[Nubia Red Magic 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Perseo99:
The installation's process and some details [TWRP, ROOT, GAPPS]

Hey!

I finally install and run the beta on my device. The process is very simple and easy to follow:

1. Get the stock rom on your device without root. You will have to do a full wipe of your data and cache from the Recovery. If you have installed a GSI (as me) you can simply use the Unbrick Tool shared on XDA. After that, just flash from a OTG device in the stock recovery the rom. It should install normally (I did it about three times). Let the device restart normally and configure it.

2. At this point, you will have your device working with the android 10 beta without Google Services and root. To get them, follow the next steps. In the developer's settings enable the usb depuration and reboot into the bootloader menu (if you are here, you don't need a guide to do this).

Once in the bootloader, you will have to type the next commands from a PC:

fastboot oem nubia_unlock NUBIA_NX629J

fastboot flash recovery [URL="https://xdaforums.com/red-magic-3/development/recovery-unofficial-twrp-nubia-red-t3962482"]twrp.img[/URL]

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

You can extract the vbmeta.img from the package of the beta.

You should can boot the custom recovery without problems. There is an importante failure at this point. I can't acces to the data of the sdcard of my device. It could be a problem if you flash a wrong module in magisk and you can't delete it from the recovery.

To get the gapps working and root in the device, flash the "pico" package from the open gapps project page and flash the last version of magisk (maybe this could be the cause of the encrypted data in the twrp, I will be experimenting other options (the most evident thing is that the recovery is not the correct ones for this rom).

3. Just reboot the device and enjoy the new android 10 experience on Red Magic 3. You shold be able to proceed to finish the setup and install all the apps you want. The are some things that didn't work for me: some syncs with the google account (Google Keep, Calendar, etc.), auto-rotation (gyroscope), the music notification panel, various notifications, etc. You can't recover your apps and data from a past backup, the rom doesn't give the storage permission to the Google Play Services, so that's the problem. Just install them from the playstore. You will have to reboot one time before use the play store normally.

I hope the developers of Nubia could make a fully working global rom for this great device. Until then, we have this new option to get the best experience of RM3.

Important: If you just don't like the rom and you would like to downgrade to android 9, you will have to use the unbrick tool in order to avoid a softbrick caused by the anti-rollback system. I tried and it works, but after the program finished the unbrick process the phone started to boot into a black screen, only lighting up the led in a green colour. It was strange and I believed that my phone was bricked without possibility to recover it. After a few tries to reboot the device pressing the power button, I was able to boot without problems into the 2.07 global rom europe version.

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