[ROM] [11] [TREBLE] [OFFICIAL] AncientROM-Society/Weaboo V5.7 for Nokia 8 [NB1] [Discontinued]

[marceldossantos91]

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

AncientOS is Custom ROM based on AOSP that aims to provide a unique UI with some useful feautures for customization.

Here are the features which AncientOS provides.

[LIST]
[U][B]Ancient Stuff:[/B][/U]
[•]Refined UI with several OneUI touches and an old vibe with intricate patterns in the Settings App.
[•]Lots of status Bar mods.
[•]Lots of new Status bar icons.
[•]Lots of Headers Styles.
[•]Lots of new Headers Clocks and Date Styles.

[U][B]STATUSBAR:[/B][/U]
[•]Statusbar icons.
[•]Traffic indicators.
[•]4G Icon Instead of LTE.
[•]VoLTE icon toggle.
[•]Clock Customization.
[•]Battery Customization.
[•]Battery Bar.
[•]Old mobile type indication.
[•]Statusbar padding preferences.
[•]Battery percentage while changing.

[U][B]Navigation Bar:[/B][/U]
[•]Navbar invert layout.
[•]Enable/Disable Navbar.

[U][B]QUICK SETTINGS:[/B][/U]
[•]QS brightness slider position.
[•]Battery percentage selection.
[•]Auto brightness icon toggle.
[•]Brightness control buttons.
[•]Quick pulldown option.
[•]Kill app button.
[•]Vibrate on touch.
[•]Blur behind QS.
[•]QS panel Opacity.
[•]Tint QS toggles.
[•]Battery Customization.
[•]QS Header.

[U][B]LOCKSCREEN:[/B][/U]
[•]Lots of new Clocks
[•]Lots of Fonts for Lock, Date and Owner Info.
[•]Lots of new Date styles.
[•]Charging info.
[•]Fingerprint Authentication Vibration.
[•]Unlock keystore with fingerprint after reboot.
[•]Lockscreen Weather.
[•]Lockscreen visualizer.
[•]Lockscreen media art and Blur customization.
[•]Disable Quick Settings panel on secure lockscreen.
[•]Lockscreen charging animation.

[U][B]BUTTONS:[/B][/U]
[•]H/W keys customization.
[•]H/W buttons backlight customizations.
[•]Power Light control.

[U][B]NOTIFICATIONS:[/B][/U]
[•]Headsup Customizations.
[•]Incall Vibrations.
[•]Less boring Headsup.
[•]Headsup snooze & timeout option.

[U][B]MISC:[/B][/U]
[•]Three Finger Screenshot.
[•]Wake on plug.

[U][B]Others:[/B][/U]
[•]Doubletap or longpress power to toggle flashlight.
[•]Vibrate in in-call settings.
[•]RGB Accent picker.

[/LIST]

Updated to ancient V5.6 sources
Changed to selinux enforcing

ROM: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ancientrom/files/NB1

Recovery: https://github.com/GPUCode/android_device_nokia_NB1-TWRP/releases/tag/v3.5.2

Ensure that T-Virus is flashed and that you already have a working TWRP recovery working before proceeding with this build, do NOT attempt to flash this with TWRP while you are on stock ROM as it may hard brick your device, you have been warned!
if you need assistance in flashing T-virus do not hesitate to join our telegram group.

Clean Flash:
1. Take a full backup of both your data and internal storage as they will need to be wiped
2. Download the ROM from above link
3. Download TWRP recovery installer from above link
4. flash the twrp recovery installer in TWRP and reboot to recovery, please do not use older TWRP versions.
5. Flash the ROM zip in the TWRP provided and then flash recovery-installer.zip again.
6. Reboot to recovery from the reboot menu in recovery
7. Format Userdata from TWRP using the format data option
8. Install Google apps [optional], and any other mods you wish to have
9. reboot to system and enjoy!

Installing an OTA (Dirty flash):
1. Download the updated ROM zip and take a full backup of internal storage, just in case.
2. in TWRP flash the updated ROM zip and recovery-installer.zip then reboot to recovery
3. Flash Gapps again if you had previously installed it
4. Wipe dalvik cache
5. Reboot to system and enjoy!

[known bugs list]
- Offline charging animation does not work
- Loudspeaker is loud and may create some echo in calls
- Bluetooth APTX/LDAC is broken, but SBC works fine
- sometimes decryption fails in TWRP for OTA and it requires data format (hopefully solved soon)

For support and bug reporting, please join our telegram group:

Nokia 8/Sirocco (Global 🌐)

A community built group for Nokia 8/Sirocco. Only discussions about this device is allowed 😤 Tho, Little off topic is fine

t.me

Me for building the rom and being a maintainer
@emufan4568 for the NB1 vendor tree, official maintainer for AncientOS, atomix kernel and TWRP.
@oaid for contribution to vendor tree and atomix kernel and countless hours of bug fixing
@AncientOS team for the ROM
@keneankit01 for the ancient sources and making it possible to build for the NB1
@THMSP for T-virus
all users in our telegram groups that helped us contribute and find bugs as well as sent us logs.

if i missed anyone in credits please let me know and ill add you to this list.

AOSP
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SuperiorOS
DotOS
PixelExperience
AospExtended
Syberia OS
Nitrogen OS
Pixys OS
ArrowOS
MSM-Xtended
HavocOS
BootleggersROM
ABC
Rebellion
Komodo
Durex aka Corvus
DerpFest
Evolution-X
OMNIROM
AOSIP
Liquid Remix
Resurrection Remix
Dirty Unicorns
Bliss
ExtendedUI
AICP
MoKee
RevengeOS
Yodita
POSP
ION
crDroid
GZOSP
Colt-Enigma

AncientOS Source
Ancient-Device Sources

Telegram Group
Telegram Channel

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[rashazad]

Yeah that's it...
Thanks all you.
By the way, people who like me don't know, weeabo and society versions meanings are:
Society = Aosp look n feel
Weaboo = Anime Look n feel based on Aosp Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is twrp official @emufan4568?
And what about separate kernel file since it is needed for rooting?

P.S.: at step, after flashing new recovery, data should be wiped so twrp can decrypt. otherwise names will be nonsense.

 

[yukixoma]

Thank you so much!

 

[marceldossantos91]

Yeah that's it...
Thanks all you.
By the way, people who like me don't know, weeabo and society versions meanings are:
Society = Aosp look n feel
Weaboo = Anime Look n feel based on Aosp Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is twrp official @emufan4568?
And what about separate kernel file since it is needed for rooting?

P.S.: at step, after flashing new recovery, data should be wiped so twrp can decrypt. otherwise names will be nonsense.

Yes, society is the normal ancient version while weaboo is an anime skin mod, though the ROM has no differences otherwise.

the zip includes the kernel already. for root you need to flash magisk

 

[rashazad]

Completely functional, the best so far.
I have noticed these small problems since yesterday:
- oogle photos can't set wallpaper if go photos is disables.
- theming section is limited.
- brightness sometimes noticably reduces (and after a while comes back to set value).
- a few random reboots, glitches in transitions.
- stock launcher is buggy.
- some of action panel items aren't addressed right and lead to irrelevant places (sometimes don't open anything), this is the case mostly with ancientOS specific tiles.

 

[marceldossantos91]

Completely functional, the best so far.
I have noticed these small problems since yesterday:
- oogle photos can't set wallpaper if go photos is disables.
- theming section is limited.
- brightness sometimes noticably reduces (and after a while comes back to set value).
- a few random reboots, glitches in transitions.
- stock launcher is buggy.
- some of action panel items aren't addressed right and lead to irrelevant places (sometimes don't open anything), this is the case mostly with ancientOS specific tiles.

Would you mind to please PM me to my telegram and send me some logs of your issues so i could take a look? My username is same as in XDA, would be appreciated in order to confirm and resolve what you mentioned.

Thanks

 

[rashazad]

Would you mind to please PM me to my telegram and send me some logs of your issues so i could take a look? My username is same as in XDA, would be appreciated in order to confirm and resolve what you mentioned.

Thanks

I'm sorry to say that I don't use telegram (or any other social stuff expect whatsapp). Though I can upload it somewhere suitable for you.
Where are the logs stored exactly?
Also the bug I faced earlier is that
- Camera recorded videos are very low quality

P.S. I: unfortunately the phone stopped on "phone is starting" after modifications I made (all through ROM settings). Even safe mode didint solve the problem and I had to make a factory reset. So the logs are lost I suppose. I am gonna make it all over again and will provide logs whenever you wish. Hope to not face this problem again.

P.S. II: I am trying NikGapps now, stock version. Everything looks much better. Google photos problem is fixed. Double apps are perfectly replaced. And quite strange it is that camera records video in high quality...

 

[marceldossantos91]

I'm sorry to say that I don't use telegram (or any other social stuff expect whatsapp). Though I can upload it somewhere suitable for you.
Where are the logs stored exactly?
Also the bug I faced earlier is that
- Camera recorded videos are very low quality

P.S: unfortunately the phone stopped on "phone is starting" after modifications I made (all through ROM settings). Even safe mode didint solve the problem and I had to make a factory reset. So the logs are lost I suppose. I am gonna make it all over again and will provide logs whenever you wish. Hope to not face this problem again.

No problem. Please upload the logs somewhere preferable to you then or can attach here.

You can take logs with root using matlog on the device (free from play store) or simply from adb on pc with: adb logcat > log.txt and then send through.

I will push an OTA soon in next few days, also please see if some are the issues are resolved then.

For camera try using gcam, the quality may be better.

To comment on some of the bugs you mentioned though:

- gallery go is included in ROM, and is the default gallery, if you flash stock gapps with photos it should not face this issue, otherwise just keep it enabled and hide it from your launcher
- what about ancient launcher is buggy?
- random reboots, when does it occur? I know some settings overlap and it does do that if it faces a systemUI crash but it should not otherwise do so.
- how are theming options limited? They are pretty endless, if you talking actual themes not many roms have many, but you can fully customize them and their backgrounds, transparency, blurs, use monet engine etc.
- some of the tile icons missing actions is unfortunately at the sources, not much i can really do about them.
- auto brightness does not seem related, i dont believe any other users have reported this issue, may be device specific?

 

[rashazad]

No problem. Please upload the logs somewhere preferable to you then or can attach here.

You can take logs with root using matlog on the device (free from play store) or simply from adb on pc with: adb logcat > log.txt and then send through.

I will push an OTA soon in next few days, also please see if some are the issues are resolved then.

For camera try using gcam, the quality may be better.

To comment on some of the bugs you mentioned though:

- gallery go is included in ROM, and is the default gallery, if you flash stock gapps with photos it should not face this issue, otherwise just keep it enabled and hide it from your launcher
- what about ancient launcher is buggy?
- random reboots, when does it occur? I know some settings overlap and it does do that if it faces a systemUI crash but it should not otherwise do so.
- how are theming options limited? They are pretty endless, if you talking actual themes not many roms have many, but you can fully customize them and their backgrounds, transparency, blurs, use monet engine etc.
- some of the tile icons missing actions is unfortunately at the sources, not much i can really do about them.
- auto brightness does not seem related, i dont believe any other users have reported this issue, may be device specific?

That's fine. I will do so.
About problems:
- that's right. I used openGapps pico first time and installed photos from store. This time, flashed nikGapps stock, and also disabled gallery go. Everything works fine.
- I remember choosing some of options in its settings caused ot to crash.
- random reboots occured at first hours when I wat setting the phone.
- theming options are MASSIVE, yeah. I mean the theming that is selectable from launcher which changes grids and so. crDroid was different.
-
- this time, brightness ia working fine.

Huge thanks.
Attached file is magisk patched boot image of the rom for those who need it.

 

[CitizenZer0]

Any chance someone could make a guide for a dumb guy like me to follow?

I've read that I have to flash T-Virus and TWRP.

Is there a order for me to flash?

I really would like to flash this on my phone but I'm afraid of bricking it. I've looked around on YouTube and there aren't any good guides for Nokia 8.

Many thanks in advance!

 

[emufan4568]

Any chance someone could make a guide for a dumb guy like me to follow?

I've read that I have to flash T-Virus and TWRP.

Is there a order for me to flash?

I really would like to flash this on my phone but I'm afraid of bricking it. I've looked around on YouTube and there aren't any good guides for Nokia 8.

Many thanks in advance!

There's a very detailed step by step guide on the Telegram group.

 

[emufan4568]

That's fine. I will do so.
About problems:
- that's right. I used openGapps pico first time and installed photos from store. This time, flashed nikGapps stock, and also disabled gallery go. Everything works fine.
- I remember choosing some of options in its settings caused ot to crash.
- random reboots occured at first hours when I wat setting the phone.
- theming options are MASSIVE, yeah. I mean the theming that is selectable from launcher which changes grids and so. crDroid was different.
-
- this time, brightness ia working fine.

Huge thanks.
Attached file is magisk patched boot image of the rom for those who need it.

Can you comment on the battery life? This release is focused on battery efficiency and I would like some conformation from users about the new saving features that were added. Also are you running on selinux permissive or enforcing build?

 

[rashazad]

Can you comment on the battery life? This release is focused on battery efficiency and I would like some conformation from users about the new saving features that were added. Also are you running on selinux permissive or enforcing build?

This phone is old, so I don't bet on its battery. But last night's use can be a good example for battery life.
I got 3 hours of screen-on time while I was using duolingo, chrome, online dictionary and VPN on 4G+ cell network. All those apps are battery killers. Also I used brighter screen and set "switch pixels to prevent ghosting" on 10 mintues. And since I forgot to delete those useless apps from NikGapps (like velvet, well-being! etc) all are consuming battery, not to mention other things like weather, sync and so on.
Finally the phone reached 3.5 SOT and 7 hours of on time.
Over night, consumption was just a few percentage.
My settings says it's enforcing. I didn't see any other build (like permissive). This was the only option.

 

[marceldossantos91]

That's fine. I will do so.
About problems:
- that's right. I used openGapps pico first time and installed photos from store. This time, flashed nikGapps stock, and also disabled gallery go. Everything works fine.
- I remember choosing some of options in its settings caused ot to crash.
- random reboots occured at first hours when I wat setting the phone.
- theming options are MASSIVE, yeah. I mean the theming that is selectable from launcher which changes grids and so. crDroid was different.
- that's odd. I have not seen missing icon anywhere!
- this time, brightness ia working fine.

Huge thanks.
Attached file is magisk patched boot image of the rom for those who need it.

Thanks

Can you comment on the battery life? This release is focused on battery efficiency and I would like some conformation from users about the new saving features that were added. Also are you running on selinux permissive or enforcing build?

The build is running selinux enforcing, as for battery many users say its more effecient than stock and based on our tests its pretty effecient. But NB1 batteries are old by now dont expect miracles

 

[CitizenZer0]

There's a very detailed step by step guide on the Telegram group.

I don't use Telegram, can anyone post here the step by step or some screenshots?

Appreciated!

 

[rashazad]

[how to install the ROM easily step by step]
Ensure that usb drivers of the phone are installed on windows (which probably are if the connection between the phone and the windows works) and you have unlocked the bootloader (and critical unlocked it).

- Reboot into bootloader (power the phone off; press and hold volume down rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing term "bootloader" on the upper left side of the screen).
- Install T-virus by NOST (the t-virus image released two days ago, is not what I have used and there is no post for it around here. It intends to make t-virus flashing independent of NOST and probably uses updated images. This instruction is for the links added here and works without any problem). Let the phone reboot into ROM.
- Reboot to recovery (power the phone off; press and hold volume up rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing twrp logo).
//Here you can find the phone's storage on your pc.
- Copy twrp package downloaded from first post to phone's storage.
//No need to disconnect the phone at any stage, better to stay connected. Do not attempt to install the ROM by that old twrp.
- Go to "install" section and select new twrp. Let it finish.
- Press home virtual button and go to "wipe" and select "format data" and type "yes". Not doing so, will make decryption problematic for the recovery and you will see nonsense names for folders in the storage. Besides, you won't be able to copy files.
- Press home and go to "reboot" and select "recovery". Phone reboots into new recovery.
//At this stage, you have the new recovery installed and are proceeding to install the ROM.
- Copy AncientOS package from pc to phone's storage.
- Select AncientOS from "install" section of the recovery. Let it finish. Press home button and select twrp from the same "install" section. Let it get done.
- Press home and go to "Wipe". Select "format data". Type "yes" and let it get done.
//At this stage, the ROM and updated twrp are installed and completely ready to use. If you don't want to install gapps, press home and select "reboot" and then "system". But if you want to install gapps, do the following.
- Copy gapps which you like (I am using nikGapps stock and it works perfectly. Avoid openGapps since it causes problems).
- Flash it from "install" section. Press home. Go to "wipe", swipe to "factory reset" and confirm it. Not doing the latter, creates some problems in syncing contacts later in the ROM.
- Press home. Go to "reboot" and select "system".
- Fully done.
//I installed nikGapps in a bit different way. I let the phone boot after flashing ROM and twrp. Rebooted into recovery and flashed nikGapps. Rebooted into ROM and factory reset from there. It actually reboots into recovery and does the reset by twrp. I don't believe there is a difference, but if you see any problems, feel free to inform.

I don't use Telegram, can anyone post here the step by step or some screenshots?

Appreciated!

Blew you can see some screenshots from ROM environment after some modifications.

 

[CitizenZer0]

[how to install the ROM easily step by step]
Ensure that usb drivers of the phone are installed on windows (which probably are if the connection between the phone and the windows works) and you have unlocked the bootloader (and critical unlocked it).

- Reboot into bootloader (power the phone off; press and hold volume down rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing term "bootloader" on the upper left side of the screen).
- Install T-virus by NOST (the t-virus image released two days ago, is not what I have used and there is no post for it around here. It intends to make t-virus flashing independent of NOST and probably uses updated images. This instruction is for the links added here and works without any problem). Let the phone reboot into ROM.
- Reboot to recovery (power the phone off; press and hold volume up rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing twrp logo).
//Here you can find the phone's storage on your pc.
- Copy twrp package downloaded from first post to phone's storage.
//No need to disconnect the phone at any stage, better to stay connected. Do not attempt to install the ROM by that old twrp.
- Go to "install" section and select new twrp. Let it finish.
- Press home virtual button and go to "wipe" and select "format data" and type "yes". Not doing so, will make decryption problematic for the recovery and you will see nonsense names for folders in the storage. Besides, you won't be able to copy files.
- Press home and go to "reboot" and select "recovery". Phone reboots into new recovery.
//At this stage, you have the new recovery installed and are proceeding to install the ROM.
- Copy AncientOS package from pc to phone's storage.
- Select AncientOS from "install" section of the recovery. Let it finish. Press home button and select twrp from the same "install" section. Let it get done.
- Press home and go to "Wipe". Select "format data". Type "yes" and let it get done.
//At this stage, the ROM and updated twrp are installed and completely ready to use. If you don't want to install gapps, press home and select "reboot" and then "system". But if you want to install gapps, do the following.
- Copy gapps which you like (I am using nikGapps stock and it works perfectly. Avoid openGapps since it causes problems).
- Flash it from "install" section. Press home. Go to "wipe", swipe to "factory reset" and confirm it. Not doing the latter, creates some problems in syncing contacts later in the ROM.
- Press home. Go to "reboot" and select "system".
- Fully done.
//I installed nikGapps in a bit different way. I let the phone boot after flashing ROM and twrp. Rebooted into recovery and flashed nikGapps. Rebooted into ROM and factory reset from there. It actually reboots into recovery and do the reset by twrp. I don't believe there is a difference, but if you see any problems, feel free to inform.

Blew you can see some screenshots from ROM environment after some modifications.

MVP!

Does that mean I don't have to build the T-Virus myself, just have to follow these instructions?

Many thanks again!

 

[rashazad]

MVP!

Does that mean I don't have to build the T-Virus myself, just have to follow these instructions?

Many thanks again!

Definitely not.
Just follow these instructions.
Also I can recommend reading comments in posts related to Nost, T-virus (and its revert, you're gonna need it!), how to critical unlock the bootloader (I hope you have done it before. If not, there is post around here about unlocking bootloader unofficial method since official method is no longer working).
Bricking the device is an inevitable part of this, but we all learnt it this way.

Best regards.

 

[CitizenZer0]

Definitely not.
Just follow these instructions.
Also I can recommend reading comments in posts related to Nost, T-virus (and its revert, you're gonna need it!), how to critical unlock the bootloader (I hope you have done it before. If not, there is post around here about unlocking bootloader unofficial method since official method is no longer working).
Bricking the device is an inevitable part of this, but we all learnt it this way.

Best regards.

I believe my phone already unlocked itself, I'll have to check about "critical unlock the bootloader".

 

[rashazad]

[Bug reoort]
Although stock camera records audio without problem (at the same time, images and videos have a lot of noise), other camera apps record it buggy. For one or two seconds, it is noisy and after that, it almost mutes. It seems that phone orientation is involved in the process too.
Tested on Open Camera, Gcamera 7.3, 7.2 and 6.2 of different developers.
@marceldossantos91 @emufan4568