A collection of tips on how to install and use Droidian on the Xiaomi Redmi note 7 pro (violet)

• A computer with fastboot and adb access to the phone
• Unlocked bootloader
• Backup all your data, as your phone will be WIPED
• It is also recommended to take a note of your Acces Point Name in Android Settings before starting the procedure (you will need it for setting up mobile data)

• Droidian rootfs and devtools for arm64 (nightly releases include devtools)
• Adaptation
• Android 9 Pie Firmware
• Android 9 vendor
• Halium-boot
• Latest Orenge fox recovery

• Boot to fastboot mode by pressing the Vol- and Power buttons until the phone vibrates
• unzip the recovery zip package and get the recovery.img file ,
• then move the recovery.img boot.img and vendor.img to a sub-directory and open terminal in their.
• Check that the phone is recognized by running fastboot devices
• Now we can flash Boot vendor and recovery using the command

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img && fastboot flash vendor vendor.img && fastboot flash boot boot.img && fastboot reboot recovery 

Recovery:

• Go to Wipe and Format data (type yes)

PC:

• Connect the phone via USB
• The internal storage is now available over MTP from the PC
• Copy the downloaded files to the internal storage of the phone

Note: if you are having trouble with mtp, run the following command from the folder containig the droidian zip adb push droidian-rootfs-api28gsi-arm64*.zip /data/ droidian-rootfs-api28gsi-arm64 && adb push fw_violet_miui_VIOLET_9.9.3*.zip /data/fw_violet_miui_VIOLET_9.9.3*.zip

• Install firmware zip file
• Install zip file: droidian-rootfs-api28gsi_arm64_YYYYMMDD.zip
• Install zip file: droidian-devtools_arm64_YYYYMMDD.zip(if you are not using nightly)
• install zip file: droidian-recovery-flashing-adaptation-violet.zip

and reboot

• The first boot may take longer, and at least one spontaneous reboot is expected during the process
• If all goes well, your phone will boot to the Droidian lock screen, the unlock code is 1234
• Installation is complete we can see droidian lock screen now

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You can find a list of mobile-friendly Linux applications at LinuxPhoneApps

You can upgrade to the latest bookworm version of Droidian after doing all available updates from the Software application. Run this on the device itself:

sudo apt install droidian-upgrade-bookworm
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt clean
systemctl reboot

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• on pc open terminal
• conncet to recovery by running adb shell
• now paste the following lines:

mkdir /tmp/mpoint
mount /data/rootfs.img /tmp/mpoint
chroot /tmp/mpoint /bin/bash
export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
systemctl mask systemd-journald
systemctl mask systemd-resolved
systemctl mask systemd-timesyncd

and reboot the device

we need to regenerate udev rule

• login to droidian using the following line (the password is 1234):

ssh [email protected]

• run the following command to generate udev rule

sudo -s

DEVICE=violet # replace with your device codename
cat /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/ueventd*.rc /vendor/ueventd*.rc | grep ^/dev | sed -e 's/^\/dev\///' | awk '{printf "ACTION==\"add\", KERNEL==\"%s\", OWNER=\"%s\", GROUP=\"%s\", MODE=\"%s\"\n",$1,$3,$4,$2}' | sed -e 's/\r//' >/etc/udev/rules.d/70-$DEVICE.rules

and reboot

connect device to pc then ssh [email protected]

touch /etc/resolv.conf && nano /etc/resolv.conf

• and paste the following and save.

nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1

• reboot

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