[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] AptLogic:
So, while I was doing testing, at some point the battery bug "fix" started to fail, and now I have the same issue again. So back to the drawing board I go.. the next step would be to try replacing the SettingsProvider, which I will be working on in the coming days.

Most of you may have figured out by this point that development has slowed significantly in the last 20 days... this is because I've been facing a pretty high external workload as I begin my prep for finals. This will continue through the month and into early June, after then development will ramp up again and we'll finally see if I can squash these nasty settings bugs. After then, the ROM should be just about fully completed, and most updates after 2.4.5 will be for small things like hotfixes and Google Apps updates.

After the release of 2.4.5, the next step for me will to begin work on some new projects including Amaranthus, Forsythia, Geranium, Hedera, and Ilex. Some of you may have noticed some new repositories that have come up recently including Ilex and Amaranthus (which right now is listed under a different name). Some of this may seem confusing, so I'll do a quick run down of each of these new projects:

Amaranthus - This is basically a port of AptOS over to the Verizon S5, after release it will follow the same support schedule as the AT&T version of AptOS (guaranteed updates until October 2017, extended support until December 2018)

Forsythia - This is also an AptOS port, except this time for the Exynos variant of the S5. This may take a little bit longer to develop considering the different chipset that the G900H uses, and for now this project is paper-only, meaning it easily won't happen. I'm not too concerned about this though because the Exynos S5 has an unlockable bootloader, so AptOS for it would be pretty pointless.

Geranium - If you've seen the home page of the CoreTech website, you already have an idea of what this is. Project Geranium is a (yet another) port of AptOS, but this time things change quite a bit. This project is all about porting AptOS to the Galaxy S8. For starters, I will be completely blind-devving this (didn't get in the insights program and a ~$750 phone is not in my budget), and the OS will be moving up a couple Android versions to 7.0/7.1/8.0. I don't know exactly how well this will go considering the unique nature of the S8, but let's see what happens. The only major caveat is that I can't even think of beginning development until some kind of permanent root solution is achieved for the North American variant (SM-G950U).

Hedera - This is very similar to the above AptOS port (same device) but this project is for porting the X ROM over. This should be significantly easier since all we're doing is stripping out the Stock ROM to within an inch of its life. But, as above, we need a permanent root solution to begin development.

and, last but not least...

Ilex - This is a project to attempt to root the Galaxy Note Edge. The difference between this project and my earlier attempt to root the Note 4 is that I will be doing private testing before publicly releasing the method. So this project is all dependent on if I can get it to work or not.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, any developers that can find some time to help out around the CoreTech GitHub would be most appreciated. Especially if we end up doing the AptOS port for the Galaxy S8.

If anyone has any more project ideas, just tell me and I'll take a look into it :)