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No Custom ROM? Help!

My Xperia ZL won't allow me to install a custom ROM.
Here are the steps I've taken.
1. Updated to 10.6.... (Lollipop fw) via Flashtool
2. Boots correctly, everything seems to work.
3. Flashed boot.img from Paranoid Android and went into TWRP to flash the ROM zip (wiped cache, system and data before).
Did step 3 to test the same for OmniRom too.
4. Phone boots, shows Bootanimation, shows Optimizing apps, then hangs after finish and does step 4 again.
Please help me, I could install custom ROMs on the device before, suddenly it does not work anymore.
Note: EVERYTHING works fine with Stock. Flashed stock ftf multiple times and tried these steps.
Thanks for your help

It seems to be a Bootloop. Try below steps;
1. Through TWRP wipe (system+cache+dalvic cache+data+android secure)
2. Install ROM.zip
3. Wipe cache+dalvic cache+data
4. Reboot
Hope the above steps helps you
Regards,
hitman-xda

@hitman-xda I've tried these steps, except for android secure.
What is that partition and what does it do?
Cannot find it in Advanced Wipe of TWRP.
Thanks

It is the mysterious part. Actually no one knows about it. Some says, it contains secured links/data of some apps.
If you are clean flashing ROM, that's means you have to wipe everything except storage part. That's the reason I mentioned it.
If you can't find it, just leave it

@hitman-xda So I've already done what you suggested, with no luck.
Guess I'm stuck on stock till someone helps me
Thanks for your reply

did you install de correct kernel?
maybe you should wipe everything, install the correct kernel and after that, install the custom ROM
i don't now if it will work, but at least try

I did fastboot flash boot boot.img (got it from ROM zip)
Then erased everything and flashed ROM.
No luck

Does that Paranoid Android was built for your phone?
Your phone loops from 'optimizing apps' , that means your phone is unable to load dalvic/art for the apps.
Also check weather PA ROM can be flashed over lollipop, if not then you have to downgrade an then try the same procedure.
Also you can download stock kernel with recovery, flash it and then directly try to flash your respective ROM.
Usually ROM.zip contains kernel and get flashed during installation of zip, just the thing is they can be flashable over some selective android versions.

Can't flash xposed

I've been trying to flash xposed on latest rooted stock rom in the latest twrp but it doesn't seem to stick. When flashing the file there's no error message and it does mount the system for read/write, but when the phone restarts it doesn't register xposed. I've tried flashing v84 and v86. I've flashed xposed many times before but never encountered this issue. What could be the reason for this?

Same thing happened to me yesterday. Are you clearing your caches before and after flashing? I had to do a fresh install of the latest ROM, clear caches, Root, clear caches, Boot into recovery, flash xposed, clear caches. Then it installed I'm on 3.2.2 with v86 ARM-64.

Thanks for the reply! It didn't work unfortunately. Still doesn't stick. Never experienced that before.. very odd

slonn said:
Thanks for the reply! It didn't work unfortunately. Still doesn't stick. Never experienced that before.. very odd
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Having the same issue here on stock OOS. I've flashed xposed a bunch of times without issue. Now it just doesn't stick for some reason.

did u use the arm64 version also have u tried systemless root, i have more success with that than the other xposed

Same problem here :/
if anyone found a fix, please help

Had the same issue, solved it by :
EDIT: make sure to have a pc with adb/fastboot close to you, for me the clean flash also flashed stock recovery. You could also possibly (haven't tried that) flash twrp itself right after flashing the full zip
Wipe system/cache/dalvik
Flash ONLY full zip - Reboot
Flash ONLY Supersu - reboot
Flash xposed - reboot - should work
No clearing caches after the very first wipe! Installed EX Kernel after xposed, too.
Hope this helps

I got it sorted by flashing the latest version of FreedomOS. Xposed works fine on that one

Need help to install custom rom

Hello,
I don't know why my lg g3 phone doesn't want boot on custom rom.
I have the LG G3 d855 model, 16gb memory and here are my procedure to install every custom rom :
1. Flash Stock ROM using LGUP (the version of the firmware is not important but the possibility to root is)
2. Install KingRoot and get root
3. Install AutoREC and enter to the recovery
8. Flash Recovery TWRP 3.1.0-2
9. Reboot to the new recovery
10. ADVANCED WIPE (wipe cache, dalvik cache, data and SYSTEM)
11. Flash baseband 21C
12. Flash CUSTOM rom
13. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
14. Flash Gapp
15. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
16. Reboot
I think I did nothing bad...
but the phone does not start and it stays at the initial logo screen (not the LG logo, but the custom rom logo). I waited over 10 minutes to boot but nothing. Even though I install the identical rom again or install an anoter rom, each time the same issue.
This happens with all custom rom (xenonhd, resurrection remix, and now lineageOS)
I can use and boot on stock rom but each time I want to install a custom rom, my phone doesn't want to boot. The phone display stays at the initial rom logo screen.
It seems that I am alone to have this problem.
I don't know why and I search everywhere to find out the solution...
PS : My phone never restart by itself. I never have bootloop with my phone when I using stock rom and same with custom rom..
The problem is the boot with a custom rom. The phone don't want to boot and stay on logo loading...
Any suggestion may be help.
Thank you.

1. Once you installed TWRP you don't have to go back to stock to switch roms. From then on you can just download zips and flash them.
2. You need to delete everything (including system) except internal and external storage ( so you can still flash the zip for xceed, otherwise you will delete it). Remember that you will lose all your apps including your data with it. You can backup them with titanium backup tho. Pictures and video's will still be there as they are stored on the internal or external storage.
3. You also need to flash the GAPPS package after flashing rom, for xceed (7.1.1), pick nano (ARM)
4. Wipe cache and dalvik after flashing and reboot.
5. Make a backup before you do so !!!!!!
Good luck.

Jornwitt said:
1. Once you installed TWRP you don't have to go back to stock to switch roms. From then on you can just download zips and flash them.
2. You need to delete everything (including system) except internal and external storage ( so you can still flash the zip for xceed, otherwise you will delete it). Remember that you will lose all your apps including your data with it. You can backup them with titanium backup tho. Pictures and video's will still be there as they are stored on the internal or external storage.
3. You also need to flash the GAPPS package after flashing rom, for xceed (7.1.1), pick nano (ARM)
4. Wipe cache and dalvik after flashing and reboot.
5. Make a backup before you do so !!!!!!
Good luck.
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Hello,
1. I think that but with specific rom, some people tell us to flash stock rom before flashing a custom rom. eMMC bug related ?
2. Deleting the system changes nothing because the system is wiped when I flash the rom, right ?
3. if the rom boot first then I will install Gapps. Else, I don’t install because the rom doesn’t want to boot.

1. Well .. I've been switching between fulmics,xceed,rr, .. etc without any problem so no, there is no need to go back to stock everytime.
2. Try it, you won't be able to boot until you flash a new rom, but it could help. That's why you take a backup in the first place. It is more 'clean' and if you don't try it you won't know.
3. Sometimes you have to flash gapps directly after the rom or you will be in for a bad time if you do afterwards.
Once you have TWRP recovery installed it's the easiest thing ever to flash a new rom. Make sure your zip files are downloaded okay. Download the MD3 to check it. Try to download via MEGA app or so, because browsers downloads tend to have errors sometimes.
Apart from that. Don't root via kingroot. They have had some suspicious cases where malware was installed on the phone when rooting.
If nothing's works. Go back to full stock through KDZ, root wit your PC, install TWRP via autorec, go to recovery, wipe everything, install modem 21C, install rom and gapps, wipe cache, reboot. Don't try anything other than that.

I have the same problem

Jornwitt said:
1. Well .. I've been switching between fulmics,xceed,rr, .. etc without any problem so no, there is no need to go back to stock everytime.
2. Try it, you won't be able to boot until you flash a new rom, but it could help. That's why you take a backup in the first place. It is more 'clean' and if you don't try it you won't know.
3. Sometimes you have to flash gapps directly after the rom or you will be in for a bad time if you do afterwards.
Once you have TWRP recovery installed it's the easiest thing ever to flash a new rom. Make sure your zip files are downloaded okay. Download the MD3 to check it. Try to download via MEGA app or so, because browsers downloads tend to have errors sometimes.
Apart from that. Don't root via kingroot. They have had some suspicious cases where malware was installed on the phone when rooting.
If nothing's works. Go back to full stock through KDZ, root wit your PC, install TWRP via autorec, go to recovery, wipe everything, install modem 21C, install rom and gapps, wipe cache, reboot. Don't try anything other than that.
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Hello,
I have a question.
Can you give me a gapp 100% compatible with all custom rom with android 7.1.2, because i think opengapp are not reliable. Maybe the gapp will cause my issue and the rom won't boot.
Can i use this one https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...isited-slim-gapps-6-0-7-0-unofficial-t3462088 ?
I always use PICO version of gapp
Thank

Phone won't boot to OS after installing magisk. My experience

So i rooted my phone sometimes ago, and it worked fine at first but after some reboots it is now stuck at Redmi logo and would boot to fastboot mode after a while. Now i want to share my experience so people can be more careful, i may be a newbie but i do want to help people too.
So here's what my phone is using, CorvusOS 7.0 and SiLonT kernel and no more modifications other than that. Now i have read stuff online that some people have experienced bootloops and some can't boot to the OS they rooted their device with magisk. I have also read that dirty flash may solve the problem. But if you're already facing this problem maybe you can try these methods below:
Method 1: probably the easiest one, wipe the Dalvik and the cache
1. Reboot to your custom recovery
2. Go to advanced wipe (location and UI may differs between custom recoveries)
3. Simply tick Dalvik and cache and untick anything else
4. Reboot
Method 2: uninstalling magisk (this will unroot your device)
1. Download magisk uninstaller.zip (if you didn't downloaded it already from the start. Also make sure the uninstaller is the same version as your magisk version, idk what will happen if you do it with a different version but just in case )
2. Reboot to your custom recovery
3. And simply just flash/install the magisk uninstaller.zip, this will delete all magisk's files
4. Wipe Dalvik and cache (just in case)
5. Reboot
Method 3: dirty flash (for custom ROMs)
1. Uninstall magisk (follow method 2)
2. Get/download your custom ROM you are using (make sure it's the same ROM and version as the ROM you're using rn)
3. Flash it without wiping anything
4. Wipe Dalvik and cache (just in case, again)
5. Reboot
Method 4: reinstall/install your ROM, for custom ROMs users (I'm sorry i am not experienced with XiaomiFlashTool so i can't tell you how to flash stock ROM)
1. Backup all data cause this will erase all your data
2. Reboot to recovery
3. Uninstall magisk (follow method 2)
4. Wipe system, data, cache, Dalvik (the usual stuff you would wipe before installing a custom a ROM)
5. Install your chosen ROM
6. Wipe Dalvik and cache (just in case)
7. Reboot
If those methods above doesn't work you can try searching a tutorial on flashing the stock ROM on the internet, but if you still didn't manage to get your phone boot to the OS again then i am sorry to say that you have to take your phone to the nearest repair center.
So, what's the cause of this problem?
Well, it's simple, every human make mistakes, At least once. So it is normal to make mistakes. The developers are humans too so it is normal for them to make mistakes too, so instead blaming them we should support them and give them advice. But on the other side you may did a mistake too, probably a similar mistake that i did. Like maybe you did something wrong according to the tutorial, or you flashed an incompatible version of magisk, and etc. So from now on always ask if it's compatible, whether it's about magisk versions, ROM compatibility, kernel compatibility, recovery compatibility, and etc. And always double check just in case.
If i did something wrong tell me down below and I'll fix it as soon as possible.
Peace.
One quick little note: i fixed my device by doing a dirty flash (method 3) just to let you know
Edit: Phone won't boot after uninstalling magisk*, that was supposed to be title. Sorry I just realized sometimes ago

This happens to me all the time when flashing Android 11 ROMS. Curiously this doesn't happen when flashing Android 10 ROMs. I also never had this issue with TWRP, only OrangeFox.
But it could be other things too. For example, Xiaomi.eu 12.5 always go into a bootloop here, and trying to go back to any other ROM after flashing it leads to a boot loop. The fix is to flash disabled vbmeta if you're flashing xiaomi.eu 12.5. That might be the fix for A11 roms too but I never tried.
More than once it happened to me too that no matter what I did the phone would be stuck in bootloops with any ROM, any recovery. In that case, flashing stock rom via fastboot fixed the issue.

Stuck on spinning wheel after flashing Lineage and gapps

Hello,
I would like to install Lineage on my OnePlus5T, as the OxygenOS system does not seem to have an option for the Albanian language. Lineage does.
However, since Wednesday July 28, I have been trying and failing. Here are the steps:
1. Unlock bootloader (worked perfectly.)
2. Flash TWRP (No issue there either.)
3. Wipe Data, System, Dalvik, Cache (All okay so far...)
4. Flash Lineage and Gapps (both worked fine). I'm flashing lineage 18, with the pico gapps package for android 11.
5. Wipe dalvik and cache again, then reboot. But I got stuck on the spinning wheel. I had backed up all the data with TWRP, but apparently restoring it won't put me backk on OxygenOS. The backup must've been corrupted when copying to a computer.
I also erased system and vendor with fastboot, which wiped all else from the phone and then I tried again, still no luck.
I have tried flashing OxygenOS again, and that now gives me "zip trebble compatibility error, invalid zip file format".
But all partitions were empty, before flashing the system. What have I done wrong? Or what should/can I try to get the system installed?
Many thanks for any help... Sorry for the long message.

Hmm. Did you try without flashing GAPPS? How would your phone behave with system being flashed only?

dedq said:
Hmm. Did you try without flashing GAPPS? How would your phone behave with system being flashed only?
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I feel that could work. However, just before I do, I should ask, does Lineage have the core google apps already installed? Google play, etc? If so, I'll give that a try at my earliest convenience.
Many thanks for the help.

Lineage doesn't have anything related to Google. It's totally debloated.
Give flashing without GAPPS a try and you will be able to identify the problem.

dedq said:
Lineage doesn't have anything related to Google. It's totally debloated.
Give flashing without GAPPS a try and you will be able to identify the problem.
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If this works, how would I be able to get the google apps installed? Would I need to try a different gapps package, maybe?
Many thanks again, and sorry for all the questions.

First see if it works at all after flashing system and we will see after it.

Tobias101 said:
If this works, how would I be able to get the google apps installed? Would I need to try a different gapps package, maybe?
Many thanks again, and sorry for all the questions.
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It's always worth an attempt to boot after flashing system only. If your phone boots you should reboot to recovery and flash your Gapps. Hopefully your phone wool boot again then.

KeinePanik said:
It's always worth an attempt to boot after flashing system only. If your phone boots you should reboot to recovery and flash your Gapps. Hopefully your phone wool boot again then.
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Thank you so much, I'm going to give that a try when I can.

Hello,
The system booted without gapps, but didn't boot with it. So I downloaded the nano package, which was the only other available one for android 11, and it now works flawlessly.
Many thanks for all the help!