[GUIDE] Install Oreo Custom ROMs via TWRP

[joeyhuab]

Good day to everyone! I wish to provide proper steps on how to install the latest Oreo custom ROMs via TWRP in order to lessen the clutter in the custom ROM threads.

You'll need the following:

• Latest TWRP Official (Fastboot TWRP)
• Latest TWRP Installer (PERMANENT TWRP)

Considering you already installed TWRP via fastboot, we'll make it so that it will be permanently installed and you will not need to flash TWRP via bootloader again.

1. Download ROM + GApps (or no gapps if Pixel Experience)
2. Reboot to latest Official TWRP
3. Do necessary wipes (FORMAT data if having storage number issue; if not, wipe system/data/cache) then transfer ROM + gapps + magisk to internal/external storage
4. Flash ROM (don't reboot)
5. Flash latest TWRP Installer (for Permanent TWRP)
6. Reboot recovery (no need to transfer slots anymore as TWRP does it automatically)
7. Flash Gapps + Magisk
8. Reboot to system

To DIRTY FLASH or update the same ROM with an updated version

1. Reboot to recovery
2. Flash ROM
3. Flash TWRP Installer
4. Reboot recovery
5. Flash Gapps + Magisk
6. Reboot to system

For installing custom kernels

1. Download custom kernel
2. Reboot recovery
3. Flash custom kernel
4. Reboot to system

All of these has been tried and tested by me already.

 

[sikoo1996]

Hey , where to flash rom??
As you have written gapps + magisk , gapps + magisk twice

 

[joeyhuab]

Hey , where to flash rom?
As you have written gapps + magisk , gapps + magisk twice

I don't know what you mean. Read it again but slowly.

 

[vkbhanwariya]

thnx man.
please add instructions to flash twrp permanent or share link.

 

[dceamit46]

thnx man.
please add instructions to flash twrp permanent or share link.

+1

 

[joeyhuab]

thnx man.
please add instructions to flash twrp permanent or share link.

+1

Guys, TWRP Installer IS the Permanent TWRP. That's why you need to flash it every time after flashing custom ROMs.

 

[vkbhanwariya]

Guys, TWRP Installer IS the Permanent TWRP. That's why you need to flash it every time after flashing custom ROMs.

thanks mate now ROM flashing seems very easy

 

[joeyhuab]

thanks mate now ROM flashing seems very easy

You're welcome! Good luck in switching ROMs!

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[gunmanrishi]

You're welcome! Good luck in switching ROMs!

I really want to thank you for putting this up. Its immensely helpful and once again you are best at what you do.

 

[joeyhuab]

I really want to thank you for putting this up. Its immensely helpful and once again you are best at what you do.

You're more than welcome and I'm always more than glad to help out the community. :highfive:

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[madhpharma]

With custom ROMs we have to install Twrp installer every time along with ROM zip, bit awkward.

 

[kopitalk]

Is it just me but every time I flash twrp after flashing rom, I got error 20 when flashing gapps. Here's my steps:
- flash rom
- switch partition
- flash twrp
- reboot recovery (or bootloader then flashboot recovery)
- flash gapps -> error 20
Without flashing twrp permanent, I can flash gapps, no error.

 

[joeyhuab]

With custom ROMs we have to install Twrp installer every time along with ROM zip, bit awkward.

Yep. That's because the ROM being flashed overwrites the recovery since there's no recovery partition.

Is it just me but every time I flash twrp after flashing rom, I got error 20 when flashing gapps. Here's my steps:
- flash rom
- switch partition
- flash twrp
- reboot recovery (or bootloader then flashboot recovery)
- flash gapps -> error 20
Without flashing twrp permanent, I can flash gapps, no error.

Did you flash the TWRP.img or TWRP Installer.zip in TWRP?

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[kopitalk]

Yep. That's because the ROM being flashed overwrites the recovery since there's no recovery partition.


Did you flash the TWRP.img or TWRP Installer.zip in TWRP?

Twrp installer, to be exact Twrp-recoveryInstaller-3.2.1-2-oreo.zip

 

[cherryb8844]

Guys, TWRP Installer IS the Permanent TWRP. That's why you need to flash it every time after flashing custom ROMs.

If we need to flash it every time after flash rom so how it's called permanent TWRP I don't understand. That because our device don't have recovery partition? If that so where this TWRP installed ( in which partition)?

 

[joeyhuab]

If we need to flash it every time after flash rom so how it's called permanent TWRP I don't understand. That because our device don't have recovery partition? If that so where this TWRP installed ( in which partition)?

It's called permanent twrp because it won't get replaced by built in recovery whenever you reboot to recovery from system. TWRP gets installed within a part of the system partition.

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[Lupin The Third]

Is it just me but every time I flash twrp after flashing rom, I got error 20 when flashing gapps. Here's my steps:
- flash rom
- switch partition
- flash twrp
- reboot recovery (or bootloader then flashboot recovery)
- flash gapps -> error 20
Without flashing twrp permanent, I can flash gapps, no error.

Error 20 if I'm not wrong, means you are using the wrong gapps package.

Are you using the right one?

 

[kopitalk]

Error 20 if I'm not wrong, means you are using the wrong gapps package.

Are you using the right one?

Yes, I certainly use the right one (8.1), that's why I was baffled when twrp says that my device is 7.1.2 every time I tried to flash the 8.1 gapps. Anyway, flashing rom then straightaway followed by gapps and magisk was fine. I can flash twrp installer later on. But I just don't understand why.

 

[joeyhuab]

Yes, I certainly use the right one (8.1), that's why I was baffled when twrp says that my device is 7.1.2 every time I tried to flash the 8.1 gapps. Anyway, flashing rom then straightaway followed by gapps and magisk was fine. I can flash twrp installer later on. But I just don't understand why.

Well that's weird. Works for me by flashing Gapps and Magisk after rebooting to recovery since it switches slots when you do that. Did you possibly come from a Nougat ROM which is why that's the error showing up?

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[kopitalk]

Well that's weird. Works for me by flashing Gapps and Magisk after rebooting to recovery since it switches slots when you do that. Did you possibly come from a Nougat ROM which is why that's the error showing up?

I was thinking of that too but no, I was on Oreo Jan built the first time I rooted the phone and flash LOS15.1. Do you think I should at least flash Oreo stock once? Maybe my bootloader is still Nougat