Note

• 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 boot TWRP/OrangeFox on PE12.
• You can dirty flash from my previous PE 12 ALPHA builds.

PE recovery flash guide

• Download PE recovery from the official PE website
• 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 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 4.9.290 and CAF tag LA.UM.9.8.r1-04200-SDM710.0
  • brought back RT group sched
  • DO NOT use another kernel. Just don’t.
• Fixed audio playback on some external USB audio adapters with DACs
• Excluded CarrierConfig from RRO overlay to avoid stripping xml attributes
• Dropped qcom wifi display blobs for now because we are using AOSP wfd
• Brought back tether offload config interface
• All changes from previous ALPHA builds

ROM side updates:

• Initial PE 12 BETA release based on android 12 November security patch
• Goodies from Pixel 6
• Many clean ups from ALPHA builds
• Increased the supported wfd resolution and framerate to 1080p@60fps

Known Issues

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

Download | XDA thread

Please report issues to jjpprrrr.