yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I can make one for RETUS. It will take me a day or two but I'll grab the firmware tonight and get started tomorrow on it.

[MENTION=9688024]sunriseiscool[/MENTION] Just want to confirm that the latest pie firmware for RETUS is XT1922-9_JETER_RETUS_9.0_PPP29.118-17-1?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
It's the firmware with the upload date 2019-07-17. Sorry I ain't been on alot. Got a promotion at work and been helping the g7 play forum and spaceminer on how we can get them rooted. A/b partition on the g7 play is different for some reason and it's been quite a headache ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
No problem. I just finished making it and I'm uploading it now. My isp is having issues so it could be up to 12 hours before it finishes lol. I'll post the link here when it does. Congrats on the promotion by the way! ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
I'm glad my isp ain't the only one acting up ? I'm with spectrum and have already had to change out my router and modem 4 times this year. Tomorrow will be 5. Screw charter/spectrum. And thank ya kindly it just sucks ass because of certain circumstances and it was kinda just thrown at me but that's life just a 100 mph baseball being thrown at you without a glove ??. I have a day off Friday so I'll flash the xt1922-7 rom you made and try it out and stuff then lol
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
Here is the link for the RETUS Jeter Pie Slim ROM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1U2AKwac-rUJf7be-bIrNI-x-FPj-9IDw

flashable kernel

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i6nO_goaPpyp5nfjI3zZ2bLmwxZUClr1

I'll add it to the OP once I can confirm everything works.

Please make sure you are using the correct model (XT1922-9) and are on this build before flashing

XT1922-9_JETER_RETUS_9.0_PPP29.118-17-1

Directions are the same as in the OP ?

enjoy!

Report back on any issues you face
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
If I'm feeling ambitious i might make a ROM for most of the g6 play models, I just need to figure out how many there are and if there is a need for it ? Big thanks to all who have helped test so far!
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sunriseiscool:
So I'm not sure what happened, but it seems it's flashing the other version?

I flashed the phone back to stock (XT1922-9_JETER_RETUS_9.0_PPP29.118-17-1) and booted and everything

Then I put the rom and kernel zip on SD

Formatted and wiped everything but SD

Flashed rom, booted and then went back to twrp

Tried flashing kernel but it said "Invalid zip format"

Flashed a boot logo

Then booted into android and set everything up

Then I go into settings and it says "US Retail" and everything is the same as the one in OP and usb debugging still not working.

I have no idea why this happened, maybe it's something on my part?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
Try just flashing the ROM as the kernel is included with it but as far as usb debugging I'm going to try to force enable it for you. I'll need to update the ROM to do it so you may need to wait until it finishes uploading which may take a bit. Have you tried using a different cable? I know that sounds trivial but its messed me up before too. I'll double check the rom and kernel and get back to you as soon as i can tonight but I'm glad to hear the ROM flashed ok.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sunriseiscool:
I have tried a different cable, it did the same thing.

I enable USB Debugging in Settings and it's enabled.

But when I go to adb or anything that needs permission to connect, it doesn't show the "Allow USB Debugging" window.

There is no revoke usb debugging authorization button either.

Also, the ROM says US Retail in settings but you said it's RETUS so i'm not sure if that's just visual or not.

For now I've flashed back to stock. Thanks :)
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
No problem, that's actually not visual it's the abbreviation for US Retail in your stock firmware,which is what we are using as a base ROM. I uploaded two files for you: a secure boot.img flashable in twrp that should restore your ability to allow USB debugging

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WrALzzI2UUrkBvyYmEsm54iGn4rxsJqd

and a flashable zip version containing the same boot.img in case that fails.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1icK0q8Pyw0NIL00WPgGqiYt86syhGWrR

Try them both after flashing the ROM and see if that restores the ability for you to use adb.

Thank you!
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sunriseiscool:
Didn't work

I flashed ROM without wiping dalvik/cache

Then I flashed the boot.img with partition Boot

Booted into system, activated sim and tried USB Debugging. Didn't work.

Also, the zipped version says "Invalid zip format" when flashing
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
? I'm sorry, you may need to go back to stock or whatever worked before for now although i do recommend wiping dalvik and cache in your case. does debugging work on any arm-a gsi's for you? I worked at it all day yesterday. I'll keep looking into it to try to help you but i don't own that particular model so it's tougher on my end. I wish i could see a log that would greatly help

edit: if you send me your stock boot.img (that has debugging working) I'll pack it in with the ROM and then we will know you have a working build. This goes for anyone with the same issue ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
Didn't Moto remove ADB from some pie builds? I remember someone mentioning it
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I didn't know that previous to building the ROMs unfortunately. I'm working with android studio to resolve the issue
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
They broke ADB sideload. That pissed me off too. I fought with that for almost a week before I figured it out. I thought twrp was broken because of it.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I wonder how they managed that? Adb doesn't seem like that complex of a binary. i guess there is another way to debug pie but I'll work at injecting a newer working adb binary into the build im on and if I'm successful ill incorporate it into a new build.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
I doubt it's the binary itself. My twrp uses it's own adb binary, but it has the same problem on Pie firmware. If I had to guess it's probably a selinux issue. That can easily prevent things from working. It'd be really easy to make a typo and screw up everything.

Related:

GSI's actually have a sepolicy problem with exfat right now. Our phones on stock Pie format external sdcards as exfat, but exfat won't mount on a GSI. Sepolicy denies it. But... If you set selinux to permissive and reinsert the card it'll work. Phh and Yan refuse to fix it. Both say it isn't their problem. I'm very irritated about that actually. Phh closed the issue saying that it was a Lineage problem. Then Yan closed it for Lineage, saying that it was a Phh problem! End result, no one did anything! If you want exfat to mount on a GSI, you have to put a hole in your security. Not cool.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
wow. that's crazy!!

I just confirmed that adb is in fact working in Android Q gsi beta 6 but I'm wondering exactly the steps i need to take to build it for jeter. If phh or yan won't help us then maybe we need to take this to the next level. Motorola has been relatively slow in keeping with the gpl and it's putting us at risk to put it lightly
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
I'm not sure if Google is going to provide any way to build Q in arm32. All I can find from them is arm64 and x86_64.

Edit: There is arm32! You should be able to grab it with android studio. Android Q Beta. Look near the middle of the page. I've included a screenshot.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
Awesome! I'm currently migrating to sparky Linux so I'll be setup to attempt a build in a day or so! Thanks [MENTION=7718083]Spaceminer[/MENTION]!
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I've begun work on the Q beta GSI but may possibly also try a pie gsi but we already know what doesn't work (like adb for instance) I may start a different thread for them but i will continue to upload updates to the g6 play models I have supported this far. If any of you can help with the gsi end I could use the help. ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
Can you give me the name of the Q arm32 test image? I can grab it without android studio if I know. It should be something similar to, aosp_arm64-exp-QPP6.190730.005-5773495.zip
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
upon swiping to install the rom in the first post throws twrp into what seems like a soft reset, doesnt go to the n/a screen just instantly goes to the twrp boot screen. i took a recovery and kernel log from twrp after the soft reset model xt1922-7 boost
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
so I'm facing a little confusion. Am I building the gsi for aosp_arm_a (32 bit) or aosp_arm64_a (64-bit)? I thought we had a 32 bit device
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I'll look at the logs later today and see if i can figure out what happened. Did you do a full wipe except external sd, format data and reboot twrp and flash the ROM?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
I know I can replicate it cause I tried like 8 times just to see if I could replicate it ? and get a logcat later if that can be more helpful. I'm at work right now so it won't be till tonight lol
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
Ok, thank you for your help ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
As the kids and memelords that make fun of the kids say "it's lit bruh"
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
It would have to be arm32 and non-system as root.

I just saw a bic lighter that said "It's lit" few hours ago. I almost bought it too because it was adorned with foliage that I'm, uh... fond of. ;)
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I had been curious about the adb problem so I plugged in another boost mobile g6 play on pie build 118-2 and can confirm it has working adb. I attached a screenshot. This is on an unrooted g6. I'm likely going to use that boot.img or similar with the next builds I make
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
OK I see what made [MENTION=6085001]Sands207[/MENTION] accuse me of not fixing stuff out of nowhere... But didn't you say in the GSI thread that you're going to hammer out the issue yourself? Since I don't know much about SELinux, best I can do isn't much more than what you can - filing another bug report to PHH issues page referring to the original (closed) one, with tests and appropriate logs conducted on the latest PHH AOSP available.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
Holy hell Yan commented in our forum this is awesome to me it's like meeting a celebrity in person almost ? bro help us out here with a lineage port we are struggling here ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
He basically said, get eff'd. LoL. Celebrity? More like a reality star peeing on you.... I'm never washing this shirt again!. LMAO.

Just kidding around. Don't take it seriously.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
Hey seeing a reconized Dev commenting in our barely functional forum is legit pretty cool to me idk why and I can't explain it ? it's like o Dev's know this phone exists at least lmao
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
I get ya. I was just kidding.

Who ya idolize depends on what ya aspire to do. Keeping the ROM world alive.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
It's already filed. Someone beat me to it months ago. Bug report. It's been sitting there doing nothing for 4 months now. What irritates me about this is, I shouldn't have to open an issue at all. You knew it was a problem. You saw that Phh had closed it unnecessarily for Lineage, you could've easily reopened it, but you didn't. You basically just told me to get bent. I came to you with a problem, with the GSI that you built, and you told me it's not your problem. If I did construction work with this kind of mentality I'd be out of job.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
What the heck? I'm just a measly builder, unrelated to PHH (specifically, in terms of GitHub), and has no control over his issues page or anything.

Yes, I know you have the issue, but you said it also doesn't work on PHH AOSP and "anything based off of them", and then we both know something's up in PHH's sources.

PHH being unresponsive is unfortunate (I waited almost 2 months for him to merge a simple overlay), but what can I do about it when I don't have the skills to fix that on my own?

...or do you mean that, without the skills, I don't deserve making GSIs in the first place? Cool, then watch half the GSIs (and lots of device-specific ROMs) go poof, because many of us are just that, builders. We make use of the time / computing resources we have on hand to bring you more available ROMs.

I know my place and never declare myself a "dev", even going as far as emphasizing my "builder" identity when people refer to me as something bigger than I actually am. I hope you understand how all this works.

As said above in the reply to Spaceminer, not "dev". Don't refer to me as one.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
Damn.... Sorry.

---------- Post added at 12:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 PM ----------

So wait has these last few pages been about adb not working on the xt1922-7 model? Because it's works fine for me on the 118-41 official non soak stock pie firmware. Unless it's about adb not working on gsi because I don't mess with gsi at all for these exact reasons ?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
The point is, I'm not running Phh's AOSP and I wasn't trying to. I was trying to run your GSI and it has a legitimate problem. If I build a house and the roof collapses, I can't blame it on the guy that I got the materials from. The responsible thing is for me to fix it, and if I don't know how, then I should get outside help. In the same sense, if I'm running something you build and say there's problem, it should not be shoved onto phh. It's your build, that you choose to maintain. If it's a problem you can fix, great! If it's beyond your scope of expertise, then let the community know and I'm sure people will try to help.

Phh has no problem doing this. The guy is very skilled but he doesn't know everything and he has no problem admitting that. He regularly appeals to the community for help. I do this myself. I maintain twrp for the G6 Play. I didn't build it, but I choose to maintain it. So when someone comes to me with a problem, I don't point the finger at someone else like Deestroy who gave us the tools. I look for a solution, ask other people for help, or worst case just admit that it's beyond my skill level. The last thing that I'd say to someone is that it's not my problem.

So, when I say that "I have ____ problem"; and your response is "I don't see what the problem is", ignoring it and pushing it onto someone else, then I don't have much respect for that. I can't say I blame sands for what he said. It wasn't unwarranted, it was the truth. I've seen multiple problems come up that you ignore time and again. It's okay if you can't fix something, but ignoring that it exists or claiming it's not your problem entirely is disingenuous.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
Logic-wise, I still don't see why I can't say it's not my problem in this particular case.

When I first saw your help-needed post (along with some other issues), I had no idea whether these were specific to LOS or all PHH GSIs, and so I said:

(no one other than you replied back with test results on AOSP though)

Furthermore, specific to your post, I replied:

Now that I look back on it, it wasn't clear enough, but by that I was trying to express my helplessness on the issue - during building I've done nothing out of the ordinary to break it, and by then I've already learnt to apply up-to-date patches from PHH so it can't be because I missed a patch. And I most certainly didn't say there isn't an issue.

Then you followed up with:

By then it was apparent that the issue is common to all PHH GSIs, and thus comes from somewhere in PHH's sources.

To build upon (pun not intended) your analogy, if I build a house and the roof collapses, I do suspect I built it badly somewhere. But then we take a look around and see all houses break in the same way - in this case I feel it's reasonable to then suspect something's not right about the materials.

That said, I accept the criticism in the last para. I generally don't like to respond to things I don't know about, because I see "I don't know" as kind of a downer to people who asked about it. I also tend to reply in a short, distant-sounding way. Being a non-native English speaker could only make matters worse, as I sometimes use the wrong wording or shorten the expression too much. This is the 2nd time within the week that I get communication problems due to these, so I guess it's time to change it up and be more "verbose" about things. Sorry about that.

---------- Post added 6th September 2019 at 12:09 AM ---------- Previous post was 5th September 2019 at 11:38 PM ----------

Hmm, I just noticed that while issue #504 does end up on the exfat issue, it begins with a different one, and that's probably why it didn't attract attention. And technically that means nobody reported the issue there since issue #275 was closed. Perhaps the right/constructive thing to do now is to create a new one with proper title and test samples. I now have a test device with SD card support so I should be able help add significance to the problem by supplying logs.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
If we work together, that is the ultimate goal here. Thank you for chiming in and going from unreachable to reachable and doing so in a respectful way. My goal here is to offer the people here software that is as complete and safe as possible. For every hole that is patched or in our case "broken" another hole opens up and has been the case since early android. I know because I was there. If you would be willing to collaborate that would greatly help the situation. No more need to defend yourself, just do what you can. If you can. Thanks.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
It's only the adb sideload function in stock/custom recovery that's broken.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
It's broken at system level for me, i have the option to enable usb debugging in my dev settings but no revoke authorization option su or no su but adb keeps listing the device as unauthorized and in recovery i can pull and push files but it's fine on my other phone
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
Oh boy. When I said I should be able to help, I forgot that my unpopular device has a TWRP that can't decrypt /data and thus can't back it up, so I'd have to wipe and set it up all over again if I want to try out other ROMs... I guess I'll just go sit in a corner.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] whodisname:
I think what everyone meant was that its frustrating not knowing how to fix all the bugs themselves, but we all would appreciate someone hitting us all up with some old school xda help with some shiz that seems to be clufin us all up.

either that, or everyone thinks I can go yeet myself off a cliff. Im sure its 100% one of those things. ;)
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
My twrp can't decrypt data but we can still back it up. How long are you going to keep showing up here just to be petty? Seriously, go take a piss somewhere else.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
In the backup menu, /data just shows up as 0MB... Sucks.

And look, I was trying to be more communicative and letting you hear a "I don't know"/"I can't be of help here". Right, time to go.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
You are completely wrong. My twrp doesn't show 0mb. If it shows that for you, then you don't know how to use it, or you're not using my twrp. Go spread lies elsewhere.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] AndyYan:
Uh, what again... I have an ASUS Zenfone Live, not a Moto G6 Play. I referred to it as "my unpopular device" earlier, and you can see it in my signature as well. If I actually had a Moto G6 Play I wouldn't have babbled about not being able to test exfat, ya?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Spaceminer:
Play dumb all you want. You were trying to take a stab at my work and we both know it. Your device and the twrp that it runs, has nothing to do with exfat, selinux, helping us with testing, or anything else that I've said thus far. It literally has nothing to do with anything being discussed in this thread. It was a passive aggressive jab, and a poor attempt to make me look like a fool. I said my piece, and you said yours. We're not going to see eye to eye here. This is doing nothing to help Sands or his project. So say whatever you want, but I'm done responding to you.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
Dude stop. Encrypt your data and try to backup. It's impossible. That's what he said about his device and TWRP. Makes testing time consuming. I'm sick of reading this crap now.

Say what you want to me. Later
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I'm putting this project on hold until I can get some things settled on my end. Mods, Please clean this thread!
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
Jeter pie source is up.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
Just an update to anyone following this thread, i sold my dev machine to make ends meet. I'll have to postpone any future updates until i can build a new one. Keep in touch and don't hesitate to write me!
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Andromendous:
so where do i get build 118-41? I dont see it for my phone all i see is 118-17-1-1
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ninjakira:
This project has been put on hold
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
I'm working on getting the parts I need to build another box or even a cheap laptop. Once I can do that I'll pick up where I left off and with the source being released now, I'm getting kind of crazy because I want to help build more for Jeter but my hands are tied til at least Tuesday when I can hopefully pay for what I need. I'll chime back in if I can get what I need to fix the box I have now, the power supply and motherboard got surged last year and hasn't turned over since.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Andromendous:
I know... So does that mean i cant install the current version that is posted?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
You can certainly try but I won't be able to help you if things go wrong. Make sure you are on that particular build before you flash it and take a working backup in twrp. I should be back up and running this week.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Andromendous:
I understand that. I guess that's my issue, I can't find that particular build anywhere.
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Sands207:
What build are you on now?
[Moto G6 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] madbat99:
What phone model do you have?