[9.0][TREBLE]PixelExperience / PixelExperience Plus Pie [UNOFFICIAL]

[EmaMaker]

PixelExperience for Moto Z2 Play [albus]

What is this?

Pixel Experience is an AOSP based ROM, with Google apps included and all Pixel goodies (launcher, wallpapers, icons, fonts, bootanimation)

Our mission is to offer the maximum possible stability and security, along with essential features for the proper functioning of the device

Based on Android 9.0

Install stock oreo before installing Custom ROMs, see notes below for further info

Whats working?
Wifi
RIL
Mobile data
GPS
Camera
Flashlight
Camcorder
Bluetooth
Fingerprint reader
NFC
Lights
Sound / vibration
Moto Mods/Moto Snaps
Encryption
FM Radio

Known issues
VoLTE/VoWIFI
Moto Snap Hasselblad Zoom Camera
Moto Snap Projetor is unknown to work

DON'T FLASH GAPPS, ALREADY INCLUDED
Download PixelExperience from AFH
Download PixelExperience Plus from AFH
Telegram channelD
Z2 Play Custom ROMs Group
Z2 Play Global Group
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Instructions:
Always have a backup of the EFS partition made with TWRP stored somewhere, as you may lose IMEI. Restore it if you get 0 as IMEI when booted into the ROM.
Before installing, make sure oreo was the last stock ROM you installed. See notes below if you come from Stock Pie
Download Official TWRP from twrp.me
Flash the TWRP via fastboot
Enter TWRP, go to wipe menu and Wipe Dalvik, Cache, Data, System and Internal Storage.
In TWRP Wipe Menu, do Format Data, then reboot into recovery
Flash the latest build
Reboot

Notes
TWRP
If the touchscreen doesn't work when rebooting into recovery, press the power button twice to turn off and on the screen. The touchscreen will now work just fine.

GSIs
This LineageOS build ships with Project Treble compatibility (lite VNDK), meaning you can flash a GSI as System Image from TWRP. Please don't report GSI bugs here, report them instead to the GSI's maker. A Format Data from TWRP is required after flashing a GSI in order to avoid problems.
Technical details on our Treble implementation:
This device is a community-treble device, meaning other devs before us made it compatible with Project Treble (lite VNDK), using the oem partion as a vendor. GSIs still have some problems regarding cpu frequency scaling and camera. You have been warned.

Coming from stock pie?
For the sake of simplicity, I said that coming from stock oreo was needed. In reality you just need to flash the oreo modem files. There's a script that does exactly that, made by @juniorpassos: https://mega.nz/file/IRxjGDjL#vkdvh4JcMy-LuWgQz4rHhgpWV80029X4ql0_zcMpVug. The script will erase your userdata and cache.
Before starting this script, make sure you have a backup of your EFS partition stored somewhere safe, outside phone's internal storage. After the backup is done, you can reboot your phone into fastboot mode and start the script. Now reboot into TWRP, go into "Wipe" menu and Format Data. Now you can reboot into the ROM. If you get 0 as IMEI, or any other problem related to RIL, go into TWRP and restore the EFS backup made previously.

Wanna help?
If you find a problem or a bug, please share a logcat with us, alongside an explanation of the problem and steps to reproduce. We won't accept bug reporting without a logcat. Collect logcat with:

adb logcat -b all > logcat.txt

Thanks
Many thanks to @marcost22 for the pair-working we are doing in this adventure, to @davidsonsjesus for his work on KVT, to @jeferson1979 for his help and teaching. Thanks to all the testers that have helped us testing this ROM.

Sources
Device tree
Vendor tree
Kernel
ROM Source code: https://github.com/PixelExperience
ROM Developer: jhenrique09


XDA:DevDB Information
PixelExperience 9.0, ROM for the Moto Z2 Play

Contributors
EmaMaker, marcost22, rahulsnair, @erfanoabdi @vache @kubersharma @jeferson1979
ROM OS Version: 9.x Pie
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x
ROM Firmware Required: ALBUS_OPS27.76-12-25_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC
Based On: PixelExperience

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 9.0
Stable Release Date: 2020-09-27

Created 2020-09-27
Last Updated 2020-09-30

 

[EmaMaker]

Reserved

 

[EmaMaker]

Changelog
2020-12-08: Cleanup and uprev kernel (3.18.113->3
18.116). Update camera blobs: fix Electronic Image Stabilization, bring back laser focus sensor, fix recording in WhatsApp., fix issues with video recording in Snap cam Fix encryption and decryption (official twrp over at twrp.me is needed for this to fully work). SeLinux is now Enforcing. Update VNDK to full enforcement. Update graphics props. This is the final build for Android Pie 9.0. We will will soon start the Q bringup, and will not be building any Pie ROM anymore, unless some critical bug is discovered:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=317960
2020-09-26: Initial build https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=317960

 

[ramelco]

Great! The Z2 is still alive! What's the diference between the normal and the plus version?

 

[OldUncle]

Failed to mount '/data' (Invalid argument)
...done
Unable to mount storage

 

[EmaMaker]

Failed to mount '/data' (Invalid argument)
...done
Unable to mount storage

Enter TWRP and Format Data, then reboot to TWRP again. You may need to repeat this a couple of times

 

[EmaMaker]

Great! The Z2 is still alive! What's the diference between the normal and the plus version?

Normal version is plain PixelExperience. Plus version includes some tweaks we all like: a bit of customization for status bar and themes (dark theme included for system and notifications!), some gestures like the three-finger-screenshot, advanced restart and others. I think you can find more info on the PE website

 

[likehelly]

when i flash and then boot to system, it prompts me to enter a password, but...i don't have one.

edit: i have not gotten it to work. i just reflashed it.

when i did that, i wiped the cache and dalvik and all that, but rebooted back to bootloader, then ran the script (i came from 9.0 stock), and it flashed, everything rebooted, i got into the phone, and it doesn't think there's a cellular signal. the IMEI seems fine, it's the right string of numbers, but nothing i do will get it to actually register the sim is in.. or rather, it does read the sim. it knows what phone number is on it, but absolutely nothing else.

is this a case where i have to restore me EFI? when i try to do that, it tells me i failed to select a partition, but there's no partition to actually select...

 

[ramelco]

Tried re installing the script? Or flash the oreo modem file via fastboot

 

[likehelly]

Tried re installing the script? Or flash the oreo modem file via fastboot

yeah. i tried that, and then i even went back to stock 9.0 (no idea how to go back to 8, i've tried just flashing normally through fastboot like you do for 9, but it just doesn't work), flashed the 8.0 modem, nada. even on stock 9 i my cellular radio just doesn't seem to work.

in twrp, when i go to restore my EFS backup, it complains that there was no partition selected, but i don't actually get a partition to select. i honestly have no idea what the hell i did to achieve this, but i did.

edit: i was able to get the radio working in stock pie, by fastboot loading erase modemst1/st2 but that doesn't appear to work on this rom

edit 2: let me describe the steps i'm taking here. i boot into twrp, i wipe dalvik/cache, cache, system, data, storage, reboot back into twrp, format data and reboot back into twrp. flash the rom, reboot to bootloader, run the script, boot back into twrp and flash data.

i don't see anything i'm doing wrong, but maybe i am?

 

[marcost22]

yeah. i tried that, and then i even went back to stock 9.0 (no idea how to go back to 8, i've tried just flashing normally through fastboot like you do for 9, but it just doesn't work), flashed the 8.0 modem, nada. even on stock 9 i my cellular radio just doesn't seem to work.

in twrp, when i go to restore my EFS backup, it complains that there was no partition selected, but i don't actually get a partition to select. i honestly have no idea what the hell i did to achieve this, but i did.

edit: i was able to get the radio working in stock pie, by fastboot loading erase modemst1/st2 but that doesn't appear to work on this rom

edit 2: let me describe the steps i'm taking here. i boot into twrp, i wipe dalvik/cache, cache, system, data, storage, reboot back into twrp, format data and reboot back into twrp. flash the rom, reboot to bootloader, run the script, boot back into twrp and flash data.

i don't see anything i'm doing wrong, but maybe i am?

Why would you go back to stock pie, when the instructions clearly say stock Oreo. There's a tutorial on the forums and everything, flashing any version of stock is the same procedure, you just need the specified Oreo version listed in the firmware section of the OP. Not that hard