I'm thinking about picking up a Pixel XL soon (currently still using a Nexus 6) and I kind of just assumed that development on the Pixels was moving fine, until I started looking into it tonight, only to find that there is still only RC versions of TWRP that sound super buggy, and Lineage doesn't even have official builds for either device because of some issue with Google Apps and the partition system on the phone.
So, this leads me to a few questions:
1) Is the TWRP RC2 build for the Pixel XL fairly stable, functional and safe to use? I only ever really do the very occasional backup/restore within TWRP and flash stuff, so as long as the basic functionality is working I'd be happy.
2) This whole two partition thing sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me and sounds like a way riskier setup. Is it easier to brick this phone than other phones that use a normal partition layout, and is it possible to recover from something like that fairly easily?
3) For anyone that uses Invisiblek's unofficial Lineage builds, do they work fine? I know it has some crashing issue when trying to record multiple 30 FPS videos in succession, but that doesn't matter to me at all really. Is it possible to simply flash the official Lineage root file on this unofficial build to have the built in root, or would I be required to use SuperSU?
4) I see people talking about vendor images, and something about the phone getting hot or having super high CPU and memory usage until they reflashed this image. What is this about?
Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to answer any of my questions!
So, this leads me to a few questions:
1) Is the TWRP RC2 build for the Pixel XL fairly stable, functional and safe to use? I only ever really do the very occasional backup/restore within TWRP and flash stuff, so as long as the basic functionality is working I'd be happy.
2) This whole two partition thing sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me and sounds like a way riskier setup. Is it easier to brick this phone than other phones that use a normal partition layout, and is it possible to recover from something like that fairly easily?
3) For anyone that uses Invisiblek's unofficial Lineage builds, do they work fine? I know it has some crashing issue when trying to record multiple 30 FPS videos in succession, but that doesn't matter to me at all really. Is it possible to simply flash the official Lineage root file on this unofficial build to have the built in root, or would I be required to use SuperSU?
4) I see people talking about vendor images, and something about the phone getting hot or having super high CPU and memory usage until they reflashed this image. What is this about?
Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to answer any of my questions!
Philadelphia, PA
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