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PIXEL 7A

  • Building And Flashing AOSP for Pixel 7A (Lynx)

Preparing The Environment

  • We need to keep our packages up to date to avoid errors due to older ones.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Installing Necessary Tools

  • To build and flash our device we need some tools to convert source code into binary file for that we need to execute the below command.
sudo apt install openssh-server screen python git openjdk-8-jdk android-tools-adb bc bison build-essential \
curl flex g++-multilib gcc-multilib gnupg gperf imagemagick lib32ncurses-dev lib32readline-dev lib32z1-dev \
liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libssl-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop pngcrush rsync schedtool \
squashfs-tools xsltproc yasm zip zlib1g-dev libtinfo5 libncurses5

Downloading and setting the Repo Tool

  • When we download Android source code from google, it has hundreds of git repositories. We need to handle those files for that we need a tool called repo tool, to download and set the path execute the following code.
sudo wget 'https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo' -P /usr/local/sbin/

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/sbin/repo
  • We can test the repo tool by typing repo . If we get the following, it should work.

error: repo is not installed. Use "repo init" to install it here.

Configure the git tools

  • Now we need to Configure the git tools by executing following commands
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Downloading the AOSP source code.

  • Create a folder in our system and download the aosp source code in it.
  • Make a note of the branch and build the id of the device which we want to build and flash.
  • Build Information for Pixel 7A (Lynx)
  • Branch : TQ3A.230805.001

  • Build TAG: android-13.0.0_r67

    For Code Names and branches see here CodeNames.

    For device specific vendor binaries see here DriverBinaries.

  • To create folder enter the following commands in terminal

mkdir ~/AOSP_Root
  • To change the directory from current directory
cd ~/AOSP_Root
  • This command will initialize the sources that are required for the branch mentioned after the b tag.
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-13.0.0_r67
  • If you are concern about space then use the following command with additional parameter "--depth=1"
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-13.0.0_r67 --depth=1
  • By executing the following command you can download the source code
repo sync -j30

NOTE

The above command will take significant time depends upon the Internet speed and system configuration.

  • After the above command executed successfully following message will appear on the console.

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Repo Sync done

  • After downloading the source code you need to download the Device specific vendor binaries From here DriverBinaries and download the correct binary file using build id and branch.

  • After downloading Binaries Place them in the AOSP_Root/ directory and extract the tar zip file using the following command.

tar -xzf google_devices-lynx-tq3a.230805.001-ce153214.tgz
  • After extracting the above file you will get on shell script file named extract-google_devices-lynx.sh. execute the script file using following command.
./extract-google_devices-lynx.sh
  • While executing these file, you need to type I ACCEPT when prompted in order to execute these successfully.

Now successfully downloaded the full source code now we need to Build the source code.

Building the AOSP Source Code

NOTE

Before executing below commands make sure you are in AOSP_Root/ Directory.

  • By executing following command all essential definitions provided by envsetup.sh are loaded into the current shell.
source build/envsetup.sh
  • Now you need to execute the following command to select the device specific build target.
lunch
  • The above command will show the list of avialable devices build targets you need to select your device specific target by typing corresponding number or name of the target ( in my case it is aosp_lynx-userdebug )
aosp_lynx-userdebug

NOTE

do the below changes Specific to my branch and device

  • After the identifying the line add the below lines above highlighted text in the screenshot as shown in below screen shot.
ifdef BUILDING_VENDOR_KERNEL_BOOT_IMAGE
  $(BUILT_TARGET_FILES_PACKAGE): $(INSTALLED_FILES_FILE_VENDOR_KERNEL_RAMDISK)
endif

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After adding vendor_kernel_boot.img
  • Now goto the Root directory by typing the following command.
croot
  • Now execute the following command to build the source code.
make updatepackage -j20

NOTE

The above command will take significant time depends upon the Internet speed and system configuration.

  • After successfull completion of building source code you will get flashable zip file in the following path out/target/product/lynx/ file named aosp_lynx-img-eng.cdac.zip.

  • The above file you can flash on to the device using adb and fastboot tools.

Flashing The AOSP source code

  • To flash you need to Unlock the bootloader of the device

Flashing the Image file

  • To Flash image file executing the below commands in AOSP_Root/ directory.
adb reboot bootloader

fastboot -w update out/target/product/lynx/aosp_lynx-img-eng.cdac.zip

NOTE

Don't Remove your device until the above command executed sucessfully.

  • After successfull completion of above command you will redirect to Homepage of your device of custom ROM.