[ROM][RAV*][SOFIA*][11][UNOFFICIAL] DISCONTINUED

[kuzo]

Have another Gapps related problem. Google assistant, when prompted to "navigate" somewhere with multiple locations, will not bring up the display when it asks you "which would you prefer?". I.e. if there are multiple Home Depot's in the area, it asks the question and you can answer, but without opening the Maps screen.
Other Gapps issue is that Gmail doesn't have the "Microsoft Exchange" icon under accounts.

It is not a problem with the gapps, it is a problem with the google app, if you uninstall the update it will work

 

[jhford]

I will try Migrate, thanx.
I just did exactly what is described in post #2:
- flash twrp via fastboot
- format data via twrp
- flash rom
- reboot into twrp to change slot
- flash gapps
- reboot to system
- setup system + unlock developer options and allow debugging
- reboot into recovery
- flash magisk
- reboot system
- enjoy the great rom

OK, @luca_brasi. I'm going to try flashing 4.6. Some preliminary questions first.
- flash twrp via fastboot
I already have TWRP 3.5.0_10.0 installed. Is this OK?
- format data via twrp
- flash rom
What about flashing boot.img, product.img, system.img, and vbmeta.img?
- reboot into twrp to change slot
From what slot to what slot?
- flash gapps
Flash GAPPS with TWRP?
- reboot to system
- setup system + unlock developer options and allow debugging
- reboot into recovery
- flash magisk
Again, flash Magisk with TWRP?
- reboot system
- enjoy the great rom
Thanks, @luca_brasi.

 

[Beetle84]

OK, @luca_brasi. I'm going to try flashing 4.6. Some preliminary questions first.
- flash twrp via fastboot
I already have TWRP 3.5.0_10.0 installed. Is this OK?
- format data via twrp
- flash rom
What about flashing boot.img, product.img, system.img, and vbmeta.img?
- reboot into twrp to change slot
From what slot to what slot?
- flash gapps
Flash GAPPS with TWRP?
- reboot to system
- setup system + unlock developer options and allow debugging
- reboot into recovery
- flash magisk
Again, flash Magisk with TWRP?
- reboot system
- enjoy the great rom
Thanks, @luca_brasi.

Boot into TWRP
Format data
Flash the rom zip in TWRP
(use gapps version if you want gapps, vanilla if you dont)
Reboot
(dont change slots or anything, there is no need. TWRP handles that now.)
After you have booted the phone and gone through the setup, reboot to TWRP and flash magisk if you want it. You dont need usb debugging on to flash magisk.

 

[jhford]

Boot into TWRP
Format data
Flash the rom zip in TWRP
(use gapps version if you want gapps, vanilla if you dont)
Reboot
(dont change slots or anything, there is no need. TWRP handles that now.)
After you have booted the phone and gone through the setup, reboot to TWRP and flash magisk if you want it. You dont need usb debugging on to flash magisk.

What about flashing boot.img, product.img, system.img, and vbmeta.img?

 

[Beetle84]

What about flashing boot.img, product.img, system.img, and vbmeta.img?

See 'flash the rom zip in twrp' above

 

[jhford]

See 'flash the

See 'flash the rom zip in twrp' above

I didn't know that one can skip flashing the .img files.

 

[luca_brasi]

flashing the rom zip is an alternative way of flashing.
You EITHER flash zip OR .img-files.

(dont change slots or anything, there is no need. TWRP handles that now.)

didn't know that. Does TWRP handle that only in case of using gapps version? What if I flash vanilla version and want to flash different gapps-package afterwards? Is it still not needed to change slot?

 

[Quantumstate]

Right, I prefer booting to fastbootd and just use that to flash the .img files as per instructions in OP. Then boot to the system and install Magisk. (tho that's not easy due to lack of browser in vanilla 4.6 -- I had to 'adb push vivaldi.apk /storage/emulated/0/Download' and install with File Manager)

Then adb push boot.img to the phone and use Magisk to modify it, and adb pull it back to laptop, reboot the phone to fastbootd and flash the modified boot image as a normal boot image, but this time it gives you a rooted phone.

I did flash TWRP this time but haven't monkeyed with it as I don't really trust it anymore. And I don't install anything G**gle as I'm in enterprise infosec for 22 years and don't trust it. I always look for apps in F-Droid first, then APKPure, neither of which require registration, and between them have everything.

I also install the Nova desktop and use it instead of the default Shadow, as Nova can back up your desktops. I have a complex setup and this saves lots of time.

If your phone is not unlocked there is a special webpage on the Motorola site to do this -- don't go anywhere else.

Been running 4.6 for over a week and what a joy it is! Only two oddities:
- when I answer the phone the titlebar pulls down and I have to hang up with that;
- it claims it can't record calls on this device, which Havoc used to be able to do, and I think this is an important feature.

All in all Havoc is still the best firmware available anywhere, and the Moto G Power is the best phone.

 

[jhford]

Boot into TWRP
Format data
Flash the rom zip in TWRP
(use gapps version if you want gapps, vanilla if you dont)
Reboot
(dont change slots or anything, there is no need. TWRP handles that now.)
After you have booted the phone and gone through the setup, reboot to TWRP and flash magisk if you want it. You dont need usb debugging on to flash magisk.

I tried but it got screwed up. FYI, I use the Migrate app rather than TItanium Backup on all my devices to save and reinstall my apps as I move from Rom to Rom.
- I made a backup up of all my apps to zip files with Migrate.
- I booted into TWRP 3.5.0_10-0 from Bootloader and formatted the data partition as you suggested.
- The 4.5 Rom zip file is installed on a micro SD card in my Meenova OTG adapter which was inserted in the the Micro USB charging port. I've been using the Meenova forever without issue. http://www.meenova.com/.
- I could not select USB Storage, which shows zero bytes content, as the source of the 4.5 zip file.
- UGH. So, I rebooted and had to redo the preliminary Google so 3.12 would work

So, I'm back to 3.12 without my apps including Nova Launcher, etc. What should I do now? Should I use ADB to flash the individual .img files like I did when I initially installed 3.12? But the odd thing is that after I installed 3.12, I flashed my apps with Migrate, Magisk, etc. without issue using the Meenova adapter.
Thanks for your help

 

[jhford]

I tried but it got screwed up. FYI, I use the Migrate app rather than TItanium Backup on all my devices to save and reinstall my apps as I move from Rom to Rom.
- I made a backup up of all my apps to zip files with Migrate.
- I booted into TWRP 3.5.0_10-0 from Bootloader and formatted the data partition as you suggested.
- The 4.5 Rom zip file is installed on a micro SD card in my Meenova OTG adapter which was inserted in the the Micro USB charging port. I've been using the Meenova forever without issue. http://www.meenova.com/.
- I could not select USB Storage, which shows zero bytes content, as the source of the 4.5 zip file.
- UGH. So, I rebooted and had to redo the preliminary Google so 3.12 would work

So, I'm back to 3.12 without my apps including Nova Launcher, etc. What should I do now? Should I use ADB to flash the individual .img files like I did when I initially installed 3.12? But the odd thing is that after I installed 3.12, I flashed my apps with Migrate, Magisk, etc. without issue using the Meenova adapter.
Thanks for your help

I fastbootd flashed the image files and 4.6 is installed. But I need to access USB storage to flash Magisk, and Migrate (my apps) which I can do using the File Manager app in 4.6, TWRP shows USB Storage as a choice (radio button) but I can't access it via TWRP. Please help. Thanks again.
[EDIT] I must have either had a brain fart or I'm so accustomed to using my Menoova USB OTG adapters that I completely forgot about the internal micro SD card adapter which TWRP just recognized, and my Power G8 2020 is now completely setup the way I want it with Havoc 4.6. BTW, I enthusiastically recommend Migrate over TB.
Many thanks to all.

 

[Quantumstate]

Use adb push to push the key apps.

To transfer a large number of files I use SSH Droid, an SSH server, and sshfs mount it to my backups server to restore files using rsync. SSH Droid is getting kind of old and I'm worried about its future, but maybe there's a better sync app.

 

[Quantumstate]

Uh oh, I lose 4G data every morning. Have to reboot.

 

[Beetle84]

flashing the rom zip is an alternative way of flashing.
You EITHER flash zip OR .img-files.


didn't know that. Does TWRP handle that only in case of using gapps version? What if I flash vanilla version and want to flash different gapps-package afterwards? Is it still not needed to change slot?

Works the same whether vanilla or gapps

If you flash a vanilla rom, reboot to recovery after flashing, then flash the gapps. You shouldn't have to change slots manually anymore at all.

 

[J-Putz]

To Install:

1. Extract the zip and open a shell with ADB and fastboot.
2. Reboot your device into fastbootd mode.

fastboot reboot fastboot

3. Flash boot, system, product, and vbmeta.

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash product product.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

4. Wipe userdata.

fastboot -w

So, I did this part on my phone, restarted, and it would only boot into fastboot. Everything seemed to install in slot_b, I did not know I had to set slot a as active first. I set slot_a as active then rebooted and the factory rom booted.

Do I redo the flash with slot_a as active, or do I have to flash slot_b to factory images? I don't want to flash it then not be able to boot since then I wont be able to get into fastbootd. the "fastboot reboot fastboot" command does not work and I can only get into fastbootd with the adb reboot fastboot command. I think this is how I bricked my G7 last year.

 

[J-Putz]

So, I did this part on my phone, restarted, and it would only boot into fastboot. Everything seemed to install in slot_b, I did not know I had to set slot a as active first. I set slot_a as active then rebooted and the factory rom booted.

Do I redo the flash with slot_a as active, or do I have to flash slot_b to factory images? I don't want to flash it then not be able to boot since then I wont be able to get into fastbootd. the "fastboot reboot fastboot" command does not work and I can only get into fastbootd with the adb reboot fastboot command. I think this is how I bricked my G7 last year.

Here is the output from my flash:

jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ adb reboot fastboot
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot devices
ZF6522ZRPS fastboot
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (65536 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.888s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [ 1.527s]
finished. total time: 3.415s
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot flash system system.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending sparse 'system_b' 1/5 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.719s]
writing 'system_b' 1/5...
OKAY [ 2.569s]
sending sparse 'system_b' 2/5 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.740s]
writing 'system_b' 2/5...
OKAY [ 1.553s]
sending sparse 'system_b' 3/5 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.871s]
writing 'system_b' 3/5...
OKAY [ 1.513s]
sending sparse 'system_b' 4/5 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.791s]
writing 'system_b' 4/5...
OKAY [ 1.478s]
sending sparse 'system_b' 5/5 (193928 KB)...
OKAY [ 5.952s]
writing 'system_b' 5/5...
OKAY [ 1.145s]
finished. total time: 45.331s
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot flash product product.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending sparse 'product_b' 1/3 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.880s]
writing 'product_b' 1/3...
OKAY [ 1.496s]
sending sparse 'product_b' 2/3 (262140 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.774s]
writing 'product_b' 2/3...
OKAY [ 1.445s]
sending sparse 'product_b' 3/3 (258616 KB)...
OKAY [ 7.628s]
writing 'product_b' 3/3...
OKAY [ 1.496s]
finished. total time: 27.720s
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes
sending 'vbmeta_b' (4 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.002s]
writing 'vbmeta_b'...
OKAY [ 0.058s]
finished. total time: 0.060s
jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot -w
wiping userdata...
Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.
File system type raw not supported.
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 0.595s]
finished. total time: 0.595s

 

[J-Putz]

NM, I figured out how to get into fastbootd through the stock recovery. I tried to reflash it and the phone still will not boot into the rom because I guest the /data partition is still encrypted:

jeremiah@LR-Laptop:~/Backup/Android_Roms/sophia/HavocOS_4.6-VANILLAFastbootD$ fastboot -w
wiping userdata...
Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.
File system type raw not supported.
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 0.595s]
finished. total time: 0.595s

I installed twrp but I cannot do anything because data is encrypted. I tried everything I could find online including formating the data partition but I am still getting errors.

 

[Deleted member 4197323]

Reporting in on v4.8 from Telegram. Two issues I've noticed -- FM Radio is broken (this is known), and double tap to wake doesn't work (seems you might have JUST pushed a fix for this). Other than that, I've had zero issues with the ROM. Super fast and smooth. Thanks for bringing my all time favorite ROM to the Moto G Power! I wish the notification LED could blink rather than remain solid though! I hope to see it go official sometime soon!

Edit: Confirmed that v4.8.2 fixes double tap to wake!

 

[nnSlick]

Reporting in on v4.8 from Telegram. Two issues I've noticed -- FM Radio is broken (this is known), and double tap to wake doesn't work (seems you might have JUST pushed a fix for this). Other than that, I've had zero issues with the ROM. Super fast and smooth. Thanks for bringing my all time favorite ROM to the Moto G Power! I wish the notification LED could blink rather than remain solid though! I hope to see it go official sometime soon!

Edit: Confirmed that v4.8.2 fixes double tap to wake!

Do you have a link to the v4.8 ROM? I searched Telegram but could not find it.
TIA.

 

[Beetle84]

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-rav-sofia-11-unofficial-havocos-4-6.4169203/post-83597087

Havoc-OS v4.8 link/changelog, enjoy

 

[nnSlick]

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-rav-sofia-11-unofficial-havocos-4-6.4169203/post-83597087

Havoc-OS v4.8 link/changelog, enjoy

Thanks @Beetle84 , downloaded.

I am running v4.6 on my G Power, what it the best way to update to v4.8? Do I need to wipe anything before installing with TWRP? TIA.