Times are changing for oneplus. Seems like software support will be worse in the years coming.
I love my oneplus 7T. It's nearly the perfect phone for me. Right now I'm on the latest open beta, rooted with arter97 kernel. Amazing experience. Could easily keep this phone for many more years to come..
But.. If official updates is lacking, we need proper ROMs, and a functional twrp and good dev support. Is there any chance this will change in the future? Or is official twrp dead?
To the developer community out there, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The biggest obstacle to a "functional TWRP" is the decryption issue that OnePlus will hopefully address. If that gets resolved, we should see the ROM community take off. I agree that the 7T is a phenomenal phone and damned near perfect. That being said, I'd give almost anything to see Paranoid Android on this phone!
Twrp works to flash roms. Try looking into GSI for now since the twrp we have now does not support oos backup but we have a few roms guys.
What is a proper ROM according to you?
There are very stables ROM in the development section.
And you don't need TWRP at all. Convenient sure, but absolutely not needed.
brisseau said:
To the developer community out there, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The biggest obstacle to a "functional TWRP" is the decryption issue that OnePlus will hopefully address. If that gets resolved, we should see the ROM community take off. I agree that the 7T is a phenomenal phone and damned near perfect. That being said, I'd give almost anything to see Paranoid Android on this phone!
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You can push the zip to /cache and flash fine. TWRP is not the reason for 'lack' development. An *actual* dev would have been able to build a ROM without any need of TWRP.
There are already good ROMs here in XDA, and you can find more on Telegram.
That being said, TWRP has made lots of progress on Android 10 and 11. Dynamic partitions should be fully handled, and fastbootd tools should be working too.
Just sync the sources alongside mauronofrios tree and test away.
As said upper, twrp is not an issue for devs, neither for us to flash roms
Amount of roms simply relies on the amount of people having this device. As OP released several phones (7, 7T, 7 pro), it seems normal we have less roms.
As a counterpart, Android's updates make it more easy to port roms, and most devices now share bigger part of dev tree.
AFAIK Paranoid Android 11 was just released on 8 & 8T.
7 & 7T will follow pretty soon, just be patient. Not every dev team has all devices to build up roms.
By the way, such topic won't change anything, maybe try financially supporting devs or learning to port roms by yourself.
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So I came back to the forum after 6 months and was pleasantly surprised by the number of custom roms available now. From the few (currently trending) threads I checked out, I see that either there are still some kind of bugs are still lingering or the dev abandoned the project or the thread was closed or ... I think you get the point. For this reason, I'd rather stick with the official stock rom but I never quite liked the bloatware (both mi and google) and google tracking. To maximise performance and battery life, I wish to clean my rom of all of these stuff or, if possible, install a pre-configured one.
I have some questions though:-
1. Best way to debloat?
Yes, I have tried adb uninstall command when I first got the phone but for some reason, that didn't work. I saw a recent guide on the forum for this purpose that I could try later.
2. Any experience with microG on MIUI?
I don't know if it's possible/working on MIUI roms since this is my first Xiaomi device.
3. Recommended custom ROM?
I may have missed out on all the good stuff during my absence. If you could recommend a rom you find the most stable and clean, even if it is AOSP, it would save me a lot of time.
Look, you are probably going to tell me that I could have done a bit more search on my own before posting here. The thing is, I have returned to the whole modding stuff after 4 years so lest I might break/mess up things, I deemed it more reasonable to ask here.
Hope someone sees this. Thank you.
You're looking for the exact same thing I did.
For me the solution was lineageos with microg, magisk, fdroid store + aurora store.
Lineageos has some minor bugs for me, as well as cameras not working properly.
Reason for most bugs in the most roms is probably that they are based on Android 10,
the devs will probably be able to solve all the bugs as soon as Xiaomi releases miui 12 for this device, which will be based on Android 10.
What you are looking for is probably miui EU rom.
You can easily debloat most of the unwanted sofware with "Xiaomi ADB/Fastboot tools".
Your problems with ADB probably has to do with SU priviligies.
If I remeber correctly you have to use Xposed framework in order to get microg running on miui, I could be wrong on this!
Hope this helps a bit!
SkogstaTarzan said:
You're looking for the exact same thing I did.
For me the solution was lineageos with microg, magisk, fdroid store + aurora store.
Lineageos has some minor bugs for me, as well as cameras not working properly.
Reason for most bugs in the most roms is probably that they are based on Android 10,
the devs will probably be able to solve all the bugs as soon as Xiaomi releases miui 12 for this device, which will be based on Android 10.
What you are looking for is probably miui EU rom.
You can easily debloat most of the unwanted sofware with "Xiaomi ADB/Fastboot tools".
Your problems with ADB probably has to do with SU priviligies.
If I remeber correctly you have to use Xposed framework in order to get microg running on miui, I could be wrong on this!
Hope this helps a bit!
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Thanks! I am more inclined to use vanilla Android than MIUI. At least now I know my desired setup is within the realm of possibility. Will surely give LineageOS a try.
First off shoutouts to all the devs here who have worked hard on their own or preferred custom roms.
Just curious to know why no one hasnt or no longer interested in having ParanoidAndroid on the 7T?
I reached out to them myself as they released their Quartz 5 and preparing for Android 11 and was surprised they not only responded back, but their response itself.
I appreciate any insight from any devs and before I get the sarcastic "well why don't you do it"... I wish I was as talented and awesome as you guys with a speck of knowledge like yall.
Thanks everyone
I agree, it's a shame that Paranoid Android isn't able to get any developers or moderators to help port it over. PA is, next to stock Oxygen OS, my favorite ROM.
It doesn't help that the 7T partition system makes it difficult to even get an "official" TWP installed (there is an unofficial version you can install but from what I've read, there are still a few minor issues with it). If an official TWRP happened, you'd likely see much more development for the 7T. Mad props to mauronofrio for all of the work he's done for the 7T. His All-in-one tool is awesome.
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I agree, it's a shame that Paranoid Android isn't able to get any developers or moderators to help port it over. PA is, next to stock Oxygen OS, my favorite ROM.
It doesn't help that the 7T partition system makes it difficult to even get an "official" TWP installed (there is an unofficial version you can install but from what I've read, there are still a few minor issues with it). If an official TWRP happened, you'd likely see much more development for the 7T. Mad props to mauronofrio for all of the work he's done for the 7T. His All-in-one tool is awesome.
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Yes indeed but it's not the Android 10 partition system on the 7t which is causing the issue. It's the fact that OnePlus won't fix the broken decryption on the 7t. Oneplus need to fix the issue then twrp will come. But they don't seem to be interested in supporting devices just churning out new ones.
Hello, I'm new here and couldn't find an existing thread for this question. Is it likely there will be a way to continue to get Android security patches/updates after Xiaomi discontinues support for this model (which may only last for 2 years according to https://www.mi.com/global/service/support/security-update.html)? Thank you.
Custom roms would be your best bet, they tend to continue support way after official ends
Thanks, will look into that.
Xiaomi will eventually end support yeah. When that happens, you should be able to unlock the bootloader and install an AOSP based ROM. Development will be extremely mature by that time so it will probably be an even better experience than the stock firmware
Great, good to know, thanks.
Dobsgw said:
Xiaomi will eventually end support yeah. When that happens, you should be able to unlock the bootloader and install an AOSP based ROM. Development will be extremely mature by that time so it will probably be an even better experience than the stock firmware
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I agree. Even now, with first few roms available experience is great!
There has been 0 talk about any ROMs or development for the OP9 and it's been over a month since release. Does anyone know if any developers are working on one??
The OP9 and OP9 Pro don't even have unofficial or official TWRP support yet, so a custom ROM is kinda out of the question until TWRP is on the devices. OP9 Pro literally just got it's first custom kernel 2 days ago. I don't know what the time frame is for custom ROM development but a lot of it hinges on getting TWRP support for the phones.
Side note: You said OP9 in the OP9 Pro forums so I'm gonna assume you were referring to the OP9 Pro. Regardless my statement about needing TWRP support first applies to both phones.
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The OP9 and OP9 Pro don't even have unofficial or official TWRP support yet, so a custom ROM is kinda out of the question until TWRP is on the devices. OP9 Pro literally just got it's first custom kernel 2 days ago. I don't know what the time frame is for custom ROM development but a lot of it hinges on getting TWRP support for the phones.
Side note: You said OP9 in the OP9 Pro forums so I'm gonna assume you were referring to the OP9 Pro. Regardless my statement about needing TWRP support first applies to both phones.
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TWRP is absolutely not necessary and will most likely never come out for later OP devices, including the 9, unless they figure out the decryption problem. See the 8's etc, plenty of dev and none of the TWRP.
Regarding dev, it's happening, but no need for discussion here until something is at least in a semi-stable beta build.
craznazn said:
TWRP is absolutely not necessary and will most likely never come out for later OP devices, including the 9, unless they figure out the decryption problem. See the 8's etc, plenty of dev and none of the TWRP.
Regarding dev, it's happening, but no need for discussion here until something is at least in a semi-stable beta build.
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I apologize for my lack of knowledge of what happened in the OnePlus 8 scene as I didn't have that phone. I came from the 6T. But looking through the 8, 8 Pro, and 8T forums, it seems a custom recovery is still needed for custom ROMs. Only difference was the custom recovery was provided by the ROM Dev and not TWRP.
It's early in the game.... will be happening!
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There has been 0 talk about any ROMs or development for the OP9 and it's been over a month since release. Does anyone know if any developers are working on one??
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We don't have a TWRP build yet, I've been looking to build one but there's a problem with Android Image Kitchen which should hopefully be fixed soon, I'm guessing that's why no-one else has built a recovery. You can read more about it here.
Custom roms are kinda a non-starter without TWRP (or another custom recovery)
OnePlus has been messing up with their source for a while now too, not to mention that we're still getting regular updates to the original release which might mess with kernels too.
We might be another month before you'll start seeing enough stability to start getting custom roms.
EDIT : Looks like AIK might be working properly now, gonna have a look and see if I can get a TWRP build working, although there's no other phones with the same resolution so that might be a problem to get some resources. LG G3 has a similar resolution but not exactly the same, it's very important for the touchscreen setup for TWRP or else the buttons on screen won't be where you're actually tapping.
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For anyone else who fancies trying their hand at it, there's a porting guide here.
To add to what @craznazn said, a custom recovery isn't 100% necessary for custom ROMs. The 7T didn't require it to flash any, as a fastboot method is doable. Developing them is another story, though. Some custom ROMs were based on OOS, while AOSP ones still had some bases from OOS (YAAP, for example, was a Pixel-themed ROM but required you to have OOS11, in some shape or form, installed prior to flashing it because it needed vendor files and so on.
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We don't have a TWRP build yet, I've been looking to build one but there's a problem with Android Image Kitchen which should hopefully be fixed soon, I'm guessing that's why no-one else has built a recovery. You can read more about it here.
Custom roms are kinda a non-starter without TWRP (or another custom recovery)
OnePlus has been messing up with their source for a while now too, not to mention that we're still getting regular updates to the original release which might mess with kernels too.
We might be another month before you'll start seeing enough stability to start getting custom roms.
EDIT : Looks like AIK might be working properly now, gonna have a look and see if I can get a TWRP build working, although there's no other phones with the same resolution so that might be a problem to get some resources. LG G3 has a similar resolution but not exactly the same, it's very important for the touchscreen setup for TWRP or else the buttons on screen won't be where you're actually tapping.
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For anyone else who fancies trying their hand at it, there's a porting guide here.
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The Samsung Galaxy S20, and S20 Plus have a very close resolution to the OP9P
OP9P: 1440x3216
SGS20/SGS20+: 1440x3200
And they already have an unofficial twrp build too.
SGS20/SGS20+ TWRP:
[RECOVERY][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP for Galaxy S20 Series (Snapdragon)
Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and...
forum.xda-developers.com
Hope this helps.
GreaterLesser said:
The Samsung Galaxy S20, and S20 Plus have a very close resolution to the OP9P
OP9P: 1440x3216
SGS20/SGS20+: 1440x3200
And they already have an unofficial twrp build too.
SGS20/SGS20+ TWRP:
[RECOVERY][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP for Galaxy S20 Series (Snapdragon)
Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and...
forum.xda-developers.com
Hope this helps.
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Sorry to say. But portions are what we are talking about. Resolution has no bearing on getting TWRP working. Ex op7tpro
toolhas4degrees said:
Sorry to say. But portions are what we are talking about. Resolution has no bearing on getting TWRP working. Ex op7tpro
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Portions...? As in dimensions? It is true the screens are different sizes, as well.
In regards to OP's post that there's been 0 development talk, well, not exactly zero, as unlocking and rooting, as well as conversion from T-Mobile to global, enabling dual-SIM, and the MSM and QPST tools needed for such, have been ongoing for some time. There's no custom ROMs, sure, and I get that a custom kernel was just released, but a massive part of development is simply discussion, throwing around ideas, research, testing, etc. It also helps if more devs happen to purchase our particular device (and thankfully this is something we won't have to worry about for long). It's worse when a device gets little to no development because it simply isn't popular enough to warrant much development. I do get the sentiment that it's been a while, but I guess we'll just have to be patient.
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Portions...? As in dimensions? It is true the screens are different sizes, as well.
In regards to OP's post that there's been 0 development talk, well, not exactly zero, as unlocking and rooting, as well as conversion from T-Mobile to global, enabling dual-SIM, and the MSM and QPST tools needed for such, have been ongoing for some time. There's no custom ROMs, sure, and I get that a custom kernel was just released, but a massive part of development is simply discussion, throwing around ideas, research, testing, etc. It also helps if more devs happen to purchase our particular device (and thankfully this is something we won't have to worry about for long). It's worse when a device gets little to no development because it simply isn't popular enough to warrant much development. I do get the sentiment that it's been a while, but I guess we'll just have to be patient.
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Partitions sorry typo. Also they just released kernel sources not very long ago. In order to build you need these. The dev here had this up and running on his device for a while, but just like ROM devs the first two or three bases they make are not for public and take a long time to work out bugs. Secondly twrp is not required to flash a custom ROM did it via fastboot on my op7tpro. Development is up to owners. You have an unlocked bootloader and kernel sources. If everyone is *****in about development start developing. Download a Linux distro or wubi and and build one for the community. Everyone *****es and doesn't contribute.
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Partitions sorry typo
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Ahhh. That makes more sense now.
GreaterLesser said:
The OP9 and OP9 Pro don't even have unofficial or official TWRP support yet, so a custom ROM is kinda out of the question until TWRP is on the devices. OP9 Pro literally just got it's first custom kernel 2 days ago. I don't know what the time frame is for custom ROM development but a lot of it hinges on getting TWRP support for the phones.
Side note: You said OP9 in the OP9 Pro forums so I'm gonna assume you were referring to the OP9 Pro. Regardless my statement about needing TWRP support first applies to both phones.
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Op8 doesn't even have a working twrp for A11 yet. So that's not it at all. Twrp does nothing for our devices as far as roms or kernels. You flash a kernel through a kernel manager and All the roms flash through fastboot & fastbootd. That's def not it. But it will however take time. We need msm tools prior to messing with things anyway. Or we will all be in a brick like state. And a main dev for aospa which is Paranoid Android has a 9 . That will be soon I'm guessing.
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Op8 doesn't even have a working twrp for A11 yet. So that's not it at all. Twrp does nothing for our devices as far as roms or kernels. You flash a kernel through a kernel manager and All the roms flash through fastboot & fastbootd. That's def not it. But it will however take time. We need msm tools prior to messing with things anyway. Or we will all be in a brick like state. And a main dev for aospa which is Paranoid Android has a 9 . That will be soon I'm guessing.
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Thanks - Someone already explained this earlier.
hello everyone, i want to buy this devie but as i see i cant install twrp!
if i can ask why? is it bc of oneplus or no devs to do it? also thx for all devs
i buy the phone for customs and roms and twrp and rooting and this things, this is my priorities
and is this device fully supported for development? any twrp coming soon?
and what about customs here? is they easy to install?
is this device good for gaming and daily use?
Evon88 said:
hello everyone, i want to buy this devie but as i see i cant install twrp!
if i can ask why? is it bc of oneplus or no devs to do it? also thx for all devs
i buy the phone for customs and roms and twrp and rooting and this things, this is my priorities
and is this device fully supported for development? any twrp coming soon?
and what about customs here? is they easy to install?
is this device good for gaming and daily use?
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What device and firmware?
TheGhost1951 said:
What device and firmware?
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i want to buy normal OP9P
Evon88 said:
i want to buy normal OP9P
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The OnePlus 9 pro is good for customizing!
@Evon88, the fact is, TWRP hasn't been updated to properly support Android 12, at least not on the 9 Pro, and I'm beginning to suspect that it never will be. IMHO, it looks to me like encryption and other issues introduced by Google have simply gotten the best of the TWRP team. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, and will be pleasantly surprised if TWRP is updated to work with Android 12 and above, but right now, that remains in the realm of wishful thinking.
The good news is that the recoveries included with most Android 12 ROMs (based on the AOSP recovery) are functional, and are capable of doing the minimum work of flashing new ROMs and upgrades (i.e. Magisk and Gapps) just like TWRP. They certainly don't have the wealth of features that TWRP has (such as the ability to wipe only the data partition without erasing the media partition; it's either all or nothing), but then, they weren't designed to have them. I keep hoping that someone will take the AOSP recovery and use it as a base for a recovery that includes more of TWRP's features. (I'd do it if I had the knowledge. I'm knowledgeable enough to poke at AOSP and cherry pick features to create a custom ROM, but the intimate knowledge required to work with the recovery code is something I don't have.)
Evon88 said:
hello everyone, i want to buy this devie but as i see i cant install twrp!
if i can ask why? is it bc of oneplus or no devs to do it? also thx for all devs
i buy the phone for customs and roms and twrp and rooting and this things, this is my priorities
and is this device fully supported for development? any twrp coming soon?
and what about customs here? is they easy to install?
is this device good for gaming and daily use?
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You can in fact install and boot TWRP. But you can't do almost anything in it... But this isn't OP9P problem but every phone with Android 12 and encryprion enabled. But as other said, TWRP isn't needed for flashing custom ROMs.
Evon88 said:
i want to buy normal OP9P
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Don't let lack of twrp hold you back. It's a fun phone. I use it for gaming (CODM) on Android 11.2.10.10 just fine. I may end up flashing an old build of crDroid for Android 11 but I'm pretty happy with how everything is set up on regular OOS now and don't want to lose L1 and start back over.
Unlocked bootloader✓
Root/Magisk✓
SafetyNet✓
Netflix, GPay, Banking apps✓
L1 Widevine✓
Real OOS✓
65w charging✓
120hz LTPO✓
No Dual Sim
The tmobile variant is still for sale on ebay at $469 brand new in the box or from OnePlus directly (also Tmo variant) for $499
MJPollard said:
@Evon88, the fact is, TWRP hasn't been updated to properly support Android 12, at least not on the 9 Pro, and I'm beginning to suspect that it never will be. IMHO, it looks to me like encryption and other issues introduced by Google have simply gotten the best of the TWRP team. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, and will be pleasantly surprised if TWRP is updated to work with Android 12 and above, but right now, that remains in the realm of wishful thinking.
The good news is that the recoveries included with most Android 12 ROMs (based on the AOSP recovery) are functional, and are capable of doing the minimum work of flashing new ROMs and upgrades (i.e. Magisk and Gapps) just like TWRP. They certainly don't have the wealth of features that TWRP has (such as the ability to wipe only the data partition without erasing the media partition; it's either all or nothing), but then, they weren't designed to have them. I keep hoping that someone will take the AOSP recovery and use it as a base for a recovery that includes more of TWRP's features. (I'd do it if I had the knowledge. I'm knowledgeable enough to poke at AOSP and cherry pick features to create a custom ROM, but the intimate knowledge required to work with the recovery code is something I don't have.)
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Bugscze said:
You can in fact install and boot TWRP. But you can't do almost anything in it... But this isn't OP9P problem but every phone with Android 12 and encryprion enabled. But as other said, TWRP isn't needed for flashing custom ROMs.
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There's a user/team on the >OnePlus 6 & 6T forums<, that has had success with Android 12 and 13 decrypt, I use it on my 6T, and decrypt works flawlessly, I use it to flash Magisk when changing/updating ROMs.
It's Unofficial however, I hope it trickles to other devices.
Appreciative said:
Don't let lack of twrp hold you back. It's a fun phone. I use it for gaming (CODM) on Android 11.2.10.10 just fine. I may end up flashing an old build of crDroid for Android 11 but I'm pretty happy with how everything is set up on regular OOS now and don't want to lose L1 and start back over.
Unlocked bootloader✓
Root/Magisk✓
SafetyNet✓
Netflix, GPay, Banking apps✓
L1 Widevine✓
Real OOS✓
65w charging✓
120hz LTPO✓
No Dual Sim
The tmobile variant is still for sale on ebay at $469 brand new in the box or from OnePlus directly (also Tmo variant) for $499
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thank you sir, what about chinese version? u recommend it? im pro at rooting and customs and msm, if the problem is just roms, i see used chinese new mobile, u recommend me to buy?
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MJPollard said:
@Evon88, the fact is, TWRP hasn't been updated to properly support Android 12, at least not on the 9 Pro, and I'm beginning to suspect that it never will be. IMHO, it looks to me like encryption and other issues introduced by Google have simply gotten the best of the TWRP team. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, and will be pleasantly surprised if TWRP is updated to work with Android 12 and above, but right now, that remains in the realm of wishful thinking.
The good news is that the recoveries included with most Android 12 ROMs (based on the AOSP recovery) are functional, and are capable of doing the minimum work of flashing new ROMs and upgrades (i.e. Magisk and Gapps) just like TWRP. They certainly don't have the wealth of features that TWRP has (such as the ability to wipe only the data partition without erasing the media partition; it's either all or nothing), but then, they weren't designed to have them. I keep hoping that someone will take the AOSP recovery and use it as a base for a recovery that includes more of TWRP's features. (I'd do it if I had the knowledge. I'm knowledgeable enough to poke at AOSP and cherry pick features to create a custom ROM, but the intimate knowledge required to work with the recovery code is something I don't have.)
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thank you bro for explain, what do you think about chinese OP9P? i can change the rom, 5G i dont care that much, anthing else? is quality the same like hardware and plastic and fiber and this things? i mean phone body and screen
Bugscze said:
You can in fact install and boot TWRP. But you can't do almost anything in it... But this isn't OP9P problem but every phone with Android 12 and encryprion enabled. But as other said, TWRP isn't needed for flashing custom ROMs.
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thanks, <3
Evon88 said:
thank you sir, what about chinese version? u recommend it? im pro at rooting and customs and msm, if the problem is just roms, i see used chinese new mobile, u recommend me to buy?
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All of them are made in china and I think will be good quality OnePlus phone. I don't know if they use anything different (except rom). You can change from colorOS to oxygenOS
twrp not needed
vincemue said:
twrp not needed
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Needed, maybe not. Desired, definitely. It can do a lot of things that the stock and AOSP recoveries simply can't (to name just one: it can wipe data without wiping storage, as I mentioned above; stock/AOSP recoveries' "factory reset" wipe destroys everything).
MJPollard said:
@Evon88, the fact is, TWRP hasn't been updated to properly support Android 12, at least not on the 9 Pro, and I'm beginning to suspect that it never will be. IMHO, it looks to me like encryption and other issues introduced by Google have simply gotten the best of the TWRP team. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, and will be pleasantly surprised if TWRP is updated to work with Android 12 and above, but right now, that remains in the realm of wishful thinking.
The good news is that the recoveries included with most Android 12 ROMs (based on the AOSP recovery) are functional, and are capable of doing the minimum work of flashing new ROMs and upgrades (i.e. Magisk and Gapps) just like TWRP. They certainly don't have the wealth of features that TWRP has (such as the ability to wipe only the data partition without erasing the media partition; it's either all or nothing), but then, they weren't designed to have them. I keep hoping that someone will take the AOSP recovery and use it as a base for a recovery that includes more of TWRP's features. (I'd do it if I had the knowledge. I'm knowledgeable enough to poke at AOSP and cherry pick features to create a custom ROM, but the intimate knowledge required to work with the recovery code is something I don't have.)
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I was on LE2127_11_C20 A12 with tarp and root.......the mail reason it worked was no lock screen security. I did try with setting a password is be cause a script to try and make partitions R/W but that put me in a bootloader loop. Went back to 11.2.9.9..
Did you follow a YouTube tutorial step by step guide to see if you made any mistakes?
dartballs said:
Did you follow a YouTube tutorial step by step guide to see if you made any mistakes?
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Who are you asking?
Appreciative said:
Don't let lack of twrp hold you back. It's a fun phone. I use it for gaming (CODM) on Android 11.2.10.10 just fine. I may end up flashing an old build of crDroid for Android 11 but I'm pretty happy with how everything is set up on regular OOS now and don't want to lose L1 and start back over.
Unlocked bootloader✓
Root/Magisk✓
SafetyNet✓
Netflix, GPay, Banking apps✓
L1 Widevine✓
Real OOS✓
65w charging✓
120hz LTPO✓
No Dual Sim
The tmobile variant is still for sale on ebay at $469 brand new in the box or from OnePlus directly (also Tmo variant) for $499
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The Indian variant has dual SIM. Maybe some others variants, too.