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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon GloDroid

Feature Request: Custom Recovery

Open hamiltonrn opened this issue 4 years ago • 7 comments

If possible, please add a custom recovery like TWRP.

hamiltonrn avatar Jun 12 '20 17:06 hamiltonrn

Hello,

Thank you for your request.

Our main mission, is to bring-up native mainline AOSP to the inexpensive and powerful SBCs. And we have a lot of things to do ahead to achieve that goal.

Maybe in some distant future we will start to customize AOSP, but we haven't such plans yet.

Maybe you a looking for some particular feature from TWRP, that we can help enable with AOSP recovery?

Regards, Roman

rsglobal avatar Jun 12 '20 20:06 rsglobal

Maybe you a looking for some particular feature from TWRP, that we can help enable with AOSP recovery?

Regards, Roman

Usually I use the File Manager and Nandroid Backup. It's possible to flash Magisk with AOSP Recovery? I'm waiting my PinePhone to arrive, can't test it now.

Thank you for your reply.

hamiltonrn avatar Jun 14 '20 16:06 hamiltonrn

Maybe you a looking for some particular feature from TWRP, that we can help enable with AOSP recovery? Regards, Roman

Usually I use the File Manager and Nandroid Backup. It's possible to flash Magisk with AOSP Recovery? I'm waiting my PinePhone to arrive, can't test it now.

Thank you for your reply.

Heres a magisk patched boot image it can be flashed with fastboot flash boot_a filename

https://z.zz.ht/ZO46U.img

NO-ob avatar Jul 07 '20 15:07 NO-ob

@NO-ob : thanks for a tip! I tested it with GloDroid 0.5.1 (PinePhone), but when I tried fastboot flash boot_a ZO46U.img, it failed with fastboot: error: boot partition is smaller than boot image. So I tried it to restart with fastboot reboot-fastboot, where I could flash it:

Sending 'boot_a' (19016 KB)                        OKAY [  1.461s]
Writing 'boot_a'                                   OKAY [  2.293s]

But since then the phone won't boot up (I guess it overwrote data behind boot_a) - it is not big deal for me, since I had GloDroid for testing only, but...how did you manage to install it?

sonicpp avatar Oct 17 '20 09:10 sonicpp

It probably wont work because 0.5.1 is android 11 and that boot image is for android 10. I made it in the magisk manager it lets you patch boot image files.

NO-ob avatar Oct 17 '20 12:10 NO-ob

@NO-ob I installed GloDroid 0.5.1 to the eMMC to the PinePhone pmOS convergence edition, everything worked just fine. Then I patched the boot.img using Magisk Manager and flashed it with fastboot flash boot_a magisk_patched.img then the phone won't boot and stays in a bootloop, do you have any tips? Can you upload a new patched boot.img?

jaymeanchante avatar Oct 22 '20 01:10 jaymeanchante

@rsglobal I would use a custom recovery to flash a zip like Magisk in order to have root access and to be able to install microG, that would be awesome

jaymeanchante avatar Oct 22 '20 01:10 jaymeanchante

I found this on XDA...

[Guide] How to root GloDroid 12 on the PinePhone64 https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-root-glodroid-12-on-the-pinephone64.4404449/

herbsmn avatar Nov 04 '22 14:11 herbsmn

We do not have any plans to ship custom recovery. But rooting using magic should be already possible. Closing this for now. If you have more rationale on why to use a custom recovery, please reopen this issue and explain it.

rsglobal avatar May 02 '23 22:05 rsglobal