[ROM][CFW][10][begonia] Pixel Experience [OFFICIAL][AOSP]

[nkiriazopoulou]

There is nothing wrong with it..

It doesn't find lg or Samsung smart tvs. Any idea how to enable wireless display? Thank you.

 

[$Ayush$]

Bro suggest the best gcam

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Bro suggest the best gcam

Known bugs to me ;-
Phone app
Fingerprint

 

[hr.mihaylov]

Can we expect future update?

 

[Compass Linux]

UnOfficial Noob Guide - Last Updated July 28, 2020)

This is how I got it to work. There may be superfluous steps. All the outlines I found lacking because they were written by Android Genius Gods and they can't relate to us mere mortals. There are countless DEAD links, and flat out WRONG directions pointing people on endless goose chases looking for files that "should" be there and aren't. Anyways, I finally found them all and got it working. Use at your own risk yada yada. As of the writing of this text (2020.07.28), the fingerprint sensor is dodgy and I'm still trying to figure out how to make Google Pay work. I'm sure there are other issues, but I haven't found them.

Prep Work

I don't trust Xiaomi, their business model is selling user data to make up for cheap hardware. And I hate the User Interface. And I hate the bloatware. Let's eliminate all those problems by putting something nice and clean on it, like Pixel Experience. This is how you do that. So when you get your phone,

1. Get Mi Account here: https://account.xiaomi.com/pass/register?_locale=en

2. Turn on the phone, go through the preliminary wizard install stuff, unchecking everything you can, etc. Don't sign in to your Google Account. Go to "Settings" - "Mi Account" and log in to your account. Put your sim card in, you will need to have it TEXT verified. Once done with all these prep-work steps, take the sim card out and put it back in your old phone while you wait a week. (this phone requires you to wait 1 week (168 hours) before you can unlock it.)

3. To make sure you are doing this right, (and don't have to wait 2 weeks instead of 1) download & unzip the Mi Unlock tool from here: https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html. (I used miflash_unlock-en-4.5.707.49.zip)

4. Try to run "miflash_unlock.exe" > Agree > sign in > and Unlock your phone, it should start giving you the countdown of 168 hours to go. This is stupid and unavoidable. I know. Just make sure it's all set and counting down. Yes, you can check this anytime and see the new number of hours remaining.

3. While you're in the settings, get into developer mode by tapping the Miui Version number many times until it says "You are now a developer."

4. Turn off all your security settings (pattern, passwords, face rec, etc) (important)

5. Go into Settings > Advanced Settings > Developer Mode. Turn on USB debugging and turn on OEM Unlock.

6. Find out what version of Android Miui you are operating on. To do this go to Settings, About phone. Take a Screenshot (volume down & power) you may need these numbers later. If you are operating on Android 9.xx, this is good. For me personally, I had MIUI Global 11.0.6.0 PGGMIXM & 9 PPR1.180610.011

(6a. If you are on Android 10.x you will need to downgrade to 9.0.
A. Download & install MiFlash tool from here: https://www.xiaomiflash.com/download .
B. Download compatible “FASTBOOT” firmware here: https://xiaomifirmware.com/roms/miui-roms-redmi-note-8-pro-begonia/ make sure you grab the fastboot version.
C. Download & install Universal ADB Drivers from here: https://adb.clockworkmod.com/
D. Unzip the file with 7-Zip.
E. Run the MiFlash tool, set your folder to your firmware folder. Choose “clean all” in the bottom right-hand corner.
F. Click FLASH.
Done. )

7. Put your sim card back in your old phone and enjoy the last week with your phone. Backup your stuff however you want to. If you've signed in to Google's services (drive, contracts, photos, etc), it should be all there. You can check here. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/backups Note the date. If you are doing it to your existing phone, just plan on losing all your data plan accordingly. For me all the data on the microSD card was untouched.

8. Now that the 168 hours are up, run again "miflash_unlock.exe" > Agree > sign in > and Unlock your phone, it should work now.

Download Work
(Obviously download the latest version if they have it - I put the exact file name for the files I used for reference)

9. Download and unzip into a handy folder the latest "Download SDK Platform-Tools for Windows" (I used platform-tools_r30.0.3-windows.zip at time of writing) from here (https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools)

10. Download & install Universal ADB Drivers from here: https://adb.clockworkmod.com/ (I used UniversalAdbDriverSetup.msi) Make sure the drivers work. (You can see your Phone in Device Manager)

In no particular order: (Put these 3 files somewhere handy, you will be moving them over to the phone eventually)

11. Download the latest Pixel Experience Plus from here https://download.pixelexperience.org/begonia (I used PixelExperience_Plus_begonia-10.0-20200714-2146-OFFICIAL.zip)

12. Download begonia-A10-CFW_20200530.zip from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/begonia-oss/files/CFW/begonia-A10-CFW_20200530.zip/download

13. Download Magisk-v20.4.zip from here: https://magisk.me/zip/

Put ALL the rest of these files below in your handy folder from step 1 (/platform-tools)

14. Download lk.img & preloader_begonia.bin from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=32337

15. Download TWRP for Xiaomi Redmi note 8 Pro from here: https://twrp.me/xiaomi/xiaomiredminote8pro.html (I used twrp-3.4.0-0-begonia.img)

16. Download twrp-CFW-3.3.1-0-begonia_UNOFFICIAL_0506.img from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82752783&postcount=141

Installing Work
17. On the PC, open up a command prompt (CMD). Navigate to your handy folder from Download Work Step 1 above. (/platform-tools). Plug in your phone. Make sure windows sees it.

Keep this Command Prompt open the ENTIRE TIME. (just to save you time and hassle) (YES - You can copy and paste these commands)

18. Type the following commands, one at a time hit enter after each.

adb devices - (making double sure you see the device, looks like a serial #)

adb reboot-bootloader - (this will reboot phone into FastBoot Mode)

adb devices - (again to make sure you see the device, looks like a serial #)

fastboot flash preloader preloader_begonia.bin

fastboot flash lk lk.img

fastboot flash lk2 lk.img

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

Fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.4.0-0-begonia.img

19. Unplug the phone. Press and hold Power and Volume UP. When it reboots, you can let go of the power button when it vibrates or you see the RedMi text (but still keep holding the Volume Up button) until you see this menu:

Note the little "<<==" RIGHT of the option.

20. Select [Recovery Mode] by following which button it says to push to navigate. Then hitting the Volume DOWN Button

This will boot you into TWRP (AKA "any non-CFW Android 9 recovery"). The intro flash screen looks like this:

21. Select WIPE > Advanced Wipe > Select: System & Cache & Dalvic Cache > Swipe to wipe.

22. Hit the Home button on your phone. Move over to the PC.

23. On the PC copy over "begonia-A10-CFW_20200530.zip" to someplace on the internal or SD memory.

24. On the PC copy over "PixelExperience_Plus_begonia-10.0-20200714-2146-OFFICIAL.zip" to someplace on the internal or SD memory.

25. Go into Install > begonia-A10-CFW_20200530.zip then go back and

26. Go into Install > Pixel Experience Rom (for me is was PixelExperience_Plus_begonia-10.0-20200714-2146-OFFICIAL.zip) Should take a few minutes.

27. Hit Home

28. Select WIPE > Format Data > type "yes" (tap checkmark)

29 . Reboot > Bootloader

30. This will reboot the phone back into Fastboot mode. Then on the PC type this:

fastboot flash recovery twrp-CFW-3.3.1-0-begonia_UNOFFICIAL_0506.img

31. Then this is the last command that'll reboot your phone, on the PC type:

fastboot reboot (enter)

And It "should" go eventually (it'll reboot a few times) into the Android setup wizard for Pixel Experience.

Setup Note: It crashed for me when trying to setup the fingerprint scanner, so skip that part of the wizard for sure.

32. Setup your phone how you likes it. But in order to get some other things to work (Like Google Pay), you need to install Magist, an app that will help hide the modified nature of your phone.

Now you need to install Magisk, it's a software that can help "hide" the Rooted Status of your phone so you can use things like Google Pay.

33. On the PC copy over "Magisk-v20.4.zip" to someplace on the internal or SD memory.

34. Unplug and Turn off your device.

35. Turn it on via holding Power + holding Volume UP. Keep Volume upheld until you get into TWRP again. This step was just like before.

36. Install > MagiskXXXX.zip

37. Reboot.

38. Once back in Android, you should see the new App Magisk.

Note: Google now thinks I have a Pixel 4XL

If I figure out how to make google pay work, I'll add it here.

Hey, your guide is awesome!

Finally I managed to boot this ROM without boot lopps.

Thanks!

Compass.

 

[Ridzz007]

PE for Realme 5i

vai, is there any chance of a PE rom for Realme 5i (rmx 2030)? it needs a pro dev. most of the roms are either port or not stable. I guess you could take a look or tell someone to go for it as the device is being sold widely in BD.

 

[Mohamed Hasan]

Deleted

 

[Tommienots]

Intermittent Wifi

Hello all, just switched to this rom yesterday. I also have experienced momentary wifi disconnection. I have to turn off/on wifi in order to reconnect. Are there any fixes for that? Anything else is working as it should be.

 

[SirSeanM10Pro]

Hello all, just switched to this rom yesterday. I also have experienced momentary wifi disconnection. I have to turn off/on wifi in order to reconnect. Are there any fixes for that? Anything else is working as it should be.

Nope

 

[Compass Linux]

Hi.

Like some users reported in this thread, my front camera (aka selfie camera) doesn't work at all, and I remember testing it with the stock Miui ROM that came with my phone and it was working (shouldn't be a hardware issue).

Actually, neither my cameras are working. My front camera doesn't even show on the screen. My back camera shows on the screen but it won't take any pictures.

I tested the camera app itself, with WhatsApp and Signal. No application can take selfies or normal pictures.

If I install ANXCameraUnity_185 and ANXCamera Pro will at least my back camera work, or is it something else?

Damn, Stock ROM users are also reporting issues: Help Camera not working : Camera error (Can't connect to camera).

Compass.

 

[XNyle]

Well it IS a hardware issue, hardware changed on new devices, only newer stock roms work. Problem has been known to devs for at least two months now, but not sure if anyone is working on it.

 

[Compass Linux]

Well it IS a hardware issue, hardware changed on new devices, only newer stock roms work. Problem has been known to devs for at least two months now, but not sure if anyone is working on it.

Thank you for clarifying.

I ended up installing ANXCameraUnity_185 and ANXCamera Pro.

Back camera is working with the same bug (no portrait mode; I have to wipe cache/storage if I enter portrait mode otherwise the camera force closes every time I open it).
Still no front/selfie camera. I rarely use it, so it's not a big deal.

Compass.

 

[alfanveykov]

How fix the 64mp, I'm already install anx module,but fail

 

[Compass Linux]

Well it IS a hardware issue, hardware changed on new devices, only newer stock roms work. Problem has been known to devs for at least two months now, but not sure if anyone is working on it.

How fix the 64mp, I'm already install anx module,but fail

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=83244091&postcount=257

I went for the same version stated in the link above, and it's working here.

The bugs I've encountered are the same most people have (eg. crash on portrait mode).

Compass.

 

[bigrammy]

Use prebuilt stock Q kernel?

Would it be possible to build a Pixel Experience ROM using the stock Q kernel and the PX ramdisk?

 

[ZIDAN44]

Would it be possible to build a Pixel Experience ROM using the stock Q kernel and the PX ramdisk?

Why would I build with prebuild kernel when I have the proper kernel source

 

[bigrammy]

Why would I build with prebuilt kernel when I have the proper kernel source

Missing camera driver for many of us.
No demands ZIDAN44 it was just a thought that's all.
Until that driver appears in some kernel source code release some place then were stuck regardless of how much progress you guys make on the ROM.
The new camera only seems to be in qualcomm devices source code thus far Xperia 1 ii and maybe Mi 10 but not sure.

Keep up the great work. :highfive:

Camera info below for those who are curious and maybe have some search time on their hands. :fingers-crossed:
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/image-sensor/mobile-image-sensor/S5K3T2/
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/isocell/mobile-image-sensors/isocell-slim-3t2/




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[chpoper]

Good afternoon everyone. Tell me, one of them on this firmware has a very long screen unlocking? After pressing the power button, the screen lights up only after 5 seconds and not instantly. Is there any fix for this problem?

 

[lkr96]

Hi. After using this ROM for about 2 weeks, there is some bugs and pros i found during this time:
- screen unlocking using fingerprint takes about ~1 or ~2 seconds to unlock. If I manually lock screen and ~5 sec later want to unlock with finger, it work fast. After ~3 minutes of locked screen, it takes a bit to unlock (maybe service for fingerprint goes deepsleep?);
- screen brightness works weird. When its totally dark, sometimes it wont reduce brightness automatically;
- "Styles and wallpapers" app after updating in Google Play loses ability to change "Styles". Only wallpapers are available. TEMPORAL FIX: FIRST: Remove update for this app, THEN: select it in GP, click on 3 dots and uncheck "Auto-updating" (or something like this, i have different language set);
- system UI seems to have laggy animations, not all the time but still annoys;

PROS:
- NFC payments works flawless, Magisk Hide + Google Pay without problems
- idk, but it looks like I have now better mobile signal. In places, where on MIUI i didnt have signal, now i have low signal but can easily call LOL (dual SIM)
- ANXCamera 175 works pretty nice,
- battery life, oohhhhh, 3 days without charger? NO PROBLEM

I think thats all.
Thanks for great ROM

 

[ZIDAN44]

CFW 2.1

CFW Updated (v2.1; 2020/10/13)

Changelog:
- Updated audio_dsp From latest MiUi 12
- Updated cam_vpu From latest MiUi 12
- Updated scp From latest MiUi 12
- Updated spmfw From latest MiUi 12
- Updated sspm From latest MiUi 12

CFW Downloads
- begoniain: https://sourceforge.net/projects/begonia-oss/files/CFW/begoniain-A10-CFW_20201013.zip/download
- begonia: https://sourceforge.net/projects/begonia-oss/files/CFW/begonia-A10-CFW_20201013.zip/download

 

[ZIDAN44]

Update Time #CFW 2.1

Changelog:
• Removed all unused flags
• Dropped duplicate props
• Dropped qemu.hw.mainkeys
• Dropped lmkd downgrade
• Dropped unused factory_init*.rc
• Cleaned and re-arrange the fstab
• Cleaned proprietary listing
• Updated all apns listing
• Updated fp from sunfish october patch
• Updated all blobs from miui 12
• Synced overlays & media files with miui 12
• Fixed random wi-fi disconnections
• Fixed privapp-permissions MTK engineer mode app
• Added MTK engineer mode app
• Enforced privapp-permissions control property

Note:
• Clean flash must needed.
• You must need to flash CFW 2.1 for this (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=83701553&postcount=359) build.