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[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] runtime64:
Thank you for your suggestion koimr, I found out that the port of Moto Cam 2 that worked on my previous OS was made by Nemesis. So I looked for a version for Moto G7+ compatible with Android 11. Here it is https://sourceforge.net/projects/nemesisteam/files/MODs/Moto-Camera-2/List-N2/Android-11/ARM-64/ . I installed it via TWRP and it worked!

I've made some test shots with three cameras: Moto Cam 2, Pixel GCam you suggested and Open Cam. Moto Cam (which now does not offer a switch of HDR) and GCam (with HDR+ activated) give pretty close results in day light. Moto tends to render darker and punchier dark areas while GCam extends DRO for them so that shots get less contrasty and less colorful. Besides Moto files are 15-20% heavier than those by GCam, I think for keeping more color info in darker parts. Open Camera with HDR activated is another story. Sometimes it gives a pretty well balanced image while sometimes a lollypop HDR effect is too strong. In low light Open Camera renders too grainy image. My previous experience with Moto was positive. I could compare it to GCam later.

As for daylight shots, I attach unedited samples of two scenes. In both cases first comes Moto Cam 2 (default settings), then GCam (HDR+) and third Open Camera (HDR). You can see the variation.

There was a shocking moment in the first experience of GCam. I discovered that if you switch off the HDR+ mode, the app uses the second front camera, and you just have no choice to change it. I am unaware if this happens only with G7+ or it's a general feature. I tend to say it's a shame, as the image is limited to 1920 at its large side, and the quality of the oversharpened image is simply ridiculous. Welcome back to 1998. The last shot attached is an unedited GCam shot taken this way, with HDR+ off. I wonder if that could be fixed someway for G7+.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] runtime64:
What lacks for me now in the LOS experience is a possibility to edit the list of apps appearing in the Recents. Some OS have such an option, and it is frankly a relief from littering the list with unnecesary service apps. I posted a question about it in the general LOS subforum and hope someone gives a hint. If you guys are using a solution, share it please!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] npjohnson:
Looks like that mirror was down for a short time - looks like it is fixed now!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] cozxxxta:
I use Hypercam Raizen since Android 9, there's now a Android 11 versions, I already tested hundreds of different GCam apks, and this is the one that is perfectly optimized for our Moto G7 Plus, if you want it, I can send you the apk plus various XML files that I actually bought.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] cozxxxta:
I'll attach some examples that I shot with it, you can take extremely detailed pictures with both back and front cameras.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] koimr:
Please do! :)
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] cozxxxta:
I was able to make Google Pay work and SafetyNet pass just fine
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] npjohnson:
good to hear!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] cozxxxta:
Here it is, put the Config folder inside the GCam folder on storage root.

To select the XML Config file inside the Hypercam, just click twice on the empty space between the shooter button and last taken photo.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Adai0:
Does anyone know how I can upgrade firmware from recovery?
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Adai0:
Just to let anyone know: I've just upgraded from 17.1 to 18.1. Open GApps pico had been installed on 17.1. I upgraded with MindTheGapps. I did a "dirty" upgrade, so no data wipe. Anything seems to be working currently.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mystiquerq:
Edit:see my follow-up replies, this rom is fine, I screwed up :)

Flashing this HARD BRICKED my phone!?

it's brand new unopened moto g7 plus XT1965-2

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??

I just boot twrp, sideload the .zip(not corrupt, i verified hash) everything worked fine, i shutdown, try to get to bootloader to boot recovery again and install gapps, BUT THIS ROM BRICKED MY DEVICE COMPLETELY.

I unbricked my phone, very complicated PAINFUL PROCESS

https://xdaforums.com/t/ultimate-guide-how-to-unbrick-your-moto-g7-plus.3964746/

THEN all i did was "fastboot boot twrp..."

wipe system/cache/data of the stock rom because that's what the internet tell me to do

adb sideload the UNCORRUPTED OFFICIAL LINEAGOS ROM

And it hardbricked my phone again
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] luspi:
This smells like a typical PEBMAC problem. I'd suggest actually following the official install instructions, there you can find the note:

"Note: If you want the Google Apps add-on on your device, you must follow this step before booting into LineageOS for the first time!"
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mystiquerq:
1) i don't want google apps.

2) it's a HARD BRICK, the device does not turn on. It doesn't even show the led light when charging. This is a complete brick, no fastboot, no bootloader, no screen, nothing. I thought that was clear and obvious.

Anyways, this is a "brand new" moto g7 plus XT1965-2, never opened since factory, possibly the south-american version, stock rom was android 9. I'm very curious why simply adb sideloading this rom completely bricks my device...
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] luspi:
1) You said you want to install gapps, what do you think that is?

2) Your posts are a little ambiguous to me as to when the hard brick occurs. Is it before or after you try to install gapps?

I have the exact same model, it works just fine for me though. You could try installing it with the recommended Lineage Recovery instead of twrp. Iirc in the past there have been some issues with twrp and the partioning on newer android versions. I haven't followed closely enough what happened with that though.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mystiquerq:
after installation through adb sideload, the installer(or twrp itself maybe?) indicates that i have to reboot recovery to install further zips, i do not boot the actual system, i boot to boatloader in order to boot the recovery again and install gapps.

So to answer 2), "before" since i never even had the chance to install gapps anyway, device is already completely bricked after flashing lineagos.

I will try to use your advice about the lineagos recovery. It might be that twrp completely ruins the paritioning when flashing android 11 on a android 9 device? Will know more soon.

Edit:

"In some cases slot b can be unpopulated or contain much older firmware than slot a, leading to various issues including a potential hard-brick. We can ensure none of that will happen by copying the contents of slot a to slot b. This step is NOT optional."

Install LineageOS on lake | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

*oh, hello, potential hard-brick? yes*

I guess for my future devices, i shouldn't just rely on "let's just boot TWRP and flash this image and everything should be fine"

=)

I didn't actually try these instructions, i simply let the stock rom update quite a lot and sideloaded it again and now things are not bricked, likely because now the stock rom is old enough to no longer cause these issue's again, hehehe.

There also aren't any documented cases of the issue I had anywhere on the internet because my case(buying a never opened/never used moto g7 plus off ebay, not updating the severely outdated stock rom and hoping twrp and sideload will work just fine) is rather... unique? :D
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Not sure what you mean by "Severely outdated stock rom" since I used the 3/2021 version of the stock rom to install Lineage, TWRP and Magisk without any issues following the procedures as outlined on 2 different phones of the same model. I suppose you could say a 3 month old rom is "severely outdated" but I guess it is a matter of semantics.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] mystiquerq:
3/2021 isn't old..

it was a stock rom from 2019, the first ever stock rom that this device had. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/lake/install

As i have said before, the install instructions say "In some cases slot b can be unpopulated or contain much older firmware than slot a, leading to various issues including a potential hard-brick."

And that's likely exactly what happend here. Case closed.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Soooo, basicly you didn't follow the instructions provided. I get it now.

"We can ensure none of that will happen by copying the contents of slot a to slot b. This step is NOT optional.

To do this, sideload the copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip package by doing the following:

Download the copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip file from here.

Sideload the copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip package:

On the device, select “Apply Update”, then “Apply from ADB” to begin sideload.

On the host machine, sideload the package using: adb sideload copy-partitions-20210323_1922.zip"

:rolleyes:
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Edit: I forgot about the whole Safetynet thing. Its been a few years since Ive used Lineage. Back then it didnt exist lol. I don't know if the original post is worth leaving for those who don't know about this and are new to Custom OS's and Androids Play Store quirks

Just a quick question someone might be able to answer for me as I don't think I saw it mentioned in any prior posts-

Are there any issues with any apps like Amazon apps or Netflix not working with the Lineage Rom for the G7 plus? Cheers!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Well that was a debarkle. I had nothing but issues trying to get this onto my phone.

Not because of the official instructions, but because the latest version of TWRP for the G7plus was giving me the 'touch input not working' issue. In the end I couldnt get any of the fixes for that problem in TWRP to work.

I gave up on trying to save a nandroid backup of my OEM G7plus software, and used Lineage Recovery to install LOS18.1.

Thankfully that worked smoothly. Part of me wishes I didn't waste all that time trying to get TWRP to work.

Biggest surprise of installing LOS was discovering the G7plus had a unused battery light! Now if we can get that speaker phone loudness fixed. I wish that was listed under bugs on the OP. I had no idea about that till going through all 6 pages of this thread.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Can I ask what version of TWRP you tried to use? I have used twrp-3.5.0-lake-v2.img with every Android 11 custom rom and stock Android 10 I have tried and never had any issues.

The key is to boot it from fastboot mode then install it with twrp-installer-3.5.0-lake-v2.zip. Then reboot recovery to be sure it is working well. I've done it several times trying out different roms and updating my wife's phone with stock.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
I tried the latest version of TWRP twrp-3.5.2_9-0-lake and the version before twrp-3.5.1_9-0-lake.

I booted from fastboot, it would load up but all finger presses would not work. Looked at a lot of the XDA workarounds and those on reddit and nothing worked to get finger presses working including the sideloading commands via adb. Given all the literature said it should be working I don't honestly understand why it wasn't working for me.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
I don't know why either, but I do know the only issues I have had with TWRP on this phone since updating to Android 10 and 11 is when I have tried the "Official" versions of TWRP. I have stayed with 3.5.0-lake-v2.img all along and never had a problem. You might give it a try.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Where is this unofficial 3.5.0-lake-v2.img available? I don't recall seeing it in the G7plus TWRP thread either (shrugs)

Forgive the noobness of the question but the whole removal of recovery partition thing and incorporating into boot loader with the a/b partitions still is a bit murky in my understanding...but can I put TWRP on now that ive used Lineage Recovery to install 18.1? I wasn't clear if that was installed permanent now or not... and still downloading/installing from the cloud so haven't tried to reboot into recovery again to see lol
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Ok this is weird. I can't access my mobile internet. Volte says enabled and mobile data is on but the icon is permanently showing an X on the reception icon. Any ideas?

EDIT- OK for anyone else with this issue, I got it working, seems in the advanced settings for mobile data, I had to select off the default autoselected for 'Access Point names' and select the local option for my country instead of the global one. Odd I'd have thought this would be the one by default.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Good golly! Now you are taxing my senior memory. I cannot remember which thread I found that in. It was back when Motorola first updated to Android 10 which was months ago. I downloaded it and have kept it on my PC, and my sdcard ever since. It is really moot though since I just updated to the same TWRP you had issues with and it works fine. Not sure why you are having trouble.

In answer to your question though, yes you can install TWRP after everything is installed and set up. In fact, that is how I always do it. Then I install Magisk last of all. Now that I think about it, that may be the difference in our experiences. I seem to recall early on having issues such as what you described when I tried to install TWRP before completing the Lineage and gapps installs and setups.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
I have to do the same thing whenever I do a clean install. It is a head scratcher for sure.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Oh something to think about then. Doing TWRP later after LOS install. Might do it once things settle down. Am happy just to have not bricked it or totally messed up, as I really thought for a few minutes I had done something SO wrong when TWRP wasn't accepting my touch input. The reason I was trying to install TWRP before LOS 18.1 was I wanted to make a complete system partion nandroid image backup of the old software.

Interestingly I used the speaker phone part today of the phone app, and I didnt have any volume issues so I am wondering if the earlier mention of that known bug has been worked out? It was nice and loud and clear.

Ive never use Magisk before, never have had the need really.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
OMG that camera app is freakin AWESOME!

Have been playing around with it for the last hour.

I have probably taken some of the best shots ever with my G7 camera.

Its all the more ironic as I only updated to the last version of the official Moto Cam 2 last week and it totally messed up the shutter take speeds and I moved to OpenCamera.

Thank you for posting about that Raizen Camera App!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
I fully understand your concerns. I have felt that same panic several times over the last decade. It is part of the risk we face when customizing our devices for sure.

Actually you could have installed TWRP on you stock phone once you had unlocked your bootloader. I don't think you would have seen the touch issues that you do on the Lineage kernel. I have done that exact procedure on my wife's phone which is running the latest stock ROM. She doesn't like any of the custom roms and prefers that I leave it on stock. The downside is the security updates are 3 months apart. I am seriously considering going back to rooted stock myself.

So do you not root your phone? I get that but I use Titanium Backup Pro to do full backups of my apps and data. It requires root. Also, I use Root Explorer for file access and management.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Well I was trying to install TWRP on my phone when it was running stock after I unlocked the bootloader. Thats why I am confused as to why I had the touch issues with the latest version of TWRP. The aim of using TWRP was to make a nandroid backup in case I needed to reflash the stock os.

Yeah the lack of security is the reason I dropped the stock and put on Lineage. They really should make phone vendors supply security patches for a lot longer. The hardware is still perfectly fine and the mentality of the masses 'oh I need a new phone every year or two' is not one I support, especially with all the environmental damage that causes and the resource drain that is. Thats why things like the consumerist paradaigm for tech needs reevaluation by the big firms as resources get more and more scarce. Lineage is on my old phone from 2014 and still runs perfectly although these days I don't connect with it online and its now an ebook reader or offline media player.

Ive never found a need to run a phone rooted. Nothing ive ever needed has needed it. Right now the only app I can see that has been blocked from me with a standard LOS install is Disney + ... not sure if Magisk could fix that but honestly, my opinion on that given app and how poorly it functioned on my original Moto stock and had loads of issues with it, I don't see it as being a great loss.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Being rooted and able to use Titanium Backup for all of my apps and user data has saved me a lot of headaches in the past but I see why one would not have need for it.

My eyesight is so bad I couldn't watch movies or TV shows on my phone if I wanted to do so. So any issues I might have with those type of apps are moot. I will always rely on my P.C. or my flat screen TV in the living room for entertainment. If I am out and traveling I have my tablet or laptop for that. The only downside I have run into by being rooted is I can't use my mobile banking app. But I have no real need for that anyhow.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] HalifaxWanderer:
Running G7 Plus XT1965-T as my daily driver. Finally did the LOS 18.1 update. See previous post for my LOS 17 install, updated to 18 without issues. I followed the LOS instuctions, sideloaded update with ADB, no issues.

Additionally, I fastbooted TWRP prior to update and did a full backup. I have not installed TWRP, I just flash to recovery when needed.

Stock camera app has been a let down for me with this phone. After update I installed new camera app via TWRP as per koimr and runtime64's discussion. Worked perfectly and loving it.

Thanks to everyone building on this device.

https://xdaforums.com/t/official-lineageos-18-1-for-the-moto-g7-plus.4255321/post-85147591
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Holy moly! What is the deal with Lineage 18.1? My battery is draining horribly. 22% in just 5 hours with very light usage. I barely get 1 day between charges. On the previous version of Sukara I could go 3 to 4 days between charges. But I switched to get the latest security update. How does this latest version of Sukara do on battery life? And is anybody else seeing battery drain on Lineage 18.1?
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] HalifaxWanderer:
no issues here.. I went from April 1 LOS 18.1 (ADB sideload update from LOS17) update straight to June 22 OTA update. My device is barebones, no gapps, mainly Fdroid apps and a couple from Aurora store.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
How do you get by without gapps? For example, I use gmail, and several apps only available from Google Play. And I used gapps with Sakura without issues.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] HalifaxWanderer:
Privacy is more of a priority than convenience for me... I have gapps browser through Fdroid to access Google stuff in a sandboxed environment. I guess I'm a Luddite adjacent:LOL:
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] retry0001-coffee:
F-Droid and Aurora Store

Aurora Store | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

An unofficial FOSS client to Google Play with an elegant design and privacy

f-droid.org

Aurora Store (Android)

An elegant Google Play alternative

aurora-store.en.uptodown.com
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Z-Prime:
Not sure about a major diffference in battery usage between Stock G7 rom and 18.1 yet.

I am getting about 10% reduction in battery charge on standby mode overnight (airplane mode) which was the same as before.

As for active screen use, still too early for me to tell on 18.1 to see if there has been a significant reduction in battery life during use.

I seemed to burn through my battery the first day a bit but I was doing a heck of a lot. I need more time to gather battery metrics
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ShadowPhone1:
Hi folks,

Newbie here. If this isn't the right place to be posting I apologize and ask that I be directed to the correct location:

Just picked up a G7 Plus and attempting to following the instructions exactly as shown here: Here, the wiki

I have an unlocked bootloader and get to the step that asks me to temporarily boot a custom recovery. I enter the following command

fastboot flash boot lineage-18.1-20210622-recovery-lake.img

and get this error:

fastboot: error: Failed to identify current slot

Any advice would be appreciated!

Update 7/15/21: I solved the problem by using a Mac instead. Very smooth and easy install from there.

Update 7/8/21: I tried 5 different cables and 6 ports on two different PCs with no luck so far. I am wondering if it might be a driver issue of some kind. I've heard a rumor that this is mostly a problem on windows machines, might try it on a linux rig next.

Update 7/6/21: Looks like the issue is my usb port / usb cable. I tried all of the ports and cables on my regular laptop, no luck with those. Going to buy a few more cables and try on a different PC as well. Does anyone know if the problem has to do with using USB 2.x vs 3.x?
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] koimr:
I feel like I went through this before as well.

I think, in my case, I had to not only use a different cable but a different USB port on my computer.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
Ditto!
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
It sucked my battery down by almost 20% overnight. That is totally unacceptable. So I gave up on Lineage and switched to another ROM. 3% overnight which is a vast improvement. And it uses a lot less memory and storage space.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] papperlapapp:
Hi there,

I can´t get a WPA3-personal secured connection with my G7 Plus.

I now found out, with the G7 Plus you can only get WPA3-Enterprise, but WPA3-Personal seems to be not available on that device with LineageOS.

Can someone confirm this guess?
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] pastorbob62:
I can't say for Lineage but I am on Nusantara 3.0 ROM which is AOSP based and I have a WPA3-Personal connection.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] HalifaxWanderer:
I just set up another G7 plus for a friend and ran into this. Problem was an older version of fastboot I was using. Make sure you update to the latest. Older version worked when I set up my first one, but there must be something updated since that causes issues with the old version.
[Moto G7 Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] koimr:
Sorry, just noticed your edits now!

Make sure you are using the absolute latest ADB/Fastboot tools and USB driver.

For 2 vs 3, I have heard both. I have even seen someone solve it by sticking a USB hub in and connecting to that instead.