yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Yeah because you don't need the Google framework for anything ? nevermind it's running Google's OS but ok. My years of Android developing make me completely oblivious to the Android environment.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
Every one has his uses and habits, this is openness :)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
No, you're not understanding. What's being taken out isn't everything Google related. You literally have nothing without Google injected. Whether you want to admit it or not, your phone needs Google.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ronane:
Well, in my opinion, that statement need a little bit more explanation. In which way a phone *need* Google services the same way it would need power for example?

I don't speak about stupidly removing anything created by google, of course that wouldn't make sense because the system was certainly mostly coded by google people.

But if you can explain why this pocket computer would *have to* communicate with google, it would be be pleasure to follow the lecture. :)

(No offense in the "beyond stupid" statement :angel: )
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
This is not what i mean either :)

I mean gapps, the added background services, not everything Google related, or there would indeed be not point using android.

I only mean being able the choose whether to flash gapps or keep android as pure aosp as possible.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Ok we're saying the same thing then ?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] jshealton:
How do I install this? I am using the latest RRos and don't have a custom recovery installed. Can this be flash in fastboot?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
It's a magisk module, to be installed using magisk manager.

You should download it from the official XDA thread instead of a random static link.

Only 1.0 version works with Oreo, a new version was released a few days ago so it will not be updated by magisk manager.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] jshealton:
Went to that thread and downloaded the file in the first post for Oreo and I get the error in the screenshot. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Nevermind. I am a complete buffoon. Was trying to install the twrp flashable zip not the magisk installable one. Ignore me. Got it working.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] karnasw:
Hi, how can I do full backup of phone? I want to check some ROMs but after that I want to return on RR B3 in state that I will save. Don't want to configure everything from the beginning.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Titanium backup is your option. We don't support twrp nor will we because it screws the phone up, not to mention there isn't a single one out there atm that is fully functional
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Whenever I'm listening music with the native app (RRosB3) and I pause, unplug the phones, and eventually the phone goes to standby. All normal so far.

But then when I plug the headphones back and go to the music app, it has no record of music it was playing nor it allows to play another unless the app is closed and re-opened.

Not a major deal, but it a bug nonetheless. I don't even listen a lot of music from the phone anyway :D
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Robertzzel:
So if I want to intall a new rom I need stock ramdisk and recovery? So I have to uninstall magisk? And from RRos to Lineagesos are same steps from stock to custom?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] karnasw:
Is there any fix for second sim slot card LTE or 3g on RR B3 and other ROMs? Only E working. Also ROM can't recognize second sim operator name on second SIM as stock ROM do.

Another problem not all USSD codes work. For example *124*# Orange account status.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] whaleywhale:
Is VOLTE usable with any of the ROMs?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] OldDroid:
if you would've looked on our website you would already know the answer.

Regards
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] valk791:
Hi guys which rom did you install? And why?

Inviato dal mio FRD-L09 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ThePS4Gamer:
I installed the freshly uploaded OmniROM Pie Alpha 1, but it has several issues, like NFC, Wi-Fi tethering and flashlight (the last only don't work within the notification curtain's Flashlight switch) doesn't work. I patched NFC with NFC4PRA 2.0 and now it works. But the flashlight and Wi-Fi tethering still not work. Is there an Alpha 2 in the works for fixing NFC, Wi-Fi tethering and flashlight?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Just like on telegram, xda has a rule of NO ETAs. The pie release is a preview, and it was more important to release the first preview and get it out then to worry about minor issues like mirror casting and flashlight.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] prcek15:
Lol, there is long-waited alpha release of pie rom and in same day there is a question about next release. :D
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] karnasw:
I'm still looking for fix LTE on second SIM slot. Also provider name isn't recognized on second sim like on stock emui. Is this bug only Honor 8 related or maybe all Huawei phones on custom rom?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
Just installed the latest RROS. The instructions on the Homepage are wrong. After countless trys, reflashing and so on - doing a Factory Reset after Flashing always resulted in that dreaded red exclamation mark.

So out of frustration i just rebooted without trying to make a factory reset after flashing and it simply started up without any hiccup.

Unfortunately, it seems i can take one Photo, the App crashes and that's it until i restart the phone. Also, there a lot of things about NFC not working, but as far as i could read in this thread, those problems should be mitigated. They are not in my case, because NFC simply doesn't exist in the Settings. But i can ignore NFC, the Camera is a bit more important and considering it should be working i'm at a loss...
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Firstly, our instructions aren't wrong. The reset will say it's failed but that's common and not an issue because it still wipes. You'd know this if you inquired about it in the telegram group. Secondly, the camera has issues, but never have I seen the issue you're speaking of. Get a log so we can address it please otherwise if we can't reproduce the issue then we can't do anything. It took A LOT of work just to get the camera working. And finally, nfc isn't present on RR, which again, you'd know if you came to the group where we have over 1600 members. Nfc is on Omni, only because the builder uses it. You can flash the magisk module to get it working. I forget the name, but just do a search on xda and it should be fairly easy to find. I appreciate you posting on here and hopefully I've addressed some of your concern. Myself and Hackslash are both admins for OK and we both have H8s, so just be aware there are two of us actually on the team lurking around ;)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
Don't get me wrong, i appreciate that work you all put in the ROMs - apart from the Camera and a bit of weirdness around the FPS, it's amazing how little battery the Honor 8 can suck ;)

Unfortunately i don't have Telegram, so i wasn't really able to "just hop in the telegram group". But: TBH, if it's common that the reset fails with that exclamation mark, then i have to ask why it didn't boot after doing that flash. And if i look over to the other OpenKirin Phones, they do sometimes have that problem, but apparently they do what i did - don't factory reset it and just let it sit. (Maybe it's because i already did a factory reset, because i re-unlocked my bootloader right before flashing and...)

I already found the Magisk module and i will make myself a Telegram account to get you the logs ;)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
Just got Omnirom on my Honor 8 FRD-L04, and I can't get the camera and flashlight app working. The flashlight app isn't all that important as the camera app to me... I love how smooth and fast Omnirom is compared to EMUI, but I really need the camera for work, when I need to capture something quick.

Is there a work around to get the camera working on omnirom?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
I'm gonna assume you're on pie correct?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
Sorry but what do you mean I'm on pie?

I haven't done anything but install OMNIROM onto my FRD L04, and just use it "straight out of the box"
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
You're using omnirom bases on Android Pie, which was released recently, right ?

If so, as camera is working just fine on my honor 8, I suggest you to check camera application permissions
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
Sorry for being really dumb with this.

But i'm fairly certain I am on Android Oreo, as I am on Omni-8.1.0 (OmniROM beta 3.1), from OpenKirin download page.

I checked the camera app permissions and everything is on. Camera, Location, Microphone, Storage.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] udamster:
Did you try clearing the cache and data of both EMUI and stock camera and rebooting?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
Just gave that a shot. No luck.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] ThePS4Gamer:
On my L09 Honor 8, it works just fine. Have you installed Omni through TWRP? Maybe that causes the issue.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
Does the Camera work and stops working for you, if you do a factory reset? Apparently

To loosely quote the Admins on the Telegram Channel.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
That looks like Kyle said that lol
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Theoutbackdream:
I used TWRP to flash EMUI 8 onto my phone. That effectively removed TWRP, and overwrote it with the stock EMUI 8 Recovery. From there, I used adb to flash omni, with my computer as the instructions suggested.

---------- Post added at 08:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:50 PM ----------

The camera never worked at all on Omni.

I tried a factory reset with a cache reset, but this didn't work either...
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
No idea. It wasn't helpfull though and i wanted to understand what's going on (and get some logs!) but got told to "shut up" (basically)

I tried a few other things, but nothing worked and funnily enough, even flashing back to stock, making it completely stock and then flash it again didn't work either.

I found out when exactly the camera stops working: Everytime after a restart, it stops and the camera media server crashes and doesn't come back up. "User 0" also doesn't have permission to connect to the camera (but i suspect that's because the camera media server crashed).

I could live with crap quality (especially since the "rest" of the Rom is damn good), but no camera at all is unusable. I'm going back to stock Oreo and be done with Honor in and itself.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Transmogriff:
I'm on RR 3, and my wifi is running 100% of the time. Wlan_rx_wake is through the roof, prevents deep sleep, battery drains faster when screen is off than when it's on. Any help appreciated.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] pix106:
Check wifi scanning in settings
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Transmogriff:
Yeah it's off so that's not it unfortunately. Might be Magisk related.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
All I can suggest to anyone having issues is get logs. That is how the team can fix problems. We have a select number of test devices and that's it. So if we can't reproduce it AND we don't get a log from those experiencing an issue, then it can't be fixed. If you're wondering how to take a log, do a quick search here on XDA and you will be able to find quite a few guides. Hell there's even apps that simply do it for you with the click of a button
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
That is not the issue. The issue is the hostility to people with specific bugs and just saying "you did something wrong". Yes, i get that the problem is 95% of the time between the keyboard and the chair, but outright not giving any support just because one tried something different (that is not supported) but reverted back to the way it was, is just ridiculous and childish. Actually, that's EA behaviour. And it's not helping. It's not helping the community, it's not helping the users and potential users and so on.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
David, in your case it's hard to diagnose your issue when the two guys with h8s can't reproduce the issue and there's no log. Absolutely nobody with anything even remotely similar has given a log to help find the issue either. When realizing you tried manually replacing the camera, support was no longer given because it's now a tainted OS. The team had to do a tremendous amount of work just to get the camera functional thanks to Huawei and the way they do things. So when you even tried to manually replaced it, it actually screwed it up quite nicely. If you would have returned to stock, flash an OK GSI again and said hey I'm back at the start and still having issues, here's a log from the camera crashes, it would have been a completely different outcome and I know for a fact the team would have dug into that log right away. The reality is there are over 1800 users just in the telegram group, so when we get a message saying hey this don't work, I have no log, oh and I messed with the system, we have no choice but to say nope sorry. It's the risk you take when you start modifying. I don't wish to argue as it's pointless, but I hope you can at the very least try to see it from a developer aspect. If you do return to OpenKirin at any point and still have issues please don't hesitate to reach out and say "hey I'm having camera issues, here's a log, can someone help me?". We are also close to getting a bug tracker up and running to help with that. Again, I'm very sorry that you've had these issues and like I said if you're ever back in the OK neighborhood please stop by.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] david320te:
I did. I said numerous times, that i flashed back stock, flashed OpenKirin again and still had problems. I didn't want to just dump my logs, because many of the things i wrote where totally ignored/had been drowned. And i get that, it's over 1800 people in there, it get's crowded and things may go down that route - it happens. But constantly trying to get through and just getting a "You've done everything wrong, i don't help you anymore." even when i just try to understand and retrace my steps is tiresome and annoying (although, granted, i get that my behaviour probably also wasn't the most diplomatic).

I get that flashing, copying or just outright deleting stuff around core libraries or anything the like won't yield in any help at all - that isn't the issue i had and have with the way this was going down. I wanted to get you guys the logs - hell, i'm doing this kind of stuff as a job and know how invaluable logs are! And i now from the other side how frustrating it can be. I'm not a developer, i'm just a Sysadmin, but in that regard it's basically the same - so i absolutely get that and do not want to convey this as reproach, accusation or whatever. Flashing, deleting and coyping stuff was just me trying to do "something" and i probably shouldn't have put that in the "support" chat, as i wasn't trying to get support for that, rather then making some kind of stupid smalltalk.

So - one thing came to another thing, english isn't my native tounge , i may have overreacted a bit and taken stuff the wrong way and boom...different stuff happend. I'm also very sorry about that.

I also still stand by what i said - you guys did an awesome job as the rest is super smooth and working near perfect.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Bloodlvst:
I hope to have the bugtracker up by month end. I rarely get to time to sit down and get at "real" development work on the website done, but I'd like to get this key piece done before the busy holiday season.

Once it's up you're more than, welcome to report the issue and upload the required logs and the devs will try to take a crack at figuring it out.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
One thing I've noticed is video recording 1080p in non-60fps is choppy in natively installed Huawei app (I don't use any other as it's missing a few modes). Not a big thing as 60fps is fine unless someone wants smaller file sizes.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
I have tons of questions. I want to try a ROM for my honor 8.

Which one is recommended as daily driver ?

- I think it is Omni ROM

Are Gapps already included (Play Store, Play Services ...) ?

- ?

Is root included ?

- No
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] LINJEinc:
Used RROs for a few weeks, worked just fine as a daily driver on the phone
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
Thanks for your advice. I'm just trying OmniROM now.

As i have read, i can switch the ROMs by simply flashing another one i want, right ?

Edit:

So on OmniROM i also have the camera issue. There is a huawei camera and a stock camera installed and both don't even start. But also i wasn't able to factory reset in the recovery (but did it before when i OEM-unlocked.)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
You need to factory reset, that simple. And yes you can switch images, but you MUST factory reset.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
Edit: Huh, suddenly the camera works (both). No idea why. But it makes really bad pictures lol.

Edit2:

So i finally switched from OmniROM to RR OS and it seems much better for now. The cameras work right away and also make better pictures.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Not possible. It's the exact same cameras. I'd know since I'm an admin for OpenKirin lol.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
I guess the autofocus didn't work in these moments.

But now i am very pleased with RR OS, it's good work !

The only issue i see is that the google camera doesn't store the photos it makes ? (But the huawei camera is fine).
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
Why ? There would be the option to use microG. In this case you still have Play Services functionality in my understanding.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
The discussion was about removing everything Google from one of our images. Which is impossible. MicroG uses... Google api.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
So does the OmniROM support signature spoofing ?

Then i might try it with microG. Because RR OS doesn't seem to support signature spoofing nor Xposed.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
No idea, I'd have to ask Chris (he's the one that builds Omni for the team). I'll ask him in the morning and message you
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] GoldBlew:
It would be awesome if they could release a ROM based on Lineage for MicroG : https://lineage.microg.org/.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] agraceful:
Ok I talked to Chris, he personally has not added in any patch for spoofing so if it's not in Omni's default code then it's a no. I didn't see anything related to it when I checked Omni's code (kinda quickly). We do have plans to release the option of no gapp images but there's no ETA on those.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Does anyone knows already what is not working in the alpha 2 of Pie OmniROM?

I feel tempted to install and provide feedback, depending of what is not working...
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] cypher187:
according to a post on their G+ community Omni has general support for signature spoofing but there could be an issue with it on Oreo+ based ROMs. I didn't tried it yet.

MicroG worked good for me on Nougat based RROS. It supports it also in general. But for a test it is necessary to have the ROM fully clean of GApps - so it isn't worth it to try right now. But as soon a release without GApps is out - go on and try out and let me know (if I didn't do already) :)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
I have a feeling that his can take years lol.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] flip360:
Its working great, battery wise is fine but i think it still has the deep sleep bug. Camera works as expected, flashlight too, i think there is a minor bug in mobile hotspot but i rarely use it. Oh, and if you need nfc magisk is your friend :)

Cheers
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] liPillON:
HI!

I have a question regarding the installation instructions

https://openkirin.net/user_guide/openkirin-rom-installation-instructions/

Are these steps:

12. Once it’s completed, type the command fastboot reboot and unplug your phone

13. Before booting up the ROM, you will need to perform a factory reset in stock recovery.

14. To boot into recovery, power off your device. Then hold down Power + VolUp at the same time, and keep them held until the Huawei/Honor logo appears on your screen.

The same as?

12+13+14. Once it’s completed, reboot to recovery by typing the command "fastboot reboot recovery" and unplug your phone

If so, updating the instructions should be useful in preventing mistakes (and support requests about non-working camera)
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] zinko_pt:
Have you tried custom Kernel? I'm running RRos B3 with Chihayafuru Kernel and I can tell the phone really sleeps. Also currently use NFC4 in Magisk.

I might switch to it over the weekend. Need time to backup-flash-restore.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] liPillON:
sorry for double posting but I forgot to ask something else..

as far as i understand:

- RRos OpenKirin B3 is, being branched from RRos 6.2.0, based on Oreo 8.1

- which Oreo release is OmniRom B3.1 based on?

thanks!
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
Solved:

After 20 reboots eRecovery startet. There i could perform fatory reset and format.

Power phone off, press Vol- while connecting usb cable to PC --> Bootloader opens.

Flash stock recovery_damdisk.

Done :).
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Silent_Killer2121:
Can anyone give me review of the latest pie GSI available on openkirin.net like battery backup, bugs, stability etc...?
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Smackeroni:
Known Bugs are afaik:

WiFi Tethering is not working

NFC

Battery is like omni oreo, maybe a bit better but still buggy (sometimes it doesn't go to deep sleep)

The rest is stable as rock- I use Omni pie as a daily driver.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Silent_Killer2121:
thanks for sharing. I need hotspot so I will currently stick to RROS.
[Honor 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Nex23:
So im running now OmniRom with microG and yeah ... it mostly works.

Google maps is fully working.

Threema is enabled for GCM, but it can't find Play Services, so there is an annoying popup, but GCM works.

Whatspp isn't enabled for GCM but still works (maybe FCM or Polling ? Idk.)

I don't use more apps which need Play Services actually lol. I didn't mess around with any Play Stores.