[UNOFFICIAL BUILD] BQ Aquaris X5 (paella)

/e/OS Devices UnOfficial Builds
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Device info https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/paella
Rom https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=299505

Please Note: This is an Untested build. Please try at your own risk.

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I made an update for this device, enjoy :slight_smile: :

e-0.9-n-20200628-UNOFFICIAL-paella.zip
TWRP : https://twrp.me/bq/bqaquarisx5.html

Don’t forget to backup and share your experience, thanks :wink:

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Hello Anonyme,
tried out e-0.9-n-20200628-UNOFFICIAL-paella.zip on my Aquaris X5.
Was not so easy to get it going, coming from LineageOS 7.1.2.
Machine is Debian Buster modified Kanotix from here:
http://kanotix.com/, with ADB & Fastboot installed. First step flash twrp-3.4.0-0-piccolometal.img (as su: adb reboot bootloader/ fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.4.0-0-piccolometal.img/ fastboot reboot).
After restart, press on/off button, restart, recovery (this assumes you have enabled developer options & expanded restart menu).
Copy e-0.9-n-20200628-UNOFFICIAL-paella.zip to a micro SD card & put it in the phone.
In TWRP, I had to do a full wipe, so go to extended wipe menu, clear cache, data, system, internal memory, then format data. THIS DELETED EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE.
Then, and this is the step I missed first, go to TWRP start menu, say restart recovery, and now you can flash the paella.zip from above. It is not enough to use the back button to go to the TWRP start page; your install will fail with “error 7”. You have to use the restart menu option.
User “manjar” in the German forum helped me with this
(BQ Aquaris X5 (paella)), so a big “Thank You!” to him.
My 4 years old Aquaris X-5 has won a new lease of life now, with security updates from June 2020. I’ll report any issues, battery life, etc. Seems to work fine, so many thanks to the developers!
One wish: I would love to have more control over which apps to install & which to delete & not just disable them. Is this possible?
PS: User manjar has also made a new build based on Oreo; I’ll try that next.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

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Thank you very much! I’ve just installed it (after installing TWRP Recovery) and it works very well! Now I have a very good spare phone if my main smartphone has problems.

It also seems pretty fast. Thanks a lot. This is the only BQ X5 ROM I could find which is still available!

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Moin Jupp68.
Auch ich besitze noch ein BQ Aquaris X5. Ich bin durch Zufall hier gelandet und habe just die von Dir erwähnte Unofficial Build “e-0.9-n-20200628-UNOFFICIAL-paella.zip” erfolgreich installiert. Soweit so gut. Weiter unten habe ich mitgelesen, dass der User manjar eine auf Android 8 basierende Build erstellt hat. Hat er sie dir zur Verfügung gestellt und läuft die Build rund? Wenn dem so ist, hätte ich auch Interesse daran.

VG
kowalskie

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Salut,

ich habe das X5 zwar noch, da ist aber inzwischen PostmarketOS drauf,
also ein echtes Linux. Ist was zum Experimentieren, funktioniert ganz
ok, aber natĂźrlich ganz was anderes als Android. Kamera funktioniert
Ăźberhaupt nicht, deep sleep auch nicht. DafĂźr recht aktuell.

Ich habe das rom auf einer backup Platte gefunden, wenn du mir sagst, wo
ich das hochladen kann, mach ich es. Soweit ich mich erinnern kann, lief
das ganz gut. Habe auch noch ein lineage,
lineage-14.1-20170413-nightly-paella-signed.zip, von 2017. Das /e/OS ist
von 2020.
Viel Erfolg,

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Moin Jupp.

Ich habe mit PostmarketOS die gleichen Erfahrungen gemacht. Schade, das die Kamera nicht funktioniert. Dein ROM kannst du mir per Email an nordkreisler@web.de schicken.

VG
Kowalskie