem here.

Some of you might know that Samsung has finally made the switch and uses Linux' next-gen board specific code portions, the so called OF (Open Firmware) files or flat device tree.

Our specific flat device tree (for N910C) is located here: https://github.com/RaymanFX/kernel_...h/arm/boot/dts/exynos5433-tre_eur_open_16.dts.

In line 13 however, a certain part of our flat device tree is referenced, exynos5433-trlte_battery_02.dtsi.

This file does not exist in Samsung's sources and it's pretty hard (and dirty) to generate a working CM build without complete Open Firmware files.

I have requested Samsung to send me the missing file, we'll see how that turns out. I'll keep you guys posted!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] agentdeep:
CyanogenMod 12 now available for Galaxy Note 4 on Sprint and T-Mobile

http://www.androidauthority.com/cyanogenmod-12-now-available-galaxy-note-4-sprint-t-mobile-582731/

[MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] Maybe you can use this as reference.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] DreamerTKM:
Sprint and T-mobile variants are using Snapdragon if not mistaken. If yes then it probably not useful to Rayman as for now the missing library is specific to exynos.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AndreiLux:
Here you go

https://github.com/AndreiLux/ref-3.10/commit/a82f51f22fb5e180c9573f421fb0f9c215c1959a

Keep in mind Exynos needs a different image packer: so you need recompile that thingy if you want to bundle your own DTS. I never bothered and just used the stock DTS image repackaged.

https://github.com/kumajaya/mkdtbhbootimg/issues/1

https://github.com/kumajaya/mkdtbhbootimg/blob/master/dtbtool.txt
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bean12147:
Thanks Andrei! A Legend as usual!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Thanks for helping .

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] alf_and_co:
calj17

I donated another 15 usd. Pls update the first post. Peoples need to know how mach remaining to reach the goal.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Rixsta:
Thread Closed

We appreciate all donations to XDA-Developers as it helps to keep our forum online and well maintained.

As a user, you're allowed to ask for donations in your signature as a thank you for your hard work, however donations up front are not allowed.

This forum is about sharing and not about getting paid to do something...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AndreiLux:
I recommend him to do a Indiegogo campaign as I did, as any other method will be shady as there is a lack of trust from 3rd party people. Will happily forward some of the money from those backers if he does so.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
I've sendt the dev an mail. He will post in this thread about the indiegogo camping, sometime today.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Great. Let us get together in this cause só that cyanogenmod 12 will be possible for us
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00PB...&dpID=51iqsMnrz7L&ref=plSrch&pi=AC_SY200_QL40 note 4 n910c 759.99
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Import taxes in germany??

RaymanFx lives in germany
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I did not know he lived in germany. Let us wait for him to tell us what is the price of n910c phablet there
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AndreiLux:
http://geizhals.eu/?fs=n910c&in=

650€
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Fine for me. I can donate 25 usd. Just waiting for you guys. How much can you donate? Each one talk and we can count how much we already have
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Think we have around 95 USD as of now.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I am posting at Facebook comunities of note 4 and Google now asking People to join. Need help of you guys
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
I'm creating an Indiegogo campaign right now and will post the required information tomorrow.

I will set the required value to 700 USD, if this sum should be gathered within 60days, I will pay whatever amount of money is missing on my own if I cannot find a used unit.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Great! Let's do it and reach the value
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pappschlumpf:
http://www.notebooksbilliger.de/sam...u/eqsqid/cb9bbf6a-0d13-4456-89f3-29d7ce628484

Black isn't available atm.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Ok so I ran into a problem with indiegogo a few minutes ago, because it requires my paypal account to be verified, which I tried before, but for whatever reason failed for me so far.

The only solution left is handling this like the Galaxy Note 10.1 donation thread on xda, which is here:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-10-2014/general/android-5-0-offical-cm-support-t2938652

I know some people might feel uncomfortable about this method, but honestly, it worked out quite well for the case metioned above.

People plead a certain value until the final sum is reached (a list with pleads has to made and kept up-to-date in the first post) , then donations have to be made and I will post about the progess in here to keep it transparent. Once the required sum has been received, the device will be ordered.

Let me know what you think.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
I support your suggestion, I think you are trustworthy, having seen your xda profile I see that you are a trustworthy developer.

Please give me your PayPal email, so i can send the donation ASAP. Hope more people would support this decision.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I trust too. We can deposit directly in your paypal and post here the amount we donated and make the sum
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
As we deposit we post here the value we have deposited
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
My paypal information is below my avatar, or you can just visit my profile here on xda.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Here you go, 50 USD,

Everyone please consider donate, any amount would work.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I updated the first post with total value needed and with your donation. changed the title of thread to help to fund to cm12 exynos. Going to donate too
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Updated post 1 with all information needed to donate and support this project
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
I can confirm having received two donations as of now, 50$ and 15$.

That's a good start I'd say. :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] eydryan:
It's a bit of an effort on my part, but here's 50$, hope we can raise enough and get some lovely Lollipop AOSP on our devices! Confirmation number: 8WK60294GC844800V.

Thanks to RaymanFX and calj17 for putting this together!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Thanks a lot for your support, I can confirm the donation :)

We're at 115$ now.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Is it possible to enable 64-bit on Exynos CM12? As many people are asking for it

I personally don't care to much about it, only benefit i see is if the note 4 has more than 4gb of ram (3gb atm), and it would only give a small performance boost, As of now there are no or some apps supporting 64-bit.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I had emailed raymanfx asking the same thing 1 hour ago. I read over the web that samsung locked the bootloader of Note 4 n910c exynos to be 32 bits. Maybe a patch can bring 64 bits support for us. Exynos 5433 and Exynos 7 Octa-Core 64 bits are the same the olny diference is that 64 bits is not unlocked at exynos 5433. Let us wait for Raymanfx to reply
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Any news about 64 bits support?

Need help spreading this thread to other people to donate too. Tried facebook and Google plus.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
To be honest, I'm not convinced Samsung has locked 64bit capabilities of the Exynos5433 in the bootloader or something like that (contrary to what most popular sites report), but I think of it more like a marketing stunt.

My personal guess is that Samsung wants to preserve the big 64bit marketing bang until all the other major OEMs release their 64bit flagship devices later this year, so they can praise the Galaxy S6 to have outstanding 64bit capcapabilities no Samsung handset offered before to make people think an upgrade is actually necessary.

What this means is I guess they just did not compile their ROMs (stock touchwiz) with 64bit support, so all we need to do is compile Lollipop with native 64bit instructions and emulated 32bit (second arch) support like i.e. the Nexus 9 does it.

I could be wrong of course and I probably need to look into the 5433 SoC documents and talk to some other people. But if they didn't lock it down in the bootloader (which would be a stupid thing to do), it should be entirely possible to get 64bit support in a custom ROM.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gekkehenkie11:
I'm not sure how good you are with assembler/reverse engineering but when developing for Exynos you need very good skills there, cause of all the closed sources. I've developed for the S4 Exynos and solved a few issue's but each of them took a LOOONG time to solve (3 weeks), cause of all the reverse engineering that was needed. Without good skills in that area and a LOT of free time, an Exynos AOSP ROM will never become stable. That's why I bought the Snapdragon this time (I live in an Exynos country), it's just such a pain in the ass to develop for Exynos. However, even on a Snapdragon there are quite a lot blobs (camera HAL, NFC, RIL for example), but it's not as bad as with Exynos, never ever will buy an Exynos device again.

But then again, you say you have experience with Exynos so you probably have solid assembler skills ?

Anyway I salute your effort to free the Exynos people of that nasty ugly & horrible thing called Touchwiz (it looks horrible on Lollipop too, ugh). Good luck ! Oh and if you ever need help from us Snapdragon CM12 devs, just drop me a PM, I'm sure there's common Note 4 stuff that we've already sorted out that can be of help to you. As much as I hate Exynos for keeping sources closed, I hate Touchwiz even more, so whenever I can help to free people from that thing, I'll do what I can ;)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Hey, thanks for the offer :)

I actually develop for Snapdragon 600/615/801/805 platforms as well, so I'd say I got quite some experience in that area as well.

You seam to be a bit mislead on the Exynos situation. I agree Exynos4 was horrible and rendered the Galaxy S2 useless for developers back in the day (except for the MSM8260 of course), but Exynos5 is a whole different story.

We have the full Exynos5-insignal BSP available, almost all core drivers are open source and well-documented. It's actually less blobs (closed source binaries) than Qualcomm has on recent SoCs. I even spent a week making my Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 (Exynos5420) run with aosp exynos5 drivers (the one that the Nexus10 aka manta uses) and it works beatifully with a few additions (check review.teameos.org, 'merged' section).

Exynos5433 are not as different from Exynos5420 ones as one might think.

So, in the end, I'd say developing for an Exynos handset with almost everything open-source (albeit a bit outdated) is more fun than having to mess with all the prebuilt qualcomm blobs, daemons and whatnot.

It's just that people are still looking at Exynos5 devices with the same prejudices they had after fiddling with Exynos4 ones.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gekkehenkie11:
Yeah I know that insigma is available but it's incomplete at best. I was missing tons of stuff when doing my Exynos work on the S4. And also general stuff like JAVA power manager was not even availalbe for the exynos versions
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Found this at internet. It seems that a group of developers are building a patch to unlock 64 bits support in Exynos 5433

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/27/92

http://lwn.net/Articles/623371/

2 Web sites and foruns over the web tell these patches enable 64 bits support to Exynos 5433. Please Raymanfx Check it for us
[Galaxy Note 4 General] malybru:
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[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Again, that is completely right for Exynos4 SoCs.

For Exynos5 however, it's as complete as it gets, and it works perfectly (the insignia BSP is better to work with than any Qualcomm BSP's I ever got my hands on (2 so far)).

Those patches are not exactly 'unlocking' 64bit capabilities of the Exynos5433 SoC, but they are adding support for it into the Linux mainline kernel found on kernel.org, which is as pure as it gets.

Hardly any Qualcomm/MSM sources are complete and useful in the mainline kernel as of now, Samsung does a great job with getting their SoCs supported upstream.

The only thing those patches are showing is that the Exynos5433 is indeed capable of running a 64bit OS by all means. I see Samsung also switched the SoC specific configurations to the future-style of Linux board support - OF (flat device tree) which means the board specific code can be supported in future Linux revisions easily.

All this does is hardening my guess that the Galaxy Note 4 *can* run a 64bit android version if configured properly (with 32bit supported emulated).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gekkehenkie11:
Sounds good ! Again, if you have any questions or need help with something you think is 'common' between chipsets, just drop me a PM. Or find us on IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cm-note4&uio=MT11bmRlZmluZWQb1

Good luck !
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
the only thing that separate SM910C from SM910H is the modem, is there a way you can build the cyano for use on SM910H users so that we can also donate?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Everything except mobile data and cellular will work if you flash an n910c rom to n910h.

I'm not an dev, but i think it's fully possible and quite easy for an dev. the dev would only need to do some modifications to the code, as we seen on different roms and kernels.

Please quote me if im wrong.

Delete, Check out new post under.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Ask Raymanfx, but I do agree with invisiblesushi. The hardware is the same except the modem.So would work with no data and cellular. Other dev would just port the modem to n910h
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Hello again, i've research a little and i found out SM-N910H uses the same modem as SM-N910C only difference is 4g is disabled on SM-N190H.

Ericsson Thor M7450 (in N910C, N910H) – CAT4/LTE-A - 28nm

This concludes the rom might be compatible without port.

Check out this thread to see which modem different Note 4 variants use. http://xdaforums.com/note-4/general/modem-hardware-versions-n910-list-t2926782
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Regardless of which modem is present in which variant, I'm confident a different set of vendor RIL blobs might be required at most, which is not too difficult, so a custom ROM *should* be able to run on all Exynos variants with little changes.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gekkehenkie11:
On the 910C/910F is slightly more complicated than just different blobs. The modem communicates with the system in a different way, on the 910F a kernel module is needed that works as a 'modem host interface' to set up communication via mhi pipes. On 910C it doesn't use that, but it uses I think the USB platform if I remember correctly. But again, nothing that's really too complicated to get going.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Answering your question
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
If we flash a custom Rom of SM910C on our SM910H rom the Dev most don't add modems so that we H users can port from easily. E.g Sweet rom it doesn't have modem embedded we port without fear. That's why am asking cos in a situation where one messed up with his modem. We are gonna be in soup.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
I dont think you will need an port for N910H, Cause C and H uses the same hardware. Only differens is 4g/LTE is disabled on H.

If im right, does C roms work on H?? read it somewhere http://xdaforums.com/note-4/help/sm-n910h-3g-variant-t2925648

This donation drive is to get CM to Exynos plattform, So it would me very easy for devs to make an verson for all exynos devices. N910C, N910H and N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Agree with you
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Aburel18:
hello there .

I can donate as well if someone can make a custom rom for note 4 exynos sm-n910k korean version . Does someone know a custom rom for sm-n910k apart from spinx ? Or i can flash another rom from anothet notr 4 and to change something like modem ? Thank yoi:)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
This thread is to port CyanogenMod to Exynos in general, once the dev get that working, it would be easy to port to all exynos models quite easily.

If you read from page 6 in the thread you will see the discussion to support all Exynos models.

I've checked the specs of N910K, and found put it uses Samsung Exynos Shannon 303 modem. (N910S, N910K and N910L uses Samsung Exynos Shannon 303 modem)

BTW dev wrote this:

Thanx to [MENTION=4500298]JNetwork[/MENTION] for providing Modem hardware list.

http://xdaforums.com/note-4/general/modem-hardware-versions-n910-list-t2926782
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
Exactly. The goal is to get myself one Exynos device and support all of them in the end.

The only differences (modem, as numerous people pointed out already) can be worked on and they shouldn't be that hard to accommodate for.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I have added at post 1 that the support is for all exynos variants
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sireniankyle:
This would be my first time donating. I would be much more comfortable if it was more than "throw money into my paypal". The indiegogo thing sounds more secure and accurate.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
I know that but for now is the olny way. We are here together for the same cause. Let us join and reach the 700 sum. When you deposit send me the picture and I will add you at the first post
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sireniankyle:
Definitely considering. Just spent $759 to buy my own 910C. If 64-bit were included, I'd be much more likely to.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
As Raymanfx told us. He might be able to use 64bits with exynos 5433 when he build the cyanogenmod 12 rom. There is no reas on to be afraid of donating. My n910c is lagging this drives me crazy. I want cyanogenmod 12 with Spen and olny raymanfx can provide this for us. Check the other donation thread that the users funded him a Galaxy note 10.1 2014 exynos the same way we did here via paypal and today they use the tablet with very fast cyanogenmod 12 5.0.1 see here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2938652
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
As raymanfx told us, he had an problem setting up an indiegogo campaign. My opinion is PayPal is pretty secure.

You can just check out RaymanFX profile and see all the work he has done, http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3463426 and https://github.com/raymanfx

This is also my first time donating, last time I spent so much on software it was Windows.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] andrew.mackew:
+1
[Galaxy Note 4 General] emenny81:
Is there a way to see how much has been donated ???
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
See post 1 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57803892&postcount=1

115 USD has been donated to now (9.jan.15)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] citlee:
Add another $50 to that $115 current total.

Can I suggest you reformat this to something like:

DONATIONS

Total required for new device: 700 USD

Current total: 115 USD

Remaining: 585 USD

Donators so far:

1 Invisiblesushi 50 USD

...

etc

Just to make it crystal clear how much is in so far and how much is left; hopefully people will see "oh there's only $X to go, I can help with that"
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Thx for joining us.

Just PM [MENTION=4359260]calj17[/MENTION] about suggestions.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Will do that now. Reformat. Have you donated 50 usd? Please send the confirmation code if you did só. Thank you for joining us
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
One more donation 25 usd by alf_and_co. Raymanfx please confirm
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Did [MENTION=237053]citlee[/MENTION] donate 50 USD?? You have to PM your transaction number to [MENTION=4359260]calj17[/MENTION] or post in thread.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
Sent him a PM to confirm the deposit. Wait Raymanfx to confirm new deposits. Reformat post 1 as advised.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
citlee 50 usd donation please confirm Raymanfx
[Galaxy Note 4 General] elisheva:
Is there an indiegogo on this yet? Will donate there.

I have a Note 4 and I'll work on it, too.

Btw, I saw someone earlier expressed a concern that rooting might impair functionality? Mine's rooted, no problems (unlocked SM-910H).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zurkx:
rooting impairs a huge amount of functionality.

you lose warranty permanently.

you lose knox permanently.

your dual personality phone is now single personality.

you lose knox apps like knox email which are better than regular samsung email.

you lose policy enforcement.

you lose hidden Gallery and hidden SNote.

you lose knox tracking and knox remote wipe.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
See post 1. All the information are there about the donations
[Galaxy Note 4 General] elisheva:
Yeah, I saw that. I read the thread before I posted.

Do you understand why at least 3 people have suggested indiegogo?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
Cause its safer. My opinion is that paypal safe. If any problems occur we can just report it. You can check raymanfx last dev unit note 10.1 and it succesed.

Were not forcing forcing you to donate, its up to you.

Reason I donated is cuz i think he is an trustworhy dev. Thats why i donated 50 usd.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaymanFX:
I can confirm the following donations:

50$

15$

10$

(total of 75$).

Thank you :)

Quick edit:

I just looked for Galaxy Note 4 devices and the cheapest I've found (refurbished) were around 560€ (663$).

My current PayPal balance (I still have some donations from other places there) is 200€ now.

I am actually willing to take 100€ on my own for the sake of getting this done and start developing for the device, which would make it 300€, which means we need another 260€ (308$) until I can order the device.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
There is no reason not to trust Raymanfx. His Last port for note 10.1 2014 exynos was done the same way and the donations happened the same we are doing here. We will have cyanogenmod 12 in our devices soon
[Galaxy Note 4 General] citlee:
Exactly. He has a proven track record and is willing to do the grunt work for the benefit of others! I'm surprised more hasn't been donated. If you want CyanogenMod 12 on your Note 4, put your money where your mouth is, and let's get it funded! Thanks RaymanFX!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] elisheva:
I'm sure he is very trustworthy and I'm glad to see this project in the works. It has quite a bit of momentum :) At this rate, it will be done very quickly indeed.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] citlee:
This is just the first step - get a device to a developer willing to work on it. It will only be done quickly if you (collective) contribute cold, hard cash to purchase a device! =)

The real fun starts way after the fundraising is complete.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] calj17:
It is true. After he gets the device cyanogenmod 12 13 android 5.0 6.0 and só one will Come.Raymanfx is very committed and port roms fast. You can see the example in the cyanogenmod 12 note 10.1 2014 exynos thread
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zhable:
Not sure if this is legal on XDA,but could any incentive be offered for those who donate? Maybe getting the ROM earlier? I know I haven't donated but it may sway others to join the cause if there is an incentive. Think of it like kick starter.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] invisiblesushi:
There is no benefit of getting the rom earlier, It will only be unstable at that point, i think is better to wait until its mostly working or stable. Im OK with just an thank you for supporting this project.