Question Am I missing anything? Steps to flash ROM + microG - Redmi Note 10

The waiting period to unlock the bootloader will be done this Friday, and I plan to install crDroid once it is over.
I would like to confirm that these are the right steps/order since it is my first time doing such a thing to a phone and I don't want to brick it. I don't have an SD card yet, so I will be using adb sideload
Install crDroid
1. Reboot phone in fasboot mode and plug it to computer
2. From computer terminal run: fastboot boot path/to/TWRP.img to boot into TWRP 3.5.2
3. Wipe > Swipe to Factory Reset
4. Advanced > adb Sideload
5. adb sideload path/to/ROM.zip
Install TWRP + microG + Magisk
6. Boot phone and set up crDroid
7. Transfer TWRP + microG + Magisk to phone storage
8. Reboot phone in fasboot mode
9. fastboot boot TWRP.img to boot again into TWRP 3.5.2
10. Install TWRP recovery to Ramdisk (Advanced > Install Recovery Ramdisk)
11. Flash microG (Install > microG.zip)
12. Flash Magisk (Install > Magisk.apk)
13. Reboot phone and install Magisk APK
14. Be done
Should I back up any partitions before doing this? Which?
Is the microG install for RN10 done by flashing zip or Magisk Module? Does it matter?

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Too many steps there... till 5 it's good but "factory reset" doesn't do what you think it does, i.e, it does not delete your INTERNAL DATA (photos, documents/etc);
That means you can put Magisk/MicroG/twrp on your phone storage like now and flash it all after you flash CRDROID, then you reboot to recovery;
It won't be TWRP because the DEV dropped it from latest build but it doesn't matter (the recovery gets replaced with the ROM flash (from any ROM) because our device (mojito/sunny) does not have a recovery partition and the recovery is inside the BOOT partition), from there you click "apply update", select the zips you want to install and install them. (respect any order of the packages you want to install as always if there's any) .
Then you reboot the phone and install magisk apk.
I only used microG for Youtube Vanced and used their app to install it without problems, now i switched to the rooted method that replaces the YT app mostly without issues (after some tinkering)
I hope i clarified a few things for you.
By the way, there's no way these days to fully brick your device, you can flash any partition / ROM from fastboot mode which can't be disabled or bricken if your device has it (most do).
A good backup is nevertheless always recommended. (either for panicking reasons or for peace of mind) , also, disabling encryption is also recommended before changing ROM's/kernel's.

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Ok, so to make sure I understood correctly: you are saying I can use the recovery included in crDroid to install TWRP to ramdisk, as well as Magisk and microG, correct? (avoiding step 9.)
How did you install microG this time over? Flashing or Module?
Yes, so I hear, but I'd rather not risk soft bricking it on my first try hahaha
Will def make a backup of system, vendor, etc with TWRP.
Thanks

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FYI installing TWRP from linux didn't work for me, had to go windo*s :/
P.S.:
How did you install microG this time over?
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On my side I'll tell you for sure once I'm out of fastboot lol ^^
but usually (if your rom accept signature spoofing) on all my other install i do it this way:
install magisk module fdroid privileged extension
install fdroid
install microg fdroid repository
install microg from fdroid
launch microg and check all the boxes (sometimes you need to install more components from fdroid if you want gps or to fake playstore and stuff like that)

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syntheticdingo said:
Ok, so to make sure I understood correctly: you are saying I can use the recovery included in crDroid to install TWRP to ramdisk, as well as Magisk and microG, correct? (avoiding step 9.)
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You can use the included recovery to flash anything you'd like, except TWRP (or any other recovery), for TWRP (if you really want it, you're mentioning it too much) you do fastboot boot twrp.img, inside i think in advanced options there's an option to install TWRP which installs it into ramdisk (if you use the one made for this phone 3.5.2 ofc)
syntheticdingo said:
How did you install microG this time over? Flashing or Module?
Yes, so I hear, but I'd rather not risk soft bricking it on my first try hahaha
Will def make a backup of system, vendor, etc with TWRP.
Thanks
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I never installed microG because i don't use it, i only tried it once because the Youtube Vanced option without root which i used in the MIUI ROM before i got permission to unlock bootloader and rooting the device, then, i use pico gapps so i haven't found a need for microG, but there's gotta be a tutorial on how to install it if you search for it.

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syntheticdingo said:
How did you install microG this time over? Flashing or Module?
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So, yep, I confirm, that works :
LaMarMôt said:
install magisk module fdroid privileged extension
install fdroid
install microg fdroid repository
install microg from fdroid
launch microg and check all the boxes (install more components from fdroid if you want, backends, fake (or modded) playstore, etc.)
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Sweet, will try it tomorrow if nothing goes sideways with the bootloader unlock

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LaMarMôt said:
So, yep, I confirm, that works :
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Yes, that worked for me. both times. I only have an issue with Signal saying there is not Play services installed and not showing up in CLoud messaging, even though all Self-check is marked and other apps show up there.
Reinstalled the ROM (got that bootloop bc I forgot to do the wipes/factory reset), but I still have the same issue. *sighs*

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syntheticdingo said:
Yes, that worked for me. both times. I only have an issue with Signal saying there is not Play services installed and not showing up in CLoud messaging, even though all Self-check is marked and other apps show up there.
Reinstalled the ROM (got that bootloop bc I forgot to do the wipes/factory reset), but I still have the same issue. *sighs*
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Hey
Yes it is an "issue" with Signal... not sure if it's due to g**gle, signal or microG... one sure thing is that Signal dev won't do anything about it, as they stated on github (and their forums too), for them either you have "working" play services (i.e. official from g**gle), either their app can fallback to a persistent websocket which apparently shouldn't consume that much more battery in the end.. but that idk), so there's no issue according to them... (they clearly don't give a lot of a f**k regarding foss community, same attitude since a long time towards fdroid and all...)
One workaround (waiting for a better solution) would be to first install Signal 4.59.8 (or previous versions), for example here https://signal-private-messenger.de.uptodown.com/android/versions, make sure it register well via micro (reboot insist and everything... but shouldn't have too), and then, update to last version.
Even if there's messages stating some problem with play service it should stay registered and it should receive messages without any problem (at least it works well for me).
(You could check molly, a little bit more secure fork of signal, and it's the same you can install previous version from here https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/releases?after=v4.59.9-1, and at least you get updates trough fdroid, that's what i use)
On a side note, Signal is becoming more and more dodgy, they even launch their own ponzi own cryptocurrency, but (which really worries me) the source code of the server side is no longer public...(same problem for the forks of course as you have to go through signal servers)
Well it is a shame after all the efforts i took to make people I interact with move to signal that I will have to make them move to matrix (element is a nice client)... (and that time Elon won't help me...)
So yeah... hope i won't have to use signal for long... (i mean if it's just as bad as using wh**tsap, what's the point...?)
Cheers !

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syntheticdingo said:
got that bootloop bc I forgot to do the wipes/factory reset
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So, in the end, what would be the exact steps one has to reproduce in order to install CrDroid on an untouched (bootloader unlocked indeed) Redmi Note 10 to succeed from first shot ?
(I messed up badly and even had to use MiFlash... and i'm not even sure how i succeeded in the end lol... A/B is gave me a hard time I guess ^^)

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LaMarMôt said:
So, in the end, what would be the exact steps one has to reproduce in order to install CrDroid on an untouched (bootloader unlocked indeed) Redmi Note 10 to succeed from first shot ?
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Well, what worked for me was:
boot into fastboot and plug into pc
run fasboot boot TWRP.img
format data and wipe all but last two partitions (dalvik, metadata, data and internal storage)
then enable adb sideload
run adb sideload crdroid.zip (it will kinda fail/succeed at 47% on terminal/just after it gets to step 2 on phone for me)
reboot phone to system and set it up
transfer magisk, twrp.img microg/gapps to internal storage
reboot phone into fastboot again
and run fastboot boot TWRP.img again
and from there flash magisk.apk, microg/gapps
install recovery to ramdisk
then install magisk app when you boot
regrding magisk: for me, both times i did this, i had to reboot into recovery after doing all that and reflash Magisk a second time in order for it to fully complete the installation. you may have better luck
I will read your other post when I wake up
hope that does it for you

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syntheticdingo said:
Well, what worked for me was:
boot into fastboot and plug into pc
run fasboot boot TWRP.img
format data and wipe all but last two partitions (dalvik, metadata, data and internal storage)
then enable adb sideload
run adb sideload crdroid.zip (it will kinda fail/succeed at 47% on terminal/just after it gets to step 2 on phone for me)
reboot phone to system and set it up
transfer magisk, twrp.img microg/gapps to internal storage
reboot phone into fastboot again
and run fastboot boot TWRP.img again
and from there flash magisk.apk, microg/gapps
install recovery to ramdisk
then install magisk app when you boot
regrding magisk: for me, both times i did this, i had to reboot into recovery after doing all that and reflash Magisk a second time in order for it to fully complete the installation. you may have better luck
I will read your other post when I wake up
hope that does it for you
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Thanks a lot !
Actually, i did install everything already , but i'm confused how i succeeded lol (see here if you have nothing better to do ^^)
I guess the "step" i missed (or messed ) was the
format data and wipe all but last two partitions (dalvik, metadata, data and internal storage)
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idk...
well, i was asking mostly for other users who would like to succeed on the first try (and probably for me next time...)
Thanks a lot !!!
Cheers!