[JiaYu S3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develo] superdragonpt:
FAQ

General F.A.Q.

Q: What the hell is madOS ?

A: madOS, (M.A.D. Team OS), is a ROM based on pure A.O.S.P. with extended capabilities and customizations made by or merge/adapted by M.A.D. Team.

Q: Which recovery should I use for this ROM?

(edit April 2018)

A: Latest M.A.D. TWRP 3.2.1-0 recovery for the Jiayu s3 OREO 8.1.0

--> Check xda Download Section

Q: How do i flash new recovery ?

A:

1:

You can flash it with a scatter file (LP rom layout)

2:

You can simply flash it from the existing twrp recovery: Install> Install image> Select Oreo TWRP> Select "Recovery" as partition to flash.

Reboot to recovery to use new one

Q: Do i need to make full wipes?

A: YES, dont come crying at me, if you didn't .... ;p

Q: What is "full wipes" ?

A: To Wipe : Cache; System; DATA ...

Q: New TWRP fails on wiping, why ?

A: You need to go TWRP Settings> Select the option

"

Use rm -rf instead of formating

"

Update madOS April 2018:

New TWRP is fully working now, no more need of this workaround

Native wiping of both ext4/f2fs is working and twrp is faster then ever ;)

Q: What should i use f2fs or ext4?

A: Both are supported, choose the one you desire

You can only use f2fs on cache & data (backup your stuff, as it'll be all erased)

Q: is the Data connection issue of going to / from 4G still present?

A: nope ;) data switchs pretty fast on our new RIL

2G>3G>4G | 4G>3G>2G pretty fast

Q: Does this rom have any Theme support

A: Yup, We have working Theme Engine (madOS extras)

Update: On Oreo 8.1.0:

- We have extended Theme support even further ( madLauncher, messaging, etc)

- As well as many fixs

Q: Some translations are missing for my language, can I help?

A: Sure you can, please check our translations repo available here , you can either do a pull request, or if you don't know how to work with git, sent us the XML. Strings for your language ( Check Readme on repo).

Q: I want to report a bug(s) do you have an issue tracker?

A: Yeah... madOS issue tracker

Q: My Jiayu s3 Basic (the 2GB RAM Version), shows "NFC has stopped"

A: The 2GB version, doesn't have NFC, however in the last NFC updates we did, this is now showing, as an workaround:

Go to TWRP:

Mount /system

Go advance>file manager

Navigate to /system/app/ and delete the NFC app, this should fix your NFC service force closing while on boot

Q: What's working ?

A: Check first Post for current status

Q: App "x" doesn't work, why?

A: Probably not compatible with OREO yet, feedback is welcome

Q: Is the rom rooted?

A: NO, But you can easily root with :

1: Magisk ( v14 )

NOTE: magisk v15, v16 aren't working (don't spam me, im not the magisk developer

2: Super SU ( v2.82 onwards)

NOTE: v2.82 or even latest beta of 2.82 will work fine

after flashing it, you need to go on the SuperSU.zip and install the management app

Q: Should i root together with rom ?

A: Not advised.. mainly the Magisk that gives some weird issues...

Flash ROM and GAPPS (if you use gapps), after first boot get back to recovery and flash your desire rooting method

Q: Does xposed work?

A: Is there Xposed for O? ... then no ;p

Q: How is battery life with Oreo on the Jiayu?

A: Pretty awesome

Q: Does this build support Vulcan?

A: No....duh! v

Q: Does doze work in this build?

A: Yup

Q: when will (feature/issue here) be fixed?

A: NO ETA , please

Porting F.A.Q.

No porting support, no port questions allowed on this thread, and porting PMs will be auto-deleted, porting replies will be reported as well

G.APPS F.A.Q.

Q:What GAPPS package should I use?

A:OpenGapps arm64 nano/mini

Since there's no Official GAPPS for 8.1.0 just yet...

... we had built OpenGapps nano and pico versions

--> Check Download Section

Q: How to properly install GAPPS?

A:Flash Rom + Flash Gapps at once

CREDITS and Thanks ;)

madOS Team

Our translators, credits list here

A.O.S.P.

AOSPA

DU (Dirty Unicorns)

Omni

HELP supporting madOS

We do this on our free time, however we do have costs on maintaining this :/

Any donation is highly appreciated ;)

You can donate by using

this link

If the above doesn't work in your country, then you can directly donate by using this e-mail adress: mediatekandr0iddevelopers@gmail.com

About madOS Proprietary Apps

You are NOT allowed by any means, to use our madOS apps on any other build, your rom

This is exclusively for OFFICIAL madOS ROM releases

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