T-Virus - Infect your Nokia 8 with Project Treble (2019-07-02)
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The op in that thread shared a link to a full partition dump so if we get a dev to work on it, maybe.
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Hello! I recently unlocked my bootloader and critical and updated to 515G(October 2019 patch). Now before I flash this thing, should I install the latest patch or is it okay to flash it on the October 2019 patch?
yes you can.. only remember while downgrading, remove your google account fist and wipe data.. upgrading can be done without any problem.
And also in you dont want get forced to update, remove passwords or fingerprints for unlocking. That being on, forces you to update (related to frp).
Is there any way to fix to hardware buttons on Android 10 GSI? How about the files on /system/usr/keylayout ?
Can anyone try to tweak those files?
Can anyone try to tweak those files?
Yes and no, ive had no luck when it comes to LOS, but ironically havoc OS 3.4 boots with working nav keys by default, i tried android 10 but the experience still sucks. The phone takes long to wake from sleep to a point you think its frozen, camera is completely broken, so are HW keys, and it has wierd battery drains too, but boot and work it does and it works fine, in the end i went back to 2.9 because to many things are broken, i wish someone would work on this device
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Try havoc OS 3.4 it works
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What do you mean by camera is completely broken?Yes and no, ive had no luck when it comes to LOS, but ironically havoc OS 3.4 boots with working nav keys by default, i tried android 10 but the experience still sucks. The phone takes long to wake from sleep to a point you think its frozen, camera is completely broken, so are HW keys, and it has wierd battery drains too, but boot and work it does and it works fine, in the end i went back to 2.9 because to many things are broken, i wish someone would work on this device
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Try havoc OS 3.4 it works
Read what the OP said regarding android 10 and camera access that it is just not possible, and its true.
When you launch camera it just gives "error: cannot connect to camera" because of the limitations mentioned here, hw keys and camera will never work on android 10, and well with BT audio also broken and sleep not working correctly as well as terrible battery drain, id say android 10 is pretty unusable for daily use, skip the hope for 10 and stay on a pie gsi until someone hopefully develops for this phone again.
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Oh I see, god fu©king damn it Nokia! If only they released the kernel source of the device, then devs would've made custom ROMs and everything by now
The Kernel is published for all device models, including the Nokia 8. https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/opensource The issue is that this phone, and even Nokia 9 PureView are not popular with developers. It's an issue across the board with HMD phones.
Sorry for being the noob one out here but I'm not even able to install the drivers required for my nb1. It always ends up in a fail. Can someone please guide me where I'm wrong?
Hi there,
many thanks for your awesome work. After years of using the Nokia 8 as daily driver I finally managed to critical unlock the bootloader. Now I'm into the next step, with this problem:
Any idea, what I could do, if the flashing of the system_b partition freezes / timed out?
I'm trying to flash t-virus-20201108.qlz
Thanks a lot
many thanks for your awesome work. After years of using the Nokia 8 as daily driver I finally managed to critical unlock the bootloader. Now I'm into the next step, with this problem:
Any idea, what I could do, if the flashing of the system_b partition freezes / timed out?
I'm trying to flash t-virus-20201108.qlz
Thanks a lot
After some tries its getting a few steps forward, but hangs again and aborts with a write timeout.
Is there someone who could help me getting my bricks to live again?
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Please take a look at my cherish or ancient posts, we have a nokia 8 device support group on telegram, feel free to PM me there ill see if i can assist you. Link is in my posts
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#include <std_disclaimer.h> /* * 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 about modifying your android system before flashing this! * 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. Hard. A lot. */
What is this?
T-Virus (for treble-virus) is a tool that takes a stock Nokia 8 firmware and "infects" it with various parts from the Nokia 8 Sirocco firmware, generating a firmware bundle that is compilant with Project Treble and that can be flashed to a Nokia 8 using NOST.
Firmware Sources
The base of T-Virus is the stock Nokia 8 firmware image (5150 / April Security patch at the time of writing). When being run, the build script takes those files and replaces the partition table with the one from Nokia 8 Sirocco. This required for creating a vendor partition that the stock Nokia 8 does not have. The vendor image is taken from the Sirocco firmware as well. During the build, the vendor image is mounted as rw, and various files are copied over from the stock Nokia 8 system image, or get patched to properly support the minor hardware differences between the two phones. Those actions are defined through very basic scripts inside of the vendor folder in the repository.
The boot image is a modified version of my umbrella kernel, which has support for early mounting vendor. It also includes a TWRP build with full support for Project Treble.
SELinux Hell
Because Android does some very weird stuff with SELinux contexts, you cannot launch a service file when it has an unknown context. We have to fix that by force-setting the SELinux context manually, but due to how SELinux works, this is only possible on a Linux system without SELinux. This means, that you cannot build this on a distribution with SELinux (Fedora in my case). I fixed the problem by building the images in a Ubuntu VM.
How to build?
First you have to download the latest firmware image from https://tmsp.io/fs/xda/nb1/firmware, and the exdupe tool from https://www.quicklz.com/exdupe
Extract the firmware into a folder and then clone the repository, like this:
The build script has two options you have to set: a version and the path to the extracted firmware. This means you have to run it like this:Code:$ mkdir firmware $ ./exdupe -R ~/Downloads/NB1-5150-0-00WW-B03.qlz firmware/ $ git clone https://github.com/resident-nokia/t-virus $ cd t-virus
Leave it running and when it asks you, enter your sudo password. This is required to mount the Android ext4 partitions and edit the files that are only accessable by the (Android) root user, and retain their permissions.Code:$ ./build.sh --version v0.1 --firmware ../firmware
When the script has finished the flashable firmware image will be inside of the out folder. You can optionally package this as a .qlz file again using exdupe.
What works?
- It boots
- Data decryption in recovery
- Flashing GSIs / OpenGApps in recovery
- WiFi
- Mobile Data
- Bluetooth
- Sound
- Vibration
- Calling
- Hardware buttons
- Fingerprint
- Camera
- GPS
- NFC
- SDCard
- Multi SIM
- 4k Video
What doesn't work, or isn't tested
- Haptic feedback for Hardware buttons
- Bluetooth headphones don't get registered properly
- Nokia OZO audio support is missing
- Fingerprint sensor is reported as being on the back of the phone
- There might be issues with USB transfer under Windows
- VoLTE (untested)
How to install?
WARNING: This might not be useable as a daily driver. Continue only if you are able to troubleshoot things if neccessary (bootloops, bricking the phone, causing the alarm app to declare nuclear war)
You can download the latest release from the releases page on the repository. It is a .qlz firmware, so you will have to flash it through NOST. You will need a completely unlocked bootloader. When flashing, make sure to select the "Erase Userdata" option, not doing this will most certainly bootloop the phone.
After the installation completed, your phone will reboot into phh's AOSP GSI. If you want to use a different GSI (you most likely will), follow these steps:
- Download your favorite GSI
- Unpack every form of compression, so you end up with a .img file
- Boot into recovery
- Copy the .img to the internal storage of your phone, or to your SDCard
- Select "Install" -> "Install .img", select the image file you copied and flash it to your system partition
- Then install OpenGApps or any other modifications you like.
- Wipe /data to allow the new system image to boot properly and then reboot
If you want to go back to stock, simply download the 5150-revert firmware and flash it with NOST, with the "Erase Userdata" option enabled. It will revert all changes T-Virus made to your phone. Firmwares from https://tmsp.io/fs/xda/nb1 will not work.
Links?
- Repository: https://github.com/resident-nokia/t-virus
- Download: https://github.com/resident-nokia/t-virus/releases
- Reverting to stock: https://github.com/resident-nokia/t-virus/releases/tag/5150-revert
What if I have a bug?
- Upload a proper bugreport. This means logcat and dmesg. If you don't know how to get them, google it. Also, describe the issue and provide steps to replicate it. Everything else will be ignored.
- I don't daily drive this phone anymore. I am doing this just because it is an interesting technical challenge. I don't have as much motivation to fix bugs than someone who daily drives it.
I usually don't do this, but since this involved a lot of work on my side, I would be grateful if you would want to say thank you by buying me a coffee (or two): https://paypal.me/thmsp3
yeah, I'd like that, too, also fully working camera, i.e. with dual-camera.
Just lack the knowledge on how to determine which libs and configs are needed for that.
The credits for the compass fix actually should go to @kosmatyj :good:3
For that there would have to be an Android 10 update for Sirocco first. And that probably won't happen for some time. So I am going with a definitive maybe.
In theory, you can use Android 10 with the Android 9 vendor already. But there is a problem with that approach: The binaries that had to be added to the Sirocco vendor were taken from the Nokia 8 firmware, and therefor never setup to work with Treble. They reference libraries that are stored on the system partition directly. And this means that they use APIs that existed in Android 9 but that were removed / changed in Android 10. If they would use the Treble APIs for that, it wouldn't be an issue, but they don't. This is the reason why if you flash an Android 10 GSI the hardware buttons, and the camera won't work.
The only "easy" solution to that would be to update those binaries to the newer APIs. But since Nokia 8 won't get Android 10, those blobs will never see an update to the new APIs either. You might be able to rip the Goodix stuff (hardware buttons) out of another phone that has Treble / A10, but that will most likely not work for the camera at all. And since all of that is proprietary, closed source stuff we can't update it ourselves.
So it will probably be totally impossible to ever run something thats not Pie with T-Virus. At least if you want camera and button support. Unless someone who is more involved into this than I am has an idea how to solve it.
And no, please don't go: "So HMD has to update Nokia 8 to Android 10 so we can fix T-Virus.". That ship has sailed. If you want Android 10 anytime soon, get a different phone. Sorry.2
The ability to install GSIs (Generic System Images). Basically everything from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenabled-device-development2
Since the compass was fixed with June update (?), I compared the .conf file from current T-Virus vendor and the 515D stock and there were two lines that were different: in `platform nb1` section, Mag Y and Mag Z are negative values in 515D, so I changed them (see attached image).
I also copied over two .so files to both lib and lib64 in /vendor, just in case (they had different hashes).
After reboot and calibration it seems like it shows the correct direction.
