yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
That's fine. I will do so.

About problems:

- that's right. I used openGapps pico first time and installed photos from store. This time, flashed nikGapps stock, and also disabled gallery go. Everything works fine.

- I remember choosing some of options in its settings caused ot to crash.

- random reboots occured at first hours when I wat setting the phone.

- theming options are MASSIVE, yeah. I mean the theming that is selectable from launcher which changes grids and so. crDroid was different.

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- this time, brightness ia working fine.

Huge thanks.

Attached file is magisk patched boot image of the rom for those who need it.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] CitizenZer0:
Any chance someone could make a guide for a dumb guy like me to follow?

I've read that I have to flash T-Virus and TWRP.

Is there a order for me to flash?

I really would like to flash this on my phone but I'm afraid of bricking it. I've looked around on YouTube and there aren't any good guides for Nokia 8.

Many thanks in advance!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] emufan4568:
There's a very detailed step by step guide on the Telegram group.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] emufan4568:
Can you comment on the battery life? This release is focused on battery efficiency and I would like some conformation from users about the new saving features that were added. Also are you running on selinux permissive or enforcing build?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
This phone is old, so I don't bet on its battery. But last night's use can be a good example for battery life.

I got 3 hours of screen-on time while I was using duolingo, chrome, online dictionary and VPN on 4G+ cell network. All those apps are battery killers. Also I used brighter screen and set "switch pixels to prevent ghosting" on 10 mintues. And since I forgot to delete those useless apps from NikGapps (like velvet, well-being! etc) all are consuming battery, not to mention other things like weather, sync and so on.

Finally the phone reached 3.5 SOT and 7 hours of on time.

Over night, consumption was just a few percentage.

My settings says it's enforcing. I didn't see any other build (like permissive). This was the only option.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Thanks :)

The build is running selinux enforcing, as for battery many users say its more effecient than stock and based on our tests its pretty effecient. But NB1 batteries are old by now dont expect miracles :D
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] CitizenZer0:
I don't use Telegram, can anyone post here the step by step or some screenshots?

Appreciated!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
[how to install the ROM easily step by step]

Ensure that usb drivers of the phone are installed on windows (which probably are if the connection between the phone and the windows works) and you have unlocked the bootloader (and critical unlocked it).

- Reboot into bootloader (power the phone off; press and hold volume down rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing term "bootloader" on the upper left side of the screen).

- Install T-virus by NOST (the t-virus image released two days ago, is not what I have used and there is no post for it around here. It intends to make t-virus flashing independent of NOST and probably uses updated images. This instruction is for the links added here and works without any problem). Let the phone reboot into ROM.

- Reboot to recovery (power the phone off; press and hold volume up rocker and connect the phone to pc; phone boots showing twrp logo).

//Here you can find the phone's storage on your pc.

- Copy twrp package downloaded from first post to phone's storage.

//No need to disconnect the phone at any stage, better to stay connected. Do not attempt to install the ROM by that old twrp.

- Go to "install" section and select new twrp. Let it finish.

- Press home virtual button and go to "wipe" and select "format data" and type "yes". Not doing so, will make decryption problematic for the recovery and you will see nonsense names for folders in the storage. Besides, you won't be able to copy files.

- Press home and go to "reboot" and select "recovery". Phone reboots into new recovery.

//At this stage, you have the new recovery installed and are proceeding to install the ROM.

- Copy AncientOS package from pc to phone's storage.

- Select AncientOS from "install" section of the recovery. Let it finish. Press home button and select twrp from the same "install" section. Let it get done.

- Press home and go to "Wipe". Select "format data". Type "yes" and let it get done.

//At this stage, the ROM and updated twrp are installed and completely ready to use. If you don't want to install gapps, press home and select "reboot" and then "system". But if you want to install gapps, do the following.

- Copy gapps which you like (I am using nikGapps stock and it works perfectly. Avoid openGapps since it causes problems).

- Flash it from "install" section. Press home. Go to "wipe", swipe to "factory reset" and confirm it. Not doing the latter, creates some problems in syncing contacts later in the ROM.

- Press home. Go to "reboot" and select "system".

- Fully done.

//I installed nikGapps in a bit different way. I let the phone boot after flashing ROM and twrp. Rebooted into recovery and flashed nikGapps. Rebooted into ROM and factory reset from there. It actually reboots into recovery and does the reset by twrp. I don't believe there is a difference, but if you see any problems, feel free to inform.

Blew you can see some screenshots from ROM environment after some modifications.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] CitizenZer0:
MVP!

Does that mean I don't have to build the T-Virus myself, just have to follow these instructions?

Many thanks again!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
Definitely not.

Just follow these instructions.

Also I can recommend reading comments in posts related to Nost, T-virus (and its revert, you're gonna need it!), how to critical unlock the bootloader (I hope you have done it before. If not, there is post around here about unlocking bootloader unofficial method since official method is no longer working).

Bricking the device is an inevitable part of this, but we all learnt it this way.

Best regards.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] CitizenZer0:
I believe my phone already unlocked itself, I'll have to check about "critical unlock the bootloader".
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
[Bug reoort]

Although stock camera records audio without problem (at the same time, images and videos have a lot of noise), other camera apps record it buggy. For one or two seconds, it is noisy and after that, it almost mutes. It seems that phone orientation is involved in the process too.

Tested on Open Camera, Gcamera 7.3, 7.2 and 6.2 of different developers.

@marceldossantos91 @emufan4568
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Please attach logs for said apps, we cannot do much without logs ;)
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
There is a new build which strangely is not introduced here yet after 13 hours of being up!

There is a problem in dirty flash @marceldossantos91.

After flashing updated ROM and recovery, and rebooting to the recovery, decryption fails. There is no way to flash new version except formating data after previous step flashing, which means not so dirty!

(I dont want to try to flash the ROM on active slot whitout being aware of exact consequences)
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] johndaog:
Ancient os is fantastic, so far I'm loving it.

I am just wondering

I did install Weeabo and it has skins in the settings and stuff for Anime.

But no anime wallpapers on device?

Otherwise everything is working perfectly.

Lots of customizations!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Hi, we recently became aware of an issue with recovery that decryption is failing after OTAs with some users only, as its totally random its difficult to diagnose and only received reports of it recently. That being said you should always keep a backup handy in case something goes wrong.

That being said, apologies for the inconvenience, we're investigating it and hope to push an updated twrp soon.

As for ancient yes a new build came online and i haven't gotten around to announcing it yet now you know :D the newer build has some changes to sepolicies to address some denials
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Apparently its mostly the headers and settings menu customizations, i believe they will add wallpapers soon too
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Dave-Kay:
So, if i am on CrDroid 7.8 and don't want to lose data, what would be my best guess, on how to switch?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
I believe you should either stick to your current crdroid or embrace the pain and migrate to ancientos. Ask me, don't hesitate to migrate. it is absolutely worth it (except camera which has higher quality in crdroid).
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Dave-Kay:
if it was for me, no problem, but it's for the wife :-)
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
im sorry but unfortunately you will have to clean flash.

my advice would be you can always use app backing tools, such as Titanium backup or alpha backup to make it a little less painful, and copy your files to pc and back when your done, the tree has undergone to many changes to consider a dirty flash from the old tree.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] docentore:
What is the BT aptX/LDAC issue? Are there any plans to get it fixed or is beyond dev interest?

I'd love to try the ROM but no HD bt codecs are deal breaker for me.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
We became aware of the issue through our users and have been trying to debug it but as none of us maintainers have APTX/LDAC BT earphones, its difficult for us to test and try fix up.

if you could send us logs when trying to play BT media with aptx that would be helpful
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] docentore:
Ok, I might have some time in the evening to flash this rom and be happy to help. What logs would you need?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
thanks that would be helpful,

if you could take logs while connecting to BT, play a file or two through aptx, and send the log through. and describe exactly what it does when you try play.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Dave-Kay:
OK, so i did that and the result is quite astonishing, thank you!

so, what are the plans with this? will there be OTA?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Glad you happy with it :)

There will be regular updates as it is official, however it will likely slow down now with all focus being shifted towards A12. Right now there isnt much to update at the sources and just updating for very minor changes defeats the purpose of putting someone through an OTA.

I will soon attempt to build ancient A12 too once camera and BT gets fixed in the NB1 A12 tree
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] furblefox:
Hi there, not sure if this is the right place to post, but I've run in to trouble with my Nokia 8 after it started acting up on the previous rom.

I updated TWRP, rebooted to recovery, flashed ancientOS to the inactive slot and then swapped to it, my phone booted fine and all was well. I then went to put the phone to recovery, swapped slot to flash the rom and now it's just completely stuck on this screen and won't budge. It won't recognise any keys except forcing it off and won't get off this screen, even after the battery is flat. Is my phone screwed?

Many Thanks!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] johndaog:
@furblefox I think that is OK.

You need to install ancientos ROM in twrp and then install the recovery twrp again before restarting your device.

Get in touch on the telegram group. That's where support can help you.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Thank you for trying to assist.

@furblefox Hey there, i apologize for the delay XDA doesnt always notify me.

Yes the reason for flashing twrp after the ROM is the rom includes no recovery, so if you forget this step your ultimately stuck in a loop because there is no recovery so it hangs on the splash. I included this into my flash instructions.

there will soon be a fastboot img for these cases to recover, but if you have root you can also just flash twrp zip in smartpack to get recovery back

If any issues feel free to join our support group, if your still stuck let me know.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Neetscrewd:
Help me, all of sensor is not working, is anybody know how to fix it ? I need proximity and gyroscope sensor
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Did you try reboot the device? All Sensors do currently work
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Philadelphia:
Hi Marcel,

I have this problem with PixelExperience Rom . I didn't flash TWRP again after ROM and now my screen is black and not responding to adb and fastboot commands even when I attach the phone to laptop I can hear connection sound . any solution???
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
All roms have it on NB1 because it has no recovery, The step of flashing twrp again is important due to that fact.

PM me on telegram ill assist you to recover, @marceldossantos91
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] Philadelphia:
Dear All,

I’m posting here to thank @marceldossantos91 for his big effort to solve my issue. This man is overqualified genius expert. He knows exactly and precisely what he is doing. Big thanks to him and all the experts in this forum that help millions of people.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] svjontherocks:
Hi

I have flashed this ROM & I really like it so far. The only issue I see is the RAM usage. Is there any way to reduce RAM usage?

I flashed this ROM, then TWRP, then MAGISK patched boot image. Thanks in advance devs!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
We are stopped, yeah?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Dont worry to much about the ram usage, the memory management will take over and clean whats needed, we use slmk so the system will use more ram if available and clean it when needed
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Actually, anything but.

I released first A12 alpha ancient version in our testing group today. All development has shifted to A12 ;) it will come soon, stay tuned, or feel free to join us on telegram through our testing versions.

I will publish on xda once we get BT fixed

@emufan4568 is also releasing a massive ddv update for our vendor, probably one of the biggest updates we seen to NB1 by far, his been working alot on A12 trees.

So no further updates to A11 as the changes are to minor to justify flashing
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
Wow, hearing from you is beyond a sign to hope.

I don't join to telegram group.

If you ask me, if and only if camera audio and picture quality gets fixed, this is the best thing has ever happened to my phone since 2018.

Patiently waiting.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] emufan4568:
I'm working on a new update that updates the entire common blob stack from Android 10 DDV to the new Android 11 update for 7.2. The fact that the update was released so late is beneficial for us because it means that the blobs have a quite recent CAF tag (it's only 3 weeks old by this point). All the configs/dependencies and libs will be updated as well so this is a pretty major upgrade. For it to work I also built custom display/media/audio HALs specifically for our device which are based on pure CAF, and more specifically on AOSPA (https://github.com/AOSPA/android_hardware_qcom_display/tree/ruby-8998) because the new blobs are so up-to-date that we can't use the older LOS HALs.

A12 currently has issues with bluetooth, however I have suspicions as to what the fix might be. Aside from that A12 is very promising so far.

About camera quality, @rashazad, I haven't had any issues with the latest release of AncientOS 11 though. The camera takes pictures fine and I have been using GCAM just fine for the past few days during my trip abroad to take pictures of sights, etc. So unless you provide logs, specific description of the issue, when it happens and some test pictures to show me the loss of quality then I don't know if I can be of any help.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
Picture quality can be fixed with gcam. I don't if it can comsidered as a bug or what.

The main issue is audio recording which was not stable.

I provided @marceldossantos91 with logs. Now I'm on stock so sorry not being able to provide again.

Btw, waiting new release.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] adipiciu:
Does this official version get monthly security updates? Like lineage os?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] CitizenZer0:
To expand on the above question, do I need to flash the ROM every time the ROM gets an update or does it auto-update when a new version comes out?

Waiting for the awesome A12 version to be stable before formatting and flashing on my phone!

Thanks a lot for your hard work!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Apologies for the delay, SP patches get updates from time to time but definitely not at the speed of LOS.

With the current decryption bug though and all development shifted towards A12, i more hope we can get A12 going, however if not soon, i will release a maintainence update by about month end.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Yes, you need to flash it, dirty flash is possible, but with our decryption bug mentioned it could trigger a data wipe, thats why im avoiding pushing unecessary updates for now, i dont want everyone constantly needing to clean flash for such minor changes.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
I apologize for being quiet here, i don't check xda to often.

in a few days ancient V5.7 should be up im busy building, though, please note that.. i can't promise it won't wipe internal to install this update due to the decryption bug, please, backup first!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] rashazad:
That's some good news. Thanks

What about updates @emufan4568 report we s to be working on?
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] emufan4568:
I'm working on making Android 12 stable enough for daily use. Right now it's 90% perfect, as bluetooth and some minor encryption hurdles remain to be fixed (the encryption is mostly fixed though). My priority if fixing the encryption bug though and making OTA's work properly (which should be possible after a new firmware update).
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
ancient 5.7 Society is up! weaboo to follow soon, happy flashing!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] P650SE:
Thanks to all our developers working on this device. You are doing an amazing job.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Ancient will be on hold for a while for android 12, as we require some libraries for BT to work that the sources have not included yet.

I have however posted my cherish A12 builds so long. please be patient for next release of Ancient, its going to take time.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] adipiciu:
I don't understand. How can it work on CherishOS and not on AncientOS. Can't the same libraries be used?

And why are there so many builds and none are getting maintained. Can't you guys just group and make a single OS? There are so many and each with his own bugs, nobody maintaining them, I mean nobody wants to try every single one and just pray that it works... I just want a clean AOSP that works and it is updated regularly at least with the security patches.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
there has been active nonstop development - its just in our groups and not on XDA, we try keep stable builds to XDA.

We had a major issue getting BT working because QTI BT stack is required for our device and most roms do not have it right now. ancient has said they will only implement it when LOS does, and that's going to take a while. till then my hands are tied, AOSP BT stack audio does not work on our device, audio is dead. so im either forced to release a build without BT or wait till they add it. i tried patching it myself but im not that experienced.

cherish was nice enough to add it as per my request, but the only rom right now with those libraries is pixel experience, which we have on our group available right now.

as such, i can only push cherish builds with BT working. and they have similar amounts of customization anyway. there is also not much left to maintain on A11 besides security patches now, which ill still do from time to time.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] adipiciu:
Thanks for the detailed response. I understand now what is the problem. I guess I will have to wait a while or try the cherish or pixel experience. Hope for an official ROM to get released though. Thanks!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
no problem. though i should note don't think unofficial means no updates. i have been updating cherish here since release. i maintain both ancient and cherish regularly, just A11 isn't seeing much updates cause there isn't much to update now between all A11 roms, devs have all shifted to getting A12 stable.
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
A12 version is up, enjoy!
[Nokia 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] marceldossantos91:
Ancient A11 builds will be discontinued as it is regarded as "stable", thread will stay open for support and links will stay posted.

i will continue to update A12 builds.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sky33:
Hi, I just installed this version and it's pretty stable.

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However I noticed some lags when opening/closing apps, moving to previous app using gesture. It's just not as smooth as the previous 3.1 build.

Anyone else experiencing this? FYI I haven't reset my phone before installing the update. I just went from my previous build to beta 1, and then beta 2, all using sideload update.zip and wipe cache.

HOT FIX:

Go to settings>accessibility>visibility enhancements and tick "reduce transparency and blur" (credit: sultan.of.swing)

Any feedback will be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] vladmir:
Still some lags... i can live with that, I will wait for final release to a clean installation.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sky33:
Wondering how do people on YouTube got that smooth animations on beta build, which definitely not in my case.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] readymarc:
Same with me, but there are youtubers that are showing smooth animations with beta 2. I wonder if its because of sideloading
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sky33:
Did you do hard reset, or just do update.zip side load?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] readymarc:
Downgraded to AHU9.... clean install.. Then flashed beta 1, beta 2 and did a factory reset. But it mind boggling how i am seeing smoother animations on beta 2. Could be that beta 2 is better optimized for exynos ...
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sky33:
😂 Oh well. Thought Snapdragon is the superior side. I was planning to do the same just because of the animations...

Thanks for letting me know. Wonder if other people also having the same issue