payload-dumper-go VS hardened_malloc

In there you should either find a boot.img, or a payload.bin. If it's the 2nd, unpack it and then patch the boot image.

Use Payload Dumper to dump the base .img system files from the .bin file in the recovery image. https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go

Do really need a boot img? I installed flamingo 13 without one. But if you really need one you can simply use https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go

Since it's compatible with so many devices, it should probably run on most others too as long they support the same Camera API.

As for downloading, I'm not sure if it's available separately, which of course would be the easiest way, but you can always get the APK for it from any LineageOS build. Just download the flashable ZIP image, extract `payload.bin` from inside the ZIP, extract the `product` partition with `payload-dumper-go` [1]: `payload-dumper-go -p product payload.bin`, and then you have an EXT4 image you can simply mount under UN*X, or extract from using numerous tools for Windows.

1. https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go

Yep. I tried with my 6spro. Flash thought fastboot. Step 1: you have to unlock bootloader. 2: download full zip file from https://ui.nubia.cn/rom. 4: Download payload.bin extractor and extract payload.bin from full zip file to the same folder as payload-dumper-go: https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go/releases/tag/1.2.2 5: depending on your pc (window,linux...), I use linux so i run: ./payload-dumper-go payload.bin 6: after that, there will be a new folder full of .img files. 7: boot your phone to fastboot: - if your phone is not shutdown: adb reboot fastboot - if your phone is shutdown: hold volume down + power buttons, then wait until screen fastboot shows up. After that run cmd: fastboot reboot fastboot 8: then flash all .img from step 6 follow this link (in STEP 6: Flash Logical Partition Files, don't forget to flash vendor_system vendor_system.img after vendor) : https://www.droidwin.com/how-to-delete-and-create-logical-partition-on-oneplus-8t/ 9: after rebooting your phone, copy the full zip file from step 2 to your phone, then flash through the local-update in settings (just in case there is any problem). Don't lock the bootloader after that. I don't know if locking bootloader will brick your phone or not.

The installation instructions we have now assume that you were using the 2022-10-30 build, and thus removes a key step that was needed on older builds. Follow the hints LuK1337 provided to figure out what difference there is in the 2022-10-30 build vs the 2022-10-09 build. I'll link this here as another hint: https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go/releases/tag/1.2.2

Use payload-dumper-go: https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go

So if a custom ROM was installed on that device, download a zip of it. Next up, download payload dumber from here: https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go/releases/tag/1.2.2 Extract a downloaded version archive and open a terminal in a directory with an executable. On Linux you should mark the file with 'chmod +x payload-dumpaer-go'. Run 'payllad-dumper-go ROM.zip' and wait. When it finished it's work, go to the newly generated folder and get your boot.omg here.

In the guide: Which one is the A12 Oxygen OS ROM, is it the Beta Build. How to extract stock ROM using payload-dumper-go

Relevant copypasta:

Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Google and Apple! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:

Data service:

The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.

Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (VCC) like at privacy.com. It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are. There is also Abine Blur, and some others.

Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto. You can also buy prepaid VCCs with crypto.

An interesting new choice is PGPP https://invisv.com/pgpp/ who rotate your IMSI and do some other cool stuff. It works by e-sims.

All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.

OS:

GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can make a secondary profile in which you install Google Play Services to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them. Unprivileged here means it's like any other app: if you don't give it access to your location, it won't know where you are. If you end the profile session when you leave, Play Services stops running and stops talking to Google.

CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.

LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.

There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e

Hardware:

CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixels. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run GrapheneOS with Google Services installed in one profile or other.

You could also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.

Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Neither work very well by regular standards, but they're cool :-)

It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/

It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.

You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

If it still powers up but just won't boot you could try installing https://grapheneos.org/.

On 4thgen Pixels and up you can install GrapheneOS which is a security and privacy focused Android build. It does not come with any Google services pre-installed but you can put them on. https://grapheneos.org/

yes... will also de-google it cuz we can install GrapheneOS and also close the bootloader