[Realme X2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bolumstar:
Good News! You No Longer Need To Downgrade To Color OS to FLASH CUSTOM ROMS.

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/HkjVGWOBcDM[/YOUTUBE]

Well, if you're Lazy to read like me, then watch the video else, it could be long read...

On 14th June 2020, the first Lineage OS 17.1 for Realme X2 based on Android 10 (Realme UI Vendor was publicly released, most other Realme X2 Custom Roms started rebasing from Color OS 6.1 Vendor to Realme UI Vendor and Android 10 firmwares.

What that means is before now, Developers had to make do with Android Pie Vendor (In color OS 6.1) to build a functional ROM. Not just the Vendor, the Kernel was also based on Android 9 then.

And why is it so?

Realme (or Realmeme - as I fondly call them sometimes) didn't even give out a single Realme X2 device for development, and worse than that, no flash tool that can work in EDL mode (when phone is completely off) and some of their crazy code arrangement then means that you could break the fingerprint function by unlocking bootloader - I mean, who does that?

Few of the developers bricked the device they bought with their hard earned money trying to make things happen for all Realme X2 users.

Some users came together and crowdfunded new device(s) for development.

Developers still have to wait for Realme to sort out their codes and allow fingerprint function with unlocked bootloader in Realme UI which happened from updates C.14 for RMX1991 C.08 for RMX1992 and C.04 for RMX1993 which happened not so long ago, now these devs started working harder and rebasing the device tree to Android Q, cleaning up the kernels, improving the UX and all that.

So, what it means now is that any custom Rom you flash after June is Most likely Based on Android 10.

What's the implications?

For starters, if you are still on Color OS 6.1, You have to upgrade to the Latest Realme UI or at least the version mentioned above before you can flash Android 10 Based Custom Roms.

You don't need to downgrade anymore to Color OS 6.1 to flash Custom Roms.

The Good news is, all the known bugs are ALL GONE like me that went back to RUI because of WiFi display (Wireless Cast) I am ot back to Android 10 Based Roms and I am so loving it.

OH! I haven't said anything about CUSTOM VENDOR!

You got to give it up to all these Wonderful Realme X2 Devs, they've built a Custom vendor.

Custom Vendor is the only way to escape Realme UI annoying Encryption problems which means you don't have to format data every time you switch to another Rom that uses custom vendor too.

HOW TO FLASH ANDROID 10 BASED CUSTOM ROMS

#1 BE on the latest Realme UI

#2 unlock bootloader and Flash TWRP and vbmeta

#3 make a full backup of your partition (including Persist partition - very important)

#4 Wipe caches, data, system

#5 DO NOT WIPE VENDOR even if the Rom You are flashing has custom Vendor.

#6 if you are coming from RUI format data and Reboot.

That's it.

Links to some Android 10 Based Roms in the video description or just check the development section.

All credits to the Devs:

* Team Phantom For Testing The Builds

* [MENTION=5835908]dev_harsh1998[/MENTION] and [MENTION=9573489]Sukrut4778[/MENTION]for your trees.
[MENTION=10130007]SiddharthBharadwaj[/MENTION]
[MENTION=8339632]th3_gunn3r[/MENTION]
[MENTION=6760768]KuranKaname[/MENTION]

And lots of others I may have forgotten to mention.