Hi guys, I just bought OP7 and I have some questions.
Personally I'm not a noob to the phone customization scene as I've been using custom roms for close to two years now, but I'm an absolute noob on OnePlus and the whole A/B stuff. I really need to clear some of my doubts before I go forward coz I don't want to destroy my phone. xD
Okay, here we go.
1. About the A/B partitions, I read somewhere that when we update the stock rom, it will fill one partition, and the next update will fill the other.
a. Is this true?
b. How do we know if either slot has the newer update version?
c. Is it possible to make both slots share the same version of stock rom?
2. About flashing custom recovery, root, and custom roms.
a. I read that it's an absolutely must to root the phone after flashing custom recovery or else the phone wont boot. Is this true?
b. I personally don't need root. Do I still have to flash magisk whenever I flash custom roms?
c. Can we actually flash rom+gapps without actually flashing a custom recovery (Like: boot recovery, format data, flash rom, reboot to fastboot, boot recovery again, flash gapps, format data, reboot system)?
Thank you advance!