[LeEco Le Max 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] ThE_MarD:
Heyyo, an update on the parts! Meow my screen and rear camera have come in too! So meow I just need the earpiece and the rear camera glass and then I can rip into my x2 and make it as good as almost new! :)

Tbh? I've been thinking about doing a thermal mod on my x2 to add a thermal pad or some non-conductive thermal paste just so I can also see how much better x2 can have sustained performance with lower temperatures with slightly better cooling... but I'm leaning more towards not doing it though, as any future thermal issues that x2 could have in future versions of Android I wouldn't be able to test as I'd have modified cooling... so yeah, I think I will probably leave my cooling hardware on my x2 stock so I can maintain my x2 if thermal-engine for some reason changes in the future... even though I know for a fact that x2 would be a heck of a lot better of a device with some extra thermal solution applied. :silly:

For LeEco on LineageOS related news? I think I finally found a really good echo-reference/noise-cancelling fix for s2! I'm unsure how many of you fellow x2 users know this, but I, of course, help out with max_plus (as I'm the only one who even tried to get them onto custom ROMs with all the improvements we have on x2) and zl1 and also s2. I've helped fix up s2's libinit because it was broken and out of date, I also helped them with selinux enforcing so they could have LineageOS 16.0 builds (at that point in time, rk585 was already losing interest in s2 as he has his X01BD, the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2). I also helped them properly update a bunch of their device tree just so they could have a lot better organization in their device tree too.

The super interesting part about the echo-reference/noise-cancelling fix? Is how I was able to port Motorola's method of using audio echo-reference instead of LeEco's inferior voice external echo-reference... I'm hoping I can port it as well to msm8996. If so? Then max_plus, x2 and zl1/0 can benefit from even better echo-reference than stock EUI ROM which struggles with VoIP echo-reference just like we do a bit on custom ROMs. Telegram I know for a fact has terrible echo at times... so using audio echo-reference could really fix that once and for all. It might even make our loudspeaker work good with those automated call systems that lots of companies use since currently ours might sometimes pick up some of the audio and result in a chirping sound at times which throws off those automated call systems.

Also, tbh? I'm not really sure what else I can really improve on LeEco msm8996... we have VNDK current, we have a permanent fix for green tint on all camera apps, we have Open-Source ConsumerIR HAL + Bridge that is selinux neverallow policy compliant and works better than ever before (MAJOR thanks to Manong for that! I only did a few assists), and I've updated as much of our blobs as I can... 4.4 kernel might be beyond my skill as I don't know C or CPP, same with fixing max_plus's specific bugs and same with the other minor bugs... so really, at this point? It'll be more about maintenance as msm8996 is legacy from this point on... updating blobs our major changes to try and keep up with AOSP on our device tree and vendor blobs and even kernel might cause more issues than anything and vendor blobs especially we won't have a reliable place to kang blobs from as 3.18 kernel devices are pretty much all discontinued and using blobs from a device with a newer kernel version once again might cause more issues than anything... still, we can make future versions of Android run good on our device. As a prime example, the OnePlus One with that legacy msm8974 still runs LineageOS 16.0 (and I'm guessing 17.1) great and that device launched with KitKat! That's cm-11.0! That's a heck of a long time ago!

Side-note here, I'm starting to think I won't be receiving that Redmi Note 8 as I haven't heard back from the guy who was going to ship it for a tracking number and it has been a month in shipping and a nash for parts I could use to make a functioning nash with my broken one is still probably not coming my way anytime soon... oh well lol, I'll still get by just fine with my x2.

Anywho? That's the happenings right meow for me and AOSP!