[guide] steps to flash gsi on redmi note 7

[letsmakecakes]

[GUIDE] STEPS TO FLASH GSI ON REDMI NOTE 7 [lavender]​

Many of us tried Flashing GSI on our Redmi Note 7 but failed due to various reasons even though it is absolutely bugless for Redmi Note 7 .
Here are the steps which i will mention below that will let us use the full potential of GSI.

Requirements :

• Bootloader Unlocked
• TWRP Installed
• Ofcourse a working device

Installation Method :

• First of all we need the flash the latest chinese beta rom.It gets updated everyweek. Since I have the cn rn7 i prefer to update the vendor partition everyweek for fixes and latest updates.But you can try on your stable rom too (I can't gurantee if things will work out on stable rom or not) .So, first of all be on china beta rom.
• Go to fastboot mode and connect your pc to your device .You need to have installed xiaomi drivers to make this work properly. Once you are in fastboot ,open a terminal/cmd and type : fastboot -w ( this will erase your existing system partition and data and internal storage too , so make sure to have a backup if you have something essential on ur device)
• Now considering that we have already downloaded a gsi i.e a phh GSI ..now for this case we are gonna assume its aosp as an example.. while in the fastboot mode type : fastboot flash system system.img ( here system.img(it can be of different name too) is the gsi img which you download from phh thread).
• Remember : once the flash is completerd reboot to TWRP and not to system.
• Once you are in twrp , flash magisk ( flash magisk latest canary as it has support for system as root devices) then press on wipe button of twrp,,,then advanced wipe..then tick mark on system and you will see repair or change file system option.Click on it..Click on repair and resize file system.
• Now go to mount settings and mount system partition. Now you can flash gapps if you want .
• After flashing gapps finally reboot to system
• Voila! After in about 5 mins you will be booted to GSI rom

Post Installation Method :

• You will have almost everything working after booting into gsi except you will run into brightness bug which you can fix by the following way
• Connect your device with pc and enable mass storage
• open a cmd/terminal on ur pc
• type the following codes : adb shell
  su ( in this case you will have to give permission from your device ; grant it)
  setprop persist.sys.qcom-brightness 4095
• Congragulations Now you have installed a gsi perfectly on your device
  

In this way you can flash almost all the gsi available on phh thread Hope this clarifies all of our problems.
Hit Thanks if I helped you somehow with this

 

[PROdelision]

shouldn't you be flashing disable_encrypt zip too?

 

[chiplovez9x]

repair or change file system option.Click on it..Click on repair and resize file system. I don''t get this one. There are a few options inside

 

[letsmakecakes]

shouldn't you be flashing disable_encrypt zip too?

No, its not required.

repair or change file system option.Click on it..Click on repair and resize file system. I don''t get this one. There are a few options inside

Make sure you have allowed modifications on system partition and also you dont have system as read only.

 

[martin_ni]

Does fingerprint working on GSI?

 

[bryanngapopala]

what is gsi?

 

[Forever Alone]

I don't know much but gsi means u can flash almost all roms (which have images). And most of ROMs do have gsi images.. So u can install any rom on your phone. I don't know the steps to do so.. ?

 

[fufus]

what is gsi?

Simple speaking it's a image with clear android from google

 

[pryggi]

Has anyone tested RR PIE GSI on RN7? Does it work?

 

[ahadrox]

Is it possible to boot Android O GSI? :silly:

 

[PROdelision]

No, its not required.

here's everything i did:
on miui beta.....already encrypted.
did fastboot -w
flashed latest RR gsi via fastboot
booted to twrp, flashed magisk(v19), repair and resize
reboot
asks for decryption password

where exactly am i going wrong?
able to boot if im using decrypt zip but lockscreen doesnt work.

 

[Gamma Ray]

Is the. Method the same for the global version with global rom?

 

[ahadrox]

[GUIDE] STEPS TO FLASH GSI ON REDMI NOTE 7 [lavender]​

Many of us tried Flashing GSI on our Redmi Note 7 but failed due to various reasons even though it is absolutely bugless for Redmi Note 7 .
Here are the steps which i will mention below that will let us use the full potential of GSI.

Requirements :

• Bootloader Unlocked
• TWRP Installed
• Ofcourse a working device

Installation Method :

• First of all we need the flash the latest chinese beta rom.It gets updated everyweek. Since I have the cn rn7 i prefer to update the vendor partition everyweek for fixes and latest updates.But you can try on your stable rom too (I can't gurantee if things will work out on stable rom or not) .So, first of all be on china beta rom.
• Go to fastboot mode and connect your pc to your device .You need to have installed xiaomi drivers to make this work properly. Once you are in fastboot ,open a terminal/cmd and type : fastboot -w ( this will erase your existing system partition and data and internal storage too , so make sure to have a backup if you have something essential on ur device)
• Now considering that we have already downloaded a gsi i.e a phh GSI ..now for this case we are gonna assume its aosp as an example.. while in the fastboot mode type : fastboot flash system system.img ( here system.img(it can be of different name too) is the gsi img which you download from phh thread).
• Remember : once the flash is completerd reboot to TWRP and not to system.
• Once you are in twrp , flash magisk ( flash magisk latest canary as it has support for system as root devices) then press on wipe button of twrp,,,then advanced wipe..then tick mark on system and you will see repair or change file system option.Click on it..Click on repair and resize file system.
• Now go to mount settings and mount system partition. Now you can flash gapps if you want .
• After flashing gapps finally reboot to system
• Voila! After in about 5 mins you will be booted to GSI rom

Post Installation Method :

• You will have almost everything working after booting into gsi except you will run into brightness bug which you can fix by the following way
• Connect your device with pc and enable mass storage
• open a cmd/terminal on ur pc
• type the following codes : adb shell
  su ( in this case you will have to give permission from your device ; grant it)
  setprop persist.sys.qcom-brightness 4095
• Congragulations Now you have installed a gsi perfectly on your device
  

In this way you can flash almost all the gsi available on phh thread Hope this clarifies all of our problems.
Hit Thanks if I helped you somehow with this

Which GSI should be needed to take? A-only or A/B ?

 

[pryggi]

here's everything i did:
on miui beta.....already encrypted.
did fastboot -w
flashed latest RR gsi via fastboot
booted to twrp, flashed magisk(v19), repair and resize
reboot
asks for decryption password

where exactly am i going wrong?
able to boot if im using decrypt zip but lockscreen doesnt work.

I have no experience with GSI images, but I know in general that PIE breaks the encryption, if you roll back the security patch level. I don't know it this happened in your case, but I have lost couple of times my encrypted storage when I have tried to restore a backup of rom with older android patch level. After that, the bootup encryption pin is no longer accepted, neither by android nor by twrp, so the only option is to format data to remove encryption and start from scratch.

Were your miui beta and rr gsi of the same android security patch level?

 

[Forever Alone]

Getting WRONG PIN error after setting up pin ???

 

[satadi]

[GUIDE] STEPS TO FLASH GSI ON REDMI NOTE 7 [lavender]

Many of us tried Flashing GSI on our Redmi Note 7 but failed due to various reasons even though it is absolutely bugless for Redmi Note 7 .
Here are the steps which i will mention below that will let us use the full potential of GSI.

Requirements :
Bootloader Unlocked
TWRP Installed
Ofcourse a working device


Installation Method :
First of all we need the flash the latest chinese beta rom.It gets updated everyweek. Since I have the cn rn7 i prefer to update the vendor partition everyweek for fixes and latest updates.But you can try on your stable rom too (I can't gurantee if things will work out on stable rom or not) .So, first of all be on china beta rom.
Go to fastboot mode and connect your pc to your device .You need to have installed xiaomi drivers to make this work properly. Once you are in fastboot ,open a terminal/cmd and type : fastboot -w ( this will erase your existing system partition and data and internal storage too , so make sure to have a backup if you have something essential on ur device)
Now considering that we have already downloaded a gsi i.e a phh GSI ..now for this case we are gonna assume its aosp as an example.. while in the fastboot mode type : fastboot flash system system.img ( here system.img(it can be of different name too) is the gsi img which you download from phh thread).
Remember : once the flash is completerd reboot to TWRP and not to system.
Once you are in twrp , flash magisk ( flash magisk latest canary as it has support for system as root devices) then press on wipe button of twrp,,,then advanced wipe..then tick mark on system and you will see repair or change file system option.Click on it..Click on repair and resize file system.
Now go to mount settings and mount system partition. Now you can flash gapps if you want .
After flashing gapps finally reboot to system
Voila! After in about 5 mins you will be booted to GSI rom


Post Installation Method :
You will have almost everything working after booting into gsi except you will run into brightness bug which you can fix by the following way
Connect your device with pc and enable mass storage
open a cmd/terminal on ur pc
type the following codes : adb shell
su ( in this case you will have to give permission from your device ; grant it)
setprop persist.sys.qcom-brightness 4095
Congragulations Now you have installed a gsi perfectly on your device



In this way you can flash almost all the gsi available on phh thread Hope this clarifies all of our problems.
Hit Thanks if I helped you somehow with this

Hi!

Did you not disable dm-verity and force-encryption?

Another question, the dev MIUI roms contain both the system and vendor partitions, right? How do you install only the vendor partitions from them? Or do you just flash MIUI and then reflash the custom ROM system? In that case, won't that affect dm-verity and encryption on the data partition?

 

[LionHeart90]

Flashing correctly a GSI like in this guide; with vendor ecc ecc, will gcam work? Actually i'm on stock MIUI 10 and obv all working fine with a perfect version. My doubt is it.

 

[satadi]

Getting WRONG PIN error after setting up pin ???

Did you not erase your /data partition through TWRP?

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Getting WRONG PIN error after setting up pin ???

Did you not erase your /data partition through TWRP?

 

[Michaelw7]

any recommended gsi rom with no bug?

 

[Forever Alone]

Did you not erase your /data partition through TWRP?
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Did you not erase your /data partition through TWRP?

I did wipe userdata but not internal storage. heard its because i have unencrpyed data partition?