Official Vs Unofficial? Whats the difference? - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I look through the Dev forum here and I see a host of lollipop builds, some claiming to be official, some claiming to be unofficial, most seem to be derivative of CM12.
So Just what is the difference between an Official ROM and an Unofficial ROM?
Surely the only "Official" CM12 ROM is from https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=t0lte (for the n7105)?

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LineageOS official vs unofficial?

I see that there are no official Albus version of LineageOS. Does anyone know why?
What's the difference between official and unofficial builds? Why doesn't LOS just take the unofficial build available here and add them to their official builds?
Sorry I'm a little confused (and disappointed that LOS doesn't seem interested in Motorola's latest devices... Which could only be me misunderstanding how it works)
Well, it's a mess to completely explain this but I don't have anything else to do.
When we are talking about unoffucial builds, they are more likely to get bugs and stuff like that because "developer" is still working in it for fixing bugs of the device tree and all that things.
Once the ROM is official, basically the only difference is that you can have OTA updates by the official updater of the ROM or download the software from the official website (download.lineageos.org) and you may have less bugs because the ROM has to meet certain requirements to be an official one.
LineageOS isn't the one who works for the devices, it depends on the developers that buy that device to work on it. Lineage only provides the main source and support for certain devices with high end specs.
And finally, there's no official LineageOS for our phone because it's still too alpha for it.

Any Oreo ROMS?

Any oreo roms for the SGH-T999?
there is no oreo rom until now the official lineageos stop maintain this device you can ask the developer who makes unofficial rom to make it on this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...lineage-14-1-unoficial-d2tmo-4-10-18-t3776477
ti think there is some problems on camera on some devices but i dont know if this device has same problem

Lineage unofficial vs official?

Could anyone explain the difference between the CheeseburgerDumplings roms (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cheeseburgerdumplings/files/15.1/dumpling/) and roms in the official Lineage distribution?

Why there is no Oxygen OS unnoficial rom for our OP3T ?

Hello guys,
There is a lot of customs roms for our OP3T but why there is no Oxygen OS roms unnoficial (based on the latest OOS build) for our OP3T, since OOS is a very good os, i don't understand.
It's not possible ?
Thanks guys
There are OOS based ROMs such as theOne3OS, Experience etc. They have mostly been debloated versions of the official ROM with some baked-in enhancements like Magisk modules. There are no OOS ROMs based on Android 10 AFAIK. Not sure how difficult it is to port stable official Android 10 ROMs from other OnePlus devices.
Nixeus2 said:
Hello guys,
There is a lot of customs roms for our OP3T but why there is no Oxygen OS roms unnoficial (based on the latest OOS build) for our OP3T, since OOS is a very good os, i don't understand.
It's not possible ?
Thanks guys
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OOS is closed source - nobody (but OnePlus) has source code for. The non-OOS custom roms are source build (aosp and caf open source based). The OOS based roms are just repacks of the original OOS. OOS is no longer supported for op3/t - after OOS 9.0.6 there is nothing to repack.
Like the others said repacks are availible, if you want to try to run a newer oxygen os version than is officially availible you have the biggest chance with the unofficial gsi support route and a oxygenos gsi rom. But i don't expect it to work well so only do it if you enjoy tinkering with your phone and are an experienced flasher who has the neccesary backups.
OneUi is closed source too.
Why have old galaxy phones OneUi-costum rom from new galaxy Devices?
Keyvannn said:
OneUi is closed source too.
Why have old galaxy phones OneUi-costum rom from new galaxy Devices?
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Hard to say on this general basis. Maybe gsi.
I suggest you read the threads of such roms and ask the dev if those threads doesn't answer your question.
Then you can do the same for oos. I'm sure many people will appriciate your work.

Difference between unofficial and official custom rom releases ? (example: LOS 17.1)

Hi, I'd like to know the difference between unofficial and official custom rom releases.
1) What is the difference between an official release and an unofficial release? Is there any difference in their updating process?
2) Can you explain me the process of birth of an official release since the source code release? How an official releaser is chosen? For example LOS 17 doesn't have an official build yet, is one year after its first release. Why?
3) Almost any other oneplus smartphone got 17.1 but 5T not. Why? Is it less supported by community?
Any additional explanation will be very useful and appreciated.

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