[Miscellaneous Android Development] DerTeufel1980:
First time Install Instructions

Follow up Install Instructions

Download rom and gapps

boot to recovery

flash rom and gapps

optional: flash superSu/Magisk

reboot system

General F.A.Q.

Q: What the hell is madOS ?

A: madOS, (M.A.D. Team OS), is a ROM based on pure A.O.S.P. with extended capabilities and customizations made by or merge/adapted by M.A.D. Team.

Q: Which recovery should I use for this ROM?

A: Latest M.A.D. TWRP 3.2.1-0 recovery for OREO 8.1.0

Q: How do i flash new recovery ?

A:

1: You can flash it with a scatter file

2: You can simply flash it from the existing twrp recovery: Install> Install image> Select Oreo TWRP> Select "Recovery" as partition to flash.

Reboot to recovery to use new one

Q: Do i need to make full wipes?

A: YES, dont come crying at me, if you didn't .... ;p

Q: What is "full wipes" ?

A: To Wipe : Cache; System; DATA ...

Q: What should i use f2fs or ext4?

A: Both are supported, choose the one you desire

Q: Does this rom have any Theme support

A: Yup, We have working Theme Engine (madOS extras)

Update: On Oreo 8.1.0:

- We have extended Theme support even further ( madLauncher, messaging, etc)

- As well as many fixes

Q: Some translations are missing for my language, can I help?

A: Sure you can, please check our translations repo available here , you can either do a pull request, or if you don't know how to work with git, sent us the XML. Strings for your language ( Check Readme on repo).

Q: I want to report a bug(s) do you have an issue tracker?

A: Yeah... madOS issue tracker

Q: What's working ?

A: Check first Post for current status

Q: App "x" doesn't work, why?

A: Probably not compatible with OREO yet, feedback is welcome

Q: Is the rom rooted?

A: NO, But you can easily root with :

1: Magisk ( v14 onwards.)

2: Super SU ( v2.82 onwards)

IF there are problems in rooting, you need to report it to the root-threads...There's nothing we can do

Q: Should i root together with rom ?

A: Not advised.. mainly the Magisk that gives some weird issues...

Flash ROM and GAPPS (if you use gapps), after first boot get back to recovery and flash your desire rooting method

Q: Does xposed work?

A: Is there Xposed for O? ... then no ;p

Q: How is battery life with Oreo?

A: Pretty awesome

Q: Does this build support Vulcan?

A: No....duh! v

Q: Does doze work in this build?

A: Yup

Q: when will (feature/issue here) be fixed?

A: NO ETA , please

Porting F.A.Q.

No porting support, no port questions allowed on this thread, and porting PMs will be auto-deleted, porting replies will be reported as well

G.APPS F.A.Q.

Q:What GAPPS package should I use?

A: openGapps arm64 nano/pico

Q: How to properly install GAPPS?

A:Flash Rom + Flash Gapps at once

CREDITS and Thanks

madOS Team

Our translators, credits list here

A.O.S.P.

Pure Nexus

AOSPA

DU (Dirty Unicorns)

Omni

HELP supporting madOS

We do this on our free time, however we do have costs on maintaining this :/

Any donation is highly appreciated

You can donate by using

this link

If the above doesn't work in your country, then you can directly donate by using this e-mail adress: mediatekandr0iddevelopers@gmail.com

About madOS Proprietary Apps

You are NOT allowed by any means, to use our madOS apps on any other build, your rom

This is exclusively for OFFICIAL madOS ROM releases

@To Moderators: Feel free to clean the thread, whenever users start spamming, severe OT, or questioning about porting...