I have the PRA-LX1 with already unlocked bootloader and got it rooted with TWRP + Magisk before the last OTA.
I'm not a beginner with rooting this phone but only got Problems with installing any Treble Rom (tried Lineage and Aosp) and every try ended with a bootloop I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
So please can anyone give me a step by step instruction?
Which Treble Rom is a good one and recommended for this phone?
Which TWRP do I need?
And how exactly do I flash them correctly? What do I wipe?
Sorry for this noob questions but I failed so many times with Treble and don't want to do the reinstall with erecovery for the 10000 time :crying:
Thanks
Try to install the stock recovery and ramdisk.
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I also have this problem. Wich TWRP works with treble roms? i tryed everything and everytime i get a boot loop.
Please help.
After I flashed a treble gsi, I need to flash stock recovery?
Atiqx said:
After I flashed a treble gsi, I need to flash stock recovery?
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Yes. if u still get bootloop flash stock recovery and ramdisk first then flash gsi. make sure u factory reset on stock recovery after u flash gsi.
ppdr07 said:
Try to install the stock recovery and ramdisk.
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ppdr07 said:
Yes. if u still get bootloop flash stock recovery and ramdisk first then flash gsi. make sure u factory reset on stock recovery after u flash gsi.
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And which TWRP should I use for flashing?.. And how can I flash GSI with stock?
That makes no sense to me sorry
Flash via fsstboot. Stock recovery and ramdisk flash via fastboot. Im not using twrp so idk.
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U can see a tutorial at xda how to flash gsi without twrp. Google it.
ppdr07 said:
Flash via fsstboot. Stock recovery and ramdisk flash via fastboot. Im not using twrp so idk.
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U can see a tutorial at xda how to flash gsi without twrp. Google it.
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I googled it, pretty much every source says that you require a custom recovery in order to flash a GSI or any custom ROM.
XDA XILFY said:
I googled it, pretty much every source says that you require a custom recovery in order to flash a GSI or any custom ROM.
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https://www.xda-developers.com/flash-generic-system-image-project-treble-device/ u will find Flash GSI without TWRP
ppdr07 said:
https://www.xda-developers.com/flash-generic-system-image-project-treble-device/ u will find Flash GSI without TWRP
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Oh, well that's pretty cool. Either way, I just tried flashing Official Resurrection Remix GSI with no luck. Stock recovery, attempted to flash through fastboot and it just gives me a bootloop, exactly like TWRP does. Followed the guide you linked to etc, just keeps rebooting.
XDA XILFY said:
Oh, well that's pretty cool. Either way, I just tried flashing Official Resurrection Remix GSI with no luck. Stock recovery, attempted to flash through fastboot and it just gives me a bootloop, exactly like TWRP does. Followed the guide you linked to etc, just keeps rebooting.
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Go to openkirin.net/download download the rr beta 3
Atiqx said:
I have the PRA-LX1 with already unlocked bootloader and got it rooted with TWRP + Magisk before the last OTA.
I'm not a beginner with rooting this phone but only got Problems with installing any Treble Rom (tried Lineage and Aosp) and every try ended with a bootloop I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
So please can anyone give me a step by step instruction?
Which Treble Rom is a good one and recommended for this phone?
Which TWRP do I need?
And how exactly do I flash them correctly? What do I wipe?
Sorry for this noob questions but I failed so many times with Treble and don't want to do the reinstall with erecovery for the 10000 time :crying:
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Well, I finally got it all working.
You know the risks, don't blame me if something goes wrong, I did these exact steps to manage to root my phone without breaking it. C432, Dual SIM and PRA-LX1.
Have everything stock before following this short guide: Firmware, all stock recovery etc.
Installing the ROM and GApps
First, download necessary GSI files.
(Personally I got Official Oreo Resurrection Remix, here).
(Although you could find yourself using virtually any other GSI, I like the look and feel of RR, though I'll be changing my boot animation with root). Many people would probably recommend you to use something like an AOSP, or LOS which I was also considering on installing. They may also come bundled with GApps, which would negate the later need for installation or download of separate GApps.
This may include GAPPS but you should understand this from the GSI page, so for example on RR I had to download both the latest base ROM .img and the micro GApps.
So to do this I had to use the right architecture (For the P8 Lite 2017, this is ARMx64, do your good research, since my problem was getting this wrong with my PRA-LX1 (Mine was A-ONLY), this stands for the base ROM and GApps.
After this I actually didn't use TWRP as user @ppdr07 advised. I followed the guide he linked us to and did as so, without following the -u command, since it wasn't working for me (didn't affect anything, try it, if it doesn't work, just take that bit out).
The ROM ended up installing and posting through, everything set up perfectly.
After this I was like "Huh, so what now? How am I to flash GApps on this without TWRP?". I went for it and booted into fastboot where I flashed Askuccio's TWRP for hi6250 devices. At this point I worried that the ROM wouldn't post again - though it did, so from there I enabled dev options and switched on advanced power options just for ease of usage. From there I rebooted straight to recovery which posted fine, too.
At this point, you need to flash the GApps. Go for the one that the original GSI page recommends. Flash it to the System Image partition. Don't wipe anything. At this point I recommend that if you realise that you forgot to transfer any files to the SD card, you should do it from the system. It works better compared to the MTP on TWRP. Either way, that should work properly. Now, reboot the system, and it should work perfectly.
Enjoy, it took me months to get to this point lol
Rooting Your New ROM With Magisk
(Before installing this consider the other root options. I believe there's SuperSU and another possibly that I'm less aware of. Either way, in my opinion Magisk comes with the most benefits so I'll be helping you out with that).
After this I ended up flashing Magisk in order to use Snapchat and other apps similar to it. Firstly you'll want to set up Google stuff which has been newly added to the system, and then you'll want to go to chrome and download the Magisk Manager .apk from here. The main and most reliable place to get it is from the creator's project page found here, all main links stand out in the middle fairly well.
(Remember to enable downloading of unknown apps for Chrome in it's app settings, otherwise it won't download or install.)
If it still doesn't work at this point, I ended up holding down on the Magisk Manager link and pressing Download Link (or something to that effect). From this point just install it as you would any other out-of-store app.
Now, you'll need to download these two files from the Magisk page onto your computer: Stable Installer and Uninstaller. Next, while booted into Android, copy them over to either Internal or External storage and when it's done, reboot into TWRP again, either by advanced power menu or using the button commands for recovery. Personally, I think I need the power options with this phone.
In TWRP, simply go to Install, navigate to /externalsd/***[WHEREVER YOU PLACED YOUR MAGISK FILES]***, then install the Magisk installer .zip. If unchanged, the filename should be something like "Magisk-v17.1.zip". Install it, then give rebooting a go. Hopefully it'll post, if not, go back into TWRP and run the Uninstaller .zip, it's saved me a bunch of times.
Unblocking Apps That Say Something Like "Your Phone is Rooted or Modified, no access blah blah blah..."
(Snapchat is the example used here. It won't work upon login if you don't follow this step. Some apps don't work with this alone however, though somebody may have produced a separate guide or easily installable Magisk module with a solution for it. One that won't be fixed singularly with Magisk Hide is Google Pay).
After posting, if you need to unblock Snapchat or something, go to Magisk Manager (which should now be more green), open the top left context menu, tap on Magisk Hide, and search "snap" until you see the Snapchat logo pop up, then select it, then back out with the back button. It should stay selected in Magisk, and the app should now be usable and shouldn't give you any annoying errors, if not give it a reboot and see if it's solved.
Good luck!
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Backup your stock recovery per this post. If you are too lazy, I can upload my backup from .104 build (C432) to Mega.
Download twrp_bkl_0.7.img from this post and place it in same directory with your ADB.
After successful backup as precaution disable any locks like pattern/PIN/password/fingerprint, reboot to bootloader (fastboot):
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
Then flash new TWRP recovery:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp_bkl_0.7.img
After successful flash reboot device and immediately after confirming command below unplug USB cable and HOLD and keep holding VOLUME UP button, if you won't the new recovery will be overwritten by stock and you can try again.
Code:
fastboot reboot
Tested by myself on Honor 10 8.1.0.104 (C432) with unlocked bootloader and installed already Magisk 16.4 with Magisk manager 5.7.0, Magisk ramdisk persisted after installing TWRP recovery, system boots normal.
Next step after unlocking BL, installing Magisk, installing TWRP recovery -> flashing GSI AOSP, LOS or RR. Only reason I bothered with installing TWRP was that GSI image of LOS and RR don't include opengapps, only AOSP does, so without TWRP you can't have opengapps with these two GSI ROMS.
PeterMarkoff said:
Backup your stock recovery per this post. If you are too lazy, I can upload my backup from .104 build (C432) to Mega.
Download twrp_bkl_0.7.img from this post and place it in same directory with your ADB.
After successful backup as precaution disable any locks like pattern/PIN/password/fingerprint, reboot to bootloader (fastboot):
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
Then flash new TWRP recovery:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp_bkl_0.7.img
After successful flash reboot device and immediately after confirming command below unplug USB cable and HOLD and keep holding VOLUME UP button, if you won't the new recovery will be overwritten by stock and you can try again.
Code:
fastboot reboot
Tested by myself on Honor 10 8.1.0.104 (C432) with unlocked bootloader and installed already Magisk 16.4 with Magisk manager 5.7.0, Magisk ramdisk persisted after installing TWRP recovery, system boots normal.
Next step after unlocking BL, installing Magisk, installing TWRP recovery -> flashing GSI AOSP, LOS or RR. Only reason I bothered with installing TWRP was that GSI image of LOS and RR don't include opengapps, only AOSP does, so without TWRP you can't have opengapps with these two GSI ROMS.
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Nice work. ?
tried to install GSI RR OS, but ending in bootloop, also even after resizing system partition to maximum (TWRP / wipe / resize) opengapps still showing error 70 about insufficient space (which makes no sense, so they really seem to have wrong detection of A/B instead of A for Huawei/Honor devices), though these gzr gapps seem to install successfuly, now if I could figure out the damn bootloop
potential reasons for bootloop - previously installed magisk, wiped also system not only data/cache, installed through fastboot while TWRP there and not only stock recovery, ???
edit: i guess will try flash GSI through TWRP again, quite a waste time to wait each time like 9-10 minutes to find out it can't boot
edit 2: so even flashing through TWRP doesn't help, just stuck on android animation for 10 minutes and then it restarts (and even if you do fatory reset through huawei erecovery it doesnt change anything). maybe can try to restore everything and not wipe system before installing, just factory reset through TWRP (though I remember I read somewhere it's not reliable and it is better to do it through system, but I think that one wipe also internal storage which I wanna avoid)? back to rooted EMUI with TWRP for now, don't have time to try various combinations
edit 3: flashing over TWRP backup without wiping system doesn't help, so it seem it's gonna be magisk or replaced stock recovery i guess, otherwise no idea
BTW the lack of feedback here and trying from other users it's very depressing. they boasted million phone sales and i am the only one in the whole world trying to install TWRP and GSI ROM on this phone?
PeterMarkoff said:
BTW the lack of feedback here and trying from other users it's very depressing. they boasted million phone sales and i am the only one in the whole world trying to install TWRP and GSI ROM on this phone?
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Don't be disappointed the lack of feedback from users is not many power users have got their hands on this model.
And also we are having different builds.
From the day one I am trying to rebrand my device but no success .
Once I have rebranded to EU I will try and let you know.
Did you flash open gapps nano package through twrp in gsi image?
Did it give you the same error?
tried just pico opengapps as on all phones i flash, that's the smallest, but always end up with error 70 not enough space despite resized system partition in TWRP and many GB available, the other unofficial GZR zero gapps build i mentioned seem to be flashed successful in TWRP, but in any case no luck with booting
PeterMarkoff said:
tried just pico opengapps as on all phones i flash, that's the smallest, but always end up with error 70 not enough space despite resized system partition in TWRP and many GB available, the other unofficial GZR zero gapps build i mentioned seem to be flashed successful in TWRP, but in any case no luck with booting
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Did you format your phone before trying GSI ?
Try formatting phone and remove some system apps and then flash gapps it will mostly solve the problem.
PeterMarkoff said:
BTW the lack of feedback here and trying from other users it's very depressing. they boasted million phone sales and i am the only one in the whole world trying to install TWRP and GSI ROM on this phone?
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Don't be upset – e.g. I didn't receive my Honor 10 yet. You won't be the only one for sure, you're just the first one to do it, which is super nice for others because it motivates them to do so as well!
Just wondering: does it make a difference for TWRP wether I own the 6gb or 4gb version?
miststudent2011 said:
Did you format your phone before trying GSI ?
Try formatting phone and remove some system apps and then flash gapps it will mostly solve the problem.
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I did factory reset (data, both cache) and also wiped system partition, gapps would be the least issue, as I said that GZR should work, but my system doesn't boot, no matter how times I wipe everything through TWRP or stock recovery after flashing system.img, since they say it's normal to hang at first boot and then wipe and then it should boot, but it doesn't work for me. also of course tried to power off phone since some people said it helps to do it after flashing. what I haven't done it's fastboot -w which should be some better wipe. some people say also you should remove magisk ramdisk, though I forgot to back up original, backed up just stock recovery. and also I haven't tried to flash everything with stock recovery, though first flash I did was through fastboot anyway and not through TWRP and it didn't make difference
so last few things left to try:
- fastboot -w for total wipe of data (better than TWRP? though it should be same as Format data in TWRP which wipe everything including internal storage which I wanna avoid since backing up 15GB TWRP backup file it's kinda annoying and my system has problem to do it)
- flash with stock recovery (I have backup, no big deal)
- remove magisk ramdisk and flash with stock ramdisk (forgot to make backup, can't replace)
though I am tired of it for now, spend last night like 4 hours dealing with it until 2AM and I also need to take care of children
vollkornbaguette said:
Don't be upset – e.g. I didn't receive my Honor 10 yet. You won't be the only one for sure, you're just the first one to do it, which is super nice for others because it motivates them to do so as well!
Just wondering: does it make a difference for TWRP wether I own the 6gb or 4gb version?
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I don't think RAM has something to do with anything, but that sounds like Chinese version since EU has always 4GB and only difference is storage, so you will have different ROM
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so last few things left to try:
- fastboot -w for total wipe of data (better than TWRP?)
- flash with stock recovery (I have backup, no big deal)
- remove magisk ramdisk and flash with stock ramdisk (forgot to make backup, can't replace)
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So I just read more about the GSI/Treble stuff and it said somewhere that modifications like Magisk probably lead to problems with the GSI flash.
Which is why I would try to get rid of the magisk ramdisk first.
I'm not an expert in this at all but maybe this helps.
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I don't think RAM has something to do with anything, but that sounds like Chinese version since EU has always 4GB and only difference is storage, so you will have different ROM
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Indeed I bought the chinese 6gb RAM Version (hope this won't turn out as a big mistake)
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So I just read more about the GSI/Treble stuff and it said somewhere that modifications like Magisk probably lead to problems with the GSI flash.
"Your device is free of any heavy modifications such as the
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yeah, now if someone could extract for me from 0.104 firmware for C432 that stock ramdisk, because I have some problems with mega to download it and I just need the stock ramdisk, nothing else, I have stock recovery backup but forgot to make ramdisk backup
edit: completely forgot there is option to "Completely uninstall" in Magisk manager, so tried it though even after restart with magisk manager missing i could still use root apps, so not sure how exactly this "complete uninstall" works, but anyway giving it a try after this and wiping data, installed system.img again, again wiped, rebooted and as usual loading and loading and nothing, seem can't further continue without copy of stock ramdisk to flash, tried downloading the big update from mega to extract it but it always fail for me to download, same with trying to copy my TWRP backup because for sure ain't gonna doi fastboot -w and setting up everything from scratch in case even this doesn't help, if I knew it works for sure and it will load new system which I will have to set up then no problem, but in this case...
edit 2: tried to replace magisk ramdisk with ramdisk from Honor View 10 BKL09 (same as our working TWRP) but it seem I end up after flashing it, wiping and flashing system.img in TWRP/erecovery bootloop, it's not showing android booting logo like before (but hey at least no need to wait 10 minutes to find it's fail) and either go to huawei ercovery, if I perform factory reset there then it boots to TWRP, but can't boot anywhere else besides these two
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I requested this image. Recovery has been established. When I enter the recovery, it requires a password to decrypt the system partition, I enter it (the same after switching on the phone), but a message is displayed that the password is incorrect. help me please.
told you in OP disable all passwords before flashing
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yeah, now if someone could extract for me from 0.104 firmware for C432 that stock ramdisk, because I have some problems with mega to download it and I just need the stock ramdisk, nothing else, I have stock recovery backup but forgot to make ramdisk backup
edit: completely forgot there is option to "Completely uninstall" in Magisk manager, so tried it though even after restart with magisk manager missing i could still use root apps, so not sure how exactly this "complete uninstall" works, but anyway giving it a try after this and wiping data, installed system.img again, again wiped, rebooted and as usual loading and loading and nothing, seem can't further continue without copy of stock ramdisk to flash, tried downloading the big update from mega to extract it but it always fail for me to download, same with trying to copy my TWRP backup because for sure ain't gonna doi fastboot -w and setting up everything from scratch in case even this doesn't help, if I knew it works for sure and it will load new system which I will have to set up then no problem, but in this case...
edit 2: tried to replace magisk ramdisk with ramdisk from Honor View 10 BKL09 (same as our working TWRP) but it seem I end up after flashing it, wiping and flashing system.img in TWRP/erecovery bootloop, it's not showing android booting logo like before (but hey at least no need to wait 10 minutes to find it's fail) and either go to huawei ercovery, if I perform factory reset there then it boots to TWRP, but can't boot anywhere else besides these two
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If you want, i have all the files of the C432 update but idk in wich .zip, folder the ramdisk is stored.
I can send on several clouds.
PeterMarkoff said:
told you in OP disable all passwords before flashing
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Hey did you restore your device are you still struck at boot screen?
If yes try this method.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p20/development/rebrand-huawei-p20-eml-l29-eml-l09-t3779283
How to GO back to stock emui(India) after i flash a treble rom? Do i need to backup using some tool?
PLease someone tell me
srharshajava said:
PLease someone tell me
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The problem is currently we don't have full
ROM to revert to stock and if we brick our device there is no proper way to revert to stock.
Our model even doesn't have SD card support.
Just wait for some time for someone to provide proper way.
When i flash a treble rom, I have a bootloop. I returned back with eRecovery directly on the phone.
miststudent2011 said:
The problem is currently we don't have full
ROM to revert to stock and if we brick our device there is no proper way to revert to stock.
Our model even doesn't have SD card support.
Just wait for some time for someone to provide proper way.
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We do have a way to download full ROM.
http://pro-teammt.ru/firmware-database/?firmware_model=COL-L29C432
1. Search here for your exact model (change numbers after C432 to find ROM for your phone) and search for your rom version (B104 or B120)
2. Double click on "filelist" on the same row as FullOTA-MF
3. From filelist link menu download update.zip file (it should be really big, like 2+GB)
3. Extract UPDATE.APP file somewhere (eg. Desktop)
4. In settings of HuaweiUpdateExtractor (link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454) uncheck "verify header checksum" and open UPDATE.APP
5. Extract any img (Be it ramdisk.img, ramdisk_recovery.img or system.img) file that you need from UPDATE.APP via HuaweiUpdateExtractor
You just got whoole stock rom and img files that you can flash. Tested by myself with flashing back original ramdisk, ramdisk_recovery and system.img and everything worked well.
The question speaks for itself,I cannot find really any accurate ways to get started because I once tried to install Oreo beta (before official was out) and flashed a Oreo recovery onto Nougat and bricked my phone,and the only way was to use DC Phoenix so for now I have kept my phone on EMUI 8 stock.
So if anyone can tell me the steps to install let's say an Android 8.1 Treble ROM or Android 9 when it gets good as a daily driver,I know that you need to do the following things:
-unlock the bootloader
-install a recovery
-flash a ROM through fastboot or through recovery and after that flash Gapps and a modded version of Magisk
That is pretty self explanatory,but I have seen like that you cannot use TWRP since there is a problem when wiping data and that you need to have Huawei stock recovery and some important things to consider since I see it is pretty easy to brick these phones if you don't follow instructions but since there isn't really clear instructions to do some of these things,I am asking here if anyone can explain to me.
And yes,I do have my bootloader unlock code since as I stated,I tried to do this before.
dinoderda said:
The question speaks for itself,I cannot find really any accurate ways to get started because I once tried to install Oreo beta (before official was out) and flashed a Oreo recovery onto Nougat and bricked my phone,and the only way was to use DC Phoenix so for now I have kept my phone on EMUI 8 stock.
So if anyone can tell me the steps to install let's say an Android 8.1 Treble ROM or Android 9 when it gets good as a daily driver,I know that you need to do the following things:
-unlock the bootloader
-install a recovery
-flash a ROM through fastboot or through recovery and after that flash Gapps and a modded version of Magisk
That is pretty self explanatory,but I have seen like that you cannot use TWRP since there is a problem when wiping data and that you need to have Huawei stock recovery and some important things to consider since I see it is pretty easy to brick these phones if you don't follow instructions but since there isn't really clear instructions to do some of these things,I am asking here if anyone can explain to me.
And yes,I do have my bootloader unlock code since as I stated,I tried to do this before.
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Here is how to do it:
Download the gsi
Open fastboot mode
Flash stock recovery
Boot to recovery and wipe data
Flash The new rom in fastboot
Flash TWRP also
Boot to twrp and flash gapps/magisk etc
Reboot to system
MrViking said:
Here is how to do it:
Download the gsi
Open fastboot mode
Flash stock recovery
Boot to recovery and wipe data
Flash The new rom in fastboot
Flash TWRP also
Boot to twrp and flash gapps/magisk etc
Reboot to system
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What is gsi?
JoanSB1 said:
What is gsi?
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Generic System Image.
MrViking said:
Here is how to do it:
Download the gsi
Open fastboot mode
Flash stock recovery
Boot to recovery and wipe data
Flash The new rom in fastboot
Flash TWRP also
Boot to twrp and flash gapps/magisk etc
Reboot to system
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And if I have downloaded a zipped ROM instead of an GSI,I do the same steps but in TWRP I flash the ROM with the Gapps and Magisk,right?
Also,can I use NoCheckRecovery for Oreo when I need to wipe data instead of stock recovery since I think it would come in handy if I would need to re-flash something through that without Huawei checks and it seems to be easier to find?
And I flash the recoveries to recovery_ramdisk,just to be sure,I know some things did change with Oreo so I am asking?
dinoderda said:
And if I have downloaded a zipped ROM instead of an GSI,I do the same steps but in TWRP I flash the ROM with the Gapps and Magisk,right?
Also,can I use NoCheckRecovery for Oreo when I need to wipe data instead of stock recovery since I think it would come in handy if I would need to re-flash something through that without Huawei checks and it seems to be easier to find?
And I flash the recoveries to recovery_ramdisk,just to be sure,I know some things did change with Oreo so I am asking?
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what rom are you trying to install?
All treble roms come in a .img file not a .zip.
MrViking said:
what rom are you trying to install?
All treble roms come in a .img file not a .zip.
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Oh,I thought Pixel Experience ROM was meant to be installed through recovery,bloody hell pardon me.
Never mind then.
I am gonna wait for Android 9 to get a bit more stable and that official OpenGapps gets released and then I am going to install it.
Thank you very much for helping me!
dinoderda said:
Oh,I thought Pixel Experience ROM was meant to be installed through recovery,bloody hell pardon me.
Never mind then.
I am gonna wait for Android 9 to get a bit more stable and that official OpenGapps gets released and then I am going to install it.
Thank you very much for helping me!
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Thats ok, we all make mistakes lol.
Yeah, a pixel experience 9.0 gsi is coming soon, and these GSI's are pretty stable. If you need any more help you can ask me:good:
MrViking said:
Here is how to do it:
Download the gsi
Open fastboot mode
Flash stock recovery
Boot to recovery and wipe data
Flash The new rom in fastboot
Flash TWRP also
Boot to twrp and flash gapps/magisk etc
Reboot to system
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I did those steps trying to flash RROS6 build BENVENUTI (https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8lite/p8-lite-2017-development/rom-rros-pra-t3774444) and I failed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please help me to install Resurrection Remix! :crying:
JoanSB1 said:
I did those steps trying to flash RROS6 build BENVENUTI (https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8lite/p8-lite-2017-development/rom-rros-pra-t3774444) and I failed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please help me to install Resurrection Remix! :crying:
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What is the exact problem you aee having? Bootloop? Error when trying to flash?
dinoderda said:
What is the exact problem you aee having? Bootloop? Error when trying to flash?
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Error when trying to flash
JoanSB1 said:
Error when trying to flash
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Tell me the steps in order which you did when you were trying to flash the ROM.
dinoderda said:
Tell me the steps in order which you did when you were trying to flash the ROM.
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Ok, it clearly says that that Rom is discontinued, read the last post.
Use a gsi from the treble enabled device development forum and flash it with fastboot (yesyou can use android pie 9.0 gsi's as well as long as they don't say sGSI on it.
MrViking said:
Ok, it clearly says that that Rom is discontinued, read the last post.
Use a gsi from the treble enabled device development forum and flash it with fastboot (yesyou can use android pie 9.0 gsi's as well as long as they don't say sGSI on it.
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Wow, if that ROM is discontinued I'll desist to install it then. So I'll try to install Lineage OS 15.1. You recommend it ? This is the post that I'm seeing https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8...nt/rom-lineageos-15-1-hi6250-devices-t3811583
JoanSB1 said:
Wow, if that ROM is discontinued I'll desist to install it then. So I'll try to install Lineage OS 15.1. You recommend it ? This is the post that I'm seeing https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8...nt/rom-lineageos-15-1-hi6250-devices-t3811583
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Use ones from the treble enabled device forum. You can even use pie, so why not?
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JoanSB1 said:
Wow, if that ROM is discontinued I'll desist to install it then. So I'll try to install Lineage OS 15.1. You recommend it ? This is the post that I'm seeing https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8...nt/rom-lineageos-15-1-hi6250-devices-t3811583
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Here is an android P gsi for this device. It works very well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pr...ce-development/9-0-pixelexperience-p-t3833294
Can I install anything with lock bootloader?
box710 said:
Can I install anything with lock bootloader?
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no
MrViking said:
Use ones from the treble enabled device forum. You can even use pie, so why not?
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Here is an android P gsi for this device. It works very well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pr...ce-development/9-0-pixelexperience-p-t3833294
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Does the USSD code work? is that it is important to me and I do not know a ROM that works
dinoderda said:
Generic System Image.
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Is there a guide to install this I paid DC unlock to get bootloader unlocked but on noughat and cannot find a twrp for noughat:good:
Pie gsi
Hi all,
I have installed Pixel Experience (Oreo) gsi ROM no problem. But if I try to flash any Pie gsi ROM it just goes into a boot loop. I flash system via fastboot and seems OK. Reboot and it just boot loops a few times and goes to the recovery screen that prompts to download and install the standard system.
Has anybody come across this or have any suggestions. I have tried a few different Pie gsi ROMs and same thing happens.
Thanks
Mick
I tried to flash different gsi images and always get bootlop to fastboot mode.
jlorf7 said:
I tried to flash different gsi images and always get bootlop to fastboot mode.
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To flash gsi images, I installed chinese rom then twrp and images have to be a/b not a.
jlorf7 said:
To flash gsi images, I installed chinese rom then twrp and images have to be a/b not a.
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But the treble check shows redmagic 3 has only slot A not A&B.
So how did you do that flashing A/B
Please also post a guide if possible and you have time for the same..
Really appreciate.
Thanks
rajnathr said:
But the treble check shows redmagic 3 has only slot A not A&B.
So how did you do that flashing A/B
Please also post a guide if possible and you have time for the same..
Really appreciate.
Thanks
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I know but with aonly always boot to fastboot mode, check in this it shows ab https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki
I posted a mini guide in another thred: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=80641265
Enviado desde mi NX629J mediante Tapatalk
I know I'm being a jerk here but the thing that I don't own a PC force me to post this here. If anyone can try to install game space and see if it would work. I believe gsi rom is much better than stock rom for our device as I'm using stock global rom and encounter lot of bugs and the only thing that make me happy is game space. Thanks!
Irwan Fauzi said:
I know I'm being a jerk here but the thing that I don't own a PC force me to post this here. If anyone can try to install game space and see if it would work. I believe gsi rom is much better than stock rom for our device as I'm using stock global rom and encounter lot of bugs and the only thing that make me happy is game space. Thanks!
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This Friday hope I will be testing maximum no. of GSI image and will be posting which boots and working better for Redmagic 3 in a separated thread for discussion with the community.
Also will backup such as Game launcher, LED Strip and other important app using titanium backup and will try to install as system to check if they are working or not.
Just flash the Chinese rom then flash TWRP and then go here https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development and pick any rom you want some of them even have GAPPS included
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If you're having trouble with GAPPS follow this steps
1) Boot into TWRP
2) Flash latest GSI img
3) Resize system file system (necessary on my device otherwise gapps will not install)
- Wipe -> Advanced -> select system -> resize file system
4) Flash pico or mini or aroma which ever you want gapps zip
6) Flash magisk zip
7) reboot
every (gsi) rom i've tried so far(various versions of resurrection remix, lineage, android 9 AOSP) has gotten stuck at the boot animation, tried pretty much everything i could think of(with a lot of getting stuck at the bootloader as a result)
for twrp i followed standard guides and the guides posted here, no errors, just gets stuck at the boot animation(i've waited for up to 2 hours to see if it might still continue)
anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?
jenbot said:
every (gsi) rom i've tried so far(various versions of resurrection remix, lineage, android 9 AOSP) has gotten stuck at the boot animation, tried pretty much everything i could think of(with a lot of getting stuck at the bootloader as a result)
for twrp i followed standard guides and the guides posted here, no errors, just gets stuck at the boot animation(i've waited for up to 2 hours to see if it might still continue)
anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?
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Did you try ab version?
jenbot said:
every (gsi) rom i've tried so far(various versions of resurrection remix, lineage, android 9 AOSP) has gotten stuck at the boot animation, tried pretty much everything i could think of(with a lot of getting stuck at the bootloader as a result)
for twrp i followed standard guides and the guides posted here, no errors, just gets stuck at the boot animation(i've waited for up to 2 hours to see if it might still continue)
anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?
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Did you wipe system? Also, wipe data after 1st failed boot. Flash vbmeta ???
Irwan Fauzi said:
Did you try ab version?
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yes
suzook said:
Did you wipe system? Also, wipe data after 1st failed boot. Flash vbmeta ???
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yes, yes and yes
I've successfully installed aosp 9 (phhusson), havoc 2.9 & 3 on my phone.
Here's some step that i take:
1. Install Chinese rom
2. Reboot to stock recovery wipe userdata & cache
3. Install twrp
4. Flash system image from twrp (always use a/b image)
5. Resize filesystem
6. Flash gapps & magisk
The phone should reboot once on the 1st boot and then boot normaly on the 2nd, you will know you've succeeded if the screen become dim at booting. That should take only a couple minutes, not hours. If that didn't happen try to format data from twrp or use different rom (i found that aex didn't work on my phone)
Hope this help :good:
h4cxxc0r3 said:
I've successfully installed aosp 9 (phhusson), havoc 2.9 & 3 on my phone.
Here's some step that i take:
1. Install Chinese rom
2. Reboot to stock recovery wipe userdata & cache
3. Install twrp
4. Flash system image from twrp (always use a/b image)
5. Resize filesystem
6. Flash gapps & magisk
The phone should reboot once on the 1st boot and then boot normaly on the 2nd, you will know you've succeeded if the screen become dim at booting. That should take only a couple minutes, not hours. If that didn't happen try to format data from twrp or use different rom (i found that aex didn't work on my phone)
Hope this help :good:
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Do you mind testing if game space work?
h4cxxc0r3 said:
I've successfully installed aosp 9 (phhusson), havoc 2.9 & 3 on my phone.
Here's some step that i take:
1. Install Chinese rom
2. Reboot to stock recovery wipe userdata & cache
3. Install twrp
4. Flash system image from twrp (always use a/b image)
5. Resize filesystem
6. Flash gapps & magisk
The phone should reboot once on the 1st boot and then boot normaly on the 2nd, you will know you've succeeded if the screen become dim at booting. That should take only a couple minutes, not hours. If that didn't happen try to format data from twrp or use different rom (i found that aex didn't work on my phone)
Hope this help :good:
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Hi. I tried the phhusson 10.0 V203. It worked and it booted. I used ARM64 AB image. Everything was working fine, except i was unable to make any outgoing calls. So i tried to use a different image. After that nothing is working. Even the image that worked the first time doesn't work. It keeps getting stuck in boot loop and going to fastboot. I tried with 4 GSI images, nothing is working.
Irwan Fauzi said:
Do you mind testing if game space work?
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I've reverted my phone back to cn rom soon after because of the strange vibration bug on every single gsi rom i've tested and forgot to take stock rom system dump at that time so i never got any chance to try it.
But i've tried to install gamespaces stuff to my other phone running aex pie with no avail. So, unless anyone know how to mod the app or port the necessary framework stuff from stock into gsi rom I think it will never work.
Maybe some overlay will make it work. i don't know, just guessing.
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vimalrajan1988 said:
Hi. I tried the phhusson 10.0 V203. It worked and it booted. I used ARM64 AB image. Everything was working fine, except i was unable to make any outgoing calls. So i tried to use a different image. After that nothing is working. Even the image that worked the first time doesn't work. It keeps getting stuck in boot loop and going to fastboot. I tried with 4 GSI images, nothing is working.
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If you stuck on fastboot after splash screen (without boot animation) then you have to use the unbrick tool to flash over the system and redo it if you want to. Never reboot without system on this phone or you'll stuck on fastboot.
But if it got bootloop at booting screen and able to enter twrp then you can try to wipe or format data. It happens on my phone too. I don't know if the twrp was buggy or something but yeah just try it back and forth between wiping and formating then it will randomly fixed.
Red magic 3 treble
That's the thing with this phone. Everything is random. I did use the repair tool and flashed the latest global version. But I am unable to flash the gsi again. It keeps getting stuck in fastboot screen. But if I select recovery from fastboot. It does goes to twrp recovery. But nothing after that. I hope someone can make a custom rom with Nubia launcher.
Red magic NEEDS to provide us with fastboot images...We have no real way to recover from a semi brick WTF!
h4cxxc0r3 said:
I've reverted my phone back to cn rom soon after because of the strange vibration bug on every single gsi rom i've tested and forgot to take stock rom system dump at that time so i never got any chance to try it.
But i've tried to install gamespaces stuff to my other phone running aex pie with no avail. So, unless anyone know how to mod the app or port the necessary framework stuff from stock into gsi rom I think it will never work.
Maybe some overlay will make it work. i don't know, just guessing.
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If you stuck on fastboot after splash screen (without boot animation) then you have to use the unbrick tool to flash over the system and redo it if you want to. Never reboot without system on this phone or you'll stuck on fastboot.
But if it got bootloop at booting screen and able to enter twrp then you can try to wipe or format data. It happens on my phone too. I don't know if the twrp was buggy or something but yeah just try it back and forth between wiping and formating then it will randomly fixed.
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I'm on havoc 2.9 right now. I managed to install game space and run it but it doesn't activate fan, so I'm guessing it need permissions and framework files which I don't know it's file name so I just give up on this. But game space does run like normal app. If you are wondering how I install game space, I pull out game space apk from global system.bat.br (after converted it to system.img) and put the apk in system/app using twrp file manager. Maybe someone knowledgeable can figure this out.
Irwan Fauzi said:
I'm on havoc 2.9 right now. I managed to install game space and run it but it doesn't activate fan, so I'm guessing it need permissions and framework files which I don't know it's file name so I just give up on this. But game space does run like normal app. If you are wondering how I install game space, I pull out game space apk from global system.bat.br (after converted it to system.img) and put the apk in system/app using twrp file manager. Maybe someone knowledgeable can figure this out.
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What app did you use to covert the .br file? Trying to make fastboot .IMG files.
suzook said:
What app did you use to covert the .br file? Trying to make fastboot .IMG files.
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I use termux app from play store.. There's a guide on xda how to extract system.dat.br without pc.. link
Since in my last post I made a complete mess out of my first time trying to root my K20 and install lineage I wanted to my make a separate post so that I can list all the steps I need to take to correctly setup my phone how I want it.
What I actually want
A rooted device
Lineage OS
Minimal excess files (A clean Install)
Current Steps
Unlock and flash recovery
Backup
Format Data! (It's important if you come from Miui)
Install Q Firmware + vendor
Install LineageOS followed by gapps
Reboot into system and setup device.
Reboot into recovery and flash magisk
Profit???
Feel free to tell me how stupid I am and what I need to add to the list or steps I should take to make this process better.
I also dont know if its possible to get recovery and rom on android 10 versions.
Thanks
Did these steps not work?
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BJack0 said:
Since in my last post I made a complete mess out of my first time trying to root my K20 and install lineage I wanted to my make a separate post so that I can list all the steps I need to take to correctly setup my phone how I want it.
What I actually want
A rooted device
Lineage OS
Minimal excess files (A clean Install)
Current Steps
Flash a custom recovery
Create a backup
Root???
Install LineageOS
Profit???
Feel free to tell me how stupid I am and what I need to add to the list or steps I should take to make this process better.
Thanks
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1. Unlock and flash recovery
2. Backup
3. Format Data! (It's important if you come from Miui)
4. Install Q Firmware + vendor
5. Install LineageOS followed by gapps
6. Reboot into system and setup device.
7. Reboot into recovery and flash magisk
You could also check LOS thread: Here and here
Remember:
Chinese firmware: Widevine L3 and NFC support
Indian firmware: Widevine L1 but no NFC support
ishaqtkr said:
Did these steps not work?
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They may work as it but I was just wondering if anyone could go into more detail or if there was a better approach and from what Kollachi said there clearly is a better way that what I said.
Since I'm in stock ROM and haven't ever flashed AOSP ROM in this phone I'll just back off lol
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Kollachi said:
1. Unlock and flash recovery
2. Backup
3. Format Data! (It's important if you come from Miui)
4. Install Q Firmware + vendor
5. Install LineageOS followed by gapps
6. Reboot into system and setup device.
7. Reboot into recovery and flash magisk
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I like the details steps but I have a few questions.
(Unlock and flash recovery) From what I can tell there are two recovery's Orange fox and TWRP
(Format data) Just format data or are there other sections I should format/wipe
(Install Q Firmware + Vendor) I have no idea what Q firmware is or what vendor you are referring to
(Install Lineage + gapps) Is there a specific version from the Mi 9T pro since the official site doesn't list it
Any of the two recoveries will work. Q firmware means Android Q. Wile data/cache dalvik that's it. Regarding firmware, there's a clear topic of Lineage OS in K20 Pro forum which is still in unofficially state
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BJack0 said:
I like the details steps but I have a few questions.
(Unlock and flash recovery) From what I can tell there are two recovery's Orange fox and TWRP
(Format data) Just format data or are there other sections I should format/wipe
(Install Q Firmware + Vendor) I have no idea what Q firmware is or what vendor you are referring to
(Install Lineage + gapps) Is there a specific version from the Mi 9T pro since the official site doesn't list it
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1. You can take what you want. Orangefox is based on TWRP.
2. Format data is needed if you come from miui. If you did it you are good to go. But it wouldn't be false to wipe system, dalvic, cache
3.https://downloads.akhilnarang.me/MIUI/raphael/ --> Take 10.4.6.0 or 10.4.8.0 (Android 10 = Q)
4. No there is no specific version.
BJack0 said:
I like the details steps but I have a few questions.
(Unlock and flash recovery) From what I can tell there are two recovery's Orange fox and TWRP
(Format data) Just format data or are there other sections I should format/wipe
(Install Q Firmware + Vendor) I have no idea what Q firmware is or what vendor you are referring to
(Install Lineage + gapps) Is there a specific version from the Mi 9T pro since the official site doesn't list it
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I would recommend the latest TWRP from here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k2...icial-twrp-xiaomi-redmi-t3944363/post79823568
The dev is an official TWRP dev, so this version, or something very close to this, is likely to become official in the future.
OrangeFox is a heavily modified TWRP and has a lot of added functionality specific to MIUI. If you wanted to stay on stock MIUI, but debloat and have root, etc. then OF would be the better choice, as it has functionality that lets it play nicely with MIUI (it can remain installed when OTA updates are installed)
As someone new to flashing on Android, I would suggest downloading a 10.4.x fastboot ROM from the site I pointed to in your other post, then follow the same procedure to flash the ROM.
Make your choice based on Kollachi's info and what's important to you (HD Netflix - choose Indian, or a working NFC - choose Chinese)
However you MUST change the flash option to 'clean all'.
At this point you've got a nice squeaky clean starting point.
Boot into the ROM at least once, though it's not necessary to go through all the setup.
After that follow Kollachi's steps but you can now ignore the step to flash vendor and firmware as it's all part of the fastboot ROM already flashed.
Wipe cache and dalvik, format data.
There is no official LOS for this phone yet. Hopefully it will go official in the future.
For now just get the current Android 10 based LOS from here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/development/rom-lineageos-17-0-t3976469/post80406191
Robbo.5000 said:
I would recommend the latest TWRP from here
The dev is an official TWRP dev, so this version, or something very close to this, is likely to become official in the future.
OrangeFox is a heavily modified TWRP and has a lot of added functionality specific to MIUI. If you wanted to stay on stock MIUI, but debloat and have root, etc. then OF would be the better choice, as it has functionality that lets it play nicely with MIUI (it can remain installed when OTA updates are installed)
As someone new to flashing on Android, I would suggest downloading a 10.4.x fastboot ROM from the site I pointed to in your other post, then follow the same procedure to flash the ROM.
Make your choice based on Kollachi's info and what's important to you (HD Netflix - choose Indian, or a working NFC - choose Chinese)
However you MUST change the flash option to 'clean all'.
At this point you've got a nice squeaky clean starting point.
Boot into the ROM at least once, though it's not necessary to go through all the setup.
After that follow Kollachi's steps but you can now ignore the step to flash vendor and firmware as it's all part of the fastboot ROM already flashed.
Wipe cache and dalvik, format data.
There is no official LOS for this phone yet. Hopefully it will go official in the future.
For now just get the current Android 10 based LOS from here.
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When ever I think I have the process memories and I follow the steps on my screen I still somehow **** this up and I cant understand how.
My current steps include
Flash the fastboot with the ROM that you linked me in my first post
Flash the recovery with TWRP (Every time I have then tried going back into TWRP is failed to work and prompted the original MIUI recovery)
Install the TWRP zip from custom recovery to try and fix the issue above (Only had this work once on orangefox and then never had success again)
So now I try to just flash the recovery and boot to it using CMD and it works fine
Move the lineageOS files from my PC to the phone SDCard
If I wipe data and the caches as suggested then the lineageOS zip is now go and I am back to flashing the fastboot ROM to restart the process
I know this might seem like im either stupid or just not getting it but could you or anyone else please make a bullet pointed list with links to what I have to download in order to actually achieve this since I cant do anything correctly even when trying to follow the steps.
(Im going to sleep since I have been trying to do this for hours now and I will check reply's in the morning.
Thanks for the help so far EVERYONE
BJack0 said:
When ever I think I have the process memories and I follow the steps on my screen I still somehow **** this up and I cant understand how.
My current steps include
Flash the fastboot with the ROM that you linked me in my first post
Flash the recovery with TWRP (Every time I have then tried going back into TWRP is failed to work and prompted the original MIUI recovery)
Install the TWRP zip from custom recovery to try and fix the issue above (Only had this work once on orangefox and then never had success again)
So now I try to just flash the recovery and boot to it using CMD and it works fine
Move the lineageOS files from my PC to the phone SDCard
If I wipe data and the caches as suggested then the lineageOS zip is now go and I am back to flashing the fastboot ROM to restart the process
I know this might seem like im either stupid or just not getting it but could you or anyone else please make a bullet pointed list with links to what I have to download in order to actually achieve this since I cant do anything correctly even when trying to follow the steps.
(Im going to sleep since I have been trying to do this for hours now and I will check reply's in the morning.
Thanks for the help so far EVERYONE
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I just told you what I have done and I'm running it so far without issues.
Robbo just said you should flash the whole Chinese or indian rom but I don't like his steps because:
1. File is much bigger
2. MiFlash is just meh
3. If you forgot to change the flash process you are bricked if you don't take the correct firmware for your phone.
Default option in Miflash is set to "Clean all and lock". Every time you use it, you will need to change it into "clean all" or something other.
Kollachi said:
I just told you what I have done and I'm running it so far without issues.
Robbo just said you should flash the whole Chinese or indian rom but I don't like his steps because:
1. File is much bigger
2. MiFlash is just meh
3. If you forgot to change the flash process you are bricked if you don't take the correct firmware for your phone.
Default option in Miflash is set to "Clean all and lock". Every time you use it, you will need to change it into "clean all" or something other.
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Yes flashing the whole fastboot ROM does add the risk, if you forget to change the flash option, but you are guaranteed a clean slate and so less likely to have any niggling issues that nobody else has. I would bet large sums of money that many of the issues you see on here, where only one person has some problem and everyone else is fine, would be solved by fastboot flashing MIUI before installing the ROM of choice.
If you know what you're doing and know when you'll be OK with what you've got and know when it's best to start clean, then going with the vendor and firmware is easier.
But if your unsure and new to flashing on Android phones, I will always suggest go with the overkill and know you've got the clean slate to start with.
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BJack0 said:
When ever I think I have the process memories and I follow the steps on my screen I still somehow **** this up and I cant understand how.
My current steps include
Flash the fastboot with the ROM that you linked me in my first post
Flash the recovery with TWRP (Every time I have then tried going back into TWRP is failed to work and prompted the original MIUI recovery)
Install the TWRP zip from custom recovery to try and fix the issue above (Only had this work once on orangefox and then never had success again)
So now I try to just flash the recovery and boot to it using CMD and it works fine
Move the lineageOS files from my PC to the phone SDCard
If I wipe data and the caches as suggested then the lineageOS zip is now go and I am back to flashing the fastboot ROM to restart the process
I know this might seem like im either stupid or just not getting it but could you or anyone else please make a bullet pointed list with links to what I have to download in order to actually achieve this since I cant do anything correctly even when trying to follow the steps.
(Im going to sleep since I have been trying to do this for hours now and I will check reply's in the morning.
Thanks for the help so far EVERYONE
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It's sounds like the main issue is stock recovery is being restored. This is something that MIUI will do when it boots up.
When you first install TWRP you cannot boot into MIUI before booting to TWRP as you instantly lose TWRP. So you need to boot into TWRP first in order to do something to prevent it being overwritten.
Options are
1
Code:
fastboot boot TWRP.img
2 Use the button combo whilst still in fastboot - power and vol+, hold both until the phone vibrates and the initial logo appears.
Now to keep TWRP you need to either flash a custom ROM, flash Magisk or flash the dm-verity script.
In your case you want to flash LOS, so now you've booted into TWRP go ahead and continue with the steps given.
Also, wait until after you've formatted data before copying everything over. You can access the phone as an MTP device when in TWRP, so you'll be able to connect it to a PC and drag everything across, or you can stick everything on a USB OTG pen, if you have one, TWRP can read data from them too.
It's sounds like the main issue is stock recovery is being restored. This is something that MIUI will do when it boots up.
When you first install TWRP you cannot boot into MIUI before booting to TWRP as you instantly lose TWRP. So you need to boot into TWRP first in order to do something to prevent it being overwritten.
Options are
1
Code:
fastboot boot TWRP.img
2 Use the button combo whilst still in fastboot - power and vol+, hold both until the phone vibrates and the initial logo appears.
Now to keep TWRP you need to either flash a custom ROM, flash Magisk or flash the dm-verity script.
In your case you want to flash LOS, so now you've booted into TWRP go ahead and continue with the steps given.
Also, wait until after you've formatted data before copying everything over. You can access the phone as an MTP device when in TWRP, so you'll be able to connect it to a PC and drag everything across, or you can stick everything on a USB OTG pen, if you have one, TWRP can read data from them too.
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The exact problem I have is that I cant transfer any files to the device after formatting the data. I follow the steps correctly and I get into TWRP successfully and then everyone has told me to format the data then install lineage but I cant install the OS if formatting the data removes it.
Get device into fastboot
Flash revocery with TWRP
power the device off
hold volume up and power
boot into custom recovery
format data
move lineageOS onto my device
install lineageOS
reboot
done.
This is the list of exact actions I am doing with no results is there something I am missing or something that is in the wrong order.
BJack0 said:
The exact problem I have is that I cant transfer any files to the device after formatting the data. I follow the steps correctly and I get into TWRP successfully and then everyone has told me to format the data then install lineage but I cant install the OS if formatting the data removes it.
Get device into fastboot
Flash revocery with TWRP
power the device off
hold volume up and power
boot into custom recovery
format data
move lineageOS onto my device
install lineageOS
reboot
done.
This is the list of exact actions I am doing with no results is there something I am missing or something that is in the wrong order.
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You connect your phone to computer while in recovery to transfer the OS zip
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BJack0 said:
The exact problem I have is that I cant transfer any files to the device after formatting the data. I follow the steps correctly and I get into TWRP successfully and then everyone has told me to format the data then install lineage but I cant install the OS if formatting the data removes it.
Get device into fastboot
Flash revocery with TWRP
power the device off
hold volume up and power
boot into custom recovery
format data
move lineageOS onto my device
install lineageOS
reboot
done.
This is the list of exact actions I am doing with no results is there something I am missing or something that is in the wrong order.
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After format data, reboot your device into recovery again and transfer LOS, gapps and all files you need.
Format data kills the storage.
I always used to reboot from TWRP back in to TWRP after formatting data, but I've recently seen someone saying that they just unmount data then remount it again. I haven't tried it myself but it certainly makes sense and would be quicker too.
Robbo.5000 said:
I always used to reboot from TWRP back in to TWRP after formatting data, but I've recently seen someone saying that they just unmount data then remount it again. I haven't tried it myself but it certainly makes sense and would be quicker too.
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Yes I did that and it worked, unmounting and remounting helps detect the storage in PC
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Robbo.5000 said:
I always used to reboot from TWRP back in to TWRP after formatting data, but I've recently seen someone saying that they just unmount data then remount it again. I haven't tried it myself but it certainly makes sense and would be quicker too.
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Yes that works. Tried it myself but prefer to reboot into recovery again.:laugh:
Finally Successful
After a long post I have finally finished the process successfully. This was pretty educational for me since I didn't understand any of this at the start I would like to thank everyone who reply's and all the information that you have provided.
need help guys, i stuck in bootloop.
- fastboot rom global china V10.3.17.0 PFKCNXM
- fastboot twrp 3.3.1
- format data
- flash vendor image cn 10.4.6.0
- wipe cache/dalvik
- flash lineage os
- flash gapps nano
- reboot
- stuck bootloop
I decided to upgrade to the G9+ after finding a LineageOS ROM for the phone. Root via TWRP & Magisk worked without a hitch. Then I installed the LineageOS 18.1 ROM from here: https://www.getdroidtips.com/lineage-os-18-1-moto-g9-plus/
Next I went to install GApps via the Aroma setup, but found that TWRP was gone. There was some limited recovery from the ROM installation which didn't seem to be of any use, so I reflashed TWRP & then Magisk, but I didn't get root back.
The phone now has a working version of LineageOS, but I can't even get the Google crap I need.
When I try to flash something via TWRP I get an error saying there was a "Zip signature verification failure", so I can't even get back to stock ROM to try again. (I guess this error is related to not having root.)
(I installed TWRP & Magisk on another G9+ with stock ROM and everything seems as expected. The phone is rooted. I just want to get rid off all the Google software I can.)
Anyone got an idea how I can get root back?
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And any reason why "ADB devices" doesn't list the attached phone? "Fastboot devices" works fine.
Have u tested lineage, is
everything working fine?
UsmanQ said:
Have u tested lineage, is
everything working fine?
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Everything seems to be there, seems normal. Except root.
doktorspin said:
Everything seems to be there, seems normal. Except root.
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doktorspin said:
Everything seems to be there, seems normal. Except root.
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Have u tried superoot or something else instead of magisk?
Sapper Morton said:
The ROM that you're using is not meant to be daily driven, Erfan compiled that for experimental purposes, but that aside, there's a few things that you should take in consideration when using Lineage; It's not meant to be used with TWRP, that's why they ship their own recovery (Lineage Recovery). It's still possible to flash custom files with it (That doesn't match their original signature), you just need to skip a warning.
For Magisk, download the latest stable build from here: Download
(The .apk has the flashing script built-in, so just rename that to .zip).
One major difference from TWRP, is that Lineage Recovery doesn't support decrypting userdata, so the files must be flashed using ADB or USB OTG.
Use ADB Sideload as follows:adb sideload magisk.zip
As for me, I didn't unlocked my device yet, so if you could confirm me something: I need to know if I will lose my DRM certification, used for Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and such.
Download Castro from Play Store, go to the DRM tab, and check the Widevine status, tell me if it remains L1, or if it downgraded to L3. That's what's holding me back from testing, or even compiling for this device.
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Thanks for the response.
1. I'm using the Github Magisk 23.
2. Lineage Recovery is gone. I reflashed TWRP.
3. Attempting to use "ADB sideload Magisk-v23.0.zip" ADB responds "cannot read 'Magisk-v23.0.zip'"
4. I haven't got Play Store on the phone as I can't flash the aroma package (1.7GB) via TWRP.
UsmanQ said:
Have u tried superoot or something else instead of magisk?
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I don't know anything about the other methods for getting root. I've always used Magisk.
(I'm working under the idea that as TWRP + Magisk works fine on one phone, they aren't the problem.)
Sapper Morton said:
The idea is to rollback to Lineage Recovery, you can even flash only the boot.img that it's inside the ROM flashable file, instead of reflashing the whole thing again. It's probably in payload.bin format, so you'll need a payload firmware extractor (Easily found on GitHub), in case you choose the first option.
• Aroma is not supported on Lineage Recovery, so I would recommend something smaller, like OpenGapps nano or stock.
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<rant>
What sort of idiots build in a crap recovery when one has obviously already installed a functional recovery, needed in the process of gaining root and installing LineasgeOS? This unnecessary included recovery wasn't in previous versions of LOS I've used.
Yes, this is an unpleasant surprise and I'm ticked off. I'm an end user who wants a relatively de-Googled phone, but now to maybe get a functional recovery I have to extract stuff from a payload file, but to do that I have to install more crud so that I can run the tool that does the extracting.
And I need Aroma to be able to select what I must have from Google. My partner needs their voice tech. I could dump almost everything else and use Pico. </rant> Sorry.
Is there no way to wipe the slate clean, get rid of this Lineage, and start again?
(I don't understand how installing their recovery could ruin the functionality of another recovery.)
Sapper Morton said:
Download Castro from Play Store, go to the DRM tab, and check the Widevine status, tell me if it remains L1, or if it downgraded to L3. That's what's holding me back from testing, or even compiling for this device.
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On the second G9+ which I rooted but left the stock ROM, I installed Castro and it indicates L3.
doktorspin said:
I decided to upgrade to the G9+ after finding a LineageOS ROM for the phone. Root via TWRP & Magisk worked without a hitch. Then I installed the LineageOS 18.1 ROM from here: https://www.getdroidtips.com/lineage-os-18-1-moto-g9-plus/
Next I went to install GApps via the Aroma setup, but found that TWRP was gone. There was some limited recovery from the ROM installation which didn't seem to be of any use, so I reflashed TWRP & then Magisk, but I didn't get root back.
The phone now has a working version of LineageOS, but I can't even get the Google crap I need.
When I try to flash something via TWRP I get an error saying there was a "Zip signature verification failure", so I can't even get back to stock ROM to try again. (I guess this error is related to not having root.)
(I installed TWRP & Magisk on another G9+ with stock ROM and everything seems as expected. The phone is rooted. I just want to get rid off all the Google software I can.)
Anyone got an idea how I can get root back?
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And any reason why "ADB devices" doesn't list the attached phone? "Fastboot devices" works fine.
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Lineage is working fine, some details that will be fixed when releasing the new kernel
There is a method to root with magisk by patching the ramdisk its a way better rooting method then with twrp in fact magisk dev recommends this way of rooting if you have not tried this here is a magisk official link https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
Hope This helped you bro
The ROM in the O.P. works.
Folks, I actually made a number of mistakes in this process.
The major one was to muff the fastboot command for flashing TWRP. I had followed instructions which said to boot TWRP, which didn't install TWRP, just loaded it into phone memory. But...
The ROM cited in the O.P. doesn't seem to have any problems that I have noticed in my usage, which is basically as a hand computer, not as a phone.
LineageOS now overwrites recovery with its own recovery, which is pretty moronic, because the user has already had to install a recovery to root the device.
But fortunately, if you have your ADB/fastboot apps handy with TWRP in the same folder it's an easy fix.
You should already have this stuff, but use the following software:
sebastian3367HD has provided TWRP for G9+ users onsight here. I'll assume it's called "twrp.img".
Magisk-v23 here -- put it somewhere easy on your phone.
Also get GApps 11. I used core NikGapps here, select latest date, then the version of GApps you want. (The core version 82MB just gives you Play Store & support software.) Put it the same place on the phone you put Magisk.
Assuming you've flashed the O.P. LineageOS ROM, which overwrites trusty TWRP, put your phone in fastboot mode, either using
1. power button + volume down
until you get the droid image on its back, or get there with your phone on, sending
2. adb reboot bootloader
via the windows command shell.
You're now in fastboot mode. You can now flash TWRP back onto the phone. Note that the phone has two slots of memory, so that the phone can hold two operating systems. If you send
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
it will be flashed to the current slot, either A or B. To be safe you should flash both:
fastboot flash recovery_a twrp.img
fastboot flash recovery_b twrp.img
That gives you the safety of having TWRP in both slots. (Incidentally, TWRP allows you to changes slots.) (Also remember if you reflash LineageOS you'll have to put TWRP back on if you want a decent recovery program.)
Use TRWP to Reboot to Recovery.
Now install Magisk using TWRP:
Spoiler: (You know this)
a) choose Install
b) if the bottom right button says Install Zip press it and it will change to Install Image
c) if you put Magisk on your external SD card Select Storage to choose the SD
d) find and select Magisk-v23.0.apk, then
e) swipe to flash.
Then install GApps, basically the same as for Magisk.
Reboot to System. You should be rooted now and should have Play Store (and whatever else you opted for).
M.Akram said:
There is a method to root with magisk by patching the ramdisk its a way better rooting method then with twrp in fact magisk dev recommends this way of rooting if you have not tried this here is a magisk official link https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
Hope This helped you bro
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Thanks for the info. My problem was simple to fix, using the right commands!
I haven't installed that rom because afaik the source tree isn't available anywhere which seems kind of fishy, if anyone knows where they are please let us know