Congrats to our Discord for reaching 10k members!

This is definitely more organic than having tons of bots/spammers such as our previous telegram groups.

If you haven't yet, join us there instead!

Quick trivia, on v8.5 of Evo X, if you tap 'version codename', it will lead straight to the wiki page of whichever codename is used. 👌🏻

We've merged May 2024 security patches into XYZ!

Initial release will be version 9.0 for all official devices and rollout starts today.

All official devices will be required to build version 9.x onwards only and Evo AOSP will be deprecated for official devices (unless allowed due to booting issues).

Updated PIF.apk now available. Just install as a normal app. Reboot once or clear Play store data to apply.

Credits to Play Integrity Fix NEXT team

https://twitter.com/TheNotesOfJosh/status/1791627871519174697

Since this is gaining traction, might as well inform all our users.

Project Elixir wipes the internal+external storage, along with eSIM data, of users who use cracked/pirated builds. They also pay wall open source features behind subscriptions.

Sorry for another unrelated announcement, but please know our team promises not to include any codes such as the one posted. We will also promise to not lock features behind subscriptions either.

Good day to all. This is to call for a truce. To anyone who has had issues/beef with us in the past and would like to settle it amicably, we're open to hear you out in the group.

We will listen to what you have to say, and what adjustments/agreements can be done to further improve our relations with other members of the Android custom ROM community.

We'd like to totally move on from past issues and start anew with everyone. Consider this our apologies for past conflicts and a way to mend rifts that have occurred previously.

Hi all, @aidanwarner here.

I've been brought on to help with all things PR related (Public Relations).

As Joey stated previously, we want to do everything we can to remain fully neutral moving forwards. If anyone has a specific issue with anything we have publicly stated moving forwards, you're welcome to message me privately and we can figure it out.

Regardless of the specific ROM were running or building, we're all a part of the Android Community.

I look forward to seeing you all around. Feel free to tag me in anything you need help with and I'll do what I can.

And Google killed the Moto Clark spoof. Seems we need to find another. PIF.apk update again once we find one.

Just gonna announce it right now while investigation is ongoing. Since play integrity can't be fixed just yet, 9.0 releases will not pass play integrity certification. What's possibly going to happen?

- Bank apps may not open or show rooted error
- Some apps will not show in Play store even when searching
- Google Pay/Google Wallet may show error setting up
- RCS messaging may not work
- For some really random instance, some users will not receive/initiate calls

We're really caught in a loop right now since several checks are being made. Devs have found Google checks for kernel strings that make it fail, others have tried changing userdebug to user via build.prop to make it pass. For now, we can only speculate about other checks, but it seems some LineageOS builds and AOSPA builds have passed once again by flashing chiteroman's latest module.

We will keep everyone updated.

For now, further investigations are in https://xdaforums.com/posts/89525015/

In any case, if you guys want to test a temporary fix, try installing https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix/releases/download/v15.9.9/PlayIntegrityFix_v15.9.9.zip

And let us know if it fixes issues such as RCS

Looks like 9to5Google made a video about Evolution X!

https://youtu.be/-XUuiGTtNmY?si=DgKZdiKu_3DvFLRq

Some devs via XDA have confirmed that signing builds have made their play integrity pass. Just need to verify it with some builders for now. In any case, we'll be requiring our maintainers to sign their builds from now on if this indeed is the way to pass play integrity from here.

It's confirmed :)

Signed builds pass DEVICE integrity and we can dirty flash from unsigned to signed builds using a migration script.

We have generated private keys for use with all upcoming Official releases.

https://github.com/Evolution-XYZ/vendor_evolution/commit/eba557898e59877d343b8bb506d50fc20d2efaee

UnOfficial maintainers can continue to follow the LineageOS signing guide.

Builds with Play Integrity API certification passing out of the box are rolling out for Officially supported devices, starting with the Google Pixel 7 series.

Due to really worsening weather due to a typhoon, I'll have to postpone my builds for POCO F5, K20 Pro, Mi 11 and Mi A1. I can only hope for everyone's understanding in a time like this. We currently don't have electricity and are only relying on mobile data and power banks.

If you're near the vicinity of the typhoon here in the Philippines, kindly prepare for one of the strongest ones. Stay safe everyone. If you would like to help in relief operations, kindly contact me directly.