Development Paranoid Android Topaz Beta 1 - Poco F3/Mi 11X/ Redmi K40

[OmkarTheAndroid]

We are very excited to announce the first beta of Paranoid Android Topaz, based on Android 13.

On the first launch, you’ll notice a clean setup with beautiful wallpapers from Hampus Olsson, who teamed up with us again to create several beautiful pieces of artwork. Hampus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose design stands for itself and we’re glad to have him onboard. We also added further UI touches that we believe enhance the overall user experience. You can find all of the Paranoid Android wallpapers and many more in the Abstruct app from the PlayStore.

Our builds are based on the Code Linaro Android base, which is optimized for Qualcomm platforms and has a higher degree of performance, battery life, and functionality compared to the Android Open Source Project platform. The Paranoid Android team and contributors are focusing on squashing existing bugs, and implementing and improving features, performance, and stability. We are dedicated to providing a user experience with the stability that you can expect from stock ROMs with best-in-class performance and features to help you get the most out of your device.


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Device-specific issues
Does not have HBM mode

Requirements

Make sure you've latest platform tools for Android.
Make sure you've installed latest Android 12 based firmware from your region.

Download

You can always get our Alpha builds from our website Paranoid Android website

Note: GMS is included and custom kernels are NOT supported the kernel says it supports PA!

Instructions

Fastboot Method

• Make sure your data is backed up
• Unlock your bootloader, and in bootloader mode follow the next command
  fastboot format:f2fs --fs-options=casefold,projid,compress userdata (Wipes the entire device as well as userdata)
  fastboot update aospa-topaz-beta-*-image.zip
• Reboot to system

Recovery Method

• Reboot to Recovery.
• Factory reset.
• Install PA zip package.
• Reboot to system

Changelogs

Keep an eye on our Twitter account, @paranoidaospa, as we will be posting about new features getting included in the release builds, as well as links to betas for those devices that will get them. For more detailed information please have a look at the second post of this thread of each build changelog on the website.

Kernel Source

Important / Useful links
Paranoid Android Twitter
Paranoid Android Channel (Telegram)
Paranoid Android Download Channel (Telegram)
Paranoid Android Community (Telegram)

 

[avguser23]

Great job! But why did you include GMS?

 

[exodius48]

kernel source link is error

 

[Badger50]

Kernel Source

Important / Useful links

Yes, as stated above. Your kernel source link appears to be broken. Please remedy this at your earlier convenience. Thank you.

-Regards: Badger50

 

[dlearin]

I've been through many ROMs since I bought my poco and I can say, without any doubt, that this is the most stable and battery saver. Thanks a lot, dev!

 

[Veiranx]

I've been through many ROMs since I bought my poco and I can say, without any doubt, that this is the most stable and battery saver. Thanks a lot, dev!

Have you tried Arrow OS? Do you know how this handles compared to that?

 

[LuisPinheiro98]

Have you tried Arrow OS? Do you know how this handles compared to that?

Paranoid it's more stable and has better battery life, Arrow has a bit more features. I really hope we get pass the "beta" phase this time, this rom is among the legendary ones and it's a prime example of what a custom rom should be.

 

[dlearin]

Have you tried Arrow OS? Do you know how this handles compared to that?

Yes, ive tried It (was my daily ROM at a12.1 so thought would be the same with a13) but have found aospa more stable (no headphone problems when received a call, less idle drain, fixed round corners, etc)

The only thing that i miss is the hbm.

 

[wesleysf55]

Excellent ROM! but only few notification and call ringtones working, others are causing error and crash.

BUG REPORT. Thanks for the work!

 

[HidekiRyuga]

Aospa Alioth Supremacy.

 

[mi_guel]

Yes, ive tried It (was my daily ROM at a12.1 so thought would be the same with a13) but have found aospa more stable (no headphone problems when received a call, less idle drain, fixed round corners, etc)

The only thing that i miss is the hbm.

I cannot agree more, I'm sticking with this ROM for a while, my only issue is that I can't hide the pill bar, even with magisk and for some reason orange fox is not working with the rom

 

[Ultraschorsch]

Can you please share what's not working with orange fox? I think about moving to PA and I'm currently using orange fox as recovery. Thank you!

I cannot agree more, I'm sticking with this ROM for a while, my only issue is that I can't hide the pill bar, even with magisk and for some reason orange fox is not working with the rom

 

[mi_guel]

Can you please share what's not working with orange fox? I think about moving to PA and I'm currently using orange fox as recovery. Thank you!

So it's kinda weird, I first tried to install the rom with orange fox and got stuck in the splash screen, then installed the rom from fastboot, all good but I tried to do fastboot boot to orange fox and just got stuck in a black screen, fastboot boot worked with TWRP but could not mount system so flashing magisk failed, but patching the boot image and flashing it from fastboot worked, so I'm using the rom and it's rooted but with no custom recovery

 

[DarthJabba9]

So it's kinda weird, I first tried to install the rom with orange fox and got stuck in the splash screen, then installed the rom from fastboot, all good but I tried to do fastboot boot to orange fox and just got stuck in a black screen, fastboot boot worked with TWRP but could not mount system so flashing magisk failed, but patching the boot image and flashing it from fastboot worked, so I'm using the rom and it's rooted but with no custom recovery

Did you format the data partition after flashing the ROM from recovery?

 

[mi_guel]

Did you format the data partition after flashing the ROM from recovery?

Yes, before and after, tried a couple of times, if you wanna flash from recovery I would sugest to use the rom's stock recovery

 

[Ultraschorsch]

Did anyone succeed flashing this through recovery? If so, what recovery did you use?

Thank you for sharing!

 

[DarthJabba9]

Yes, before and after, tried a couple of times, if you wanna flash from recovery I would sugest to use the rom's stock recovery

Well, I flashed it successfully with OrangeFox (my current working build - I haven't tried with the latest released version, but I don't see how that would make a difference).

I guess that the trick is to format data before flashing the ROM, and, immediately after flashing the ROM, reboot OrangeFox (ignoring any errors that might be shown), and then format data again. Then reboot to system (again ignoring any errors be shown).

BTW: I flashed it successfully two different times, just to satisfy myself that the first success wasn't a fluke (it wasn't a fluke).

 

[Ultraschorsch]

Well, I flashed it successfully with OrangeFox (my current working build - I haven't tried with the latest released version, but I don't see how that would make a difference).

I guess that the trick is to format data before flashing the ROM, and, immediately after flashing the ROM, reboot OrangeFox (ignoring any errors that might be shown), and then format data again. Then reboot to system (again ignoring any errors be shown).

BTW: I flashed it successfully two different times, just to satisfy myself that the first success wasn't a fluke (it wasn't a fluke).

Sorry to bother you but do you think I could just boot into R11.1_1_5_A12 and install ofox after booting into it?

 

[DarthJabba9]

Sorry to bother you but do you think I could just boot into R11.1_1_5_A12 and install ofox after booting into it?

It doesn't seem that you can "fastboot boot" a recovery at all on this ROM.

You might have to flash it via "fastboot flash boot recovery.img", and then run "fastboot reboot recovery".

BTW: why would you want to use a Beta 11.1_1_5_A12 release that has been superseded by a subsequent Stable release?

 

[Ultraschorsch]

It doesn't seem that you can "fastboot boot" a recovery at all on this ROM.

You might have to flash it via "fastboot flash boot recovery.img", and then run "fastboot reboot recovery".

BTW: why would you want to use a Beta 11.1_1_5_A12 release that has been superseded by a subsequent Stable release?

Thanks for your reply, that´s what I learned as well. You can´t fastboot boot any recovery on PA yet. I didn´t try fastboot flash yet since everything else works pretty fine and installing my phone from scratch again is something I try to avoid for at least a month now

Regarding the beta build: I wasn´t aware of the stable release. I had the beta image file somewhere and gave it a try.