Notes

• Formatting data and clean flash are required if you come from android 11. Please do not update through OTA if you are on android 11.
• Encryption is disabled for various reasons. You can keep using the latest TWRP or OrangeFox, but please follow the clean flash guide carefully.
• Dirty flash is fine from previous EvoX builds based on android 12 or 12.1
• When switching to other ROMs, you may need to re-flash the required firmware, if the ROM you are going to flash does not include one.

Device Specific Changes:

• Etude kernel: Op.12 No.3
  • Linux 4.9.311
  • CodeLinaro tag LA.UM.10.3.r1-01700-sdm845.0
  • Enabled Spectre BHB mitigation
  • adapted qcom’s kgsl perf counter change to non-privileged scratch buffer
  • ported compiler friendly vectorization for XOR from mainline kernel
  • ported arm64-specific crc32_be optimization from mainline kernel
  • ported Arm Optimized Routines for strcmp and strncmp from mainline kernel
  • merged and adapted lots of branch prediction hardening code from android common kernel
  • fixed qcom’s PSCI BP hardening mitigation for kryo2xx/3xx cores
  • DO NOT use another kernel. Just don’t.
• Fixed rounded corners

Evolution X Updates:

• April security patch
• Heads-up notification blocklist/snooze/timeout
• Option to hide IME button space
• OOS style notification clear button
• Many more misc stuff

Clean flash guide:

• Install the latest TWRP or OrangeFox
• If you have the latest OrangeFox R11.1_1, you can simply wipe the cust partition from GUI. With TWRP or older versions of OrangeFox, open Terminal (Advanced/Terminal in TWRP, Menu/More/Terminal in OrangeFox), and run command

  mke2fs -t ext4 -b 4096 /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/cust
  

  then enter “y” to confirm.
• Install ROM in recovery
• Format data (the one you type “yes” to confirm)
• Reboot

Gapps, vendor and firmware are included.

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