T-Virus - Infect your Nokia 8 with Project Treble (2019-07-02)

[Shabbirkt]

Hello, it seems to be noob question but i'm kinda confuse on how to flash NOST on my device, i have unlock bootloader (not critical). Help will be appreciated.

 

[Reza7Sicherheit]

Hello, it seems to be noob question but i'm kinda confuse on how to flash NOST on my device, i have unlock bootloader (not critical). Help will be appreciated.

when you're unlocking bootloader instead of fastboot flashing unlock use fastboot flashing unlock_critical

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I'll try to create a flashable zip or will just dump my vendor partition and share it.
No idea regarding battery usage though, sorry. On Havoc myself, didn't notice any drain.

Patched T-Virus 20190703 Vendor image
* `sensor_def_qcomdev.conf`, `sensors_calibrate.so` and `sensors.ssc.so` files from stock 515D
* framework vendor overlay for autobrightness and some settings from stock

Unpack the 7z archive and flash image file to the vendor partition. If something goes wrong, flash the original, unpatched vendor image.
I don't provide any support for this, as I have close to no knowledge on all of this.

are there any more differences between 5150 and 515D?
if there are, then can you please make a patch for it?
F.Y.I MSM Xtended GSI shows this message every time I reboot,
"Android system: your vendor image doesn't match the system. please flash the PQ3A.190801.002 vendor image for your device"
and I believe it needs 515D vendor image because PQ3A.190801.002 is august security patch I think
so far I used:
Havoc 2.8, it was ok (issues: flashing backlight buttons, high battery usage).
Oxygen os(phone hangs up and never gets up after restart or shut down, should use vol+, power for almost 1 min to get phone restarted and after many trials took me a whole damn day to get the phone to recovery to flash another GSI.
and MSM Xtended XP9 Release v18 with the highest compatibility I think, no flashing buttons, smooth as butter, so far so good

 

[oaid]

when you're unlocking bootloader instead of fastboot flashing unlock use fastboot flashing unlock_critical

---------- Post added at 09:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 PM ----------



are there any more differences between 5150 and 515D?
if there are, then can you please make a patch for it?
F.Y.I MSM Xtended GSI shows this message every time I reboot,
"Android system: your vendor image doesn't match the system. please flash the PQ3A.190801.002 vendor image for your device"
and I believe it needs 515D vendor image because PQ3A.190801.002 is august security patch I think
so far I used:
Havoc 2.8, it was ok (issues: flashing backlight buttons, high battery usage).
Oxygen os(phone hangs up and never gets up after restart or shut down, should use vol+, power for almost 1 min to get phone restarted and after many trials took me a whole damn day to get the phone to recovery to flash another GSI.
and MSM Xtended XP9 Release v18 with the highest compatibility I think, no flashing buttons, smooth as butter, so far so good

not many differences, from what I see comparing the vendor images. Anyway, I've updated the vendor image to be based on 515D. Not sure if that boot message is gone, though, as I use the SafetyPatch Magisk module and I get a message on boot. Using MSM-X.
Somehow I suspect the high battery usage on Havoc is related to the flickering hw buttons.

 

[KonikoO]

The biggest issue I've ran into was the obvious lack of bluetooth functionality and camera did tend to freeze from time to time and lock up when Camera2API was active.
Personally I haven't had a battery issue/drain on HavocOS - the performance and battery life was overall even better than stock.

 

[oaid]

The LiveBokeh mode on HMD Camera 86.9.1130.91 has a bug where it doesn't handle an exception well, which results in the app crashing out. It tries to update the Media Provider database to set the imagetype column, which only exists in the Media Provider found in the stock ROM.
I tried replacing the Media Provider apk and while the camera worked fine, I got lots of issues with Play Store and other apps. So I decided to see what's in the stock Media Provider and extracted an SQL script that adds the missing columns to the files table:

ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN socail_facerect_left TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN socail_facerect_top TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN socail_facerect_right TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN socail_facerect_bottom TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN social_contactid TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN social_faceid TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN social_face_num INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN social_face_orientation TEXT;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN social_isscanned INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN imagetype INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE files ADD COLUMN isfavorite INTEGER;

DROP VIEW IF EXISTS images;
CREATE VIEW images AS SELECT _id,_data,_size,_display_name,mime_type,title,date_added,date_modified,description,picasa_id,isprivate,latitude,longitude,datetaken,orientation,mini_thumb_magic,bucket_id,bucket_display_name,width,height,socail_facerect_left,socail_facerect_top,socail_facerect_right,socail_facerect_bottom,social_contactid,social_faceid,social_face_orientation,social_face_num,social_isscanned,isfavorite,imagetype FROM files WHERE media_type=1;

This needs to be run on /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external.db (I also ran it on internal.db, just for consistency, but not sure if it's needed).
Maybe someone can create a flashable zip to include this?

 

[rashazad]

Hey everybody
Can anybody explain or provide any answer to the question what are differences of booting a ROM using GSI and flashing it from recovery or apps like NOST?
Thanks for the method btw.

 

[dt_matthews]

Has anyone tried the released Android 10 GSI yet?

 

[MDV106]

It would be nice if those who have tried these custom roms to post some screenshots? I am tempted but my Nokia 8 is my daily driver so I cant just take the plunge just yet.

 

[tyrean]

Is there any hope that the Bluetooth audio will work in a future version?

 

[KonikoO]

Is there any hope that the Bluetooth audio will work in a future version?

I highly doubt. THSMP no longer owns Nokia 8 and is not intrested in developing it anymore and Project Treble forum's not helpful as well when it comes to even providing some more information than laughable Google tier documentation left behind about it.

 

[Babakkardan]

Hello I am planning to get a used nokia 8 (for its sd835 cpu) and make it treble compliant to flash Android gsi's.
Once I fully unlock the bootloader and flash your. qlz through NOST, will the phone have the full power of the chipset? Will there still be performance issues like on the Nokia rom?
Can I then flash magisk through twrp to obtain root?
Thank you

 

[marceldossantos91]

Hello I am planning to get a used nokia 8 (for its sd835 cpu) and make it treble compliant to flash Android gsi's.
Once I fully unlock the bootloader and flash your. qlz through NOST, will the phone have the full power of the chipset? Will there still be performance issues like on the Nokia rom?
Can I then flash magisk through twrp to obtain root?
Thank you

I can confirm that yes, it works with some GSIs, not android 10 gsi's though as op clearly mentioned, yes there are bugs, check through the post, BT audio not working, hardware keys flash on some GSIs, etc. But i can confirm however im running msm extended GSI and for the most of it works well, definitely beats stock, and yes, its rooted and can pass safetynet with the patch, but be aware that this isnt an official treble supported device, so dont expect a bug free experience, but im running on Pie and thanks to this mod its given new life to our nokia 8, just dont expect further updates as other users mentioned the OP no longer owns the device.

 

[Babakkardan]

I can confirm that yes, it works with some GSIs, not android 10 gsi's though as op clearly mentioned, yes there are bugs, check through the post, BT audio not working, hardware keys flash on some GSIs, etc. But i can confirm however im running msm extended GSI and for the most of it works well, definitely beats stock, and yes, its rooted and can pass safetynet with the patch, but be aware that this isnt an official treble supported device, so dont expect a bug free experience, but im running on Pie and thanks to this mod its given new life to our nokia 8, just dont expect further updates as other users mentioned the OP no longer owns the device.

Great, just the fact that some Gsi's are functional is a great achievement. I realize there will be bugs but if the full potential of the cpu and gpu are there then it's well worth it.

 

[marceldossantos91]

Great, just the fact that some Gsi's are functional is a great achievement. I realize there will be bugs but if the full potential of the cpu and gpu are there then it's well worth it.

Hopefully this convinces you (fyi, stock scores about the same)

 

[Babakkardan]

Hopefully this convinces you (fyi, stock scores about the same)

Thanks for this. Do you think using L-Speed and kernel adiutor on stock rooted Pie, it is possible to tweak the performance so it's close to the gsi rom's?

 

[marceldossantos91]

Thanks for this. Do you think using L-Speed and kernel adiutor on stock rooted Pie, it is possible to tweak the performance so it's close to the gsi rom's?

Stock and gsi perf is closely related, while the gsi ui feels way more "snappy" than stock, stock in nokia devices is already a mostly debloated rom already and gsi's wont offer much performance gain, in my personal experience - those tweaks help maybe 5-10% and might make things feel better but wont give the major improvement you looking for, one module i used was fde.ai, it helped with battery and a slight perf boost, but nothing to brag about,

Best way ive found personally to improve performance is - use as little magisk modules as possible, xposed is especially a huge culprit in performance, which i did use to get custom features on stock,

Minimize using overlays, they also slow things down.

Remove as much system/user apps as possible, and keep storage at least above 15% left, this is how i got the best performance on stock, out of the box benchmarks are the same, the only real improvement gsi's offer in terms of custom roms is the fact that you dont need modules/tweaks to get the same results, this is where a GSI offered me major improvement, ive let go of xposed and a ton of modules/tweaking apps, and removed as much apps as i possibly could remove, hope this helps.

 

[dt_matthews]

Attached are the device log and radio log captured when trying to connect Bluetooth headphones - anyone have the knowledge to investigate the BT pairing issue?

Cheers

 

[MDV106]

Has anyone Here tried the new Android 10 AOSP GSI rom?

 

[MDV106]

Here are the screenshots of the Android 10 GSI successfully boosted on Nokia 8.
had to run:

adb shell
setprop persist.sys.phh.mainkeys 0  # brings back the 3 button navigation bar since the hardware keys dont work.

 

[SuNdRoU]

Here are the screenshots of the Android 10 GSI successfully boosted on Nokia 8.
had to run:

Hello could you explain how you boot Android 10 on your Nokia 8 it can be used as a daily drive