So as you guys probably know the current android P ROM requires an android 8.1 vendor image. Is this because P is closed source and it'll change when sources become publicly available or is this an android P thing and will still require 8.1 vendor even when it's officially released?
Just wondering
Thanks in advance
Android P hasn't been released officially so none of the manufacturers will have released a final vendor image for the devices for Android 9, 8.1 vendor images will be the only ones available in that case. Earlier versions of Android don't use the Treble system so would be useless.
Android 8.0 treble devices should also support 9.
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I'm looking to build android oreo from source, but this page: https://developers.google.com/android/drivers only has the drivers up to Nougat 7.1.2 for the 5X and other devices. Does anybody know when these binaries will be released?
Thanks
Never mind, they were just added.
Hi. I want to try to build lineage os 17/18 for my old phone. I have env and I already build package for other phone. For Nexus 4 there and only some old lineage os 15 builds. How to prepare lineage os 18 based on lineage os 15? Is it possible or maybe it needs to be done from scratch. Is there any instruction how to do this?
Porting a ROM means there's a similar device with a working LineageOS on it. Which means it's already built, and only small modifications to make it stable for you.
Porting doesn't work the way you described. You can't build Android 12 on top of Android 8, every new major Android update, Google releases a new source code.
Then, manufacturers/developers modify it to their sweets. What you want to do is to build LineageOS 18/17 for an unsupported device. There's a lot of guides online about it. The context matters.
Can you share some links about building lineage os for unsupported devices? Will it help somehow when there are some old versions builds?
Hi,
I have noticed that all of the Android 12 ROMs are AB. Is there any A only Android ROM that I missed? if not, does it mean A only devices won't be supported anymore starting from Android 12?
Thanks in advance
If you are referring to GSI's and your A-only device support's SAR (system as root) then you should be able to flash A/B GSI's. I've read A-only builds have been discontinued with release of A12. I think of ROMs as a full OS build made for a specific device where as GSI's are a generic system image that can be flashed on any compatible device.
I have the RMX1992 with default Android 11. It's working well. I understand that realme will not provide Android 12.
What custom ROMs are available that provides Android 12?
Are there any advantages in Android 12?
Chris
We are happy to announce that we now have launched AOSP build instructions for Android 13!
The Xperia Open Source Project (Xperia Open Devices) is an initiative created to guide the developers step-by-step on how to build AOSP for their unlocked Xperia devices. Our instructions will show you how to prepare your environment, how to download all the necessary tools, and how to download and configure the code before you can build AOSP images and flash them on your own device.
New AOSP build instructions for Android 13 - Sony Developer World
developer.sony.com
Great news.
Can these instructions also be used to build LineageOS by using repo init -u https://github.com/LineageOS/android.git -b lineage-19.1 in step 4-1?
That's cool. Got me wondering if there's a chance for the 10 III to receive a stock Android 13 update at some point. I know that Sony used to only release one major Android update for its phones, but maybe things are changing for the better.
Interesting! I just checked and there are no binaries for android 13. Maybe the binaries for android 12 works?
margelatu227 said:
Interesting! I just checked and there are no binaries for android 13. Maybe the binaries for android 12 works?
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you can use the ones for Android 12
ok thanks, I will try it.
Tried building the 13.0.0_r7 as userdebug, boots and works but cellular doesn't seem to work yet. I flashed the Android 12 binaries called SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_12_4.19_v3a_lena