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[Q] LG G2 D802H, Root help.

Hey guys.
I am not that new in the whole rooting "scene" but it seems that I am unable to find a proper guide for rooting my (updated) phone. Every guide I have found, not only in this site, is outdated for like a year or so or just for older versions of the firmware, and if there is one thats for D802H(international model, I'm from Greece) it's probably in really bad english or directed towards pros. I rooted my G2 when I got it last year but decided to unroot because of some problems with the screen so I could use my warranty and haven't rerooted since. So it would be really helpful if any of you could point me in a certain guide or just run me through the whole process of rooting my phone, what to download, what to do to my phone, the recoveries etc. I would really like to use Cyanogen Mod or a G3 mod. Certainly, my choice for these two is because they look awesome. If you have any other rom on your mind that might be better than these, please dont hesitate from telling me. I really need all the help I can get, last time I got stuck on a boot loop and didn't know what to do for many hours before I reflashed to stock. So basically I would like a root guide ( found one from a member called somboons, seemed nice but wasn't really thorough as to whether I should wipe all data or just wipe dalvik cache and really wasn't noob-friendly) and a link to a ROM download page with a guide for flashing it. Not really into kernels, so if you could suggest a different one from stock that provides better battery life etc. that would be great. Any other info that you feel I should know will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance guys and sorry for the trouble I'm putting you,
George.
P.S.: Would like to avoid wiping data if at all possible.

search for stump root apk

zekurosu said:
search for stump root apk
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Oh well that was easy, thanks man. Rooted succesfully, installed SU and now have TWRP. What about the ROM? For CM, should I just go in their site and pick one for my phone? Is a release here that's stable?

giorgos123 said:
Oh well that was easy, thanks man. Rooted succesfully, installed SU and now have TWRP. What about the ROM? For CM, should I just go in their site and pick one for my phone? Is a release here that's stable?
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if CM11 .. try the latest Milestone ... as for CM12, it is still alpha stage, so try at your own risk

Looking stock sm-230nu lollipop rom

Looking stock sm-230nu lollipop rom not a lot of bloatware, that runs smooth, not buggy and is stable. That can be flashed through a recovery. Oh yea had this tablet for well over 1 1/2 and never rooted nor installed any roms on it. So if you guys can point me to a great rom and tell which recovery that runs great with my device I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

mikerowes69 said:
Looking stock sm-230nu lollipop rom not a lot of bloatware, that runs smooth, not buggy and is stable. That can be flashed through a recovery. Oh yea had this tablet for well over 1 1/2 and never rooted nor installed any roms on it. So if you guys can point me to a great rom and tell which recovery that runs great with my device I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
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The SM-T230, SM-T230NU, and SM-T231 have not received an official lollipop update, so to the best of my knowledge there are no stock lollipop ROMs available for your model. There is CyanogenMod 12.1 available but last I heard it was still fairly buggy and development was at a standstill.
TWRP Custom Recovery for the SM-T230/NU
There's actually several stock-based KitKat roms but the ones that seem the most popular are:
Acheron Rom
TranchidaKat
Also there are a few custom kernels which might help give your device a performance boost:
CTXz's Overclocked Kernel
Nuki-Stock-T230NU

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
The SM-T230, SM-T230NU, and SM-T231 have not received an official lollipop update, so to the best of my knowledge there are no stock lollipop ROMs available for your model. There is CyanogenMod 12.1 available but last I heard it was still fairly buggy and development was at a standstill.
TWRP Custom Recovery for the SM-T230/NU
There's actually several stock-based KitKat roms but the ones that seem the most popular are:
Acheron Rom
TranchidaKat
Also there are a few custom kernels which might help give your device a performance boost:
CTXz's Overclocked Kernel
Nuki-Stock-T230NU
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Thanks a lot guy. I was really hoping to find a stable non buggy lollipop rom for my device. Either way you have !e on a great start. If anyone is reading this. Is fastboot enabled to flash at the bootloader, but then again this Samsung ?

mikerowes69 said:
Thanks a lot guy. I was really hoping to find a stable non buggy lollipop rom for my device. Either way you have !e on a great start. If anyone is reading this. Is fastboot enabled to flash at the bootloader, but then again this Samsung ?
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I hoped that info would be useful; I'm sorry I couldn't point you to any stock LP, I know that frustration. On Samsung devices, bootloader (usually referred to as download mode) you need to flash things using Odin as far as I know

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I hoped that info would be useful; I'm sorry I couldn't point you to any stock LP, I know that frustration. On Samsung devices, bootloader (usually referred to as download mode) you need to flash things using Odin as far as I know
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Thank you You were very helpful.

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
I hoped that info would be useful; I'm sorry I couldn't point you to any stock LP, I know that frustration. On Samsung devices, bootloader (usually referred to as download mode) you need to flash things using Odin as far as I know
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Not sure what happened in our conversation. I really do appreciate your help and knowledge. As of right now, I have this tablet running white noise to a Bluetooth speaker to drown out my neighbor. I want to run a lollipop rom but I probably will have time till the end of this weekend or maybe next week to install. I am oncall for a week and really hard to get to it. If you or anyone out there knows of a lollipop rom for the "sm-t230nu" device that runs real smooth I can go for it.
As for odin, I used to purchase nothing but Samsung mobile devices in the past but the download mode with odin works but can hose the bootloader, and efs. Never had a good experience except for the older devices when Samsung actually provided the software, not why they never provided the ability to unlock the bootloader even when they used to develop nexus devices for Google. I would rather use the dd command or flash by fastboot, or use a actual recovery that is proven.

mikerowes69 said:
Not sure what happened in our conversation. I really do appreciate your help and knowledge. As of right now, I have this tablet running white noise to a Bluetooth speaker to drown out my neighbor. I want to run a lollipop rom but I probably will have time till the end of this weekend or maybe next week to install. I am oncall for a week and really hard to get to it. If you or anyone out there knows of a lollipop rom for the "sm-t230nu" device that runs real smooth I can go for it.
As for odin, I used to purchase nothing but Samsung mobile devices in the past but the download mode with odin works but can hose the bootloader, and efs. Never had a good experience except for the older devices when Samsung actually provided the software, not why they never provided the ability to unlock the bootloader even when they used to develop nexus devices for Google. I would rather use the dd command or flash by fastboot, or use a actual recovery that is proven.
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I'm not sure what you mean, "what happened in our conversation," I was just trying to give you what info I knew to address your questions. If I gave you faulty info or didn't adequately address your questions, I'm sorry, but there was no malicious intent. I'm not an expert and it sounds like you might have a better handle on the lower-level stuff. As I said, from all that I've read, the only lollipop available for the SM-T230NU is the buggy CM 12.1 builds I linked to. Odin has always worked fine for me but I understand if you'd rather not use it. I linked to TWRP recovery in my first post, but here it is again:
TWRP Custom Recovery
Also there is Philz Touch, which is a touch-screen version of ClockworkMod Recovery:
Philz Touch Recovery

Should I install custom rom?

Hi there. I am kinda new on these things.
I am at my home right now. I have the time to backup everything.
I am on stock right now , I have started getting a bit of lags here and there.
Should I root and install a custom rom?
And if yes , what is the best combination of kernel and rom for the best performance and battery.

Akshatk said:
Hi there. I am kinda new on these things.
I am at my home right now. I have the time to backup everything.
I am on stock right now , I have started getting a bit of lags here and there.
Should I root and install a custom rom?
And if yes , what is the best combination of kernel and rom for the best performance and battery.
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DO NOT INSTALL CUSTOM ROM, if you have to ask that question.
On a serious note, a factory reset will take care of all lags.Rooting is for those who have a spare phone,want to play around and can afford brick sooner or later. Moto has determined stock to be best for all others.

pradyot said:
DO NOT INSTALL CUSTOM ROM, if you have to ask that question.
On a serious note, a factory reset will take care of all lags.Rooting is for those who have a spare phone,want to play around and can afford brick sooner or later. Moto has determined stock to be best for all others.
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I am not so new dude. I have installed custom roms many a times..on my canvas a1.
On that device , it was good bcoz the device itself wasn't so good.
But this moto g5 plus is a nice phone. That's why I'm asking whether i should install custom rom or not

Akshatk said:
I am not so new dude. I have installed custom roms many a times..on my canvas a1.
On that device , it was good bcoz the device itself wasn't so good.
But this moto g5 plus is a nice phone. That's why I'm asking whether i should install custom rom or not
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Acknowledged !! and my apologies.
Rooting and custom roms work well on MotoG+.On some of the latest Oreo roms I was playing around with in the past couple of months,the camera app broke more often than once.If you can live with that in exchange for performance, LineageOS 15 and Pixel Experience roms worked great.
But as with any phone, you have to play around for the best of latest or for stability.
Just my two cents .

pradyot said:
Acknowledged !! and my apologies.
Rooting and custom roms work well on MotoG+.On some of the latest Oreo roms I was playing around with in the past couple of months,the camera app broke more often than once.If you can live with that in exchange for performance, LineageOS 15 and Pixel Experience roms worked great.
But as with any phone, you have to play around for the best of latest or for stability.
Just my two cents .
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What about the battery life?
Can i use greenify etc with these roms?
Thanks for the reply

Install only if a stock firmware higher or equivalent to your current version is available. Else you will not be able to go back to stock. If you attempt to downgrade you will run into problems with bootloaders.

Akshatk said:
What about the battery life?
Can i use greenify etc with these roms?
Thanks for the reply
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Battery life is pretty good on the custom rom side. All updated ROMs are now Android 8.1 and are 64 bit. I usually get 6-7+ hours screen on time and switch between every rom that's released For battery and customizations I recommend AEX or Validius. Also, you can use greenify on any of the custom ROMs and root with magisk and pass safety net as well. I Also recommend you download from telegram group as those links are updated more often than xda.
Telegram links are:
t.me/g5pluslinks ---> All new ROMs released no chat
t.me/motog5plus ---> Release of new ROMs / kernels but lot of chat too.
t.me/MotoG5PlusStuff ---> Collection of all kinds of camera apps.

Too late. I failed to root. And now my camera doesn't work. :Cries:
Gonna try flashing stock (some 92 version ) which has the Nov patch. Older one failed(downgrade).
Help me if you can. PLEASE.
I can explain everything I did.

Too late. I failed to root. And now my camera doesn't work. :Cries:
Gonna try flashing stock (some 92 version ) which has the Nov patch. Older one failed(downgrade).
Help me if you can. PLEASE.
I can explain everything I did.

Ok guys. So..i somehow got the root to work. But the camera is not working. It is saying camera is busy . What should I do?

Akshatk said:
Ok guys. So..i somehow got the root to work. But the camera is not working. It is saying camera is busy . What should I do?
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I believe that using custom kernel was the fix to that issue, not 100% sure as I never had the issue myself. Also, if you decide to go to a custom rom you won't have that issue (it only affects stock rom). Another option if you want to stick on stock is find the thread on here for TWRP flashable stock ROMs and use latest one for your phone.

I'm not able to select SD card storage in the recovery mode. What's the issue here? How do I fix it?

Akshatk said:
I'm not able to select SD card storage in the recovery mode. What's the issue here? How do I fix it?
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nevermind. I updated twrp to 3.2.1.0 . Now i can use my sd card there.

jeffsga88 said:
I believe that using custom kernel was the fix to that issue, not 100% sure as I never had the issue myself. Also, if you decide to go to a custom rom you won't have that issue (it only affects stock rom). Another option if you want to stick on stock is find the thread on here for TWRP flashable stock ROMs and use latest one for your phone.
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I installed lineage 14.1.
I have no issues now.
Thanks bro!

Akshatk said:
I installed lineage 14.1.
I have no issues now.
Thanks bro!
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No problem. Happy I could help.

[GUIDE][addison] SETUP Moto z play XT1635-02 : from stock 6.0 to custom ROM.

I have the habit of always asking on a new device no matter how much I think I know!
I have an xt1635-02 (I am US ATT Prepaid)(nano SIM) supposedly here tomorrow so I've been reading tons here.
However, it seems that a lot of the threads are aimed at rooting stock, which I never do.
As a rule, it's trivial:
[!] In this case it seems best to OTA update stock to 7.1.1 if it isn't already. I believe bootloader must be 7.x.x for doing custom Oreo ROMs . Since mine was 6.0 it took about 8 updates OTA and maybe 2 hours(wifi) .
[!]I go to moto site and do the unlock bootloader dance (already carrier unlocked supposedly).
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a
[!]Then flash twrp-3.2.1-0-addison.img (Alberto97) using fastboot on my PC. (Ubuntu 17.10 dev 18.04 with adb and fastboot)(dual boot win7)
I do this twice in a row as I have experienced it not working the first time (dead android LOL).(OCD much??? )
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...recovery-unofficial-twrp-moto-z-play-t3495629
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[!] -->then flash Alberto's verity patch mentioned at the top of his TWRP thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...recovery-unofficial-twrp-moto-z-play-t3495629
This modifies stock. Else your backups of stock won't boot. Learned this the hard way!
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[!]Then use TWRP to backup (default settings) stock a couple of times and put copies of both on PC (via USB on stock).(or if for some reason my USB-C doesn't work, via wifi to my router using filezilla FTP and phone app: "wifi file transfer" by "DNL Media UG"(needs permission storage=on..) - I had to redo this twice - redo this twice - kept dropping back to stock recovery.
[!]Then flash the boot logo using fastboot on PC - I usually use TWRP for this but these that I found here are not set up to be TWRP flash compat so will just remove bin from zip and flash using PC. I think I have about 4 possibilities that I found on these threads. Nice! Easy.
[!]Then boot to TWRP and flash Alberto97's AOSP 8.1 arm64 ROM. Why that ROM you may ask. Been using mainly that Alberto97 ROM on my Moto G3 (32bit version of course), and love it. There's plenty of time to try all the others!!!
I usually consider 2 root options; SuperSU 2.82-SR5, or majisk 1520. (for future readers, these are the latest at this time.)(besides I'm very used to them.)
With SuperSU I have had no probs wiping all 4(Dalvik/ART, system, data, cache), flash ROM, flash 8.1 gapps, flash SUperSU, and boot to install.
With majisk I have sometimes had troubles during install if I flash majisk in the first batch so I tend to wipe all 4, flash ROM and gapps, and boot to install. Then when I finally hit desktop, boot back to TWRP and flash 1520 and reboot.
I need root to use TBPro - no restoring on first time with this 64bit ROM- got to do it the hard way!
SO I believe that's it, but if anyone sees a flaw or problem in there, I would appreciate your help.
Thanks!!!

yep look right, i would have added backup EFS and Modem partitions, if you want to be completely safe.
For now, open gapps 8.1 are only unofficial, i would feel a bit unsecure to use that, but it's only me.

fablebreton said:
yep look right, i would have added backup EFS and Modem partitions, if you want to be completely safe.
For now, open gapps 8.1 are only unofficial, i would feel a bit unsecure to use that, but it's only me.
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Merci! Many thanks for looking in!!!
Yes, forgot to add that - did much xda search on the efs thing and best I found seemed to be a twrp-3.1.1-0-EFS-addison.img which I may very well flash first and do that since no other TWRP that I looked at offers backup efs. Official and squid2 derived (G3) don't. I assume Alberto's doesn't. Seems like I did it very manually on the G3. If you have it it's a pretty good guarantee that you'll never need it! (Murphy axiom)
As to unofficial gapps, I've been testing about 5 different 8.1 ROMs on the Moto G3 over the past couple months and if the gapps aren't built in to the ROM(some pixelexperience roms), all you can get is an unofficial gapps, or do a minor simple hack to an 8.0 so it will accept it. Usually devs will include it. Bless Alberto97 for not including it so I can select my own!!! But I've had no prob with gapps. Open gapps project has 8.0, but of course they won't work on a true 8.1 unless minor hack. I was planning on using open_gapps-arm64-8.1-aroma-20180109-UNOFFICIAL.zip (from https://cloud.kenzoroms.club/?dir=opengapps) unless you have a better idea. I wanted to grab camera from aroma(somebody's idea), but I also have about 5 other cameras and gcams waiting on the Sdcard that I want to test, simply because there seemed to be disagreement on what works on Alberto's new 8.1 build, so wanted to be able to report.
Thanks again!

backup efs / adb way : https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/2zq0ff/friendly_reminder_back_up_your_efs_partition_if/

fablebreton said:
backup efs / adb way : https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/2zq0ff/friendly_reminder_back_up_your_efs_partition_if/
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Thanks for great link! yeah I think I used adb as well as an app last time. I'll add recovery this time so that's 3 backups on internal storage (and copied to PC) should be enough! (yes dear readers I am serious about this - 3 times! They are so tiny! And that pretty much guarantees I'll never need it, but if I do, it's childs play to get it back.)
Thanks!!!

If you're wondering about the delay, they sent me a -01 (Droid)(Murphy's law), so they paid for a UPS next day air label back to them(mailed at 4PM) - don't know if I'll get this going before Sat! Oh well!!! Never take these things too seriously!!! Gotta be costing them a chunk! I did briefly turn it on and stuck the SIM in it and it did show LTE on my ATT, but there's a few bands missing that are on the -02, so will wait. Pretty display, though!!! Really looking forward to it!!!

KrisM22 said:
If you're wondering about the delay, they sent me a -01 (Droid)(Murphy's law), so they paid for a UPS next day air label back to them(mailed at 4PM) - don't know if I'll get this going before Sat! Oh well!!! Never take these things too seriously!!! Gotta be costing them a chunk! I did briefly turn it on and stuck the SIM in it and it did show LTE on my ATT, but there's a few bands missing that are on the -02, so will wait. Pretty display, though!!! Really looking forward to it!!!
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Good plan on sending it back. You would have been SOL trying to root the -01

dandrumheller said:
Good plan on sending it back. You would have been SOL trying to root the -01
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Yes! I learned about 5 or 6 phones ago NOT to re-invent the wheel!!!

KrisM22 said:
Yes! I learned about 5 or 6 phones ago NOT to re-invent the wheel!!!
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Okay, refund for that and order another from somebody else! Next week...!

The only thing is no moto mods on non stock (any thing past 7.1.1 or aosp) roms

punkerEVO said:
The only thing is no moto mods on non stock (any thing past 7.1.1 or aosp) roms
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yes. stock 8.x is a no-no. This one that is coming is 6.0.1 So I will let it ota update to 7.1.1 after giving it a thorough check-out, then try unlocking it, etc. Sound right? I have no interest in any of the hardware-type addons, just the plain phone 3/32 octacore etc. Why this one? - I love the reception (radio) strength of Motos, plus a ton of other things. I stick with them. Plus it's all Albeto97's fault for deving on AOSP 8.1

Lol Alberto97's roms are buttery smooth!

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Lol Alberto97's roms are buttery smooth!
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I think they are. He recently came out with an 8.1 AOSP version for the Moto G3 and I love it. I test others, but that's my daily driver. Sure not perfect, but quite good enough for me!!! So I figure when I get it (Tues?) that's what I'll put on it. There's always plenty of time to test others!

Okay, since I am waiting for phone (Tues) , obviously I am worried about "what-if"s and so researching on what to do, "if".
I succeeded in finding a nice zip for 7.1.1 with the Nov security patch
https://firmware.center/firmware/Motorola/Moto Z Play/Stock/
(I am US)(there are many others at that nice site!!!)
That took a lot of time.
Then I needed to be sure that I could get RSD lite to run, and tried and tried to no avail to get it to recognize my phone (even on my laptop) (I was testing with an old Moto G3 stock zip and my G3 phone) before some post gave me a version number much higher than at the RSD site. google gave me:
http://rsdlite.en.lo4d.com/
version 6.2.4, which worked perfectly.
I really need to write a short guide on this stuff - feels like I'm re-inventing the wheel, even though many folks have written much before I came along!
The reason for the above two is that for a while the last few days I kept running into folks who had taken 7 OTA and wound up with a bricked phone. So, yes, I just did a search for "brick" on xda in moto z play and will start reading them! LOL
Quick EDIT: I think I am wrong in that brick assumption - the first 3 I looked at involved encryption and 2 downgrades to MM (which is a no-no). I will read further.
edit2 - nevermind - most are downgrading to MM. Wish folks would just ask before doing that. That is a no-no of most (all?) phones. -

Hi,
Please share your camera result using Alberto97's roms. I some ROM but i dont like camera result, i think stock ROM still better in camera.
Thank You

wakhidnusa said:
Hi,
Please share your camera result using Alberto97's roms. I some ROM but i dont like camera result, i think stock ROM still better in camera.
Thank You
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YES! Will do. I have about 5 cameras that I want to try though I will stop at the first one that works. Phone should be here today.

wakhidnusa said:
Hi,
Please share your camera result using Alberto97's roms. I some ROM but i dont like camera result, i think stock ROM still better in camera.
Thank You
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I have no problem with various cameras getting good image, but sometimes on still first pic doesn't save. ( tried camera MX and Professional camera hd. I'm sure lots work about the same.)

Forgot to flash Alberto's verity patch right after flashing TWRP. So I had to RSD lite 7.1.1 Nov 1 and start over - no big deal! OP corrected.

Hello Kris,
I would like to ask for a link where I can download a working RSD so I can unlocked my bootloader.
Thanks

jeprox said:
Hello Kris,
I would like to ask for a link where I can download a working RSD so I can unlocked my bootloader.
Thanks
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link to 6.2.4 is in the first post of
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/guide-rsd-lite-mini-guide-t3740641#post75334194

Need custome ROMs!

Can someone please make some ROMs for this device? Or can someone port from s7? We have custom recovery but we lack custom ROMs....

I second that.

Yes, please. I read somewhere here that elephone haven't released their sources, but since the Eragon developer managed it somehow I guess others ought to be able to rebase theirs on the relevant parts of his - ?

Anyway to help community of elephone 8 to create custom ROMs?

Plowmanx said:
Yes, please. I read somewhere here that elephone haven't released their sources, but since the Eragon developer managed it somehow I guess others ought to be able to rebase theirs on the relevant parts of his - ?
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Eragon was just a very very slight mod of the original rom by elephone. in order to get a real custom ROM like Lineage OS, we need to compile it from sources and to do that we need elephone sorce code.
Another way is porting a custom rom from another phone with the same CPU (helio x25) and try to make it boot by editing some stuff, the problem is that its very dificult to do the trial error to get it booting because we don´t have access to the Recovery or to the fastboot directly ( The button vol+ doesn´t work on fastboot menu so you can´t enter recovery or unlock the bootloader....)
Maybe someone could try to port a ROM but honestly, with xposed you have all sorts of customization and to be honest the effort isn´t worth it for the phone as it is now. Maybe with Oreo update from Elephone we can have some good news like source code or a fix for the buttons in order to access recovery by pressing buttons with the phone OFF.
Fingers crossed

Thank you bihariel for making those points very clear to the club here.
Also just to share something personal. Six months ago, I sent a few emails to Elephone asking about the hardware key combination to access Recovery and requesting bootloader unlock. I've never got their response back. I think they deliberately disable the key combination. Therefore, personally, I don't have high hopes for an easy access to Recovery or even the source code for our phone in the near future.
Fortunately, we still can root it. Experienced users can optimise/customise the stock rom to their liking with no hassle. Some new users though would still love to have a custom rom just to easily flash on the phone, even if it's quite close to the stock rom. Perhaps, when we have an Oreo rom from Elephone (even without its source code), a slimmer/cleaner rooted version of the stock rom will still be nice for some of us.

anox said:
Thank you bihariel for making those points very clear to the club here.
Also just to share something personal. Six months ago, I sent a few emails to Elephone asking about the hardware key combination to access Recovery and requesting bootloader unlock. I've never got their response back. I think they deliberately disable the key combination. Therefore, personally, I don't have high hopes for an easy access to Recovery or even the source code for our phone in the near future.
Fortunately, we still can root it. Experienced users can optimise/customise the stock rom to their liking with no hassle. Some new users though would still love to have a custom rom just to easily flash on the phone, even if it's quite close to the stock rom. Perhaps, when we have an Oreo rom from Elephone (even without its source code), a slimmer/cleaner rooted version of the stock rom will still be nice for some of us.
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You´ve got a very valid point there...
fingers crossed for the Oreo update.

Hi anox, I'm very interested to hear which mods you've done. I haven't bothered rooting this phone, only took off the two adups apks, but would certainly do so if there are some significant advantages to it. Much obliged if you'd share, thanks in advance!
anox said:
Thank you bihariel for making those points very clear to the club here.
Also just to share something personal. Six months ago, I sent a few emails to Elephone asking about the hardware key combination to access Recovery and requesting bootloader unlock. I've never got their response back. I think they deliberately disable the key combination. Therefore, personally, I don't have high hopes for an easy access to Recovery or even the source code for our phone in the near future.
Fortunately, we still can root it. Experienced users can optimise/customise the stock rom to their liking with no hassle. Some new users though would still love to have a custom rom just to easily flash on the phone, even if it's quite close to the stock rom. Perhaps, when we have an Oreo rom from Elephone (even without its source code), a slimmer/cleaner rooted version of the stock rom will still be nice for some of us.
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Plowmanx said:
Hi anox, I'm very interested to hear which mods you've done. I haven't bothered rooting this phone, only took off the two adups apks, but would certainly do so if there are some significant advantages to it. Much obliged if you'd share, thanks in advance!
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Hi Plowmanx, I'm not really an experienced user here. I just need root for some apps and customization, nothing much. In fact, it's just the way I'd use any android phone. They might not be useful for you at all.
Anyway, my list goes like this.
root apps: adaway, flashfire, lmt launcher, mixplorer, quick reboot
magisk modules: busybox, audio mod lib, viper4android
xposed modules: gravitybox, xuimod
I removed most apps that came with the stock rom.
I might have also modified some system files like build.prop here and there.

Hello everyone, sorry if I'm off topic. But I'm just wondering. What's the way to be right now? Eragon or Stock? I'm experiencing some lags with the stock rom on many apps.
(Facebook is nearly unusable and videos at 240p)
I have no idea on how to root a device btw, and one last thing, is it worth it removing fota package since elephone is not giving us an Oreo update?

Stock rom minus adups here. I only use FB on the phone via Ecosia browser and it seems to have no problems. FB app has always been a dreadful battery hog. What other apps lag?
steverway said:
Hello everyone, sorry if I'm off topic. But I'm just wondering. What's the way to be right now? Eragon or Stock? I'm experiencing some lags with the stock rom on many apps.
(Facebook is nearly unusable and videos at 240p)
I have no idea on how to root a device btw, and one last thing, is it worth it removing fota package since elephone is not giving us an Oreo update?
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Plowmanx said:
Stock rom minus adups here. I only use FB on the phone via Ecosia browser and it seems to have no problems. FB app has always been a dreadful battery hog. What other apps lag?
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I use Puffin browser for years but seems to be laggy at the s8 Scrolling is not smooth at all.
When I have Facebook, Messenger, Instagram Running in Background honestly most of the apps I try to run are slow and show some lag (even YouTube)
Forgot to mention that I use Malware Bytes and Nova Launcher which may slow down the device but it's a way of living for me. Both are MUST. ?

bihariel said:
...the problem is that its very dificult to do the trial error to get it booting because we don´t have access to the Recovery or to the fastboot directly
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that is exactly the reason I do not bother porting, no hardware key recovery access just makes the whole porting process extremely tedious.

For those of you that cant root the elephone s8 using the sp-tools because of not knowing what to do to the elephone s8,
1. Simply install the windows drivers,which you have to follow some specific instructions on allowing windows to install unsafe drivers, all in the above site, visit...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p9000/how-to/how-to-guideline-install-mtk-drivers-t3344042
2. Extract sp-tools and the root file etc. and make a note of where you extract them...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-s8/how-to/tutorial-elephone-s8-root-tutorial-t3688171
3. Follow the instructions on setting up sp-tools and then click the download button in sp-tools, then turn your phone completely off, and then plug in your phone to the usb cable that should be connected to the same pc, while holding the VOL + button. Sp- tools should begin to flash the root file to the phone by itself. Once done, turn the phone on.
4. Download and install magisk from https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/topjoh...5-6-4-release/ on the phone and run the app.
You should have root access after that.
For those that flashed twrp and cant seem to access it when powering on the elephone s8 from the off state, there is an app called CWM, there are others, but I use this, download and install the app, and when you open it, it should ask you options such as reboot into recovery mode, reboot into download mode,etc. , I just choose reboot into recovery mode and the phone restarts and takes me directly into twrp. The CWM app makes it easy to enter which mode you want without holding any volume and power keys,etc.

Wondering.... anyone know if any of the Elephones that came out AFTER the S8 can reboot to recovery via buttons?

AnubuRe said:
Wondering.... anyone know if any of the Elephones that came out AFTER the S8 can reboot to recovery via buttons?
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I don't think so.
I know for a fact that U Pro cannot.
Looks like that's how Elephone makes phones these days.

Stupid question ... What would happen if you tried to flash an Elephone s9 rom? I'm kind of expecting bricking but thought maybe ...

anox said:
I don't think so.
I know for a fact that U Pro cannot.
Looks like that's how Elephone makes phones these days.
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That sucks and is soooooo stupid... Actually a deal breaker for me to buy another Elephone.