PixelExperience/Plus Beryllium March Update

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Changelog:

  • Feature Update Highlights:

    • March security patch
    • Implemented new Face Unlock, with support for 3rd apps
    • Added ability to select custom ringtone for 2nd sim card
    • Added support for NTFS/EXFAT on USB Disks and sdcard
    • Improved animations when unlocking
    • Add support for Bluetooth SBC Dual Channel
    • Others improvements

  • Device Specific:

    • Brought back Livedisplay
    • Ported dex2oat threads and cpu-set power hints under various thermal conditions from Pixel 5
    • Tweaked INTERACTION power hints to be more efficient according to freqbench results
    • Added Adaptive Battery power hints from Pixel 3/XL March 2021 feature drop
    • Cleaned up duplicated values and unused entries in init script

  • Etude kernel:

    • Linux 4.9.260
    • merged CAF tag LA.UM.9.3.r1-01000-sdm845.0
    • f2fs: increased min_fsync_blocks to 20
    • enabled BPF JIT
    • binder: avoided printing debug by default
    • kgsl: used lock-less list for page pools
    • sde: avoided dynamically allocating memory for CRTC check
    • sde: skipped heavy autorefresh checks
    • sde: avoided clearing dim layers unnecessarily
    • kgsl: moved fenced write outside spinlock and avoid busy waiting for it to finish
    • kgsl: removed ringbuffer submission profiling code
    • sde: remove VBIF debug code upon commit
    • page_alloc: consider high-atomic reserve in watermark fast
    • wireguard 1.0.20210219
    • used –lto-O3 for LLD
    • limited LLVM IR inlining during LTO to reduce kernel binary size
    • merged module sections with LTO
    • fixed a wrong PM operation in ICNSS
    • DO NOT use a third party kernel without proper support for Pixel thermal hal

NOTE

  • You can dirty flash normal version over previous BETA builds but clean flash is recommended for installing Plus version.
  • Users might face minimal Jitters right after updating, But give it some time, an hour or two and it’ll be totally alright.
  • Do not flash any other kernel on A11. First check if it supports Pixel Thermals.
  • For google Camera, Use any Camera Mod. Parrot043’s and San1ty’s Builds Work good with PocoF1, But Anyone can try any mods. Find the Apks here (https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/).
  • Gapps are included. Vendor and firmware are included.

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