H8314 firmware on an SO-05K model possible?

[David-538]

Yep, apart from the camera, from my brief test everything worked as it should.

Hi what recovery did you use? And did need to pay something when unlocking the bootloader?

 

[drychemical]

Hi what recovery did you use? And did need to pay something when unlocking the bootloader?

I used the Lineage OS 19.1 Recovery, which works with SO-05K (but not the ROM itself unfortunately). Although I think(?) you can still use the stock recovery. You only need to access fastboot to flash the ROM anyway. Just going

fastboot -w
fastboot flash system [name of treble img]

should work.
Unfortunately yes I did have to pay to unlock the bootloader, 'twas very skeptical but yeah it did work. You should be able to find the software you need with some digging.

 

[David-538]

I used the Lineage OS 19.1 Recovery, which works with SO-05K (but not the ROM itself unfortunately). Although I think(?) you can still use the stock recovery. You only need to access fastboot to flash the ROM anyway. Just going

fastboot -w
fastboot flash system [name of treble img]

should work.
Unfortunately yes I did have to pay to unlock the bootloader, 'twas very skeptical but yeah it did work. You should be able to find the software you need with some digging.

Thanks for the quick reply btw. Okay so everything gets flashed via fastboot basically? What if one uses twrp, does it get wiped after every reboot or something? This is my first a/b device lol...

 

[drychemical]

Thanks for the quick reply btw. Okay so everything gets flashed via fastboot basically? What if one uses twrp, does it get wiped after every reboot or something? This is my first a/b device lol...

It shouldn't get wiped after every reboot with TWRP, though to be honest I barely use TWRP now as it isn't too useful for me if it can't unencrypt Android 12. But yeah, you should be fine doing everything via fastboot flashing-wise. (Unless you want root access, in which case I just patched the Lineage OS recovery with Magisk, and that worked fine.)

 

[David-538]

It shouldn't get wiped after every reboot with TWRP, though to be honest I barely use TWRP now as it isn't too useful for me if it can't unencrypt Android 12. But yeah, you should be fine doing everything via fastboot flashing-wise. (Unless you want root access, in which case I just patched the Lineage OS recovery with Magisk, and that worked fine.)

Ok, but one can just patch the boot.img itself after having successfully flashed and booted the gsi system/vendor images right? But how did you patch the recovery anyway? Did just extract it contents and patched a particular file, via the magisk app? r I'm asuming that recoveries contain boot images, but could be very wrong just confirmation...

Edit: What vendor did you use also?

 

[drychemical]

Ok, but one can just patch the boot.img itself after having successfully flashed booted the gsi image right? But how did you patch the recovery anyway? Did just extract it contents and patched a particular file, via the magisk app? r I'm asuming that recoveries contain boot images, but could be very wrong just confirmation...

You need the recovery file itself to patch with magisk, then you can just go

fastboot flash boot [magisk patched img]

The reason I patched the Lineage OS recovery instead of the recovery that ships with the SO-05K is because I couldn't get the boot.img from the firmware, so it was just easier for me to patch the Lineage OS one instead.
Also you can do that after installing the GSI, yes.

 

[David-538]

You need the recovery file itself to patch with magisk, then you can just go

fastboot flash boot [magisk patched img]

The reason I patched the Lineage OS recovery instead of the recovery that ships with the SO-05K is because I couldn't get the boot.img from the firmware, so it was just easier for me to patch the Lineage OS one instead.
Also you can do that after installing the GSI, yes.

Okay, thanks

 

[kufuska23]

hi, you all started well, but got diverted and ended without any solutions. my only question is... is there any custom rom for SO-05K?

 

[drychemical]

hi, you all started well, but got diverted and ended without any solutions. my only question is... is there any custom rom for SO-05K?

To my knowledge, there are none.
I have also tried the SODP and Lineage OS 19.1 ROMs despite them not supporting SO-05K and unsurprisngly they did not work either.
The only option is either just using stock or using a Treble ROM (which does not support the camera).

 

[kufuska23]

To my knowledge, there are none.
I have also tried the SODP and Lineage OS 19.1 ROMs despite them not supporting SO-05K and unsurprisngly they did not work either.
The only option is either just using stock or using a Treble ROM (which does not support the camera).

why no custom rom developers are not helping in this regard? is it posible to create any custom rom for this Japanese model SO-05K? is there any restriction in creating one?

 

[santi_pers]

alguien probo esto?

 

[asdf2345]

Not sure if I can get a global ROM installed, but does anyone have this phone bootloader unlocked and able to use TWRP? I have something I'd like to test.