[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 ROMs, Kernels, Rec] kotzir:
WARNING! This ROM is for the GT-I8730/T variants only!

CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

Q/A thread:

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Please use the above unless you have something development-related to contribute here. Thank you.

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CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. You will need to provide your own Google Applications package (gapps). CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

All the source code for CyanogenMod is available in the CyanogenMod Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to CyanogenMod, please visit our Gerrit Code Review. Your changelog is whatever was merged into gerrit.

CM-13.0 Install Guide

Note: CM for Galaxy Express is provided with no warranty. You are installing this software at your own risk. You may be violating your warranty.

Download CM-13.0 and OpenGapps zips and put in /sdcard

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Before you install CM-13.0: Preparation

(First three are optional. If you want to start fresh, these can be skipped)

Install AppBak from Market, run it and save a list of all your apps.

Install SMS Backup and Restore from Market, run it and backup your SMS history.

Install Call Logs Backup and Restore from Market, run it and backup your call log history.

Boot into TWRP recovery. Make a full backup. You will need this backup later if you decide to go back to your previous ROM and data.

WARNING: Many apps will Force Close crash if you restore data from a previous ROM.

Install

Use TWRP Recovery. How to install video

Warning: Only use this recovery to flash CM-13.0. Otherwise, you risk bricking your phone!

Wipe system, data, dalvik and cache. (For clean installation)

Flash cm-13*.zip.

Flash gapps*.zip.

Reboot phone.

After you setup your Google account, reinstall the three apps from Market in order to restore most of your apps, call log and SMS history.

Warning: Do not restore backup data of system apps!

If you restore a bad backup with cached settings in telephony.db in data/data/com.*.*.telephony it can break MMS.

It seems that restoring backups can also break Calendar sync.

Upgrades

Upgrades from previous versions of CM-13.0 are the same process as install, except you do not need to wipe anything. Contrary to popular belief, you do not need to even wipe cache and dalvik-cache when upgrading between CM-13.0 versions. You only need to wipe if you are doing a major upgrade, switching to a different ROM entirely, or attempting to fix bugs caused by bad backups or corrupt app data.

Switching From EXT4 TO F2FS Guide, thanks [MENTION=6770019]zh_eco[/MENTION]

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- T.W.R.P recovery support F2FS is recommended , here.

- Clean install is recommended (wipe everything)

Switching Steps

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1- Reboot to T.W.R.P .

2- from T.W.R.P Home , select "Wipe" .

3- then select "Advanced Wipe" .

4- then choose Data .

5- click on "Repair or change file system" .

6- then click on "Change File System" and choose F2FS , wait until formatting .

7- do the same method on cache .

8- after formating Data and cache to F2FS, now flash CM-13.0 ROM and GApps then reboot

*Note: Formatting /system with F2FS isn't supported, only data and cache

Useful Links:

CM changelog

Credits:

Epic Touch CM Team for the install instructions

Everyone that donated beers :)

The CyanogenMod team would like to thank everyone involved in helping with testing, coding, debugging & documenting! Enjoy!

Screenshots

Source repos:

Device Tree

msm8930-common

qcom-common

Kernel

Custom Kernel

Vendor Blobs

Latest Release is [COLOR="Red"]20160831 for CM, 20160916 for SlimRom, 20160905 for RR and 20160817 for Broken[/COLOR]!
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