FLASH GUIDE

ROM Installation

Two methods to flash a custom ROM. Clean flash wipes all data. Dirty flash keeps your data intact.

⚠ Always back up your data before flashing. Clean flash will erase everything on the device.

Clean Flash

1

Reboot to bootloader (fastboot)

adb reboot bootloader

2

Connect your phone to PC, then verify it's detected

fastboot devices

3

Flash boot partition

fastboot flash boot boot.img

4

Flash vendor boot partition

fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot.img

5

Flash DTBO partition

fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img

6

Reboot into recovery

fastboot reboot recovery

7

In recovery, select Wipe data / factory reset and confirm.

8

Go back and select Apply update from ADB.

9

Sideload the ROM zip

adb sideload Rom*.zip

Or drag and drop the ROM zip file onto the terminal window.

10

After installation completes, reboot the system.

adb reboot

Dirty Flash

1

Reboot into recovery by holding Power + Volume Up simultaneously.

2

In the recovery menu, select Apply update through ADB.

3

Sideload the ROM zip

adb sideload Rom*.zip

Or drag and drop the ROM zip file onto the terminal window.

4

After installation completes, reboot the system.

adb reboot

Fastboot & ADB Commands

Common commands for logs and rebooting.

Logs

adb shell su -c dmesg > dmesg.txt

adb shell su -c logcat > logcat.txt

Reboot

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot reboot recovery