yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Cupcake 1.5:
Yep, my bad it seems, will have to wipe internal:( Perhaps a warning for applying the patch is needed to stop idiots like me losing there photos etc.

Oh great...a new problem. I cannot hit the reset phone button, it is doing nothing. It worked before. Problem is, twrp will no allow wipe because of encryption.

Edit: I can normally get verity off by flashing a no verity zip or magisk. I cannot remove verity, tried everything.

Perhaps fastboot will wipe it still.

Edit2: OK i'm good now, what a mess lol. Just reflashing soak 4 WITH PATCHES. Will not be making that mistake again.

Edit 3: the Google camera that worked no longer works...at least for me. On soak 4 it crashes.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Wolfcity:
If you want to decrypt your device you have to format data, a wipe is not enough.

That's the option in TWRP - wipe - format data where you have to confirm with "yes" and not just swipe.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
I just realised that I didn't apply the tweak to enable camera 2 API, but gcam is working, and snap camera hdr is reporting that it's enabled. So unless I did something silly, camera 2 API is enabled by default now
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Armando Lopez:
Ive a doubt: flash the previous versions before the aroma version, now how i can flash this new version? I dont understand yet... Hope someone help me
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
If you flashed a previous version and had no issues, just flash this in the same way. You will get a list of options, but just leave everything ticked.

The options are there more for people that know they have particular issues, and want to customise. Most people will be fine with everything selected.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] maosilva:
They could release the version OPS28.85-13 without being with the aroma installer, just the .zip file!
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
What is wrong with the Aroma installer?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Armando Lopez:
Thanks dude. Everything seems to working fine. Keep the good work.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
The aroma installer is there so that I can cater for all requests that I have from people. I get some that ask for a version that didn't erase efs. Some who lost persist before don't work with the latest modem firmware. There will be some that want the rom without it patching out dm-verity for security reasons. Exactly how I could cover all of those cases without the aroma installer?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] psychopac:
It'd be cool if it's enabled in the final release
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Antonio's Wonka:
One question, I'm in version 2 flasheable, do I have to do a clean installation to update? Or can I install over the current one?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Cupcake 1.5:
Use the magisk add-on if you want to enable it easily.

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Yeah but that doesn't work in twrp when encrypted, it fails to wipe anything. I sorted it anyway, I fastboot erased user data, that did the trick.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
A quick note to say that the link in the OP has been updated for soak test 4. Also, all older versions are now in a sub-folder "Archive" of the main folder, as I suspect that the first soak test was getting most downloads still as it was at the top :). All have also been renamed to make clear which was which.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] luizlee86:
Which version did you install from magisk manager? 90.2 SDK27?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fer198309:
Hi, I was in test 3, I cleaned the cache and installed 4 over test 3, I was confused in the aroma, and only left checked the option system, I install nornal only I lost twrp, I had to install dinovo with a Pc, But outside, it's okay
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pfonck:
Select system and patches, or you risk losing twrp and data getting encrypted again.

Best is to flash magisk directly after new rom
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fer198309:
Good to know, will you have more updates? When you launch the official, will you make it flashable?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sanads:
1st 8.1 version update was very laggy

hang every no & then
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kartiklohia:
Can i install the Google camera mod with portrait mode on this ROM?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Klape:
Hi all,

A noob question, the persist-fix should be flashed before or after the downgrade to stock Nougat?

Thanks in advance.

Regards Klape

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Hi all,

Is VoWifi enabled in Stock Rom?

Regards Klape
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Cupcake 1.5:
No, you need 64bit Oreo for that Google camera. There is one for 32bit which works quite well. It has hdr+ working.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Either before or after, but before first boot to have everything up and running immediately.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Klape:
Great.

Tank you.

Regards Klape
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kartiklohia:
Can you please provide me the link for that
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] emaf94:
I can update from soak 3 to soak 4 without wipe internal storage?

Edit: worked fine
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kuzo:
I did it this way and it worked well for me.

solo borré cache y dalvik por las dudas y funciono bien
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] emaf94:
the rom work's perfect but actually i have a problem and it's really annoying.. the stock camera auto-closes after few seconds, all the time.. any solution? an alternative camera app?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
Have you tried clearing the cache of the factory camera?

If that doesn't work try clearing dalvik cache in TWRP.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smitharro:
Thanks a lot for the TWRP flashable soak test! Got it all up and running now, after a slight struggle... I was on a custom Oreo rom (Validus). Tried to take a shortcut, but that was not a good idea...

- First I wiped cache, dalvik, system and data.

- Then I directly installed the soak test (number 4). Flashing a Nougat stockrom mandatory? mwaah... It booted, but the touchscreen didn't work anymore!

- So back to TWRP for a mandatory Nougat TWRP flashable stockrom. But.. F*ck!! No touchscreen in TWRP either!!

- Solution: a fastboot Nougat stockrom. Flashed that without the NON-HLOS.bin and without erasing the modemst1 and modemst2. The touchscreen came back. Pffff!

- Fastboot flash recovery twrp.zip and then the soak test zip in TWRP.... Yesss! I'm in! Everything works fine!

Bottom line: be patient and read the OP carefully!
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] emaf94:
Yes, i clear from android and twrp and don't works :(
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] eder5jga:
Is it compatible with Xposed?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
This is interesting. The instruction to flash a Nougat stock rom first is only when going back to an Oreo custom rom, not coming from an Oreo custom rom. But you are the second person that has had that happen, the touch screen not working even in TWRP. I really don't know why that would be.

However, can you tell me which fastboot commands you did use? I see you didn't flash the modem (and that would have been my first bet), so must be one of the others that fixes that issue.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smitharro:
[MENTION=7346927]NZedPred[/MENTION]

I flashed the whole stockrom, except for 3 lines: NON-HLOS.bin and the 2 modemst's. This with the standard fastboot that comes with Ubuntu.

I thought you stated in the OP that it is mandatory to flash a stock Nougat rom first, even when you're already on an Oreo custom rom. But now I see that this is only when going back to a custom rom. My story confirmes that it is possibly necessary too when installing the soak test. I assume that somehow the path to the drivers of the touchscreen changed. Or that I came from a 64 bit custom rom to a 32 bit stockrom. I don't know what will happen if I would go back to an Oreo custom rom again, but I'm not going to try. The phone is used by my daughter. She read about the soaktest and asked me if I could install it. So I did... She perfectly happy now. I warned her NOT to do an OTA when it pops up. (it would fail anyway because TWRP is installed).
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] leandro_soul:
Brazil stock

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262903985856
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] rajeshkoshti:
As this is the stock Oreo 8.1, has anybody tried Rootless Substratum theme with andromeda?

Especially with the fact that our stock oreo is going to be :crying: 32-bit rom..!
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] eder5jga:
ALSO: does anybody know magisk isn't asking for root permissions? When I use root like for example Adaway, the app installs the host normally but without asking for root permissions
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sinchan_nohara:
i flashed xposed through magisk and got bootloop.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] purusp:
battery issues

battery is draining like crazy ,and which kernel should i install
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] psychopac:
When did you install the ROM?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] purusp:
yesterday i installed the soak test 4

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and now only one of my sim is working , before installing the kernel, everything is working fine . just there are some battery issues . i tries installing the soak test 4 again but im unable to start my 2nd sim
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] psychopac:
Give it a day to settle
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Emiarrbe:
I face the same battery draining issue I've dirty-flashed from soak 3, at least 4 days ago and I can confirm battery is draining a lot, I do have also a 2 SIM variant and both of them are working perfectly, it's just the battery issue what makes me want to flash Lineage or another Nougat custom rom.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mohammad_here:
Bro.. I unlocked my bootloader and twrp and somehow bricked my phone.. so I flashed the stock ROM and done OTA update and hard bricked that. Then I flashed various Oreo and pie custom roms like treble and arrow OS.. everything works fine except the VoLTE feature. I am able to use the data but can't make or receive the calls.. can you pls help.. plzz

Does the VoLTE work after flashing the above mentioned persist zip?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smartish123:
https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-moto-g5-plus-oreo-update-902970/

Don't forget to capture the OTA plz ?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
They need to get their information right. It's Android 8.1.0 not 8.0 ;)
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] jneedle:
Smooth and easy upgrade from Nougat to OPS28.85-13

Lots of cautionary tales in the 27 pages of this thread so I approached this cautiously. Backed up EFS and persist to my external sd card with dd, updated to the twrp referenced elsewhere (twrp-3.2.2.1-potter_treble.img), slapped SOAK4-twrp-flashable-potter-OPS28.85-13-aroma.zip and the latest magisk zip on the sd card then updated twrp and dirty flashed the Oreo image (left all aroma options selected) and magisk, rebooted, held my breath for about 2 minutes and am up and running 8.1.0 OPS28.85-13 with no issues at all. I was coming from your latest Nougat twrp-flashable ROMs. Only issue I ran into is that the installer says to press "Install ROM" and the option reads "Install Now" but the workaround for that was easy enough :). Excellent job and thanks for your great work (as well as the great guide).
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
If you've been doing all of those things it's hard to know exactly where you are right now. Whatever you do, backup your EFS and Persist as they are now. You may get some functionality back by flashing one of the Oreo stock builds. The persist zip mentioned isn't needed for an Oreo stock build.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mohammad_here:
Will it work if I flash oreo stock build? Like will the VoLTE will b back?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Try and find out. Volte seems to be one of those things that is sometimes fixed, but other times it just isn't.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] jingletard:
Backed up my EFS & Persist, flashed this knowing I had one of those stupid backed up EFS/Persist zips floating around, and my IMEI went right to 0. Restored my janky EFS/Persist from my stock Nougat and no service despite having my IMEI back intact.

I swear if we had a way to get a good oreo EFS/Persist where I could inject my own IMEI in to it, I'd be ****ing ecstatic. I know what my IMEI is, thankfully.

I'd be real, real careful with this if you flashed that backed up EFS/Persist from the other thread that supposedly fixed our VoLTE issues. It *will* wipe your IMEI despite unchecking the option in the Aroma installer.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
Flash the first soak test then restore efs. Then you can flash only system from the last soak test, this will leave you running the latest version with working radio.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fer198309:
this update ota to get on the bike g5 plus will be like this SOAK4 OPS 28.85-13?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] psychopac:
[MENTION=7346927]NZedPred[/MENTION] here's the OTA link for Oreo update captured by someone on RETBR channel

https://plus.google.com/116142993672750486749/posts/38icrGGWe6H
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Good stuff. So, after a super quick download from the link, the key lines are as follows:

ui_print("Source: motorola/potter/potter:7.0/NPNS25.137-92-14/16:user/release-keys");

ui_print("Target: motorola/potter/potter:8.1.0/OPS28.85-13/b8ea:user/release-keys");

In other words, the source for this is the latest Nougat (NPNS25.137-92-14) for retin, retla (and I guess whatever retbr stands for), and the target is... the same version as what I've already produced for Soak test 4 - OPS28.85-13.

So, without actually building it right now (it's nearly time for bed in NZ :)) I would say that Motorola have unified the channels and we will probably have just one build, which happens to be the same as Soak test 4.

I will build it separately however, just in case there are differences. Hope you can all hold out for 24 hours or so :)
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] psychopac:
*retail brazil :)

And yes please, take your time
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] FabricioGS:
Mine ROM is stock retbr NPNS25.137-92-4. How do I update to NPNS25.137-92-14 if system says there's no update?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kdt09:
How could we install this OTA using twrp?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fer198309:
the SOAK4 oreo update and the same that I get via ota for g5 plus users?

The number appears to be the same as OPS 28.85-13.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] soyguris:
I try with channel RETLA, is patching!
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] rajeshkoshti:
[MENTION=7346927]NZedPred[/MENTION]

where is the Man of the Day?!:p

Take ur time bro.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Official Oreo == Soak Test 4 - suitable for all channels

As per the title. I have now verified that the newest Official Oreo release is exactly the same as Soak Test 4. I can also confirm that there is just one firmware for all channels. The previous split of two firmwares covering different channels/regions has been unified (and let's hope that they keep things that way!).

Since there is absolutely no difference between soak 4 and official, there will be no new download. I have however renamed the file in the download to reflect it is 'standard'.

twrp-flashable-potter-OPS28.85-13-aroma.zip
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] firdous95:
Previously i tried installing soak test i got IMEI 0 problem.

If i flash this final one and restore my efs before boot than...will i have network?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] navaneethkom:
Facing same problem. Tried by restoring my efs and persist fix by NZedPred. Still no luck. (Indian variant)
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] rajeshkoshti:
I am doing gud on AEX,

And with ur information I shudnt indulge myself into flashing stock, its 32-bit anyhow. Devs will definitely take out some good parts from the stock 8.1 and incorporate into custom 64-bit roms.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] rjherms:
Have you tried to flash twrp nougat then the persist fix in the op then oreo?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] navaneethkom:
tried every possible methods available in our forums. Still no luck.

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I think flashing stock rom through twrp without erasing persist is safe. I did a mistake long ago by erasing and again using someone's persist for fixing.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] rjherms:
If you flashed someone elses persist, you are out of luck. No coming back.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] nightwalkerx22:
Any option there might be?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
From the FAQ on post 2:

On soak test 2 or later, I have my IMEI but no signal. What can I do?

In all cases where this has happened, the user's phone has relied upon an EFS backup for IMEI, due to flashing another persist. In these cases, it appears that the only way to get a signal is to use the firmware (i.e. modem, fsg, dsp - refer previous FAQ) from soak test 1. We're probably seeing here that the EFS does in fact need to be recreated to be valid. Unfortunately for these users, by not having their own persist, they are stuck with an old EFS and the newer firmwares appear to not work.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
With the addition you can flash system only from soak 4 and you will be running the latest build.

The way you worded it this isn't clear.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Ah yes. One extra little detail - make sure to still select apply patches when installing system from soak 4 / official. Pedantic I know :)
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
Also, I do intend at some stage to investigate exactly what is needed by those with bad persist to use the latest versions. At the moment we know that keeping all 3 of dsp, fsg, and modem from soak test 1 works, but I'm sure it will be just one of these, and even then, potentially just a handful of files.

If I can work that out, then I could build in a patching option to the aroma installer. I may need volunteers though, just depends on whether or not I can reproduce the issue by messing with old nougat builds and efs.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
While not 100% sure I would bet it's the modem.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smartish123:
So just to clarify,

My phone status:

-Bad persist

-Have a good EFS backup

-Currently on latest TWRP nougat build

if I dirty flash soak test 4, will my good EFS backup no longer work to restore imei and signal? If it doesn't work, is there a workaround?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
If you flash (dirty or clean) soak 4 you will lose your radio (signal). Restoring EFS will not fix the issue.

Workaround.

Flash soak 1, restore good EFS, flash system from soak 4. You will be running the latest version with working radio.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Antonio's Wonka:
How to install xposed? when I install it the phone enters a bootloop
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kuzo:
yesterday reading in a Brazilian forum I realized that it said that if you have imei 0 and no signal, the update to oreo corrected it. And so it was, I installed android 7 with fastboot, I lost the imei and the signal and then upgraded to android 8 by ota and it worked, the imei and the signal came back and I'm like factory, everything was perfect !
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Cupcake 1.5:
Wow really? That would be awesome, gonna try this when Oreo hits the UK.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
If you use another persist I wouldn't be holding my breath. The report was most likely reflecting the fact that it fixes the ownership of folders in persist on each boot, essentially doing the same as in my persist fix thread.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kuzo:
it must be so, i never used another persist...i have a copy of my persist and EFS, i knew if it didn't work, i could fix it...but i tried and it worked.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Chrisredfield200:
I want to update only the partitions relative to the modem and fsg. I already use a custom Oreo ROM, but I'm having problems with the signal from my cell phone. Whenever I restart the phone, it seems that the system does not start the signal from the chip, I need to take it out and put it back to start (I do not know if it is a hardware or software problem). So I'm trying to update these 2 partitions in the hope of solving my problem.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] NZedPred:
It won't fix anything for current custom ROMs, as the blobs are not compatible. Refer to the first two posts.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] negativzeroe:
What about September update? Or did they not post?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smartish123:
Battery Issues

I just dirty flashed soak test 4. This is after coming from TWRP Nougat, then soak test1, then flashing the system only of soak test 4. My phone seems to be charging incredibly slow. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Does this issue go away or did I do something wrong?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] zooreo:
hi ! Please need help. Firstly I was on custom rom. Then I flashed stock fast boot rom sucessfully & then I got the update of android 8.1 if upadted my software to 8.1 . After two days I revert back to custom roms . Now I just wants to go back to stock so i flashed the earlier version of stock rom but i ****ed up my device now its not booting up on bootloader mode is showing. what to to now? i m from india.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] iLovPieNCake:
Anyone experience long patching fstab..... worried installer may have locked up.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
I don't have this issue, perhaps the pins are getting worn on the factory cable.

When you plug it in does it say "TurboPower Connected"?
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smartish123:
Yeah mine says Turbopower connected. Im not sure if that's charging slower too. I got like 6 percent in like 10 mins
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fivefour:
Install Ampere and see what it's charging at.
[Moto G5 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] smartish123:
I'm getting about 600-710mA range.