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[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Kaan Tonyali:
Hola,

I have experienced crdroid before but because of an issue, I had to gave up.

The issue is Android Auto.

When I install a custom rom without gapps (such as crdroid), android auto is not included in the system and I need to install it separately later, mostly with a specific custom gapps edition.

And app gives error when I try to connect to car, that app is not installed within operating system and it does not allow to run, probably block it somehow.

I try out some solutions but couldn't make it.

Do you have any suggestion ?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Pervokur:
try NikGapps core + addon https://sourceforge.net/projects/ni...n-13-AndroidAuto-20220908-signed.zip/download
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ge_raph:
Hey,

i used LineageOS sofar and wanted to try crdroid today on my Redmi Note 8T. I flashed Firmware miui GinkgoGlobal_12.5.12.0 and crDroidAndroid-13.0-ginkgo-v9.0 using TWRP 3.7.0_12-1.

Unfortunately I now can't even boot to recovery anymore. If I want to boot my phone (normal, recovery ore fastboot), it just vibrates one time, enlightens the display and then turns off again.

Does anyone has an idea if and how i could solve this? Thank you very much in advance!
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] OuTkTmonLama:
Hi ge_raph, sorry to hear this.

It may sound silly but, is your battery still alive!? And fully charged?

I guess everything was working fine before you installed crDroid 9, right? Or did you get any problems like "System destroyed" messages?

Are you sure you can't enter fastboot mode, holding volume down and power buttons? Have you tried while charging?

Before you think about getting a new phone, are you ready to open it and disconnect the battery, like we used to do a few years a go with old mobiles?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Uluru25:
If you really own a Redmi Note 8T (which is willow and not gingko) you must also flash a willow (!) firmware and not a gingko firmware (you mentioned miui GinkgoGlobal_12.5.12.0 which seems to be for a ginkgo device). If this is true it is weird because usually the firmware checks beforehand if it is on the correct device.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gr8Tomato:
the recovery from erwinlabs is broken and will identify willow as ginkgo when flashing firmware. In fact I could not flash willow firmware on my willow device.

I warned the dev and he told that he doesn't know how to fix it -_-

That's pretty bad, now people start to get their devices bricked because of this.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gr8Tomato:
If you can't enter fastboot, its pretty bad, you need to activate uart. for this you need tools and open the phone. Once it's activated you can flash again the right firmware and so on. Look online or on telegram. I never did it myself.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ge_raph:
Thank you very much for your replies. I will try to open it and flash the right firmware again. If it doesn't work, i will probably need a new phone. Thanks for your help!
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Uluru25:
I would try to flash a different recovery (accepting that it can't decrypt /data). Then I would flash the correct firmware for your device. Last I would again flash Erwin's recovery if a recovery being able to decrypt /data is important for you.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] forart.eu:
Give Secure Camera a try: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases/
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Alias X:
My mother has this phone and considering there are no official sec updates since February for MIUI global, I wanted to ask how good CR9 currently is? Especially stability, battery life/standby and if safety net works. She needs it for work and even though I kind of have a second phone for worst case I don't really want take many risks.

Edit: It's a ginkgo 4GB so bugs with willow do not apply.

Thank you in advance.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Uluru25:
From the comments in the Telegram group it seems to be a stable and batterry friendly rom. Elsewhere I read that battery life was a little worse than CR8. I am running LOS18.1 and I am very satisfied with both stability as well as battery life. See enclosed 2 % drain in 10 hrs (BT, Wifi, and Mobile Data on!). For sure without gapps being the worst battery and private data drainer 😁
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Alias X:
Well, Lineage isn't an option due to safety net and CR8 won't get any further updates I assume? GApps aren't negotiable either unfortunately. Thank you very much, but straight CR9 with GApps but without Magisk Vs MIUI 12.5 Global is the comparison I need. 😅
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] OuTkTmonLama:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I installed crDroid 9 latest version two days ago to see if battery life had improved, and was not disappointed. After ten hours in plane mode, with NickGapps, GCam, same apps, I'd lost 1%.

I have no idea what happened here. I can only guess the problem came from the ROM's young age and that it will get even better in the future. Thanks again DarkJoker.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] fox31212:
Willow 4/64 not turning-on Wifi
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] extreme3269:
fm radio support ?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] American_Jesus:
Do a clean install, wipe system, internal storage, data, cache and format data.

Had the same issue by not wiping internal storage.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] jpatrocinio5436:
Flashed on willow (8T) and no problems so far, haven't tested NFC yet. All cameras work. Great work!

Battery life also seems to be good.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
I installed this ROM on two different Ginkgo devices. Only on one of them everything seems to be working fine, but sometimes I can't wake it up. It happens randomly. The phone is working but the screen can't be shown. The only solution is to press power button until the phone reboots. Anyone encountered such issue?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] lay_PT:
It's happening to me on willow as well, only seems to occur if I don't use the phone for at least an hour!
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Hey Guys,

I hope my solution will work for you, as well. This issue annoyed me a lot, especially when the phone was supposed to be used by my mother and I have to think pretty intense cause I visit her quite seldom. Obviously it's much harder to do some troubleshooting remotely.

What is the most important:

Do the backup before you change anything in your system. The only person responsible for anything you do with your device is You, so take responsibility for your action.

In my example I use TWRP recovery. It's very interesting: When I had the latest version installed (twrp-3.7.0_12-1-ginkgo.img) during the firmware flash process an error appeared says that my device is Willow and I can't flash firmware for Ginkgo. What wasn't true! I restored TWRP to ver. twrp-3.6.2_9-0-ginkgo.img and magically I was able to flash the firmware from below procedure. However, version twrp-3.6.2_9-0-ginkgo.img seems to not support encryption for A13, what is not so important for finishing the process of solving the issue with not waking up from deep sleep.

Also if you know how to flash ROM you should also know how to turn on ADB sideload in Recovery or reflash Recovery.

For Ginkgo - totally clean flash (you loose all your saved data):

1. Download the latest firmware for instance from this page (https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/firmware/ginkgo/)

2. Format Data

3. Clear: System, Internal Storage, Cache, Dalvik, Data

4. I personally, after formatting Data partition reboot the phone to Recovery

5. Flash firmware:

adb sideload fw_ginkgo_miui_GINKGOEEAGlobal_V12.5.12.0.RCOEUXM_f9fdc6c78
3_11.0.zip

6. Download the latest version (30th December 22) of this ROM from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cr...ndroid-13.0-20221230-ginkgo-v9.0.zip/download

6. Install ROM:

adb sideload crDroidAndroid-13.0-20221230-ginkgo-v9.0.zip

7. Optionally install GAPPS via adb sideload command

8. Reboot to the System

With this procedure and not Rooting or doing some other weird things phone is now waking up from deep sleep.

You can use it with Willow, but you have to download and flash proper firmware for Willow device

Hopefully it will help you with the same issue!

Good luck ;-)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Szparagus:
Not all notfications are shown, for example discord or facebook messenger. Does anyone have the same issue? I've tried restarting my device, but it did nothing. I use willow.

EDIT: Nevermind I think I got it. In app's settings there is option which stops notifications if app is not used often.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gr8Tomato:
If I leave the phone over a paused video in full screen. It will enter idle saving mode (turn off screen).

Then when I try to wake it back up, the screen stay black with backlight on and I cannot get out of the black screen!!

The OS is still responsive to the power and volume buttons. But i am stuck in the bright black screen.

Only way to get out is to long press power button to force a reboot.

Anyone else has this bug?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] extreme3269:
can I have apk fm radio tuner, for installation to another rom?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Uluru25:
... no problem (and a happy new year)!

Just unzip...
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] extreme3269:
Not compatible...
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Two posts before yours you can find mine #102 where the solution might help you.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] lay_PT:
I appreciate it man but I don't feel like doing it all over again, my installation was pretty clean, I followed the steps on the screenshot from telegram by the developer and all. If someone figures out another way to address this without having to format the phone please reach out
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
I understand what you're saying. Reasons why I wrote this procedure are:

1) I just unlocked bootloader on MIUI (with the latest OS version)

2) I haven't installed any other custom ROM only this version (crDroidAndroid-13.0-20221218-ginkgo-v9.0.zip) first

3) I also firstly format only DATA and SYSTEM, as recommended by the maintainer

4) I thought that the phone is damaged, especially because I bought the used one

I didn't have much time when dealing with the phone so I again backed up everything reflashed and restored as I wrote so. It took me about two hours, because it wasn't so much work with backing up everything on my mom's device.

After doing provided procedure I noticed that installation also updated other partitions (different than usual), but I'm not so advanced to write what happened and what is the precise action which solved the issue. Although, this issue is gone and has been tested for quite some days.

By the way it's so annoying for me still changing ROMs because it takes hours to restore phone for daily use. It's not so easy to find really stable ROM there's usually some "but"...

Anyway, hopefully you'll find the solution for yourself. Finger crossed ;-)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] bahtsiz_bedevi:
I just tried that after seeing your message. My phone wakes up from sleep without any issues. I flashed this ROM using twrp-3.7.0_12-1-ginkgo.

Have you tried using another video player like VLC, MX player?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Pervokur:
did you flash 12.5.2.0 firmware? It's should be the best fw for custom roms.

global is - fw_ginkgo_miui_GINKGOGlobal_V12.5.2.0.RCOMIXM_75abe1782e_11.0
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Why does this firmware 12.5.2.0 suppose to be the best for Customs ROMs?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] agentyoshi:
sometimes the launcher is sluggish,specially when messenger bubbles is enabled sometimes it freezes..but overall good rom..
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] lay_PT:
Pretty sure I flashed the most recent one for willow, there's only two of them available any way
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Pervokur:
fw_willow_miui_WILLOWGlobal_V12.5.2.0.RCXMIXM_6fcdaef721_11.0.zip
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Unc3nZureD:
Is there any way to know what firmware I have right now? I can't remember if I flashed one earlier.

Just found some way and I'm a bit noob, so can you please help me if you think it'd be better to use a different fw? My adb wrote the following:

adb shell getprop ro.build.id

TQ1A.230105.001.A2

Works fine-ish, but I'm having quite often UI bugs & sleep bugs.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Unc3nZureD:
For messenger bubbles I also found these issues, for me it even crashed the system UI and caused extremely weird bugs.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] agentyoshi:
mine crashed once too,as i tapped the bubble the whole screen froze and i was forced to reboot my phone
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] dj_tbr:
take care guys,

ginkgo = redmi note 8

willow = redmi note 8t

i was too fast and flashed the ginkgo firmware on my 8t an bricked it, only opening (to get into edl mode) and @Geryy_the_kid post in #86 (which order, which version, etc) helped me to unbrick (all other firmwares or miui versions failed... - thanks gery

@gregory_cooky : will report, am currenlty still restoring old stuff from backup after unbricking and flashing newest firmware for my 8t (willow) :)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Unc3nZureD:
Does anyone else have issues with 5ghz wifi? I can't see any. A bit later I'll try the other kernel, just asking if it's a common issue.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ndshah2:
Does anyone have this issue with the screen turning off but not turning back on. On my indian variant, I get this problem only while making or receiving phone calls. I am forced to restart the phone.

Have tried both the latest Indian firmware and the EU firmware but problem persists.

Like to add that my proximity sensor is bust
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] American_Jesus:
No issues with WiFi, can connect to any WiFi (5GHz or 2.4GHz) without any issue, only hidden WiFi doesn't seem to connect on latest version, maybe something with the network.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] dj_tbr:
@gregory_cooky: so after two days and the new firmware - this didn't happen again, i think the new firmware fixed the issue.

But will also report in a week or later after more daily usage

@ndshah2: make backup, flash new firmware, flash newest rom and this should be gone..

@Unc3nZureD: am able to connect to Wifi 5GHz without any problems with newest firmware (fw_willow_miui_WILLOWGlobal_V12.5.6.0.RCXMIXM_b9c4b22e3f_11.0.zip) and newest rom (crDroidAndroid-13.0-20230113-ginkgo-v9.1.zip)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
@dj_tbr Hopefully it'll stay like that :)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] goldrake73:
Does anyone experienced problems with bluetooth on CrDroid 9.1 ?

Bluetooth works mostly for me except with my car's built-in handsfree system that perfectly worked until CrDroid 9.0...

It connects the first time without any problem and after turning of the car, when turning on again it doesn't connect anymore.

If you unpair and pair it again it works but only until you turn off the car.

I did a clean flash but the problem still remain and it's very annoying...

Any solution ? (I have Redmi Note 8T Willow)

Thanks
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] dj_tbr:
I am very sorry, but today it happened again - i pressed some times on Power button top wake the Screen Up and then the phone called local emercency number. A Woman from emercency talked to me.. :O Screen was still dead. Only reset/reboot via 10secs vol Up+Power brought Back the displays light..

Any ideas?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
:-( Not good. I just confirmed that for a few weeks the issue with waking up phone has been solved. Apologize but in your case I don't have other ideas. The last thing is to catch log when it happens and report it via Telegram to Ginkgo CrDroid channel to its developer.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] el_pedr0:
@dj_tbr I'm having a similar problem to you I think. And perhaps @ndshah2 is encountering the same problem. Do you have a Note 8T (willow) @ndshah2 ?

My phone is also willow. The symptoms in my case:

The problem tends to occur after I haven't used it for a while - So I notice it when my alarm goes off to wake me up in the morning, or sometimes when it's been in my pocket for a while and then I receive an incoming call.

When the problem occurs, the phone appears to be operating because for example the alarm is going off, or the ringer is ringing. But the screen is black (albeit I can see detect sort of backlight - so not black as though the screen is dead). The screen is unresponsive to touch. Pressing the physical buttons also does not seem to have an effect on the screen, nor do the physical buttons snooze the alarm or silence the call ringer. The only way I can get any control back over the phone is to hold the on/off button for 10 secs to reboot.

I have not yet updated to 9.1. But I do have the latest willow firmware (European version June 22) and I installed it prior to first installing crdroid 9.0.

I will update to 9.1 and see if the problem persists, but am less hopeful now that dj_tbr is still encountering the problem even after updating.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Hey Guys,

This is pretty interesting. Would be so kind and honestly write the history of your phones. I mean what exactly did you do before flashing the ROM. I believe that it might be pretty important. First thing is how you prepare your device before flashing the system and what you do next like, do you root your phone, do you flash Gapps, etc. ?

Probably it's up to the phone but wiping some partitions or clean flash might be the solution for your issues. However, it takes quite some time and energy, though :-)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] el_pedr0:
My phone was stock until the start of this month.

It was running Miui 11, and I had not updated the firmware for a while.

I got the unlock code

The first custom rom I installed was PixelExperiencePlus.

I first used the PixelExperience recovery.

But on first boot of PixelExperience Plus, it didn't detect the SIM or Wifi so was pretty useless.

I then tried OrangeFox recovery and installed PixelExperience Plus again, but still no SIM/Wifi

I then realised this was likely due to out of date firmware

So I reinstalled Miui 11 and updated to Miui 12.5 IIRC.

I installed the latest European firmware (June 22)

Then I installed crDroid following exactly the instructions on the first post of this thread (still using OrangeFox recovery).

I installed Nik's GApps Basic. But this didnt' automatically allow me to reimport from Google backup.

So I went through the crDroid installation process again (again formatting/wiping all the parts specified in the instructions on the first post)

Then I installed GApps Omni

The black screen issue has happened on average once or twice a day since then.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Did you have any issues on MIUI?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] el_pedr0:
No.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
It means that there's no hardware issue with your device. I bet that the process of rom installation is the key. CrDroid seems to be quite stable, so it's worth trying. If you're eager to try different way to check this ROM out. I already prepare a simple manual a few posts before. I used TWRP for this purpose. I did it in total on three mobile phones (2x Ginkgo, 1xWillow). Only on one phone there was an issue with waking up a screen.

What's exactly the name of your firmware file for Willow?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] el_pedr0:
Yes, thanks. I glanced at that post yesterday. I couldn't instantly see what was different from the way I installed the rom, other than the fact that you used TWRP but I used OrangeFox.

fw_willow_miui_WILLOWEEAGlobal_V12.5.5.0.RCXEUXM_4a8a71d8ef_11.0
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ndshah2:
Hello all,

I have the Indian variant of the Redmi note 8.

I was on the Global China based Xiaomi.eu rom, no issues experienced.

I flashed the latest CrDroid 9.1, latest Indian firmware and Opengapps Pico.

Everything is working very well, only that my screen goes off and doesn't turn back on whenever I make or receive a phone call. Reboot is necessary. My proximity sensor is dead.

What I've found is that if I add the sensors off quick settings tile (from Developer options), and I turn OFF all sensors before receiving or making phone calls, the problem does not occur.

As this is my daily driver, I'm hitting the sensors off button (or at least trying to remember to do that) before phone calls and turning them back on after completing the call.

I'll try to do a format and clean flash again once the new CrDroid update is out.

Apart from this bug, the rom is very stable and fast.
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] gregory_cooky:
Well, what I've noticed is:

Formatting Data partition is a must to get rid of encryption (obvious). Then I reboot again to recovery and then I wipe: System, Internal Storage, Data partition, this might be important step.

Then flash firmware, CrDroid and finally NikGapps. Before each process no clearing: cache, etc. just flashing after flashing. Then final reboot.

I hope you don't use Root or any special modules because that might also cause some issues and need to be tested.

Anyway, you can try this way and then test your phone for a few hours with just a basic configuration to check if it works. After all you can install all your preferred apps, etc.

This is my inspiration for you and hope that it'll change your device for the better :)
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] G-starSa:
Another link?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] BeriCud:
So the result is encript or decript data partition?

In my case when I have tried flash this way I got encripted data partition. You don´t mentioned but in my case I have to flash disable_dm_verity file to get rid of encription. Which recovery do you have/use (OrangeFox, PitchBlack etc.)?
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] American_Jesus:
Latest oficial TWRP
[Redmi Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] sanchaz12:
I just tried the latest build 20230127 available on SourceForge, before when not using dark mode enabled the text in the recent apps was barely readable, now it has been replaced by buttons which is much better!

Launcher settings window still crashes randomly for me, and the wallpaper selection & colors are somewhat glitchy. When changing the wallpaper it does not update the matching color schemes below, selecting one of the schemes under the left button does not change anything, but under the right button (fixed colors) it does. The launcher also sometimes crashes when playing around with the colors.

These are just very small annoyances for this rom, because other than that is is one of the best optimized and functional roms out there for me!

Also, is the Xiaomi Parts setting removed in this build? I can't find it anymore. Nevermind it has moved under the System tab in settings, but KCAL does not work. KCAL has started working after a few reboots.