PixelExperience 11.0 20201129-1522 Official Polaris Beta Build

PE recovery flash guide[Required]:

• Download PE recovery from the the polaris device page of official PE website
• Boot your phone into fastboot mode. You can either
  • Hold power + volume down button
  • or use the Reboot to bootloader option in TWRP/OrangeFox
• Connect your phone to a computer
• Run fastboot flash recovery pe_recovery_file_name.img in your cmd/powershell/terminal
• Hold power + volume up to boot into recovery

PE 11 ROM flash guide[Required]:

• Boot into PE recovery
• Select Factory reset" --> "Format data/factory reset
• Go back to main menu and select “Apply update” –> “Apply from ADB”
• Connect your phone to a computer
• Run adb sideload pe_rom_file_name.zip in your cmd/powershell/terminal and wait until it finishes
• Reboot to system
• Note: Formatting and flashing with PE recovery is required for encryption to function properly. Once the phone is encrypted this way, TWRP/OrangeFox will not be able to decrypt with passcode. If you insist on using TWRP/OrangeFox, you can remove the lockscreen password later and boot into TWRP/OrangeFox.

Device Specific Changes:

• Etude kernel:
  • DO NOT use a third party kernel without proper support for Pixel thermal hal
  • Linux 4.9.246
  • merged CAF R tag LA.UM.9.8.r1-03000-SDM710.0
  • modified DT bindings for Pixel thermal hal
  • enabled zram writeback
  • fixed zram idle and writeback string compare
  • added a killable freezer to kill frozen tasks similar to cgroups v2
  • increased top-app boost
• Switched to Pixel thermal 2.0
  • also updated thermal engine from Pixel 3 XL android 11 build
• Updated HDR, SDM, Adreno, Vulkan, Snapdragon CVE, WFD vendor, media, configstore, dpm vendor, DRM, msm_irqbalance, peripheral manager, power-off alarm, time service, TEE, TUI, ESE power manager, CNE, IMS, QMI, and RIL from LA.UM.9.8.r1-02700-SDM710.0
• Updated WFD system, dpm system, and Widevine blobs from OnePlus8Pro android 11 image
• Updated the following hal versions
  • Secure Element –> 1.2
  • wfdhdcp –> 1.3
  • health –> 2.1
  • ESE power manager –> 1.1
  • QTI Health implementation –> 2.1
  • IRadio –> 1.5
  • uceservice –> 2.2
  • ims factory –> 1.0
  • qti radio –> 2.4
  • ims rtp service –> 3.0
  • removed qdutils_disp
  • added IVr
• Switched to CAF R display and media hal
  • screen brightness is now controlled by hwc instead of light HAL, which offers a smooth and accurate brightness adjustment without weird hacks I did on android 10
  • display config 2.0
  • set higher priority to c2 than OMX
  • removed deprecated divx/xvid software codecs
  • cleaned up and merged redundant media codec configs
• Switched to stable aidl Pixel power hal
  • removed UfsHibern8Enable and clkgate_enable hints in launch and interaction because it may freak out ufshc
• Switched to AOSP NFC 1.2
• Switched to AOSP BT stack for now
• Enabled IORap
  • IORap is a new feature in android 11 that greatly improves app startup time by predicting and prefetching potentially blocking I/O
• Enabled zram writeback in fstab and job scheduler
• Added AOSP RCS packages and removed deprecated RCS
• Bumped audio hal to 6.0
• Enabled the option to turn on blur in developer settings (defaults to disabled)
  • Note: blur is very expensive on rendering and may incur jank frames
• Added WifiOverlay
• Added TetheringOverlay
• Enabled dex2oat64
• SELinux enforcing and SafetyNet passes out of the box
  • if you use Magisk, you may need to turn on MagiskHide

Feature Update Highlights:

• Initial android 11 release with many Pixel features from Pixel 5.

Known Issues:

• “OK Google” hot word does not work yet

Gapps are included. Vendor and firmware are included. Clean flash following the steps is required.

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Please report issues to jjpprrrr.