Flashing ROMs

Here is a guide to flash ROMs, should work for all of my projects.

INITIAL INSTALLATION:

METHOD 1 - Fastboot flashing

(I recommend this, its very easy once its set-up and should work 100% of the time unlike sideloading)

1. Download ROM zip file
2. Extract payload.bin file from rom zip
3. Download the payload dumper if not already downloaded - https://github.com/vm03/payload_dumper, then extract somewhere
4. Place payload.bin file within the payload dumper extracted directory
5. Open a command prompt and run: python payload_dumper payload.bin in the extracted directory
6. Then, place fastboot file/tools into the output directory
7. Then flash the fastboot img files
8. Download these flashing script helper files or use whatever (check TG group for more info about these) - https://sourceforge.net/projects/azoll-8t-projects/files/Scripts/
9. After flashing, format data if coming from a different ROM. The helper scripts will instruct you to do this
10. Reboot

METHOD 2 - Sideloading

1. Download ROM zip file
2. Use payload dumper method to extract imgs and will use the recovery.img (can use other recoveries if desired initially)
3. Fastboot flash the recovery.img from bootloader
4. Reboot to recovery
5. Format data if coming from different ROM
6. Then sideload the rom zip file
7. Reboot

UPDATING BETWEEN SAME ROM UPDATES:

1. Simply just adb sideload new rom zip in recovery

OR

1. Extract imgs from payload.bin and use fastboot and then run the flash_update script from the script files
2. Reboot