[DISCONTINUED] /e/ 8.1.0 For Harpia - Moto G4 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De

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As always, you take responsibility for what you do to your phone. Don't go filing civil lawsuits against me if your alarm fails to get you up for work in the morning.
The Hell's An /e/?
"/e/ is a non-profit project, in the public interest. We build open-source mobile operating systems that respect users’ data privacy. We’re an international core team of experienced entrepreneurs, developers and designers, and a growing community of contributors." --taken from their website.
Basically think Lineage AOSP but instead of just leaving gapps out of it, they're trying to take it a step further and really give Google the finger. Their ultimate goal for the future is to make a mobile OS featuring an entire ecosystem (/e/cosystem?) that respects users' privacy and avoids the "big-companies-that-sell-your-data". They will have alternatives to the most popular Google services baked in: F-Droid instead of Google Play, something like Telegram instead of Google Hangouts, Lawnchair instead of a proprietary Google launcher, etc. As of the time I'm writing this message this is still really early on in the /e/ project though, so don't expect too much just yet.
What Works?
Should be everything except what's listed below
What Don't Work?
There might not be an app store preloaded (so get ready to sideload something), and Verizon can be weird on it
Where's My Source Code, and How'd You Build this?
Don't worry, this took me forever to find too. I used the V1-oreo branch which is Lineage 15.1 based. The trees I'm using come from The Moto8916 Github Repo.
Here's the roomservice XML I used so you don't have to manually add it all yourself
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<!-- Device -->
<project name="moto8916/android_device_motorola_harpia" path="device/motorola/harpia" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="moto8916/android_device_motorola_msm8916-common" path="device/motorola/msm8916-common" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="moto8916/android_kernel_motorola_msm8916" path="kernel/motorola/msm8916" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="moto8916/proprietary_vendor_motorola" path="vendor/motorola" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="LineageOS/android_device_qcom_common" path="device/qcom/common" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="LineageOS/android_packages_resources_devicesettings" path="packages/resources/devicesettings" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<!-- Linaro 7.3 kernel toolchain -->
<project name="dev-harsh1998/GCC_BUILDS" path="prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-7.3" remote="github" revision="master" />
<!-- Boringssl -->
<project name="LineageOS/android_external_sony_boringssl-compat" path="external/sony/boringssl-compat" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
<project name="LineageOS/android_external_bson" path="external/bson" remote="github" revision="lineage-15.1" />
</manifest>
To get the custom /e/ apps in your build you have to edit the portion of vendor/cm/config/common.mk that talks about "Custom CM Packages". Go to /prebuilts/prebuiltapks for a list of folders' names you can add to this list. Note that not everything will add properly, and adding some things may mess up your ROM, so experiment at your own risk
Where's My Download Link?
MY MEGA BUILD FOLDER
--As a side note too, when a good custom kernel comes out for Oreo for this phone, I recommend getting it. I don't know of any as of writing this post, but if you can see one yourself and it looks stable, by all means go for it. Not that there's anything wrong with the stock kernel--it's fine and stable, but custom kernels are usually a bit more optimized
--If you want MicroG as well as a replacement for GApps, our resident MicroG expert @martianmarvel said he followed this thread here and got MicroG working on his /e/ harpia just fine
Can I See Some Screenshots? (RIP NOUGAT)
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Who Should You Give a Special Thanks To?
--The /e/ team (including but not limited to Gael Duval)
--All the guys here on the harpia forums for their hard work in building the trees for this thing
--@bcrichster for showing me how to get the /e/ apps to build with the ROM on this thing so I don't have to steal from AOSP anymore
--The moto8916 github repo (and all its contributors) for the trees

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what is the deal with nougat?

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hp420 said:
what is the deal with nougat?
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We would love your help porting Pie to Harpia! I personally stick with nougat because at the moment it is the most stable version of Android for this phone, and I'm not too good myself with changing device trees to work with different versions of Android. Pie is in the works now, but in its current early state it is a bit laggy and drains your battery pretty quickly, not to mention some other things here and there that make it unstable and hard to build for... But I'm sure with eager and talented people like yourself, we can bring stable Pie to this phone in no time!

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UPDATE: I just made a test version of this ROM where I tried to inject my own launcher and SMS app in there for you guys (Lawnchair and QKSMS, both FOSS apps). If you're feeling brave, flash that one instead of the normal one and let me know if it works out for you.
Shoutout to AndroidForums user Cyberdev for showing me this method

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hp420 said:
what is the deal with nougat?
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You're free to build all the pie/oreo ROMs&Kernel that u want..

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hp420 said:
what is the deal with nougat?
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It's called stability. That's something that matters heavily to those of us interested in using our phones as more than just a toy. Devs are working on Pie but they aren't stable enough for full daily driver status.

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UPDATE: Apparently this ROM doesn't come with a camera app either by default. This isn't as crucial as a launcher or SMS app, so i'll leave you to your own accord to pick one up.
Keeping with the FOSS theme I'd highly recommend OpenCamera from F-Droid. It works wonders.
The next source build I do I'll be looking into a more permanent solution to address these missing apps, if by that time they still don't want to update their source to include them. I know there's a way to drop in APKs in a special folder and have them be "installed" when the ROM source compiles since that's what we used to do with my old PAOSP builds. I'll be contacting the creator of that to figure it out for next time.

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Thanks

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Update pushed today. I included the AOSP launcher, sms, and Camera app as placeholders until they can get the eelo source sorted out.

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Thank's for you job, i AM is so happy! Bye google!

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Developers like you define XDA. Thank you so much for this. I love /e/ and the entire concept for which it stands and I love my Harpia like a moto E 2015. You sir are the bombdiggity Dev of XDA. My hero.

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taemta3 said:
Developers like you define XDA. Thank you so much for this. I love /e/ and the entire concept for which it stands and I love my Harpia like a moto E 2015. You sir are the bombdiggity Dev of XDA. My hero.
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Wait till the next build, bound to be even more broken crap to deal with
Or maybe we'll finally get an /e/ app or two, who knows...

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https://youtu.be/F1xAUfdK9FE

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I'm gonna give a shot at the oreo ROM now too, see if it'll build and how stable it is. If oreo wants to build for me, expect an "OREO" labelled zip up there in the google drive folder soon and feel free to test it out.
EDIT: putting oreo on hold for now, I think there's a new tree that actually replaces some of the default apps with eelo-based ones (and it's nougat). Gonna build that and see what the new eelo apps are like!

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Working Stellar with 10/17 version
Installed the barebones version and sideloaded netflix, asphalt 8, and soundcloud. I'm good.:good::good::good:

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Good news, this "new base" thing I got is actually Oreo. Didn't know that when I was syncing. Looks like the next major build is gonna be Oreo for this here
UPDATE: the "new base" header is now gone from gitlabs, so to keep with the theme Ill just be assuming they merged it in with the normal Oreo eelo0.2 and I'll sync and build that instead

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ALERT
BUMP
I apologize for going back and forth between what I want to build so fast, but I promise there's reasons for it. I was told by some harpia experts on telegram that the unofficial Oreo trees for this might not be stable anymore, because apparently the stable ones were supposedly "lost" before.
They aren't 100% sure that's the case, but seeing as how eelo0.1 was merged with cm-14.1 a few days ago, the new gameplan is to get one more nougat build out there for all you nerds before I move onto the potentially massive headache of seeing if Oreo will work. I want to do this first because we all already know nougat is working fine, and since there were some merges a few days back that not only means there might be a new security patch available, there could also be some new eelo apps builtin as well (which I hope is the case, because I'm an idiot and forgot to save my config files for including the missing launcher and SMS app so I'll need to do all that again... not the smartest move, sorry about that Lord Vader).
I'm in the process of repo-syncing the nougat branch again. No more fooling around, I'm gonna settle down and actually stick to this plan for you guys. Keep your eyes peeled and your T's crossed

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Looking forward to the next br/e/w!

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New 11-07 build just finished uploading now, go to the OP for the Google Drive folder to get it from.
Looks like they still don't have their own launcher or SMS app and stuff, so tomorrow ill see if i can get a build up that includes all that stuff. The good news is it got bumped to the October 5th security patch, so I recommend all of you guys upgrade.

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I was speaking to my man @bcrichster this morning and he synced the /e/ source and found interesting things. I don't have the full directory location on me but he found out that there ARE ACTUALLY EELO APPS IN THE SOURCE READY TO BE BUILT. Fdroid, Bliss Launcher, MicroG, etc. Are all already in the source and hidden away in a weird place.
For some reason though these apps don't get included in the build when it happens so this requires vendor config modifications on our part to get it working. I'm now gonna be looking into this with him to get it working.