EDIT: Well, I released Purist ROM for iBasso DX200 with Oreo update now. 🙂

 

Hi, everyone. Oreo beta ROM came out yesterday for iBasso DX200 and I spent all day and night testing and checking things out. So far sound quality seems to be promising though I’ll miss Purist ROM optimizations until preparations are ready for Oreo ROM.

Current Oreo ROM can support LDAC through developer options and force bluetooth detection option which is good. UI is more responsive in launcher but Mango is about the same. MangoOS seems to be better though. However, file access to storage is slower than 2.10.215 ROM.

I think I’ll port new files to 2.10.215 ROM to use for time being until they improve file access performance in next version. If you don’t change micro SD card and re-scan frequently, you may try using Oreo ROM for a while with bluetooth headphones.

As for ROM modding potentials, it doesn’t look good. I can repack and flash update.img safely but repacking system.img and vendor.img will freeze at logo screen. I tried many ROM cooking tools and bought few more that supports Oreo ROM but no luck yet.

Well, this isn’t the first time we have obstable as I reached out to iBasso and they released Factory image and flashing tool for me to build the world’s first DX200 custom ROM with Play Store and some optimizations to improve device performance so they may lower restrictions after it goes public.

For worst case scenario, I can still modify the ROM to some extent but it’ll have limitations with current situation. I’ll continue my research for Oreo ROM modification. I already informed iBasso about the situation and hope to hear back from them soon.