Samsung’s current flagships – the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge – are among this year’s top Android devices. The build quality and the hardware on these phones just speak volumes on the premium gadget experience Samsung expects you to have when you get yourselves one of these. A small catch, maybe, is that there are some variants of these phones powered by the Exynos 8890 octa chipset, and as Android developers around the world know, Exynos chipsets are not very friendly to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)-based ROMs.
Senior XDA member “sktjdgns1189” is bucking the trend, though, and hoping to be able to install CyanogenMod 13 (CM13), probably the most popular AOSP-based ROM out there, and run it on an Exynos-powered Galaxy S7 edge. Well, it doesn’t hurt to dream, does it?
For now, the developer has managed to boot up CM13 on his Galaxy S7 edge, and he has mentioned that sound works. And ermm… that’s actually the extent of whjat we know about this project. There are no files for downloading yet, so we can’t test things out. The developer has posted a quick 5 second video on his personal blog as his “proof of concept”.
We’re indeed hoping that he makes progress with this. A lot have tried before him, and a lot have failed. So here’s hoping this guy breaks the proverbial Exynos wall.
VIA: XDA
