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 on PE 12.1. OrangeFox R11.1_1 or newer can boot but is not capable of decrypting the data partition.
  • To switch to other ROMs, format data in PE recovery first, and then install another recovery. You may need to re-flash the required firmware, if the ROM you are going to flash does not include one.
• 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.

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 12.1 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: Op.12 No.4
  • Linux 4.9.322
  • massive backport of the kernel random number generator stack from upstream common kernel
  • fixed several conflicts caused by the random stack backport
  • disabled qcom’s early random initializer because it is no longer needed
  • use ascii-armor canary to prevent buffer overflow from overwriting canary in fork
  • Wireguard 1.0.20220627 to go with the new random stack
  • fixed several section mismatches in qcom’s regulator drivers
  • fixed an incorrect asoc bound check that potentially causes echo in speaker-mode phone calls
  • DO NOT use another kernel. Just don’t.
• Moved the fingerprint HAL process out of system-background task group for cpuset
  • this should significantly reduce the fingerprint unlock latency in some cases
• Corrected the audio HAL service name in power HAL’s restart script

ROM Side Changes

• July security patch
• The system updater app will free up its storage after OTA
• Fixed the issue of Google’s SystemUpdate constantly retrying in the background, draining battery and building heat.
• Updated lots of APNs

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Please report issues to jjpprrrr.