Installing Paranoid Android on OnePlus 3
After the issues with Paranoid Android, I could not revert to the OS the device came with and I am now on OxygenOS 5.0.8, which I downloaded from the official OnePlus website. I have been observing weird and annoying bugs, e.g., in GoogleMaps the settings page can be partially seen on the left, trying to kick in without succeeding. Mostly in GoogleMaps at times the keyboard tends to write by itself. In a few occasions the app became unusable. The keyboard thing happened on another app as well. Once when I tried to call the WiFi setting page, the Bluetooth one kept opening. Sometimes, after pressing the bottom right button I am unable to close apps by dragging them left or right out of the display. When the device behaves in an irresponsive way or does things by itself, I have occasionally seen flashes along lines on the display.
All these things do not happen all the time, and often a device reboot is not necessary to make problems (temporarily) disappear. It is kind of random. I checked and found several complaints from users on GoogleMaps and keyboard, but in none exactly my issues are reported.
I wonder whether all these problems are caused by a non-clean flashing of the ROM after I messed around with PA.
To be honest, I used the phone as it came only for minutes before attempting to flash PA, so I can't say how it worked as received.
Today, without wanting, I got all the Google Apps updated, and the keyboard problem occurred once within 30 min usage.
Any suggestion? Have other OxygenOS users observe similar things in the past, before moving to PA? Can it be a "bad" phone? I could upgrade to Pie, and see what happens (and how the eyestrain evolves).
Sorry, I do not want to use this forum for purposes different from eyestrain. I consider it an appendix to the bad install of PA. Thanks in advance for any insight!
AGI It almost sounds like a hardware issue, especially the flickering screen, but who knows. Never had such problems, and I did install and try quite a lot of ROMs. If I were you I'd downgrade to OxygenOS 4.0.3 (for the firmware) and then try to install Paranoid Android once again. Make sure the downloaded file isn't corrupt. Don't give up.
KM Thanks. Not knowing exactly what I am doing - I just have a general understanding - I thought that erasing some files from the internal storage and then wiping it all may have caused the issue. However, I read online that it does not matter. If one has TWRP installed, and the zip file with the ROM to flash on USB-OTG, he should be able to do a clean install. How about following the flashing? What is the exact protocol? Do you wipe again everything but the internal storage before rebooting? Maybe that part of the process is what I did wrong.
I forgot to mention I ran a few factory resets but the instability is still present. It does not happen all the time though, so it is difficult to ascertain in a short time whether there has been an improvement.
Maybe I will send the phone back, and get a new one. It is the less "painful" I have tried since I started having problems an year ago.
So. You get a ZIP, you boot into TWRP, you install the ZIP. TWRP should ask if you want to wipe things while you're installing. Go ahead and say yes to that. Don't do any extra wipes. Just install the ZIP, install the GAPPS, and then boot up normally. I know it seems intimidating but it's really completely straightforward.
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Gurm Thanks! That is what I did. It appears other people have had issues installing PA from a recent OxygenOS version. I will do more experiments, but, since my phone is showing some weird issues even after re-flashing OxygenOS, I may pay for the return and send it back, and try with a fresher one.
EDIT: I upgraded to Pie and updated all apps to the latest versions. I could not reproduce the issues with Google Maps / keyboard / etc. etc.. So maybe it was a matter of obsolete OS and apps, and the phone is okay / did not get damaged by my bad install of PA. On Pie it also does not get as hot as on Oreo while using apps like Google Maps and Youtube.
AGI I had issues with a fresh Paranoid install after wiping Pie (OOS 9). No problem flashing it through TWRP, but modem was not working. Tried a lot including originsk OOS for OP3 but nothing was working. Finally fix for me was clean flash OOS 8, booted and checked everything was working, then clean flashed Paranoid. Now everything is working again.
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degen Finally fix for me was clean flash OOS 8,
Oh, I see...so you did not have to install an OxygenOS version based on Android 7.0, like 4.0.3...you started from Oreo.
Mmmm, that is what I did...
The phone came with OP3_O2_open_25 (no idea what it is) but it said Android 8.0.
After the failed install of PA, I flashed OxygenOS 5.0.8, but did not try to reinstall PA since.
You tried both Oreo and Pie. How did the eyestrain go? Differences between the two? Thanks!
@KM @degen What is the battery lifetime? I look at the phone stats and found a miserable 3 hours and something :-(
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AGI Both Orea and Pie gave me equally bad eyestrain. It's obvious in the display too the rendering is different in Paranoid.
I must have flashed like 15 different roms trying to get it to work after that. Firmware only roms for the modem, everything. For a while I couldn't even access recovery. Lol. But this thing is pretty resilient so I say experiment away.
Did you ever hear back? I got the display working finally, had to disable hardware overlays - it seems there's multiple versions of PA7.3.1 for the OnePlus3(T) floating around, mine is the one available from the PA site but I think that's not up to date - the official site linked from their XDA threads (http://get.aospa.co/official/oneplus3) is curiously unavailable.
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Gurm I got pa_oneplus3-7.3.1-RELEASE-20171030-signed.zip with md5sum 9575bfd76cf662fc348ce45e0dd451c4 and sha1sum 9c4246b144db4d8c760f4968014306786a18a0e9
I believe the last known-good OxygenOS version was this, as I still have it in my downloads: OnePlus3Oxygen_16_OTA_041_all_1702081756_f9fb218af59d4aa6.zip
I don't think it has auto-update. Just long press and hide the update notification.
Gurm IIRC OxygenOS was good until their Android 7.1 release. So 7.0, which should be that file, was still good. Provided I didn't look at PWM nor use color-altering brightness apps. Only browser I know is safe for me is Chrome. Maybe that file will also overwrite your firmware and modem so you'd have a clean setup, but I'm not sure about that.
Pulling 7.0 as well as the last 6.x release, keeping fingers crossed that I can just blast one of these on and be like "oh so nice". Maybe I can downgrade to an older PA in that case, since it seems like a much-improved ROM, but even stock Oxygen is better than what I've been using.