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How To Make A Working TWRP Device Tree For Your MediaTek Device & Start Building Them, Online

This Guide is tested on 64-bit mt6735/53 chipset device. It will also work on any 64-bit and 32-bit devices.

You will need something from your Stock ROM first. Get them all and Try to modify it using the procedure.

Note: This guide will be helpful for you if you have older mediatek devices (android-5.1 or android-6.0), but up-to-date devices can also work.

Update: This guide had a few typos and derps (Oops..), but I've tried to make it free of those now (Dated November 18, 2020)

Bonus: You can also use this tool by @SebaUbuntu, @yshalsager and @mauronofrio to auto generate the twrp tree. The tool is best if your device runs on android-9.0. The tools is still not 100% compatible to all devices, but I'll still recommend it and give it 8.5/10 in the scale of varsatility.

Preface

Before anything or any comments or ideas, this is a way I wanted to try to inform and update what a device tree is and what it has, and finally how Custom Recovery is created. So this is not a complete guide and it won't be! I never intended to do that.

The original idea

Please take a look and may you take a few minutes to read the original guide. I had written myself that I intended to update the information. I hope that after reading the original guide you can go back and have a few minutes of reading and mainly practice to gain experience.

This guide comes to complement or update some important information. All thanks to @rokibhasansagar about first guide Make A TWRP Tree For Your Device & Build

Certainly, given the breadth of the subject, it should have many more parts. But understand about "Minimal" thinking and that I didn't intend to extend it any further than necessary. So the guide has:

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dkpost3 / twrp-recovery-flags.mk
Created December 9, 2022 03:37
Makefile Flags for Compiling TWRP
# USEFUL TWRP RECOVERY FLAGS
# by ZawZaw @XDA-Developers
# Thanks to : @xda-developers for helps
# Add EXT4 support
TARGET_USERIMAGES_USE_EXT4 := true
# Disable/enable SELinux. Only suggested when you want to enable SELinux support
TWHAVE_SELINUX := true
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dkpost3 / Bringup.md
Created October 2, 2022 14:51 — forked from mvaisakh/Bringup.md
An Android Device Tree Bringup Guide

A small Device Tree Bringup Guide

Introduction

So, you guys might be wondering, how do these "Developers" get your favourite Custom roms, such as LineageOS, Paranoid Android etc., to their own devices. Well I'm here to Guide you on how to do it, specifically on how to bringup or make your own device tree from scratch or adapting.

Gist of this Guide: This is for people with genuine interest in Android OS porting/development. After going through this guide, you should be able to do a total device tree bringup on your own.

Prerequisite: Certain requirements are to be met before you start with this amazing journey.