Motorola Moto G7 Play (XT1952) (channel)

The Motorola Moto G7 Play uses the A/B system image type and requires arm32-binder64 images if based on stock firmware.

Steps to install 32 Bit

Installation is as easy as it can get:

• Ensure no custom roms are installed
• Ensure your bootloader is unlocked. If not, head over to Motorola's website to get it unlocked.
• Get the GSI you want to flash (which could be any A/B arm32-binder64 GSI): https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases
• Put the phone into fastboot mode (switch it off, then press and hold "power" + "volume down" until you're in recovery mode)
• Perform a factory reset:

  $ fastboot -w
  

• Flash the GSI image with the fastboot utility:

  $ fastboot flash system system-quack-arm32_binder64-ab-vanilla.img
  

• After flashing during every boot before showing the "Android" boot logo the string "bad key" is shown on the screen. That's expected and a result of the system image not signed by Motorola's keys.

Hardware support (Android 10 GSI)

Component	coming from stock Android 9	coming from stock Android 10
Camera	Works	Works
Speaker / Mic	Works	Works
Bluetooth	Works	Works
A2DP	Works	Not working, see #1404
WiFi	Works	Works
SIM / Mobile Data / Voice	Works, but microphone in calls requires certain audio settings, see #1138	Works
VoLTE	Unknown, disabled in stock ROM	Unknown, disabled in stock ROM
Fingerprint	Not working, see #1072	Not working, see #1072
Offline Charging	Works	Works
GNSS	Works	Works
Display	Works	Works
Automatic screen brightness	Not Working	Works

Hardware support (Android 11 GSI)

Component	coming from stock Android 10
Camera	Works
Speaker / Mic	Works
Bluetooth	Works
A2DP	Not working, see #1404
WiFi	Works
SIM / Mobile Data / Voice	Works
VoLTE	Unknown, disabled in stock ROM
Fingerprint	Works
Offline Charging	Works
GNSS	Works
Display	Works
Automatic screen brightness	Works

Hardware support (Android 12 GSI)

• use at least version v412 to get everything working as shown below

Component	coming from stock Android 10
Camera	Works
Speaker / Mic	Works
Bluetooth	Works
A2DP	Works
WiFi	Works
SIM / Mobile Data / Voice	Works
VoLTE	Unknown, disabled in stock ROM
Fingerprint	Works
Offline Charging	Works
GNSS	Works
Display	Works
Automatic screen brightness	Works

• If you encounter an annoyingly long swipe distance until the keypad is shown on the lock screen, you can change the maximum distance for the falsing manager with the following command (defaults to 0.8):

adb shell cmd device_config put systemui brightline_falsing_distance_screen_fraction_max_distance 0.1

Stock ROMs

Motorola stock ROMs are available here for the Motorola Moto G7 Play (channel) in case you want to go back to stock ROM. Make sure you use the correct ROM for your model, otherwise you may run into weird issues.

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Tested By: @Dunedan - XT1952-1 (Europe), AOSP 10 vanilla v212 and newer versions

64 Bit

Steps to install 64 Bit

Installation is slightly more difficult:

• Ensure a custom rom is installed (LineageOS recommended)
• Ensure your bootloader is unlocked. If not, head over to Motorola's website to get it unlocked.
• Get the GSI you want to flash (which could be any A/B arm64 GSI): https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases
• Put the phone into fastboot mode (switch it off, then press and hold "power" + "volume down" until you're in recovery mode)
• Perform a factory reset:

  $ fastboot -w
  

• Flash the GSI image with the fastboot utility:

  $ fastboot flash system system-quack-arm364-ab-vanilla.img
  

• After flashing during every boot before showing the "Android" boot logo the string "bad key" is shown on the screen. That's expected and a result of the system image not signed by Motorola's keys.