[Lenovo A7000 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] tanish2k09:
On high request from users, Venom is now re-opened.

It's just opened right now.

There is soooooo much planned for next updates but you'll have to wait for them until April. I can release the Oreo and nougat builds with the following changes right now but only on public demand.

A poll has been set up in the thread about whether updates should be given right now of should I wait and add more things until April. Please vote there. Note that the poll is only visible from browsers and not the xda labs app.

Here's an incomplete changelog of future build :

A) Already Working/Added :

1) Livedisplay feature of lineageos ROMs now added in kernel. It works now on each and every ROM which supports venom. As always, this is also fully customisable. This feature enables "yellowing" of screen as the day progresses. During evening the screen will start becoming slightly yellow. During night time it will smoothly become more yellow to protect your eyes from blue light and give a good sleep. This feature is a one-time turn-on-and-forget feature. This is already very much appreciated in K3 note release but there are always haters out there... It's just how the world is.

2) Brightness dimmer is now added into kernel which works at GPU level to reduce the brightness by upto one-tenth of current brightness. You may be thinking that what is the use of it when so many brightness reducing overlay apps already exist in playstore... Here's a simple answer :

1) Overlays flicker when they are applied above navbar and status bar. GPU-level has no issue.

2) You can't do specific things like installing apps, or taking screenshots when an overlay is active. GPU-Level has no issues with that.

3) Imagine you're up late at night and chatting with your friend or someone and you want to send him a screenshot... When overlay is enabled, it applies a dark film over the screen which is captured in screenshot, and this makes it impossible to view the screenshot properly. You can try yourself. Install a darkening app and enable it's overlay then take a screenshot and then disable the overlay. Go to gallery and view the screenshot. It will be darker.

4) Sometimes some overlay apps temporarily turn off when screenshot is taken... This suddenly increased the brightness level which is harmful for your eyes in the dark.

These first two features are made to protect your eyes. I care about the users who use my stuff.

Together those features make up the Hyperlapse build.

3) All builds (including dt2w,t2s,s2w, smartwake and gestureless) are now included in a single build.

Yes! You can choose which gestures you want, or you can turn on the gestures_disable_HARD option to turn off the touch detection (basically same as gestureless purebattery build) to save battery. There is even an option to choose between smartwake gestures and swipe2wake. Obviously only one of them can be used at a time.

I call it the Superhybrid build.

4) Bugs have been fixed in dt2w, and t2s (which causes random reboot. Nougat and MM are not affected by it)

5) T2s has been upgraded.

6) Memory tuning algorithms enabled (won't tell which right now). They reduce RAM consumption for the same amount of workload. Win-win situation. Increases performance, no effect on BB.

7) Poison has been HUGELY optimised for much better BB even with gestures build.

8) Pocket mode override values have been increased to reduce accidental wakeup further.

9) Init.d script will be added to provide the best overall performance and multitasking values directly during boot.

10) Fast charging works in offline charging, recovery and android also by default. You get the max charging speeds in all the modes. Venom exclusive feature, not present in any other kernel yet.

11) Bluetooth has been fixed in oreo variant.

B) Will do soon or in April :

1) Source will be made public again with full commit history done from the beginning with details in all commits. No private sources will be held back and source will be fully compilable identical to the released build. Livedisplay code will also be open sourced for any other developer to add into their kernels but only after April.

2) Some privacy additions (secret for now but will tell during release)

Special thanks to [MENTION=6384906]Chirag21[/MENTION] for Oreo testing and [MENTION=8193034]AKS12[/MENTION] for giving us Oreo ROMs and daniel_hk (won't mention him to not disturb him) for Bluetooth fix and original Oreo bringups.