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Hey all,

im looking to ditch the stock rom and put a rom on that doesn't have any proprietary stuff on it. i have a Moto G Stylus 5G 2024, and from XDA, it seems that there is not only root, but also GSI roms. do GSI roms still contain google binaries (play store, play services, etc...) or is it similar to a AOSP rom where its just a bare android image with no apps other than the very basic stuff? Sadly i can't afford getting a pixel atm or another device that can run mobile linux or graphene, so just wanted to see if this was viable.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

sorry for my ignorance with this, so this https://github.com/TrebleDroid/treble_experimentations/releases/tag/ci-20250415 will work on my device as per what their app told me?

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't use the pure phh GSI rom, it's very barebones and comes with all debug options enabled.

Maybe this LineageOS miggt be better: https://github.com/MisterZtr/LineageOS_gsi/releases/tag/v2025.10.10

Or an Android 16 LineageOS (from the same repository), or other ones in this range. I have a suspicion that all these new ones are A/B compatible.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

got it. will test it out and report back. time to dich google again.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

so i ended up using DSU loader to run linage OS, and it seems to be working great, however, to my understanding, im not really installing the ROM, more so running it. is this how its supposed to work now?

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't download the image, but if it came in a .img, you can flash with fastboot, if it came in a .zip, you can flash with a recovery like twrp, what format it came in?

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Try using fastboot, you can flash the ROM directly to the system partition. There are some tutorials on how to do that.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

im getting there. i got the image flashed, but only have 4G which is ok, but i cant install APKS becuase of some security flag, so im reinstalling everything and trying again