[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dksoni411:
Hello everyone.

Small Intro:

So, I bought Note 10 [Exynos] N970F. I wanted to use custom rom on it. I tried both Dr. Ketan's ROM and 420 Rom. Both of these roms were surely amazing and Dr. Ketan's rooting guide really helped in rooting and all things. Such a kind person to help for new comer.

As there are only these two roms at the moment and AOSP roms are either not available or very old with incomplete guide to flash. So after trying many different ways for flashing Generic System image (GSI) for my device. After series of failures, bootloops as I surely found some method to actually install GSI on N970F

Tested GSI

Havoc 3.8

Descendants

CrDroid v222 200816

Type of GSI to Use for our device:

ARM64-AB (As known as ARM64-bvN)

What's working:

Sim/IRC

Calls

Data/4g

Bluetooth

Wifi

Camera

Storage

Sensors

NFC/Location/Hotspot

Bugs:

MTP/USB connection not working

FingerPrint not working with Descendants Rom

(Can't confirm any further bugs. If you found please report so I can update thread)

Don't do anything without reading 4th Post (Disclaimer)

Your phone's internal storage will be wiped, deleting all of your data so make a backup

Prep:

1: Download firmware for your phone (Extract firmware and copy AP file to phone)

Either Use Frija or This website (Make account here, connect to GDrive and you can download from google server or IDM. Fast, Resume)

2: Download TWRP for your phone (It is better to have TWRP based on same base as is your phone's firmware download)

See here for TWRP (Usually has updated twrp) or see telegram of developer

(Extract twrp zip to have recovery.img. If it has different name, save it as "recovery.img", We will call it twrp-recovery.

3: Download Magisk Manager, install on phone

4: Patch AP file you copied to phone with Magisk Manager (Run magisk manager, --Install --> Select & Patch file --> Select AP)

A new file "Magisk-Patched.tar" will be saved in download folder. Copy it to PC. We will call it Patched-AP.

5: Open Patched-AP with 7-Zip. You should see files in it. (There should be a recovery.img in it) Now drag & drop twrp-recovery to 7-Zip window open Patched-AP. Wait for process, as it will replace stock recovery with twrp recovery. We now have an AP file with magisk & TWRP pre-patched.

Now we will use this updated Patched-AP

6: Download Latest Multi-disable from here

7: Download your desired GSI. Havoc GSI, CrDroid GSI, Descendants,Others

(Download ARM64-AB or ARM64-bVN) If you want Google apps it is better to download GSI with built-in GAPSS.

Steps to Follow:

(Enable USB Debugging on your phone, Turn on OEM Unlock option in developers option)

1: First Unlock Bootloader of your device (Boot to download mode-- Power off, Volume up + volume down and connect to pc)

2: Follow on-screen instructions to unlock bootloader (While in download mode -- long press volume up for unlock area, volume up to unlock)

Info: Now phone will do wipe and you should be back into system. Now due to some Samsung restriction, you must enable USB debugging again & see OEM unlock check if greyed out (untouchable). (You must do it as system gives download mode a signal to prevent issue with custom files flashing)

3: Boot to download mode, Press volume up. Connect to PC.

4: Run Odin, Select files, AP as Patched-UP we created, CSC as Home-CSC, CP and bootloader that your extracted.

(Uncheck auto-reboot in odin)

5: Start Flashing, wait for it to pass. Now we will boot to recovery from here

6: To boot into recovery, first we should exit download mode then boot to recovery during that process.

First Hold volume down + Power --> wait for screen to go black--> as soon as screen goes black--> leave all buttons --> now press Volume UP + Power --> Keep pressing until you boot into TWRP recovery.

7: Now Swipe to allow modifications --> Wipe --> Format Data --> type "yes" --> swipe. Wait for Wipe.

8: Now Click reboot --> Reboot to Recovery. Wait for Phone to boot back into TWRP recovery.

9: Again Swipe to allow modification. Connect to PC & Copy the Multi-Disable to phone.

10: Install Multi-Disabler --> Install --> Select Multi-Disable --> Swipe to flash. Wait for it. Reboot again to recovery.

11: Copy your downloaded GSI img to Phone. Select Wipe and do a factory reset.

12: Install GSI --> Install --> Select IMG --> Click on GSI image --> Select System partition to flash. It takes few seconds.

13: Now Reboot to System.

Phone Should be booted into new GSI installed

Credits:

IanMacD for Multidisable, TWRP

Dr.Ketan for excellent guides & such helpfulness

TopJohnWu for Magisk, patched AP

Respective GSI teams for their hard work