Hi Bryce,
Thanks for this. Challenging mod projects, alright.
For my part a Lenovo A7 tablet is test device, good priced quad core
from Harvey N's but the reason is very mass production - 'bios' /
recovery menu is near entirely in Chinese so very hard to manage machine
level. Got the TWRP recovery loader in place now tho, so one step away
from Magisk patching of the stock lollipop ROM available at
XDA-developers.com and then some better app and update options. Found
kingroot easiest ('only way'?) for first root gain, but harder to get
rid of! Even after factory reset kingroot account was still in place but
Magisk pre-patch did move it on. Best help discovered with Apps2SD app -
very linuxy, low overhead toolkit. So am close to finishing 1st mod
project now, will bring along tomorrow.
Thanks too, and Cc fwd to Garry.
Cheers, Rik
On 2018-09-04 11:25, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Hi,
Just updating how I got on with my phone following the last meeting.
Phone: Samsung galaxy note 3
I want to upgrade to Android version 8 as stock note 3 only ever got
updates as far as version 5. Was looking to use LineageOS, but Gary
(or is that Garry?) advised the ResurrectionRemix as a more complete
version to use.
So, had to get root on the phone, which was in a bit of a messed up
non-booting state due to previous attempts.
Used Odin 3.11.1 to put back the stock Vodafone NZ system ROM (rom
found using google).
Used 'Magisk Manager' (download .apk from github as no longer in
playstore) to get root.
Next needed to use install TWRP recovery environment so could get to
install latest Android version
Tried using 'TWRP Manager' from the playstore (also wanted BusyBox
installed), but this didn't seem to work don't know why.
So next used Odin from my pc to install the TWRP system, this
succeeded. (I think this was as far as I got during the meeting).
Placed new OS on the sd card and the latest gApps (opengapps.org) for
an ARM processor.
Booted TWRP, backed up everything to sd card.
Wiped davlik, cache and data.
Tried install of OS, failed - turns out I had the wrong one meant for
exynos (d'oh!), got the right one for snapdragon lte and tried again.
This time it installed the OS but failed on the gApps, not enough
system space.
The phone could boot without gApps, but couldn't do a lot, didn't
even have a web browser.
Found people succeeded using gApps 'nano' on a note 3, a bit of a cut
down from the full version.
So did OS and gApps nano install again, this time gApps install also
succeeded. Booted and have a working phone with all the bells and
whistles, my child seems happy with it :)
Now I'm going to try to do the same thing for a Galaxy S5...
Thanks to Rik and especially Gary for the guidance.
Cheers,
Bryce.
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