Development Paranoid Android Topaz 6 - Nothing phone (1)

[MarcoReckless]

Other than some lag in the beginning (probably due to me charging while transferring data, probably causing even more heat and making it throttle), now it's smooth as expected, the only real problem I'm facing is not being able to record videos in chat apps (ex. WhatsApp).

 

[Taylorsay]

Other than some lag in the beginning (probably due to me charging while transferring data, probably causing even more heat and making it throttle), now it's smooth as expected, the only real problem I'm facing is not being able to record videos in chat apps (ex. WhatsApp).

What about Snapchat? Also are you a tiktok user? My refresh rate is capped at 60 in nothing os with no way to stop it. Is it 120 on PA?

 

[MarcoReckless]

What about Snapchat? Also are you a tiktok user? My refresh rate is capped at 60 in nothing os with no way to stop it. Is it 120 on PA?

PA has a dynamic toggle in the display settings, but I opted for the developer option toggle which always keeps it at 120.
I don't use Snapchat and TikTok so I can't really talk about those.

 

[SoulKeeper1994]

Does anyone know how to go back to the original Nothing phone (1) firmware?

 

[Taylorsay]

Does anyone know how to go back to the original Nothing phone (1) firmware?

I went back to eaa from another rom. Was a ballache. I found a tutorial from an Indian guy on YouTube. Has to flash some **** in fastboot and the rest in fastbootd I think.

 

[gamal001]

Sir,

some apps can detect that the bootloader unlocked, any way to prevent that's without using root?

 

[MarcoReckless]

Sir,

some apps can detect that the bootloader unlocked, any way to prevent that's without using root?

I'm not 100% sure, but that should be the new Play Integrity API, if that's the case you can't really bypass it (at least for now) because it checks the bootloader status.

 

[gamal001]

I'm not 100% sure, but that should be the new Play Integrity API, if that's the case you can't really bypass it (at least for now) because it checks the bootloader status.

I'm not 100% sure, but that should be the new Play Integrity API, if that's the case you can't really bypass it (at least for now) because it checks the bootloader status.

actual one app (government app) when installing and starting run coming message "This application can not run on rooted devices".
the other applications are running okay.

 

[MarcoReckless]

actual one app (government app) when installing and starting run coming message "This application can not run on rooted devices".
the other applications are running okay.

I'm aware of that, not all apps have implemented it (I can use my banking apps just fine, they all still use SafetyNet) and not all the apps that have implemented it have the same requirement (you can have MEETS_BASIC_INTEGRITY as a requirement for example and still be able to use the app on a rooted device, as long as the developer doesn't implement the MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY requirement you should be good).
I assume you already have the SafetyNex fix and you hid the apps through Magisk? Because I'm able to use all the apps that require SafetyNex just fine, I didn't even need the MagiskHide Props module.

 

[SoulKeeper1994]

I went back to eaa from another rom. Was a ballache. I found a tutorial from an Indian guy on YouTube. Has to flash some **** in fastboot and the rest in fastbootd I think.

Can you provide a little more detailed information?

 

[Taylorsay]

Can you provide a little more detailed information?

Honestly no. I spent hours that night trying to just flash whatever I could to get it working again. I must've flashed about 15 times.

I can't remember the video I used but it's possible it could have been the unbrick/downgrade/revert video from 4utech. It has about 500 views. I skimmed through it and it looked like the process I did. I'd start there. Make sure you have the eea version. I think I started on 1.1.3 and did ota after it was all done

 

[MarcoReckless]

I found these issues so far:
- Unable to record videos in chat apps (can send them properly if I record them using the system camera)
- The screen doesn't wake up sometimes (I can't wake up the screen unless I tap power twice, this doesn't happen if I use double tap to wake and AOD is already disabled, the power button works properly only shortly after turning it off so it's probably some idle/powersaving thing)
- Special permissions are randomly resetting (from what I've seen this bug is related to Android 13 and not PA itself, many posts report this in the Android 13 beta and it applies only to the special ones such as managing files, I ticked the option to avoid resetting them but it gets ignored, it's not related to reboots but it happens every once in a while)

Other than these ones, the ROM is running properly, I'm looking forward to the beta.

This one and this one are the posts that I've seen where the permission issues was reported.

 

[SoulKeeper1994]

Is there no NFC button on the control panel? I use NFC usefully, but I can't set the NFC button in the control panel while using that rom. I always use NFC with Bluetooth - NFC -ON &OFF Please improve!

 

[gamal001]

Permission for some application reset, this issue I faced.

 

[MarcoReckless]

Permission for some application reset, this issue I faced.

I'm afraid this is a general Android issue, I'm having the same on stock (1.1.6 A12) and I had the same problem on custom (PA Alpha 3 A13).

 

[gamal001]

I'm afraid this is a general Android issue, I'm having the same on stock (1.1.6 A12) and I had the same problem on custom (PA Alpha 3 A13).

Did you get this issue with pixyos or ricedroid ?

 

[MarcoReckless]

Did you get this issue with pixyos or ricedroid ?

No, but it has been reported on Pixel phones too (especially on Android 13), so it's not related to the ROM, I've done a bit of testing and it's not related to reboots either, it's tied to app updates (not sure which app in particular but it's a system app).

 

[RivalTin]

Congrat' for developers, Topaz 3 for Phone (1) is even better than stock OS in my opinion. UDFPS is much faster than stock rom and there are fewer bugs in this custom OS. My special fav' is glyph flashlight wich is a brilliant feature. The only 2 things I wanna see in the future: the stock camera integration (difficult to perform) and the fully working glyph functions. Thank you for your work, guys.

 

[SoulKeeper1994]

My phone (1) had wifi issues from the stock rom.

The signal strength comes out normally, but when I actually use Wi-Fi, the speed becomes very, very slow after a while, and each time I had to turn Wi-Fi off and then turn it on again.

(Even after going through this process, the actual Wi-Fi operating time at normal speed did not exceed 1 minute.)

I tried to send A/S, but the distance was too far, and I gave up because there was no answer even when I inquired on the official page.

I've tried all custom roms, and all of them had problems with WiFi, and the only custom rom that my WiFi worked normally was Topaz Alpha 3.

I don't know how the developer solved this problem, or where there is a difference from Topaz Alpha 3 in the case of other custom roms, but I really wanted to tell the developer this.

Thanks to the developers of Topaz Alpha 3.

Without the Topaz Alpha 3, I wouldn't have been able to afford my data bill.

 

[drashlex]

My phone (1) had wifi issues from the stock rom.

The signal strength comes out normally, but when I actually use Wi-Fi, the speed becomes very, very slow after a while, and each time I had to turn Wi-Fi off and then turn it on again.

(Even after going through this process, the actual Wi-Fi operating time at normal speed did not exceed 1 minute.)

I tried to send A/S, but the distance was too far, and I gave up because there was no answer even when I inquired on the official page.

I've tried all custom roms, and all of them had problems with WiFi, and the only custom rom that my WiFi worked normally was Topaz Alpha 3.

I don't know how the developer solved this problem, or where there is a difference from Topaz Alpha 3 in the case of other custom roms, but I really wanted to tell the developer this.

Thanks to the developers of Topaz Alpha 3.

Without the Topaz Alpha 3, I wouldn't have been able to afford my data bill.

For me too, this is the only ROM that solved my WiFi problem