| 27 Jan 2025 |
 atemu12 | cyclopentane ⭔: figured out that you can relatively easily skip SPL checks by modifying the OTA zip's META-INF/android/something/metadata* files | 20:48:26 |
| atemu12 | And changing the SPL level | 20:48:34 |
 pentane ⭔ | (META-INF/com/android/metadata and META-INF/com/android/metadata.pb respectively) | 20:49:24 |
| pentane ⭔ | best to use a hex editor on the latter one | 20:49:40 |
| atemu12 | Yeah emacs was complaining about encoding when I did it yesterday but I managed to make it work by selecting raw | 20:50:16 |
| pentane ⭔ | But that shouldn't matter rn since our only supported distribution is LineageOS anyway, and our LineageOS SPL is up to date | 20:51:15 |
 autra | SPL is secondary program loader, right? How do you check the version? | 20:51:54 |
| pentane ⭔ | Security patch level | 20:52:06 |
| atemu12 | It's your current build number | 20:52:08 |
| autra | ah! | 20:52:11 |
| pentane ⭔ | it's a date of the format YYYY-MM-DD | 20:52:22 |
| autra | I was very very off :lauging: | 20:52:22 |
| autra | yes | 20:52:25 |
| pentane ⭔ | If you try to sideload an OTA zip via the recovery which has a lower (i.e. earlier) SPL than your currently installed system, it will refuse to flash the OTA zip | 20:53:08 |
| pentane ⭔ | If that's the case you need to manually edit the SPL in these two files to match the SPL of your currently installed system | 20:53:40 |
| autra | ok got it! | 20:54:03 |
| autra | If I only go forward, the flash is enough right? | 20:54:33 |
| atemu12 | No | 20:54:45 |
| atemu12 | This is about signing keys | 20:54:48 |
| atemu12 | They're encoded in the system app metadata for some reason | 20:55:03 |
| atemu12 | So if you change ROMs, you must change the singing keys | 20:55:20 |
| atemu12 | cyclopentane ⭔ migrated her phone from and to offical LOS keys a few times, so it works fine but you do need to do it beforehand | 20:55:51 |
| atemu12 | https://wiki.lineageos.org/signing_builds#using-a-script | 20:56:23 |
| atemu12 | * cyclopentane ⭔ migrated her phone from and to offical LOS keys a few times, so it works fine but you do need to do it before flashing | 20:56:40 |
| pentane ⭔ | If you want to keep your data, you need to run a key migration script to change the keys on your userdata partition from the LineageOS release keys to the test-keys (the ones Robotnix uses per default), as described here: https://wiki.lineageos.org/signing_builds#test-keys-to-official-or-vice-versa | 20:56:46 |
| pentane ⭔ | You can find the script here: https://github.com/LineageOS/scripts/blob/main/key-migration/migration.sh | 20:57:10 |
| atemu12 | Oops, I had the wrong link | 20:57:10 |
| atemu12 | No wait, I didn't | 20:57:44 |
| atemu12 | ^^' | 20:57:51 |
| pentane ⭔ | It's the same but slightly different anchors | 20:57:55 |
