How To Guide Run an GSI on your Zenfone 8

[NisseGurra]

Seems Phh has got an ZF8 now and put some overlays in his latest GSI

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Notes about tinkering with Android Project Treble. Contribute to phhusson/treble_experimentations development by creating an account on GitHub.

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AOSP 11.0 v309

phhusson released this 11 hours ago

• [Zenfone 8] Fix boot, audio, camera hole, dt2w
• [Doogee S95] Add support for dt2w (always enabled, not togglable)
• Fix BT voice calls on some Exynos devices
• Expand "use alternate audio policy" to Exynos devices. Used to fix for instance voice BT voice calls
• Expand "use alternate audio policy" to newer Qualcomm devices. Can fix jack for some
• Fix voice calls no longer working after some time (Thanks @eremitein)

Treble Presets:

• Realme C12: Fix headset detection and backlight control (Thanks @HemanthJabalpuri)

Update, installed V309, A/B arm 64 on my ZF8.
Running very nicely, not found any bugs or other nonfunctional parts. GCam install and runs nicely.

To install: (easy to hardbrick so be careful)

Download GSI
Download vbmeta.img from google

https://dl.google.com/developers/android/qt/images/gsi/vbmeta.img

Unlock bootloader (note: guarantee blown)

reboot fastboot
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img (that you downloaded from google)
fastboot reboot fastboot (to fastbootd)
fastboot flash system image.img (the gsi unpacked to .img )
go back or reboot to recovery
wipe data
reboot system

 

[NisseGurra]

 

[janjan]

Is this the right image for Asus Zenfone 8?

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases/download/v309/system-roar-arm64-ab-gapps.img.xz

 

[NisseGurra]

Is this the right image for Asus Zenfone 8?

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases/download/v309/system-roar-arm64-ab-gapps.img.xz

a/b arm 64 so its correct

 

[NisseGurra]

I making an firmware updater for GSI, so no need to go back to stock to have latest firmware installed. Testing in progress

 

[michelinoO]

I making an firmware updater for GSI, so no need to go back to stock to have latest firmware installed. Testing in progress

Please can you give more details regarding how to put back the stock firmware? Is possible to use the raw image?

 

[NisseGurra]

Please can you give more details regarding how to put back the stock firmware? Is possible to use the raw image?

Use the raw restore from asus: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/...30.11.51.41_MR0_20210513_release-user.raw.zip
Unzip and double click the update_image.bat file

Android 12 Developer Preview Program | ASUS Global

www.asus.com

 

[hobomotel]

Do these GSIs have the black dark theme or is it only the grey one as per your screenshot?

 

[hobomotel]

I making an firmware updater for GSI, so no need to go back to stock to have latest firmware installed. Testing in progress

Is there any update for this? I tried to go back to stock but the fastboot commands in the raw image were giving me these errors - Command not supported in default implementation.

 

[assasss]

Can someone that's running this write a short summary on how the phone is performing and what's the battery life like?

 

[thatguy222]

Can someone that's running this write a short summary on how the phone is performing and what's the battery life like?

Phh shared that the fingerprint reader does not work. I believe that is universally the case for on screen fingerprint readers.

 

[AJ]

is anyone able to root this gsi with magisk ??

cause i always get N/A in magisk manager

 

[Devione]

Any idea how to flash this via TWRP?

 

[NisseGurra]

I still on PHH gsi as daily, battery is way better than any other rom.

 

[Voodoojonny]

I still on PHH gsi as daily, battery is way better than any other rom.

Hi, I´m now on CRDroid and it´s working good so far. Did you get volte running (ims registered)?
Edit: it works now. Sorry for bothering!