Note

• This is an unofficial alpha build, and things are subject to change:
  • Unofficial because official release has not started
  • ALPHA because the source is still work in progress
• Formatting data with PE recovery is REQUIRED for clean flash
  • DO NOT use any other recovery
  • The firmware is included with a different keymaster.img from perseus. DO NOT flash your own firmware.
  • Keymaster is bumped to 4.0 for encryption, and cust partition is mounted as /metadata. You WILL NOT be able to use TWRP/OrangeFox on PE12.
• You can dirty flash from my previous PE 12 ALPHA builds.

PE recovery flash guide

• Download PE recovery provided below
• Boot your phone into fastboot mode. You can either
  • hold power + volume down button
  • or adb reboot bootloader
  • 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 12 ALPHA flash guide

• Boot into PE recovery
• Select Factory reset" --> "Format data/factory reset. You phone should say that /data, /cache, and /metadata have been formatted.
• 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

Device Specific Changes:

• Etude kernel:
  • Linux 4.9.289

Feature Update Highlights:

• Fixed power button double tap to launch camera gesture
• Fixed the missing charging indication when using fast charging
• Reverted combined WiFi/cellular icon

Known Issues

• Rounded corner is broken. It does not seem to be an issue on the device side, as debug info reports correct values

Gapps are included.

SHA256: adca54537d9db62140152753f5105c50dea03dc6cb4ec12f47ebc7637b5534df

PE recovery: Gdrive | 189 Cloud

PE ROM: Gdrive | 189 Cloud

Please report issues to jjpprrrr.