Will there ever be custom ROMs for the S7 FE?
Is there something certain holding devs back from making one?
Just curious.
I don't know but you can easily flash GSI now. Also I am wondering if S pen is working with GSI...
Incomtus said:
I don't know but you can easily flash GSI now. Also I am wondering if S pen is working with GSI...
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I've tried dual boot Pixel Experience 13 GSI using DSU Sideloader. It works great. Got UI bugs like the taskbar is cropped, the Settings app is not dual pane.
The S Pen works. if you hover the pen a mouse icon appear. Buttons on the S Pen seems cannot do anything.
Overall the GSI feels very snappy but you will lose some function like protect battery, Dex, S Pen features, better multitasking/multi-windows experience, etc.
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I've tried dual boot Pixel Experience 13 GSI using DSU Sideloader. It works great. Got UI bugs like the taskbar is cropped, the Settings app is not dual pane.
The S Pen works. if you hover the pen a mouse icon appear. Buttons on the S Pen seems cannot do anything.
Overall the GSI feels very snappy but you will lose some function like protect battery, Dex, S Pen features, better multitasking/multi-windows experience, etc.
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Hello thanks for your answer, dsu sideloader is working here? I don't see the option in the developer settings, you used the app on GitHub?
Yes i use DSU Sideloader app on the github. No root needed but bootloader must be unlocked
GitHub - VegaBobo/DSU-Sideloader: A simple app made to help users easily install GSIs via DSU's Android feature.
A simple app made to help users easily install GSIs via DSU's Android feature. - GitHub - VegaBobo/DSU-Sideloader: A simple app made to help users easily install GSIs via DSU's Android feat...
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It's super cheap on Amazon right now. Hopefully the cheap price can be an appeal enough that releasing a custom ROM is worth it.
I'm no developer, but if you want your Samsung tablet to run AOSP like a Pixel, check out my guide here.
Otherwise, you can install GSIs from LineageOS, PHHTreble, or other projects.
Until ROMS can preserve some OEM capabilities it will be a ways off before custom ROMs are in high enough demand for this device. Sort of like Sony and how rooting can make you lose access to certain camera functions (if I recall).
V0latyle said:
I'm no developer, but if you want your Samsung tablet to run AOSP like a Pixel, check out my guide here.
Otherwise, you can install GSIs from LineageOS, PHHTreble, or other projects.
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we would need a stable twrp for this, aren't we? :S
Incomtus said:
I don't know but you can easily flash GSI now. Also I am wondering if S pen is working with GSI...
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Hi my bro. how to flash GSI?
billy996 said:
Hi my bro. how to flash GSI?
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Hi!
First you have to unlock the bootloader (IT WILL ERASE ALL USER DATA) (method for maybe all Samsung device) by deactivated OEM LOCK in développement options,
then shutting down tablet and press both vol + and - while you plug the usb cable.
You LL see a warning green screen and you LL be able to unlock the bootloader.
After that I don't know if there is a TWRP recovery for that tablet but if there is one, you could flash it with Odin and then flash GSI.
If there is no TWRP, I think you can flash GSI but I don't know the method att all ..... Maybe take a look on internet "how flash GSI with Odin"?
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Hi!
First you have to unlock the bootloader (IT WILL ERASE ALL USER DATA) (method for maybe all Samsung device) by deactivated OEM LOCK in développement options,
then shutting down tablet and press both vol + and - while you plug the usb cable.
You LL see a warning green screen and you LL be able to unlock the bootloader.
After that I don't know if there is a TWRP recovery for that tablet but if there is one, you could flash it with Odin and then flash GSI.
If there is no TWRP, I think you can flash GSI but I don't know the method att all ..... Maybe take a look on internet "how flash GSI with Odin"?
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There is an other solution with DSU SIDELOADER but it will just a make a partition with original ROM, and the GSI one.
Bootloader must also be unlocked
Don't hesitate to ask if you don't know what what I am talking about
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we would need a stable twrp for this, aren't we? :S
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Not necessarily, you can patch the stock recovery to accept fastboot commands with this
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I extracted the recovery.img.lz4 from AP of the Stock firmware, and then tried to patch the recovery.img.lz4 with that script, but the patching failed, and I couldn't find the reason for the error.
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You'd have to contact the developer of the script
I've flashed the GSI into the S7 FE and it feels great.
billy996 said:
I've flashed the GSI into the S7 FE and it feels great.
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which GSI?
lukeprokopec said:
which GSI?
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Lineage A13 GSI
billy996 said:
Lineage A13 GSI
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First of all, there are several LOS 20 GSI ROMs. Can you give a link to the one you used. And how did you flash it without fastboot? AFAIK, there is no TWRP except for the SM-T735.
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Hey guys i know the Pixel Experience rom has been released for a long time, more information about this Pixel Experience rom https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development/8-1-0-pixel-experience-t3796011
but unfortunately we could not boot on nokia devices after we flashed this rom
Congratulations that bootloop problem has been solved right now, we are not tired to flash roms
DOWNLOAD TWRP https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-e7zNrXp_mi468h-Zu1X5gbwQtgE17I6
follow these steps
1: unlock your bootloader
thank for @hikari_calyx
2: erase data/factory reset
3: connect your computer with adb and flash any roms based on project preble ( AOSP or RR )(why this step ? my friend told me that this twrp has a bug which can't boot recovery on official firmware)
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
4: flash this TWRP supported project treble with
Code:
fastboot flash boot_a TWRP.img
Code:
fastboot flash boot_b TWRP.img
5: boot into the twrp
6: extract rom image from PE zip and download Magisk-v16.6.zip, after that move them to Internal Storage
7: format data and flash the Pixel Experience image, choose "System image" Notice: Don't do a reboot before flash Magisk.zip
8: flash the magisk.zip
9: wipe all data and reboot. Done !
Notice: you may see Your Device Is Uncertified when you intend to login Google on this device
Just Do This
Download and install Device ID.apk
copy your Google Service Framework ID
fill your GSF ID on this web and Clink on REGISTER
reboot some times you will be able to use google apps
btw all project treble roms do not include Adaptive brightness and Ambient display
fix them at here https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development/overlay-enable-night-light-adaptive-t3741965
I'm on this rom for three days and every things go fine unless fingerprint control bug (that means you can control your phone easily with fingerprint)
thanks for viewing, sorry for my english is poor but I've been improving it, I wrote this GUIDE without translate tool
thanks for every member which develop the project treble rom and TWRP and something else
some amazing screenshots
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什么？哪一个镜像不加载？
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什么？哪一个镜像不加载？
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我這邊圖片一個都加載不出來
I have a Little problem at step one ._.
No way to unlock BL?
Why is the TWRP upload locked behind a google drive link that you need to request access for?
pitt93 said:
I have a Little problem at step one ._.
No way to unlock BL?
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there is a way. but you need to pay.
donjamal said:
there is a way. but you need to pay.
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Do they accept ETH/BTC?
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Do they accept ETH/BTC?
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i have no idea. i don't think so, you need to ask them. it's 5 dollars, they for sure accept paypal
Has anyone flashed this yet? This thread was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and I unlocked my bootloader today.
Now just waiting to hear if anyone other than the op has been successful with this guide.
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Why is the TWRP upload locked behind a google drive link that you need to request access for?
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I don't know why. ? Maybe it is shared right now
Doktaphex said:
Has anyone flashed this yet? This thread was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and I unlocked my bootloader today.
Now just waiting to hear if anyone other than the op has been successful with this guide.
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Trust me dude ,it works fine I and my Chinese friends tested this guide on Nokia 7 plus and Nokia 7
And there is anotber guide to flash pixel experience rom, but that mode is complex and sometimes does not work
1452686579 said:
Trust me dude ,it works fine I and my Chinese friends tested this guide on Nokia 7 plus and Nokia 7
And there is anotber guide to flash pixel experience rom, but that mode is complex and sometimes does not work
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It might take me a couple of days as I am quite busy at the moment.
Thank you for your development for the Nokia 7 plus. Really appreciated.
Well, I installed the system image, but now my SIM is not recognized.
I will go through setup and see if the SIM works afterwards?
EDIT: No IMEI on SIM slot 1, there is an IMEI on slot 2 but this slot also does not work.
And of course, I did not do a backup of my working system. (You'd think I would have learned by now, but NO )
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Well, I installed the system image, but now my SIM is not recognized.
I will go through setup and see if the SIM works afterwards?
EDIT: No IMEI on SIM slot 1, there is an IMEI on slot 2 but this slot also does not work.
And of course, I did not do a backup of my working system. (You'd think I would have learned by now, but NO )
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LOL always do backup man, i learned the hard way Please update if you got sim 1 to work!
sublimeace said:
LOL always do backup man, i learned the hard way Please update if you got sim 1 to work!
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I got my entire system back up and running using the July patched boot image flashed into boot a and b and then sideloaded rollback zip etc, etc....
In general I have found that when I get my self into these situations, if I actually have a back up it ends up failing anyway.
It's always more fun walking the tightrope.
Anyway, both SIM slots are fine on stock ROM rooted with magisk, xposed etc.
I won't be flashing any treble images until I hear more success stories in that respect, I feel that our twrp still has some kinks that need to be ironed out.
9: wipe all data and reboot. Done ! you mean factory reset?
donjamal said:
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so, no way
Has anyone tried the Android 11 dp1 gsi on there Google pixel? I'm going to try later but thought would ask here 1st.
ttocs99 said:
Has anyone tried the Android 11 dp1 gsi on there Google pixel? I'm going to try later but thought would ask here 1st.
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Yeah, I have. System partition isn't big enough for it, we'd need to resize it with like fdisk or something.
Voltz100999 said:
Yeah, I have. System partition isn't big enough for it, we'd need to resize it with like fdisk or something.
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Besides partition resizing and flashing GSI (as described on official developer website), is there any other steps required for it to boot successfully?
I've tried flashing the smaller official GSI without GMS, but it is not booting at all. Can't figure out the cause yet.
I even repartioned my phone and can't get any GSI working. Someone did open a ticket with phhusson here however:
github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1161
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Besides partition resizing and flashing GSI (as described on official developer website), is there any other steps required for it to boot successfully?
I've tried flashing the smaller official GSI without GMS, but it is not booting at all. Can't figure out the cause yet.
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Yeah no, it doesn't boot for me either, I think it might be an AVB issue but i'm not certain of that.
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Yeah no, it doesn't boot for me either, I think it might be an AVB issue but i'm not certain of that.
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AVB should not bother on Pixel 1 if bootloader is unlocked, especially if any custom ROM can be flashed without problem. I think it's probably SELinux-related issue, maybe set to permissive could help. (I've not tried)
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AVB should not bother on Pixel 1 if bootloader is unlocked, especially if any custom ROM can be flashed without problem. I think it's probably SELinux-related issue, maybe set to permissive could help. (I've not tried)
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Interesting, though I don't know how we would set SELinux to permissive without booting first, maybe we'd need a kernel to set it for us? I dunno, this whole thing is really confusing.
Yeah so much for Google phones and universal treble support LOL
Pathetic
Flipz77 said:
Yeah so much for Google phones and universal treble support LOL
Pathetic
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Can't argue with that, but it wont help us figure out how to get this working.
Clue
Here's a clue:
According to this certain audio libraries are needed to boot the quack GSI so maybe its the same for 11?
github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1196
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Here's a clue:
According to this certain audio libraries are needed to boot the quack GSI so maybe its the same for 11?
github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1196
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I gave that a look and even tried it, its missing the libeffectsconfig.so file, yet I couldn't add it because /system is not mountable in twrp. We need another way.
Google has released the final build for android 11, will there be a port for the Pixel?
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I was wondering if anyone knew about the partition schemes and whether there is enough room on the boot image to install custom recovery on the P4a?
The Pixel 3A did not have enough room on the RAM disk on the boot image. So installing TWRP, even a stripped down version compressed, on the P3a was a no-go.
Custom recovery was not necessary on the P3a. Just having and unlocked bootloader and root via Magisk gives a lot of options including custom ROMs.
However, I'm still curious if custom recovery will ever come to the P4a?
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I was wondering if anyone knew about the partition schemes and whether there is enough room on the boot image to install custom recovery on the P4a?
The Pixel 3A did not have enough room on the RAM disk on the boot image. So installing TWRP, even a stripped down version compressed, on the P3a was a no-go.
Custom recovery was not necessary on the P3a. Just having and unlocked bootloader and root via Magisk gives a lot of options including custom ROMs.
However, I'm still curious if custom recovery will ever come to the P4a?
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LMAO. Give it up. We're going to be on 11. Good night
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LMAO. Give it up. We're going to be on 11. Good night
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Not everyone will move to 11 right away if thet can get TWRP working on A10 first.
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Not everyone will move to 11 right away if thet can get TWRP working on A10 first.
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Good luck my friend. Stay on 10
We don't even have kernel source yet..
I don't think there was twrp for a pixel for a couple years was there? Pixel 2? And that didn't get past rc I don't think.
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LMAO. Give it up. We're going to be on 11. Good night
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Thanks! As I said TWRP has not been needed and I was just curious.
However I did enjoy your insecure condescending attitude. It made me LMAO.
Again, thanks! ??
dmb219 said:
I don't think there was twrp for a pixel for a couple years was there? Pixel 2? And that didn't get past rc I don't think.
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I know, it looks like TWRP has been doing a long slow death spiral.
We have TWRP on Android 10 for the Pixel C tablet. But of course among other things, there's no A/B partitions and Google abandoned support for the device a while ago.
Might be a while, pixel 3+ devices haven't had a 100% working TWRP for a long time.
They can still sideload ROMs and patch boot images with adb/fastboot
I'll miss this moving on from my 2xl. Nice to flash and update things without needing a PC
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Good luck my friend. Stay on 10
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I will until there is EdXposed for 11 + module updates.
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I will until there is EdXposed for 11 + module updates.
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Yucky
Someone correct me if I am wrong but there are no factory images yet for the 4a so no rooting with Magisk until then?
Is it at least possible to unlock the bootloader right away? Is that just standard fastboot ADB procedure or is there something Pixel specific(first one)
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Is it at least possible to unlock the bootloader right away? Is that just standard fastboot ADB procedure or is there something Pixel specific(first one)
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Just unlocked my Pixel4a using the standard ADB commands. Will say that OEM Unlocking stayed grayed out, until I connected to my WiFi (No SIM) and let the phone connect to the mother-ship.
Archangel said:
Someone correct me if I am wrong but there are no factory images yet for the 4a so no rooting with Magisk until then?
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yea i believe you are correct, i think same steps for the pix4 can be applied on the 4a https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-4-root-magisk/
im not sure if there are other ways to get the boot img but id rather just wait for the factory images to release & mess with it then. gonna make a cronjob script to watch / notify me once its up.
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yea i believe you are correct, i think same steps for the pix4 can be applied on the 4a https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-4-root-magisk/
im not sure if there are other ways to get the boot img but id rather just wait for the factory images to release & mess with it then. gonna make a cronjob script to watch / notify me once its up.
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If I get around to it this weekend, I may just do a rom dump to extract the boot.img. Haven't done it in a while. I'm still waiting for some screen protectors to arrive before I mess with my phone.
Archangel said:
Someone correct me if I am wrong but there are no factory images yet for the 4a so no rooting with Magisk until then?
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I can't find them either.
Isn't Android 11 going to make it more difficult to hide root anymore? I am tempted to root, but heard (or read) somewhere that with android 11 that it may not be worth it as any app (or something like that) will be able to see and not work.
This is the first phone I've owned that I think I'll be satisfied with stock. Ad guard does everything I need as ad away did. And it doesn't need root. Everything is fast! Now I don't have to hack Google pay.
edufur said:
This is the first phone I've owned that I think I'll be satisfied with stock. Ad guard does everything I need as ad away did. And it doesn't need root. Everything is fast! Now I don't have to hack Google pay.
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Curious about adguard. I just tried it and won't install with chrome as browser.
Sent from my OnePlus 5T using XDA Labs
Can someone please make a twrp for umidigi Bison please...
Ok guys I managed to root the umidigi bison what you need is the patched boot.img and the vbmeta.img download the stock rom and extract the boot.img patch it with latest magisk manager. , Next I flashed the imgs through Ubuntu os in this order
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash boot magiskpatched.img
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
And that's it attention: you can't alter the system in anyway what so ever or you will have to reflash your stock rom and go through the same process...
Assuming you already got your bootloader unlocked and adb debugging on you will have successhere the files I used
I have one as well I've been testing on. Thus far its a mixed bag. I like the hardware and capabilities. The phone camera software sucks. Want to root the phone to get a stable version of GCam running.
kingpablo said:
I have one as well I've been testing on. Thus far its a mixed bag. I like the hardware and capabilities. The phone camera software sucks. Want to root the phone to get a stable version of GCam running.
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Hi!
I got it for almost 3 weeks and I feel the same; to me it's almost as I have a Hummer with a beatle carburator.
I love the hardware but the SO it's very so-so, to say it kindly.
I think that the camera could do a lot better with a little software improve so I would love to root it Can somebody share a method to do the rooting?
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Can someone please make a twrp for umidigi Bison please...
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Did you have any luck with your request? I'm trying to find a way to root my bison but I can't find a way to do it
majnun_98 said:
Did you have any luck with your request? I'm trying to find a way to root my bison but I can't find a way to do it
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If you need help let me know..
Daflow77 said:
Can someone please make a twrp for umidigi Bison please...
Ok guys I managed to root the umidigi bison what you need is the patched boot.img and the vbmeta.img download the stock rom and extract the boot.img patch it with latest magisk manager. , Next I flashed the imgs through Ubuntu os in this order
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash boot magiskpatched.img
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
And that's it attention: you can't alter the system in anyway what so ever or you will have to reflash your stock rom and go through the same process...
Assuming you already got your bootloader unlocked and adb debugging on you will have success
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I have one as well. There are two major issues with it. Only one of the two programmable keys works and they claimed to support PTT (push to talk) but I see no such feature.
I also have had connectivity issues with ATT in USA. Only 3g signal works.
Do any of you have these issues?
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If you need help let me know..
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I have adb on my PC and Magisk ready to go but could use some help with the file downloads and steps to root. Will you help?
careloads said:
I have adb on my PC and Magisk ready to go but could use some help with the file downloads and steps to root. Will you help?
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Yes let me load the two files up
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Yes let me load the two files up
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Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash boot magiskpatched.img
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
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Yes let me load the two files up
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Thanks! I dont see the links though. Am I missing something?
Daflow77 said:
Can someone please make a twrp for umidigi Bison please...
Ok guys I managed to root the umidigi bison what you need is the patched boot.img and the vbmeta.img download the stock rom and extract the boot.img patch it with latest magisk manager. , Next I flashed the imgs through Ubuntu os in this order
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash boot magiskpatched.img
Fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
And that's it attention: you can't alter the system in anyway what so ever or you will have to reflash your stock rom and go through the same process...
Assuming you already got your bootloader unlocked and adb debugging on you will have success
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Tnx bro to make this phone to be rooted at last can you make a custom rom for it? please
lovedayrel said:
Tnx bro to make this phone to be rooted at last can you make a custom rom for it? please
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In my experience to get a custom rom made requires alot of people asking and even paying some $ to get it done. We Bison owners are few and may not generate enough interest....yet!
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Yes let me load the two files up
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Where is the link for the files ? Thanks
Following this intently. I've been hammering Umidigi tech support for the solution. If this was sorted out and I got better pictures, this phone would be great. Right now I'm sort of holding on
if we can GCAM to work on Umidigi Bison with the quad-lens, it would be great.
careloads said:
I have one as well. There are two major issues with it. Only one of the two programmable keys works and they claimed to support PTT (push to talk) but I see no such feature.
I also have had connectivity issues with ATT in USA. Only 3g signal works.
Do any of you have these issues?
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I have one and was able to do something with the second button. You need to uninstall the Zello app that comes preloaded on the phone. The second button is programmed to work with this, but when it's no longer available, it does nothing (no place to configure it either)
You can then find a program on Google Play called Button Mapper Pro, then add this button. From there, you can customize what it does, single click, double click and long press. Works great.
I had an Ulefone Armor 2 and did the same thing with the buttons, although I could not remove the Zello app on that phone so the long press was always confusing the apps and crashed the device. I didn't see anything like this on the Bison. I also have an AT&T SIM card (prepaid), and I get 4G on this but no volte
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if we can GCAM to work on Umidigi Bison with the quad-lens, it would be great.
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I don't know about all the lens working but I did find another thread here about GCAM working on this device.
this link worked for me
BSG GCam 8.1 - CYANOGEN MODS
www.cyanogenmods.org
was surprised that the night sight cam worked really well, although the pic is "smaller" when viewing it? probably misconfigured screen res and stuff. I didn't play with it enough. Portrait mode works on rear camera too. Front cam was always a no show though.
I really liked the fact that this camera on the Bison is "Limited" API 2 doesn't seem to be enabled yet the key items I like about the GCAM (portrait and night sight) are working well enough.
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I have one and was able to do something with the second button. You need to uninstall the Zello app that comes preloaded on the phone. The second button is programmed to work with this, but when it's no longer available, it does nothing (no place to configure it either)
You can then find a program on Google Play called Button Mapper Pro, then add this button. From there, you can customize what it does, single click, double click and long press. Works great.
I had an Ulefone Armor 2 and did the same thing with the buttons, although I could not remove the Zello app on that phone so the long press was always confusing the apps and crashed the device. I didn't see anything like this on the Bison. I also have an AT&T SIM card (prepaid), and I get 4G on this but no volte
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Changed service to Tmobile and now its kickin with with VoLTE!
I will try Button Mapper. I guess Zello was the PTT app though so I will have to figure that out if we want PTT.
Thanks for the suggestion!
djvinniev77 said:
I don't know about all the lens working but I did find another thread here about GCAM working on this device.
this link worked for me
BSG GCam 8.1 - CYANOGEN MODS
www.cyanogenmods.org
was surprised that the night sight cam worked really well, although the pic is "smaller" when viewing it? probably misconfigured screen res and stuff. I didn't play with it enough. Portrait mode works on rear camera too. Front cam was always a no show though.
I really liked the fact that this camera on the Bison is "Limited" API 2 doesn't seem to be enabled yet the key items I like about the GCAM (portrait and night sight) are working well enough.
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I am not so sure this is a good app. The download is 99 meg, ten times the size of open cam. After install other apps are randomely crashing or wont open. I uninstalled it and still have those issues. May need a factory reset.
So I managed to get root with a patched boot.img as per instructions here. Thought I'd try to make my own TWRP for this device but failed. However, there's a TWRP port utility from hovatek that I used and it seems to get a bit better (actually got the TWRP recovery boot screen to come up) but like many others on a fairly new mediatek android device, it needs a newer version of TWRP (3.5 or higher I guess) - the TWRP porter is version 1.7a, gives you 3.4 TWRP.
So close
I'll keep at it and see what I can get. I was already able to get a small device tree to help build recovery and is up on Github
GitHub - djvinniev77/android_device_umidigi_bison: stuff for Umidigi Bison
stuff for Umidigi Bison. Contribute to djvinniev77/android_device_umidigi_bison development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Anyone else with coding experience want to give it a try?
How to beta update ?
Doesn't look like they released the beta for either Mix Fold yet
Looks like MIUI 14 for the Mix Fold 2 will be releasing in January
MIUI 14 announced with improved system architecture and refined design
A lighter and visually refined rendition of MIUI. The first MIUI launched back in 2010 and over 12 years later MIUI boasts a global user base of over 564...
www.gsmarena.com
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V14.0.22.12.12.DEV/miui_ZIZHAN_V14.0.22.12.12.DEV_4bc47c012b_13.0.zip
aziz1vohra said:
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V14.0.22.12.12.DEV/miui_ZIZHAN_V14.0.22.12.12.DEV_4bc47c012b_13.0.zip
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good , but how to flash???
i don't know
Maybe using twrp
aziz1vohra said:
Maybe using twrp
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There is no TWRP for our device afaik yet. I think you have to place the ROM file in the root folder, go to Settings -> My Device -> MIUI Version, then press like 10 times on the big "13" icon, then press 3 dots under the battery icon and select "Choose update package".
That didn't work for me though for some reason, but you can try.
Also not working for me
I found the way guys
Fastboot file
http://bigota.d.miui.com/V14.0.22.12.12.DEV/zizhan_images_V14.0.22.12.12.DEV_20221212.0000.00_13.0_cn_chinatelecom_f79146cd66.tgz
Frst unlock bootloader
then flash using mi flash tool
aziz1vohra said:
I found the way guys
Fastboot file
http://bigota.d.miui.com/V14.0.22.12.12.DEV/zizhan_images_V14.0.22.12.12.DEV_20221212.0000.00_13.0_cn_chinatelecom_f79146cd66.tgz
Frst unlock bootloader
then flash using mi flash tool
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dont suppose has the taskbar feature like te fold 4?
also can magisk be reinstalled is my next question
johnnobts said:
also can magisk be reinstalled is my next question
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Magisk supports android 13 afaik, so yes, you can reinstall it.
Just installed via fastboot and I dont notice any huge differences although I am now failing CTS on safteynet which I wasnt before I updated.
i'm not going to type it out again but if you search my posts in this forum there is an easy way to download the file to your phone, use a magisk module and tape on miui update like 10 times and then you can flash the file through the phone updater without having to hook up to computer
sigh, apparently hard bricked my phone. Can't get fastboot to pop up even... Will EDL method revive my phone? Recommend anyone for the service?
Could anyone tell me if it is worth upgrading to MIUI 14? What are the new features on the Fold 2? Does it have a taskbar like Samsung Fold? Are all Magisk modules compatible? Does Pokémon Go work?
dragonnightx said:
Could anyone tell me if it is worth upgrading to MIUI 14? What are the new features on the Fold 2? Does it have a taskbar like Samsung Fold? Are all Magisk modules compatible? Does Pokémon Go work?
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Not worth at all. Didn't notice anything, besides Android 13.
SLP27 said:
Not worth at all. Didn't notice anything, besides Android 13.
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Same **** with mi 11 ultra
They are extremely stupid can't gave us good ROM
With new features
And smoother experience
They can't make good ROM for fold 2
So you're telling me I waited for the new Android 13 and it's nothing new. I was hoping for a better experience with the phone, so now I have to wait for someone to make a custom ROM with TWRP.