[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] vigneshnm:
Thanks [MENTION=4933230]jejecule[/MENTION] for building a really good ROM and giving us access to Android M.

Took the plunge yesterday and almost bricked my phone (my mistake, not the ROMs).

But a few pointers and bugs observed:

1.The ROM failed on initial flash. I should have wiped data and flashed it again, instead, I rebooted the system only to realize there is no OS it can reboot into.

When I went into recovery again, I discovered that my internal SD size is being shown as 0 MB and I couldn’t see any of the flash files. I had to format my disk and then it showed about 23 GB available, but obviously, none of the files existed on it anymore.

So I used adb sideload to load the ROM and flash it. Flashing happens automatically on loading it. Do note that when you enter the adb sideload mode in TWRP, there’s an option to wipe dalvik and cache. It would be unchecked. DO NOT check it. I did it and then the flashing via sideload failed. So I had to use sideload again and flash the ROM.

2.Post the successful flash, the phone booted up properly. However, I could only see 3GB memory when I connected it to the computer to transfer the balance files. Fortunately, I had my camera’s external sd on which I copied all the files. So back to recovery, wipe all data, flash LVM file and then reflash the ROM. Flashed gapps stock ~600 MB which failed due to lack of space. But the phone booted up properly, enabled usb debugging and root access.

3.Since stock gapps failed at the TWRP stage, I downloaded flashify app to see if that would that would. It didn’t. So I downloaded pico and nano gapps. Tried to flash both using Flashify (first) and TWRP (later). However, on rebooting, the apps kept crashing and made the phone unusable.

4.Solution – wipe data, flash firmware, flash ROM, flash nano gapps, flash maxx audio. Now it’s perfect.

5.If you’re using Titanium Backup, while restoring, make sure you don’t select the different filters of the camera (panaroma, macro etc). All these are recognized as user apps and hence get backed up. However, they don’t get restored (Color OS apps after all) and results in Titanium hanging. So deselect them while restoring.

Bugs:

1.The inability to flash stock gapps reported in one of the earlier posts continues due to lack of memory error, despite being on LVM.

2.Flashing of gapps post reboot does not work. It has to be done along with the ROM flash

3.A corollary to the ‘disabling of hardware buttons’ issue identified – if you enable on screen nav buttons (Extra settings>Buttons>Enable on screen nav bar) and then disable them, while the black bar for onscreen buttons goes away, the white buttons remain. They can’t be selected but continue remaining there. Goes away on reboot.

Good to have features:

If you could incorporate these features, it would be really helpful:

1.Is there anyway clicking on the tick post putting the PIN on the lockscreen be avoided? I know it may not be practical as the characters in PIN password are not limited to 4 numbers as in Color OS so the system may not know when one has stopped typing the password. Some thought on this could be done.

2.Guest mode – One of the features I loved most about Color OS 1 (which disappeared in Color OS 2). While we have a Guest User option, it is absolutely blank and does not have any apps in the Owner profile. What the guest mode did was to allow the Owner to select apps that would be visible and those that wouldn’t, ensuring only personal apps are hidden while the others can be used.

3.Minor point - Special mention when VOOC charging is being done. It can be inferred from the time remaining but a separate indicator would look nice.

Once again, thanks a lot for all the work done. Looking forward to the next build.

Thanks,

Vignesh