[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Oswald Boelcke:
Hello to all. I'm just joining this thread and hoping my post isn't too much off-topic. Thus far, we used three Samsung GT-i9305 in our family, all currently on RR-N-v5.8.5 (always used RR), GApps free etc. etc. Probably I should mention I'm slightly privacy-paranoic. I wanted to replace mine due to a diagonal scratch in the otherwise still usable screen, and I purchased a used G901F in an extraordinarily good condition that arrived yesterday; not rooted and on German Telekom branded Android 6.0.1. As I certainly wanted to continue to use RR on it, I discovered this thread.

I hope to learn a lot here and to be able to eventually pass back to others what I've learned finally.

Yesterday, I downloaded all required software, and this morning, I've rooted the device ("CF-Auto-Root-kccat6-kccat6xx-smg901f.tar.md5") and flashed the lastest stock Sammy ("G901FXXU1CQJ1_G901FDTM1CQJ1_G901FXXU1CQC1_HOME.tar.md5") via ODIN to ensure to have the latest bootloader and modem. Afterwards, I've flashed TWRP 3.2.1-0 via Odin (actually I tried 3.2.2-0 first but that failed; Odin wasn't "moving" at all. As far as I recognised Corinna has ownership on or contributed to 3.2.1-0 but don't know if this applies to 3.2.2-0, too).

Booted into TWRP and clean flashed "RR-O-v6.1.0-20180711-kccat6-Unofficial". Rebooted into system and was surprised and excited how fast the first initial boot occured. I guess less than one minute - unbelievable. Confirmed that baseband/modem is available and not "unknown". Installed "org.fdroid.fdroid_1002052.apk", "MagiskManager-v5.8.3.apk" and "XposedInstaller_3.1.5.apk" for later use. Booted back into TWRP and flashed Magisk v16.0. Back into system, upgraded to Magisk v16.7 beta and installed via MagiskManager following Magisk modules "Busybox for Android NDK" and "F-Droid Privileged Extension". Via the Xposed Installer, installed the Xposed-Framework v90-beta3. Restart of device, installed and activated the Xposed module "FakeGapps", restart of device.

Booted back into TWRP and flashed "NanoDroid-setupwizard-17.5.20180803" followed by "NanoDroid-microG-17.5.20180803". Rebooted into system and confirmed that signature spoofing and Google Play Store are working.

Thus far everything is prefectly and as advertised working with Corinna's RR-O-v6.1.0! :)

How to proceed further: Going to setup the device/ROM to my desire. Next, in TWRP I'll flash an "update.zip" that I created in TitaniumBackup of the i9305 containing all my user applications that I want to have on the G901F (except the one's that I want to register in GCM. Those will be installed via Play Store and their data will just be restored via TiBu later). Last bu not least, moving my SIM and extSD from the i9305 to the G901F for it to become my daily driver.

However, there's only one downer but not related to RR-O: So far, I've been an enthusiastic user of Lord Boeffla's kernel. I've search XDA and the web for a Boeffla kernel been ported to the G901F but wasn't successful (yet). Maybe someone can point me to it if avilable at all what I currently doubt i.e. going back to Kernel Adiutor times.

TL&DR: @cvxda: Corinna, excellent job, well done in deed.:good: I appreciate to now have the honour to be part of "YOUR" RR-O community. As always, before I flash anything "severe" (like ROM, Xposed modules, apps requiring root) I search the web for their developers to hopefully find a few information about e.g. their reputation, and I realised that you are an extremely well recognised developer.:D Please, simply continue your great work to the benefit of the Android world.

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EDIT (2018-08-05): Changed from RR to Official LOS for reasons as stated here.

EDIT (2018-08-06): Regarding the mentioned issue with TWRP 3.2.2-0; I've found the culprit, which was simply a corrupted download. Meanwhile updated TWRP to this versionhttps://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77251447&postcount=1168.