Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite (r7) - First stable release

Droidian for the Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite (r7 / SM-N770F), first stable release. Phosh edition, phone variant, arm64, API 33.

This is a community port, not an official Droidian device, see README for what that means.

Before you install

Read INSTALL.md start to finish. This device is flashed by hand (heimdall + TWRP + adb), there is no one-click installer, and skipping the verification steps in that guide is how people end up with a boot-looping phone and no idea why.

Also read KNOWN-ISSUES.md before you rely on this as a daily driver. Two that matter most:

• No call audio. Calls connect in both directions, nobody hears anything. Not fixed in this release.
• The device reboots instead of shutting down while the charger is plugged in. Unplug before you power off.

What works

Display, touch, S Pen, GPU, WiFi, mobile data, SMS-capable modem, camera (photo + video), speaker + microphone, Bluetooth (including BNEP tethering), USB networking, Waydroid (Android app compatibility, opt-in). The full, verification-backed table is in STATUS.md, every row says how it was checked, not just a checkmark.

Fixed in this build (worth knowing if you flashed an earlier nightly)

• Fresh-flash first boot could black-screen indefinitely. Root cause: phoc's ~10s session-activation wait can time out under first-boot load, and stock phosh.service's Conflicts=getty@tty1.service permanently blocked its own Restart=always from recovering. Fixed at the source.
• Patched packages (this fix included) could silently revert to upstream stock the moment anything ran apt update after first boot, because the port's own package repository was never actually wired up on the device, only used transiently during the image build. Now permanent.
• Persistent journald (logs survive a crash instead of vanishing with the tmpfs they lived in), faster SSH-over-USB on a fresh flash (no more multi-minute wait on entropy-starved RSA host-key generation).

Known cosmetic/open issues

• No boot animation. The display panel is powered off for the whole window a splash would need (display driver behavior, not a plymouth failure).
• Increasing the display scale (not decreasing) can freeze the compositor with no self-recovery.
• A first-ever camera use on a truly fresh flash can trigger a kernel crash in the ISP driver's registry-scan race. A reboot clears it.
• WiFi hotspot: at least one client (an iPad) failed to connect with a correct password, not yet root-caused.

Full detail on all of these, including workarounds where one exists, is in KNOWN-ISSUES.md linked above.

nightly

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