The last year’s iteration of Redmi Note series, the Redmi Note 8 Pro, sports gaming-centric SoC MediaTek Helio G90T instead of the popular Qualcomm Snapdragon. That does not mean Redmi Note 8 Pro is not developer-friendly. At least, the release of Orangefox TWRP has proved this.
Orangefox is a fork of TWRP, the world’s most famous custom Recovery for many Android phones. being a fork means that the codebase is ported from TWRP.
It has all the base features of TWRP but some advanced features are in place to make the fork even better.
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About Custom Recovery
What is a custom recovery? It is an aftermarket Recovery image used to replace the stock recovery partition.
At early of its inception, ClockWorkMod was the most used one. Unfortunately, the project was discontinued by its developers.
Nowadays, TWRP becomes a standard. It is available for so many Android phones regardless of its series or manufacturers.
An Android Recovery environment offers a smaller system useful to install updates, reinstall the operating system, create backups, and so on. Commonly, the stock recovery has very limited features.
Meanwhile, a custom recover like TWRP offers more features, including the ability to flash third-party binaries and mods.
What is Orangefox TWRP?
OrangeFox Recovery Project, or OFRP in short, is a fork of TWRP and was originally designed for Redmi Note 4X (codename Mido).
Nowadays, the project becomes bigger and now is supporting more devices.
It ships with all key features of official TWRP build. Additionally, there are some twists not available within the official one.
The base of OFRP is always from the latest TWRP versions, depending for which phone series.
Key Features:
- Synced with lastest Teamwin’s changes
- Designed with last Material design 2 guidelines
- Implemented support for Flyme and MIUI OTA
- Included customization
- Inbuilded patches, like Magisk, and password reset patch
- Password protection
- Fully open-source
- Frequently updated
Download OrangeFox TWRP for Redmi Note 8 Pro
The latest version of OFRP already supports Android 10 ROMs as well as MIUI 11 flashing. Complete features of OFRP for Redmi Note 8 Pro are available after this download section.
Orangefox for Android 10:
| Filename | OrangeFox-R11-A10-Stable-begonia.img |
| File size | 65 MB |
| File type | IMG |
| Version | R11 Android 10 |
| Developer | Sahil Sonar |
| Compatibility | Redmi Note 8 Pro (begonia) |
| Download | Direct Link |
Orangefox for Android 9:
| Filename | OrangeFox-R11-A9-Stable-begonia.img |
| File size | 65 MB |
| File type | IMG |
| Version | R11 Android 9 |
| Developer | Sahil Sonar |
| Compatibility | Redmi Note 8 Pro (begonia) |
| Download | Direct Link |
All the files are available from and hosted on our servers as mirror links. Original download link is available here.
Orangefox for Redmi Note 8 Pro Key Features
- AromaFM (File Manager) and Installer
- Supports Treble and non-Treble ROMs
- Increased compatibility with TWRP
- Updated with latest TWRP commits
- Built-in support for installing init.d functionality
- Built-in support for installing Magisk
- White Flashlight
- Password, torch, led
- Support for MIUI and Custom ROMs
- Better language support
- Optimized versions of community scripts
- Fox theme engine:
– choice of theme (black, dark, etc)
– choice of colour scheme
– choice of splash screens - Alternative lockscreen
- And many more.
How to Install OrangeFox Recovery?
Step 1 – Install ADB USB Driver on your computer.
Step 2 – Also, download and extract Android Platform-tools available on the same page as the ADB Driver.
Step 3 – Download Orangefox TWRP from the link above.
Step 4 – Put the Orangefox IMG file in the platform-tools folder.
Step 5 – Type cmd in the address bar then hit Enter on your keyboard. This launches the Command Prompt window right in the location of the platform-tools location.
Step 6 – Now use this command to reboot Redmi Note 8 Pro to Bootloader mode:
adb devices
adb reboot bootloader
Step 7 – Once you see the Mi Bunny Fastboot Logo on screen, type this command to flash OrangeFox TWRP on Redmi Note 8 Pro:
fastboot devices fastboot flash recovery OrangeFox-R11-A10-Stable-begonia.img
Replace OrangeFox-R11-A10-Stable-begonia.img with OrangeFox-R11-A9-Stable-begonia.img if you downloaded that version. You can also replace it with a newer version once available.
Step 8 – Once installed, use the combo keys to boot into recovery mode: Press Power and Volume Up buttons. Release the Power button once you see Redmi logo.
Step 9 – Swipe to confirm modifications. You need to do this once only, during the first boot to Orangefox.
Step 10 – That’s it. You have installed Orangefox on Redmi Note 8 Pro and successfully booted to it.
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What to do next?
If your phone runs official MIUI ROM, setting up Orangefox to fully support MIUI OTA is the first thing you need to do.
How? Follow these steps:
- Download MIUI ROM ZIP file here. Choose the correct build for your phone.
- Reboot your phone to Orangefox recovery.
- Choose Wipe, Format Data, and confirm it.
- Choose Wipe, advanced wipe, wipe System, Dalvik, Cache, and Vendor.
- Connect the phone to computer.
- Copy/transfer the MIUI zip file to your phone.
- Locate the zip file in Orangefox’s AromaFM, tap on it to select it.
- Swipe to flash the zip file. Wait till the process finished.
- Go to Settings, then choose MIUI OTA. Enable the option there.
- Reboot to system.
What next you can do is flashing Magisk root. Download the zip file here and flash it through Orangefox TWRP.
Once flashed, boot into the system. You’ll notice Magisk Manager app displayed. If not, download the APK file and install it manually.
