Dear Evolution X community,

We want to express our sincere appreciation for all of you who have donated to our fundraiser for our own build server. Your contributions have helped us reach $500 out of the $700 (which we will be matching) we need to reach our first milestone towards our overall goal of $1,400 to purchase and maintain our server.

Your support means everything to us and we are deeply grateful for each and every donation, no matter how small. We could not have made it this far without your generosity.

As we continue to work towards our goal, we are committed to providing you with the best possible custom ROM experience. Having our own build server will allow us to do that, and we are excited for what the future holds.

We will keep you updated on our progress as we move forward with the transition process. Once again, thank you for your continued support of Evolution X.

Best regards,

Anierin Bliss, Joey Huab, Akito Mizukito, and the rest of the Evolution X team

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Gcash: PM @Stallix

Dear Evolution X community,

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached our goal of raising $1,400 ($700 from the community and $700 we matched) to purchase and maintain our own build server. We are grateful for the support of our amazing community, and we couldn't have done it without you.

Whether you donated $1 or $100, every contribution made a difference, and we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your support has allowed us to continue providing you with the best possible custom ROM experience.

We also want to give a special shoutout to some of our notable donors:

Thomas donated $200
Michael donated $100
Fabian-Lars donated $100
Manuel donated $50
Tomas donated $36
Aygul donated $25
Alberto donated $20

Please note that for privacy reasons, we have chosen not to share the full names of our notable donors.

We appreciate your generosity and your willingness to invest in the future of Evolution X. Your donations have allowed us to achieve our goal and take the next steps towards providing even better services to our community.

For those who have not donated, we still appreciate your support and encourage you to continue using Evolution X. We will always strive to provide the best possible custom ROM experience to all our users.

Once again, thank you to everyone who contributed to our fundraiser. We are excited for what the future holds and can't wait to share it with you.

Best regards,

Anierin Bliss, Joey Huab, Akito Mizukito, and the rest of the Evolution X team

Looks like A13 QPR2 will require another rebase as there's too much conflicts after trying to merge it with our current base.

We'll keep you updated.

Important updates regarding March patch via our Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EvolutionXROM/status/1635508596976021505

Basically expect us to finalize March patches before the end of the Month.

Major changes will include:

- Switch back to Pixel Launcher (QPR2 version)
- And with that switch, that brings back Google Wallpapers and Pixel Live Wallpapers compatibility
- It will also bring back the 'select' feature users have been asking for
- Removal of Parallel space and launcher app lock/hiding (system app lock/hide will still be available)
- Removal of custom icon pack support (since Pixel Launcher doesn't have any; use Pixel Launcher mod)
- And several feature omissions caused by QPR2 framework changes.

The main goal is to make our QPR2 as stable as it can be.

March patch releases will take around 1-2 weeks or more. That should end all ETA questions.

Maintenance Announcement

As we work towards making the services quality better, we will take down some services in order to improve it. During this downtime, you can still access and download the ROMs for your devices from this link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/evolution-x/files/

The maintenance work will take place from 2023/03/22 12:30 AM JST to 2023/03/22 04:30 AM JST. All Evolution X infrastructures and related services will be affected by this outage.

Happy Ramadan Kareem to all those who celebrate it! 🙏🏻🌟

Regarding QPR2/March patches release, we'll hopefully have an initial build ready for testing by the weekend as SystemUI and framework compiles just fine at the moment (though a lot slower as we're using a temporary server as we wait for the crowdfunded one).

We're still hopeful on bringing back all of your favorite features from the previous versions to the latest release. We will make another announcement regarding which features have been removed or replaced/improved.

I still wouldn't advise maintainers to sync. We appreciate everyone's PATIENCE on this.

We would like to take a moment to express our immense gratitude towards Michael for his extraordinary support and generosity towards our project. Not only did Michael contribute an initial donation of $100 towards our fundraiser for a new build server, but he also went the extra mile by purchasing the CPU cooler for the server, providing valuable insights and recommendations on the hardware that we will be purchasing, and donating a Google Pixel 5a device to the team.

Michael's contributions have been integral in helping us achieve our goal and we are extremely thankful for his unwavering support. The donation of the CPU cooler will guarantee that our new build server runs at optimal tempatures during high load, while the Google Pixel 5a device will allow us to bring Evolution X to that particular device in the near future.

Additionally, we want to remind our community that it's never too late to donate towards the cost of our upcoming server. We will be personally covering additional costs beyond the fundraiser goal to ensure that we have the best possible hardware within our budget. Any additional donations will go a long way in alleviating these costs and enabling us to continue improving and expanding Evolution X. Thank you again to everyone who has contributed and supported us on this journey.

UPI: reynoldp@fbl
Revolut: http://revoluwww.tg-me.com/anierilypy
Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/anierinb
Paypal #2: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/joeyhuab
Gcash: PM @Stallix

Best regards,

Anierin Bliss, Joey Huab, Akito Mizukito, and the rest of the Evolution X team.

Thanks for everyone's patience! A13 QPR2 (March security patch) source is about to be finalized!

GitHub is currently experiencing issues which is why I couldn't fully push the fixes to make source boot just yet.

Several features have sadly been temporarily removed due to the code changes but that was expected. They will be likely to return before A14 arrives.

Good day to all! Remaining issues with Pixel Launcher crashes have been addressed and our March security patch source is ready to roll :) We appreciate everyone's patience on this!

Due to a plethora of negative reactions and for our users convenience, we will bringing back the Photos spoof toggle. Those who actually don't want to risk their accounts being possibly banned/blocked may just keep it off. It'll be off by default starting today. Using it definitely poses risks but it's up to the users anyways.

Attention Evolution X community!

We have a major announcement about our search function in the ROM! We're excited to reveal that we've implemented ChatGPT as the search algorithm for your phone. That's right, you can now chat with your search results!

Want to search for pizza restaurants near you? Simply type in "pizza near me" and ChatGPT will respond with a list of pizza places AND a cheesy pizza joke. Need to find a gas station? Ask ChatGPT "where's the nearest gas station?" and it will respond with directions AND a pun about gasoline.

But wait, there's more! We've also programmed ChatGPT to respond with funny memes and GIFs when you search for certain keywords. So go ahead, try it out! We promise you won't be disappointed.

Getting real tired of seeing ROM builders posting about community builds in the main group? Tired of not having an official device?

Visit @EvolutionXBuilders! That's where you may ask for assistance with ROM issues and apply for official support.

And lastly, WE DO NOT MAKE BUILDS FOR DEVICES WE DO NOT CURRENTLY OWN. We can only build the ROM for devices we have in our possession.

If your device is not officially supported, either find a suitable maintainer that should apply or build for your device yourselves.

For all rooted users... Magisk v26.0 has arrived!

Good day! Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it ❤️

Regarding April security patches, they will probably be merged into source by this Tuesday (8 am onwards Philippine time).

Several features removed after the QPR2 merge have already returned within the past week. We've already switched the Pixel Launcher to its Pixel 5 version for lesser battery drain.

The features that have returned include:

- Status bar notification counter
- Pulse
- Smart Pixels
- QS layout settings
- QS tile label text size
- QS battery style following status bar
- Live volume steps
- Extended nav gestures
- Lockscreen clock color settings

Thank you for your patience on these features!

April 2023 security patches have been merged into Evolution X!

Version 7.8 is Sisig! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisig)

Updates for officially supported devices will start to roll out this week.

For the month of April, we're happy to announce several returns and new arrivals in the Evolution X family!!

- OnePlus Nord 2
- Pocophone F1 (returning device)
- Realme C3/Narzo 10A
- Realme X2
- Realme Q5 Pro/Gt Neo 3T
- Redmi 7A/8/8A/8A Dual (returning device)
- Redmi Note 8 Pro

You may find their respective telegram groups and XDA threads through the use of the /evo command within our main groups! We hope to support even more devices the coming months to provide an awesome experience for our community!

Thank you for all the support that the community has given us the past weeks! 💞🎉

The ROM has finally almost fully returned to its stable state and I hope to improve it even more with the next security patches!

To all those who've helped out with our upcoming main server, we thank you and appreciate you! As well as to those who donated devices to our team members for official support! 😊 We can't do any of this without all of you! 🤍

If you want continued source updates and proper device support, try helping us out! It's not a lot but with a lot of great users within our community, it would be great if each one would donate at least $1 to support the ROM! 😊🙏🏻

This will help in fixing bugs, finding more features to add, help update translations for different languages and inspire me to maybe even support a new device! 🙏🏻

UPI: reynoldp@fbl
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