Lost trying to get ROM info.... - Moto G Power Questions & Answers

This post isn't about a specific ROM, but rather a plea for info on where to find them and details about them.
I realize that since these forums were "upgraded" a lot of developers have left. The only place I'm aware of to find info in the telgram channel "Moto G Family Updates". Is there anywhere else? Maybe I'm just getting old (I am), but that group is a huge cluster**** - just a lot of individual discussions and " teasers" on ROM releases or updates. I see posts about quite a few ROMs, but other than very basic info & download links there's no other information.
For some of us these things aren't really intuitive. For example I know I am not alone in being uncertain about using TWRP. I've seen a post suggesting it works fine, but everytime I've used it on US ret version the touchscreen is fouled up, requiring a mouse to do anything.
I feel like I'm in the dark, thinking there HAS to be some place that can shed light.

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It's not your imagination. I'm 67 and software has really gone downhill in the past ten years. Quality doesn't exist anymore.
For example, since 1997 I've run a home cluster of 6-11 virtual machines and recently I've been trying to upgrade from CentOS 7.6 to Fed 34 on all of them -- I have spent many complete weekends trying to upgrade my VMs one-by-one and am not even halfway to done, owing to infuriating bugs in packages these days. I have to watch TV on a 13" laptop rather than on my 14 foot home theater screen.
My background is 24 years in enterprise infosec, and general quality sux to the point that I am wondering if I should rethink my whole modus operendi for whatever time I have left.
This isn't even considering the terrible mechanized shrieking corporatized 'music' they put up with these days compared with our revolutionizing music of the '60's.

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The only place I'm aware of to find info in the telgram channel "Moto G Family Updates"
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Do you mean this one? https://t.me/MotoG8Official
I don't see a "G Family" channel, but that's the G8 channel which is for this model (even though there's no 8, it's still the same family). I don't know of any other, at least not yet.
Maybe I'm just getting old (I am), but that group is a huge cluster****
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Yeah I don't mind getting all of this from telegram channels, I just wish those devs would actually moderate them. I'm sick of going to an official channel and having to read through so much random conversation, memeing, and images that have nothing to do with anything. Keep the channel professional, I don't need to read through a bunch of edgy kids that think its 4chan (and all the baggage that comes with that).

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kelue said:
Do you mean this one? https://t.me/MotoG8Official
I don't see a "G Family" channel, but that's the G8 channel which is for this model (even though there's no 8, it's still the same family). I don't know of any other, at least not yet.
Yeah I don't mind getting all of this from telegram channels, I just wish those devs would actually moderate them. I'm sick of going to an official channel and having to read through so much random conversation, memeing, and images that have nothing to do with anything. Keep the channel professional, I don't need to read through a bunch of edgy kids that think its 4chan (and all the baggage that comes with that).
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Yes the "Moto G8 Family | Official" group (that's how it displays in the Telegram app).
Admittedly I don't understand hoe telegram works, but in that group when yoe see a post from a developer, like announcing an update to a ROM, if you click on "family updates" it show a page listing all the ROMs such as this:
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Leroy_Sparks said:
Yes the "Moto G8 Family | Official" group (that's how it displays in the Telegram app).
Admittedly I don't understand hoe telegram works, but in that group when yoe see a post from a developer, like announcing an update to a ROM, if you click on "family updates" it show a page listing all the ROMs such as this:
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I know, I was just making sure you were looking at the right telegram channel because you said "G Family" and not "G*8* Family".
But yes, as far as I know, that's the place. You'll need to use the search function. Wish there was something more than that.

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kelue said:
I know, I was just making sure you were looking at the right telegram channel because you said "G Family" and not "G*8* Family".
But yes, as far as I know, that's the place. You'll need to use the search function. Wish there was something more than that.
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The channel on telegram you guys are after is 'moto g8 cloud', that is more or less the repository for roms for these group of devices.

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Leroy_Sparks said:
This post isn't about a specific ROM, but rather a plea for info on where to find them and details about them. ... - just a lot of individual discussions and " teasers" on ROM releases or updates. I see posts about quite a few ROMs, but other than very basic info & download links there's no other information.
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It can be hard to find information about the standard phone sometime. I mean these are all basically experimental and bound to be buggy unless it's a flagship ROM for a currently still flagship phone. You just gotta flash one after another and try them, that's been my experience with the custom ROM community. However, to be fair, information seems more sparse now than when I first got into it, perhaps because it's telegram heavy and because all social media and tech main stream has become trash. I used to use reddit a lot but this phone doesn't seem to even have it's own sub. (maybe there is a subcommunity for the specific ROM you can find which is active)
Leroy_Sparks said:
For example I know I am not alone in being uncertain about using TWRP. I've seen a post suggesting it works fine, but everytime I've used it on US ret version the touchscreen is fouled up, requiring a mouse to do anything.
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This sounds like a different question entirely, perhaps frustration? But asking how to flash usually requires in depth knowledge from a dev of some sort in my experience. There is usually some hidden compatibility that has do with version or ROM or something that I wouldn't be able to figure out why if you gave me a year.
https://twrp.me/about/ Check it out they are just 4 dudes making a custom recovery console/thing/FW/SW probably hard to have a big customer service portal.

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Leroy_Sparks said:
Yes the "Moto G8 Family | Official" group (that's how it displays in the Telegram app).
Admittedly I don't understand hoe telegram works, but in that group when yoe see a post from a developer, like announcing an update to a ROM, if you click on "family updates" it show a page listing all the ROMs such as this:
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How is that CrDroid ROM? is that for the Moto G Power that you're using?

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Leroy_Sparks said:
For example I know I am not alone in being uncertain about using TWRP.
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http://sov_27 on Reddit
So firstly join Moto G8 Family Updates, you'll find so many more ROMs there
If you are coming from stock Android 11, this is important. No ROM is currently able to be flashed from 11 because TWRP decryption is broken across the Moto G8 family in that version. To circumvent this, download the Moto Flash Tool, find a matching Android 10 firmware for your variant of Moto G Power, and extract the contents into a subfolder located in the Moto Flash Tool's firmware folder. After that, reboot into bootloader, start the tool .exe, and start flashing. Do not disconnect until the flashing process is finished, and format data when they ask you if you want to.
From there, pick your ROM and download it to your PC. Do not attempt to flash a ROM marked as fastbootd in TWRP. It will NOT WORK! Download and flash the TWRP 3.5 image. Boot into TWRP, initiate an adb sideload from Advanced, and open a terminal (adb sideload path/to/your-rom-of-choice.zip in the terminal window) Once done, format data and reboot into the slot the ROM was flashed to.
If you have an SD card you can skip most of paragraph 3 by downloading the ROM to that card before doing any formatting. None of this formatting wipes the SD card so it is safe to leave it in, but I'd take it out just in case. Now once all the rolling back is done, boot into TWRP, go to Install, select your SD card, and select the ROM zip. Once the flashing is done, format and reboot into inactive slot
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...You can't flash straight from stock 11 to a custom ROM because of /vendor issues. You'd need to do the steps that I listed on that list to first downgrade to Android 10. Do not flash TWRP until the downgrade is finished and you've formatted your data
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perhaps this thread has more detailed TRWP information that would be of use to you.