[Wileyfox Swift] caricoacoppe:
some question to have a better Wileyfox Swift experience

Good morning to all,

this is my first post and first of all I wanna say thank you to all the developers and expecially to addictz10 that made a really great job :)

now...if someone of you can help me to understand what is happened yesterday this would be great. this is a long story and for this I kindly ask you to be patient :D

this is what I made:

- from wileyfox android original nougat 7.1.2 I decided to go with LINEAGE OS. 15.0. I'm not an expert but I'm able to understand a guide and to make this kind of things if I have clear guidelines :)

- to made this I followed this guide https://xdaforums.com/wileyfox-swift/general/root-wileyfox-swift-t3261321

- I unlocked the bootloader without problems

- then I followed the guide and I flashed TWRP recovery (the last one twrp-3.2.1-0-crackling.img 16.5M 2017-12-09 00:05:01 EST) but when I restarted to go into TWRP recovery the Wileyfox standard recovery started. I discovered this is a auto-safe mechanism and I skip this problem removing the battery after the TWRP flash and go into the recovery without restarting from phone-off.

- here the first big problem...from TWRP recovery I tryed to install the SU in order to root the phone but when I tryed to install the zip file an error message appears and the text shows "no system" ... I cannot make a backup of the system because there's "no system" and the mb of space occupied by the system was "0" (zero).....I tried several times to install SU but nothing...then I go forward

- I decided to wipe everything (except of the sd memory card) and I tryed to flash the LINEAGE and the gapps that i found on this thread

- like for the SU it was impossible to install anything

- so I decided that the problem was the system type and for this I started to change 3/4 times the system type in the TWRP settings (I started from fat, fat32, exfat, ext4, ext3 and finally ext2) with ext2 I was able to flash the zip !

- I was really happy....but when the gapps installation finished the system loops into the bootloader (is this a soft brick?)

- I was not sure that the system type was the real problem and for this my last chance was to follow this guide https://xdaforums.com/wileyfox-swift/development/recovery-unofficial-twrp-3-0-1-0-t3350351 and in the second post I red the instructions of beroid...even if my bootloader didn't show the old version :( I tryed because there were no other possibilities:

If looks like old version:

Reboot to bootloader

Download https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767123627

Extract files

Run the following commands:

fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn

fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn

fastboot flash tz tz.mbn

fastboot flash hyp hyp.mbn

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin

fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn

fastboot flash splash splash.img

Install TWRP

- finally the system works but now the GPS doesn't work and after installed SU app or root checker seems that the system is not rooted yet :eek: I sincerely don't understand what happens :(

I kindl ask your help to clarify some points....my question are

- what are the correct steps to follow if I want to re-make all these steps again in order to be sure that everything is well made and in order to flash SU correctly?

- ext 2 is the correct system type?

- why GPS doesn't works?

- can I install also the KERNEL [8.1.0][7.1.2] Foxy v3.5.2 [2018-02-14] with LINEAGE OS 15.0 ? is there some improvements with this?

- how can I root the device? when I have to root the device? (before or after to flash the system?)

Thank you for your patience and help