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Installation Guide For Project Elixir

Installation Guide of Project Elixir on Pixel 4a 5G (bramble)

Caution

  • Your warranty is void. Or valid, probably?
  • Project Elixir is not responsible for any damage you made to your device. You have been warned!

Warning

  • 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 Project Elixir or its respected developers for any of your loss.
  • Before following these instructions please ensure that the device is currently using Android 14 firmware

Tip

Basic Notes for all users:

  • The provided instructions are for Project Elixir 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 Elixir, join our support group : Tap Here

Step 1: Download Required Files

  1. Download the latest Android platform tools for Windows from the link below:

  2. Download the Recovery and other files from the link below:

  3. Download the Project Elixir ROM from a reliable source.

Step 2: Install ADB and Boot into Fastboot Mode

  1. Make sure you have ADB (Android Debug Bridge) installed on your computer.
  2. Extract the downloaded platform-tools zip file on your computer.
  3. Connect your device to your computer using a USB cable.
  4. Open a command prompt (Windows) or terminal (macOS and Linux) on your computer.
  5. Navigate to the location where you extracted the platform-tools.
  6. Enter the following command to check if your device is connected and detected by ADB:
adb devices

Important

If your device is listed, proceed to the next step. If not, make sure your device is connected properly and that USB debugging is enabled in the developer options.

  1. Now, reboot your device into Fastboot Mode using the following command:
adb reboot bootloader

Step 3: Unlock Bootloader using Fastboot

  1. Once your device is in Fastboot Mode, use the following command to check if Fastboot still detects your device:
fastboot devices

Note

If your device is listed, you are ready and If you don’t get any output or an error:

  • On Windows: Download latest fastboot driver and copy the folder into your desktop, then go again in Device Manager, locate your device, right-click on your device and choose "Update driver", choose "Browse my computer for driver software", then “Browse…” and select the folder you copied in your desktop. Click “ok” and then on “next”.
  • on Linux or macOS: If you see no permissions fastboot try running fastboot as root. When the output is empty, check your USB cable and port!
  1. Now type the following command to unlock the bootloader:
fastboot flashing unlock

Tip

  • At this point the device may display on-screen prompts which will require interaction to continue the process of unlocking the bootloader.
  • Give next/agree to actions the device when it asks you to proceed.
  1. If the device doesn’t automatically reboot, reboot it. It should now be unlocked.
  2. Since the device resets completely, you will need to re-enable USB debugging to continue.

Optional Step : Flashing additional partitions

  1. Download the following files from the links provided in Steps 1

boot.img dtbo.img

  1. Power off the device, and boot it into bootloader mode: With the device powered off, hold Volume Down + Power
  2. Flash the downloaded image files to your device by typing:
fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img

Step 4: Installing Elixir Recovery using fastboot

  1. Download Elixir Recovery. Simply download the latest recovery file, named vendor_boot.img
  2. If your device isn’t already in fastboot mode then boot into fastboot mode
  3. Once your device is in Fastboot Mode, use the following command to check if Fastboot still detects your device:
fastboot devices

Note

If your device is listed, you are ready to flash, else check NOTE! from Step 3

Tip

Some devices have buggy USB support while in bootloader mode, if you see fastboot hanging with no output when using commands such as fastboot getvar ..., fastboot boot ..., fastboot flash ... you may want to try a different USB port (preferably a USB Type-A 2.0 one) or a USB hub.

  1. Place the downloaded Recovery image (.img file) in the same location as the platform-tools folder on your computer.
  2. Now, flash the Recovery using the following command:
fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot.img
  1. After flashing the recovery, use the following command to reboot your Recovery:
fastboot reboot recovery
  1. Your device will reboot with Recovery installed.

Note

If your recovery does not show the logo , you accidentally booted into the wrong recovery. Please start at the top of this section!

Step 4: Installing Elixir from recovery

  1. Download the Elixir installation package that you would like to install
  2. If you are not in recovery, reboot into recovery: hold Volume Down + Power
  3. Now tap Factory Reset, then Format data / factory reset and continue with the formatting process.

Warning

This will remove encryption and will delete all files stored in the internal storage, as well as format your cache partition (if you have one).

  1. Return to the main menu
  2. Sideload the Elixir.zip package

Caution

Do not reboot before you read/followed the rest of the instructions!

  1. On the device, select “Apply Update”, then “Apply from ADB” to begin sideload.
  2. On the host machine, sideload the package using:
adb -d sideload <filename.zip>
  1. After the package is installed, recovery will inform you that reboot to recovery is required to install add-ons.
  2. In case you want to do that, please select “Yes,” otherwise “No”.

Tip

Normally, adb will report Total xfer: 1.00x, but in some cases, even if the process succeeds the output will stop at 47% and report Total xfer: 0.98x or adb: failed to read command: Success. In some cases it will report adb: failed to read command: No error or adb: failed to read command: Undefined error: 0 which is also fine.

  1. All set!
  • Once you have installed everything successfully, you can now reboot your device into the OS for the first time!
  • Click the back arrow in the top left of the screen, then “Reboot system now”.

Important

May Required Files:


Note

Notes specific to device build

  • Firmware & Gapps are already included in zip no need to flash additionally
  • First boot usually takes no longer than 15 minutes, depending on the device. If it takes longer, you may have missed a step.
  • If you are coming from PORTs then you need to Format Data and flash latest firmware [depending on the device]
  • 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.

Tip

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