AOSP 14 system image for XpressReal T3

AOSP 14 system image for XpressReal T3 🚀

Introduction

This is a brand new AOSP 14 image for XpressReal T3, we have ported AOSP 14 to T3 from scratch, compared to the earlier AOSP image we released, it's much easier to install and restore.

Installation guide

⚠️ Warnning: this installation process will erase the whole eMMC, please backup your data before procced.

You need to download both the sdcard.img and xpressreal_t3-update.zip files, the sdcard.img is a bootloader to put XpressReal T3 into fastboot mode and xpressreal_t3-update.zip is the actual AOSP image to flash into eMMC via fastboot.

Prerequisite

Install Android platform-tools for your OS: Android platform tools, Windows users may need to install the fastboot device driver: fastboot driver for windows

Prepare SDcard

Flash the sdcard.img to a SD Card using BalenaEtcher(or other image writing tools), then plug the SD Card into T3 and power it on.

Connect T3 to computer

The SD Card bootloader will put T3 into fastboot mode automatically. You need to connect T3 to your computer with an USB cable(using the USB Type-A port of T3), if everything goes well, you can list it with the following command:

$ fastboot devices
xpressreal(emmc)	 fastboot

If no devices listed, confirm you used the correct USB port and get fastboot driver installed.

Flash AOSP

Use the following commands to flash AOSP to T3's eMMC:

$ fastboot oem format
$ fastboot update -w xpressreal_t3-update.zip

Done

XpressReal T3 will reboot to AOSP automatically after flash finished. The SD Card is not need after the AOSP flashing process done, you can remove it.

Trouble shooting 🐞

• If the fastboot update -w xpressreal_t3-update.zip command hang, just ctrl-c and retry.
• You can force T3 enter fastboot mode by pressing the "install/user" button during power on for ~10s.

Restore to FydeOS

You can restore to FydeOS or other OSes follow this guide.

Android Image for XpressReal

Here is the Android 14 system image for the XpressReal. For installation, please refer to the instructions on the Wiki.

• aosp14_radax_XpressReal_image.zip: The prebuilt android 14 image for XpressReal.