beacon1096 / surface-duo

Convert a Surface Duo AT&T to the global variant.

Convert AT&T Surface Duo into the global variant

Prerequisites

• Your AT&T Surface Duo recovery image.
• A global Surface Duo recovery image (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/android-11-ota-link-zip-file-img-files-unlocked.4393341/).
• Root.
• Unlocked bootloader (including critical).
• USB Debugging turned on.

WARNINGS

While this has been tested on my personal device I cannot confirm that'll it work for yours. sim card support might be broken (though it worked on my Swedish network). I am not responsible for any damage that might occur to your device.. Bank and similar (SafetyNet) apps should still work but might require you to re-lock the bootloader afterwards. Since we'll just be running stock firmware.

Steps

1. Extract payload.bin from the global Surface Duo recovery image.
2. Use payload_dumper from the rooting guide to extract the partition images.
3. Copy all the partition images /sdcard/duo on the target Surface Duo.
4. Copy download globalify.sh and save it as globalify.sh on the root of the target Surface Duo.
5. Open a terminal with adb and run the following
   1. adb shell
   2. su
   3. cd /data/local/tmp
   4. mv /sdcard/globalify.sh ./
   5. chmod +x globalify.sh && ./globalify.sh
6. Exit adb shell and run adb reboot recovery. You might have to press Volume Up + Power to get past the "No Command" screen.
7. Pick the sideload through adb option.
8. adb sideload name_of_duo_global_ota.zip, This might fail at 94-98%; but should still work. If not just boot into recovery and retry from step 6.
9. Reboot.
10. Profit!!!!
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