PixelExperience 12.1 / Plus April Update Beryllium

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Changelog:

  • Device Specific:

    • April security patch
    • Fixed charging animation not appearing
    • Fixed unlock sound playing repeatedly
    • Fixed incorrect APN configs for Vodafone NL
    • Updated translations

  • Etude kernel: Op.12 No.3:

    • Linux 4.9.310
    • CodeLinaro tag LA.UM.10.3.r1-01700-sdm845.0
    • adapted qcom’s kgsl perf counter change to non-privileged scratch buffer
    • ported compiler friendly vectorization for XOR from mainline kernel
    • ported arm64-specific crc32_be optimization from mainline kernel
    • ported Arm Optimized Routines for strcmp and strncmp from mainline kernel
    • merged and adapted lots of branch prediction hardening code from android common kernel
    • fixed qcom’s PSCI BP hardening mitigation for kryo2xx/3xx cores after new macro changes and fine-grained capabilities
    • built with the latest LLVM Clang 15.0
    • DO NOT use another kernel. Just don’t.

  • Plus edition has features including but not limited to:

    • Gesture customizations
    • Power and volume button actions
    • Network traffic indicator
    • Statusbar customizations
    • Lockscreen customizations
    • Per-app volume control
    • Brightness related options
    • LiveDisplay

NOTE

  • Force Encryption is Enabled by Default.
  • You can dirty flash from my previous PE 12 / 12.1 builds. You can dirty flash the Plus edition on top of PE 12 / 12.1 regular builds.
  • You cannot upgrade from android 11 directly. Formatting data is required.
  • Clean Flash is MANDATORY if flashing for first time!
  • Any Recovery present will be overridden by PE recovery in order to make OTA updates work as other recoveries currently doesn’t supports Decryption!
  • Encrypted users are RECOMMENDED not to use Custom Recoveries! Or else OTA won’t work and have to update manually through adb sideload or external storage.
  • If you are a decrypted user flash Latest TWRP again and follow the steps to update ROM manually.
  • OTA doesn’t work for Decrypted Users
  • Flash Latest TWRP first before proceeding for installation!

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