[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Oki:
Well yesterday there was a misunderstanding. NFound released a few days ago a YouTube Video of an Android P running in his phone. A project he has started and he is working on at this moment.

I liked the idea. Since he also released a Treble version of a couple of Oreo ROMs (Havoc and AEX) I took the Pixel XL Android P preview firmware image and added the vendor partition and the treble enabled kernel from the Oreo ROM. This combination required the removal of a lot of items from the Pixel XL system and adding some files and patches to the boot and vendor partitions to be able to boot and stabilize this Frankenstein ROM. I finally wrapped it in a single flashable EDL package for easy installation.

Since NFound was working on an Android P release and suddenly my assembly came up, he thought I was releasing his work, but actually I took only publicly released Oreo AEX rom files from him without any kind of copyright protection, available for download to everyone. Of course I gave credit to him for the portions I used (about 9% of this assembly are files extracted from his Oreo roms, and most of them are LOS15.1 files). He was claiming that this was a branch of his Android P work, but actually it is not, and It never was. I am not into developing roms at this time. I did more than 10 years ago, but family takes a lot of my personal time. The moderator closed the thread since there was claim about stolen work but I clarified the situation.

I really felt very bad, since I just published this assembly just for sharing with you all the good feelings I experienced when I saw Android P working in my device. An act of goodness that turned into a nightmare for me. By doing so, suddenly I found myself under suspect, being challenged by NFound, and judged by everyone for a crime that I never commited!!! A very bizarre and stressful situation.

I do not have anything against NFound and I strongly believe we are lucky to have him in the Axon 7 scene. I know I will never have an apology from those who judged me wrong and gave thanks to such aggressive posts against me, It was an experience I do not want to experience anymore.

I have been a member in XDA forums for more than 12 years, I saw Android first steps, building Test roms for the HTC Diamond, just to see an immature OS in a very small screen still with the pencil. But, at some time yesterday, I was tempted to leaving this forums for a few months. I thought I had contributed enough.

Nonetheless, I would like to leave all that behind and return to a normal situation were we were before. I really enjoy playing with this amazing device, enjoying the new releases from NFound and Kranoner and helping others to make the Axon 7 scene greater and better. You do not have to decide which side are you in, NFound and me are in the same team, the Axon 7 scene team, along with Kranoner, OrdenKrieger, djkuz, DrakenFX, raystef66, all the contributors in the past such as tenfar, jcadduono or Unjustified Dev, all that are still to come, and of course you too. Let's show the world why we consider the Axon 7 one of the best phones ever built.

No bad feelings anymore.

Peace