OnePlus 3T is the company’s rockstar from the year 2016. The OnePlus 3T came running on Android Marshmallow out of the box. Back then, there was nothing called “Project Treble”. Later in 2017, Google announced the Project Treble with the Android Oreo. Google made it mandatory for all the Android device launching on Android Oreo to support the Project Treble.
Since the OnePlus 3T was not an Android Oreo powered phone out of the box, the only way it could get the Treble Support was through a software update by OnePlus. Unfortunately, OnePlus did not add Treble Support to the OnePlus 3T even with the Oreo update. The only way to get Project Treble on OnePlus 3T was through a custom method. So now, we have a custom method that can enable Project Treble on OnePlus 3T. Before getting the Treble on OnePlus 3T, let’s learn each and everything about Project Treble and how it can improve a phone.
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Project Treble is Google’s effort to make Android updates faster. Before Project Treble, it used to take a lot of time for the Android manufacturers to roll out the updates for their phones. Most of the phones left out of the support for the newer version of Android. Only 1% of Android devices support the Android Nougat. On the other hand, Apple tries its best to update its years’ old phones to the latest version of Android. This is the major downside of the Android OS as compared to the iOS. Google wanted to tackle this issue and introduced Project Treble to do so.
Project Treble separates the Android Framework from the Hardware Abstraction Layers. This makes an Android device independent of vendor updates. For example, if OnePlus wants to update the phone to a newer version of Android, it can simply update the phone without waiting for the software tweak from vendor i.e. Qualcomm for the Snapdragon SoC. Previously, a software update had to undergo modification from the vendor, carriers and other parties involved in certifications for a particular phone. You can read all about the Project Treble here.
The Project Treble on the OnePlus 3T can be enabled through a build of LineageOS. This method will not enable the Treble officially on the phone. The Project Treble we are about to enable will only make your phone ready to flash any AOSP Android GSI build. For example, there is a new Android Pie GSI available that can be flashed on all the Treble supported phones. Furthermore, there is LineageOS and Resurrection Remix build that can be installed on all the Project Treble supported phones. This firmware comes in only one file that can be flashed in a variety of smartphones. All of that is possible because the Android OS works separately from the HALs now.
Since the HALs are moved to their own partition now which is called the vendor partition, the idea of installing Treble on OnePlus 3T is to add this vendor partition. By default, there is no vendor partition on the OnePlus 3T. Flashing the custom LineageOS given here will add that partition to the phone.
To install any such firmware on the OnePlus 3T, you can Treblize it. Follow the steps given here to enable Treble on your phone right now.
While there are many advantages of flashing this custom OS for Treble, there are some downsides as well. For example, the camera doesn’t work on the GSIs. That is because OnePlus hasn’t rolled out the update for Camera HALs for the OnePlus 3T. The Android Pie GSI also has the Camera and VoLTE broken on the OnePlus 3T. If these two are something that you can bear, you may flash the GSI, otherwise, stick to the ROM that we are about to install.
The OnePlus 3T is an old device. There is a potential chance that something will go wrong during the process. It can take several attempts to make this process successful. If, at some point, anything goes wrong with the phone, follow this guide to unbrick OnePlus 3T. If you have any queries, feel free to reach out to me through the comments section below.
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