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Installation Guide For GSI Device

Warning

• Your warranty is void. Or valid, probably?
• We are not responsible for any damage you made to your device. You have been warned!
• We are not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone by installing custom ROMs.
• We are not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone by installing any kernels.
• You do it at your own risk and take the responsibility upon yourself
• You are not to blame a rom or its respected developers for any of your loss.

Basic Notes for all users:

• The provided instructions are for GSIs based on Android 14.
• These will only work if you follow every section and step precisely
• Do not continue after something fails! Contact in support group for help
• The device must have an unlocked bootloader & has Platform Tools installed in pc.
• If you are moving from any other Android version to Android 14, it is necessary to do CLEAN FLASH (Format Data)
• Take a backup for safe side (If you are coming from older Android version or doing a clean flash)
• For any queries or help related to the RisingOS GSI, join our support group : Tap Here

Certain devices with limited support such as mediatek and 4.14 kernel based devices might not boot at this time.

Important

PREREQUISITES:

• Check Project treble compatibility using Treble Info
• Must have A/B partitioning or System-As-Root support
• Must fit into ARM64 architecture requirement. (Future builds may include A64 support)
• Must have at least VNDK28 support.

CLEAN FLASH:

- Download GSI system image
- Extract .xz file
- Boot into recovery
- Flash extracted system.img file as 'System'
- Wipe Cache, Dalvik and format Data
- Reboot system

DIRTY FLASH:

- Download GSI system image
- Extract .xz file
- Boot into recovery
- Wipe dalvik, cache
- Flash the system.img file as 'System'
- Reboot To System

Note

Notes specific to device build

• Gapps is already included in GAPPS and CORE builds, no need to flash additionally
• If you are coming from Android 12 or 13 to Android 14 then clean flash is compulsory and format data.
• If you are encrypted do format Data before flashing build to avoid bugs.