HTC U12 Life

HTC U12 Life

Hardware support

• Camera

Working, but sometimes pictures taken on 3rd-party cam apps are darkened a lot.

• Fingerprint

Working

• Wi-Fi

Working

• SIM/Calling

Working

• Mobile data

Working

• Speaker/Microphone

Working

• Flashlight

Working

Bugs

• System frozes when setting up a PIN in setup wizard (only in gapps variant)

• Some UI flickers a lot

• Little chance stucks at lockscreen when trying to unlock

• System UI frozes frequently on some GSI (Try delete /System/app/NFCsci through root explorer or TWRP

Requirements

• An ARM64 A-Only (vndklite) image
• TWRP (Unofficial port)
• Google's platform tools extracted on your pc

• Connect the phone to your pc, stay connected all the time.
• Open Command Prompt, navigate to the place where you extracted tools

Unlocking Bootloader

• Enable OEM Unlocking in Developer Settings
• Reboot to Bootloader, you can do that by using adb reboot bootloader or press Vol- & Power Button
• Type fastboot flashing unlock
• You should now see a screen asking you to unlock or not
• Navigate to Yes using volume buttons, and hit it with power button

Installation

• Install TWRP by typing fastboot flash recovery [TWRP Image]

• Boot into TWRP, ignore if it shows data encrypted warning

• Choose Wipe -> Advanced Wipe and wipe every partition except Internal Storage

• Now choose Reboot -> Bootloader, It's fine if it gives a "No OS installed" error

• Type fastboot flash system [Image File]

• Boot into TWRP again, you can flash additional files now if you want:

• Magisk Patched for GSI

• Disable Encryption (you can flash this only once)

• Clear data and cache before reboot into system

• Done !

Tested GSIs

Boots

• phh AOSP (both Q & R)
• CAOS R
• Descendant XI (vndklite)
• LineageOS (both 17.1 & 18)
• HavocOS
• BlessRoms
• Diust's GSI
• eremitein's GSI

Not booting

• All non phh-based GSI
• Non vndk-lite
• AlphaROM

Untested

None

Tested By: @asrieldashie ; Feb 7 2021

Unofficial TWRP and stock system image can be found here(Trad. Chinese)

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