[Realme 5 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] greenys':
Realme 5 Pro/Realme Q custom kernels

For codename: RMX1971EX/RMX1971CN

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Updates and logs as of 2020.01.01 are available here

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Status update

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Sadly XDA with its major overhaul nerfed site capabilities, again thus a post cannot contain more than 20 images. Meaning I won't be able to provide you the change/update logs in the previous format as images. I'll try to still provide insights of the changes but only with links instead of the more visible and easily accessible images. Say your thanks to XDA devs, again.

Disclaimer

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I’m no developer or programmer so I can’t add/remove features, fix experienced issues. Neither can I forward your messages to devs working on these ROMs. Most of development for our device happens on Telegram channels but XDA prohibited the sharing of Telegram links so this does hinder work and a few other things. Because of this I can’t link original posts and sources but I’ll try to do my best to give you end users enough information. If you need anything more you can either look up “Telegram Realme 5 Pro” in Google search and try to find the main group or PM me on my Facebook/Telegram page so I can redirect anyone who wishes to join the development team/forum or just wants to test new builds of ROMs/kernels. We have a main group for everything, development group for testing, photography group, gcam specific group and downloads group.

Updates

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I’ll leave the link for latest uploads here in this thread and will upload the files too. However updates and logs will be kept in the first comment.

Current kernels

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KharaMe for Rui based ROMs and Oxygen OS port by BabluS

Grimoire for Cos based and cusom ROMs by BabluS

(New Grimoire works only on RUI based ROMs for new ROMs are built from RUI source code)

KharaMeMod for Cos based and cusom ROMs by oOwh5hit

NoName Kernel for Cos based and custom ROMs by Woyowoyooo

Oplosan Kernel for Rui based ROMs and Oxygen OS port by Woyowoyooo

IRB kernel for Rui based ROMs and Oxygen OS port by Huril12

Zero Kernel for Rui based custom ROMs by Huril12

X-Kernel for RUI only by Huril12

Chunchunmaru kernel for RUI based ROMs by megakampang

SilonT kernel for RUI based ROMs and RUI too by nao

LawRun kernel for RUI and custom ROMs too by Huril12

Random Anime Name kernels for RUI and custom ROMs too by bablus

Downloads

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One Drive folder

Mediafire folder

MEGA folder

Stock kernel for latest Color OS and Realme UI:

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View attachment 5036689

But I've also uploaded them to Mediafire, Mega and One Drive folders above just in case.

Custom kernel pros and cons over stock:

For the average end users who don't know much about the importance of kernels (though I don't really advise such users to flash custom kernels) I'll sum up the pros and cons of flashing custom kernels over original, stock ones.

Pros:

Updated (upstreamed) selinux version (means updated security)

Better performance, battery life or maybe even both

Highly customisable features

New in-built features such as K-Lapse or K-Cal, kernel based audio gain and tweaks etc.

Smoother UX

Cons:

Some kernels are enforcing/permissive selinux only

Performance may vary depending on ROM type and between kernel versions

Some kernels don't pass Google's SafetyNet by default but that's rare for custom developers work hard to make CTS profile and baseintegrity pass

Kernel source:

GitHub Bablus' source