yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Gordietm:
OK, it's looks like you've done everything correctly. There's no reason why it shouldn't boot. I'll list the steps how I do it:

Wipe system/cache/data

Flash rom zip

Flash twrp installer

Reboot into recovery

Flash vendor image

Mount vendor

Delete vendor /overlay file

Mount data

Flash gaaps

After deleting vendor /overlay, I also delete data/system /locksetting.db file (solves wrong pin problem)

This is exactly what I do and it boots everytime.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Drussell4801:
I got it. At least it seems to be ok. It booted to home screen. Now installing Magisk.

I had done it like 20 times. The only thing I did differently in your write up that was different from the op write up is the "mount data" before flashing gapps! That must have been the trick.

Thanks very much for your help!

Everything is working!
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jewnersey:
Thanks for the update.

Night light working for anyone else?

Or automatic styling (white to black depending on day Also, when using black theme, the toast text is black and unreadable
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Drussell4801:
Am I missing something or is there no way to hide the battery icon?

I like the battery bar, but I don't want it there with the battery symbol at the same time. Seems redundant
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Does anybody have any issues or even info for that matter with their battery life I can't figure out what's wrong but my phone dies way too quick 6 a.m. 100% charge 32% by 11. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what apps that might be causing it. I have Xposed installed with xprivacyLUA. That's the only Xposed module that I'm using. Any suggestions would be useful thanks
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] liam_davenport:
Xposed destroys battery life don't use it and it'll improve
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andythegreat:
How do you get the stock camera back? any ideas?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Gordietm:
Reflash the rom
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andythegreat:
I did that and no luck
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Well I appreciate it but I tried uninstalling Xposed and I'm still having the battery drain I don't know if I installed the rom incorrectly or what cuz everything works fine except for that fact. My phone is about to die now.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] oman0123:
I'm gonna hop on the blaming the Xposed bandwagon as well. I had it installed for one day and noticed considerably less battery life in Oreo. Did you just uninstall it or did you actually wipe the phone and start fresh without installing Xposed?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andythegreat:
So I am following the steps, every time I flash this rom it will not boot up. Yes I have the OTA rom installed
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Gordietm:
There was someone else a few posts back that had a similar problem that I seemed to help out. Check my post and see if it helps you.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andythegreat:
So I did a clean install, most of my apps are crashing and Chrome doesn't even work. Any ideas how to fix this, I am not doing another clean install

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[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] harihacker:
I updated from an unofficial version without wipe and still didn't have any issues!
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andythegreat:
Is there any solution to stop all my apps from crashing?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dictionary:
Turn the phone off. :p. Honestly don't know, just messing with ya
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] kd0g:
When that happened to me, it was from not disabling substratum overlays before upgrading. I uninstalled and reinstalled the offending apps and it fixed the issue. This time around I disabled all overlays before upgrading and had zero issues.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Drussell4801:
I had to get away from this rom because it doesn't support hd voice, so no data and voice at the same time.

It does support it on the xl build, but not for the 5" pixel
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] coolhandz:
Text-to-speech crashing

The Google Text-to-speech app keeps crashing. It took me a while to get the ROM to work and after installing Gapps I had to manually install the latest Google Play Services APK to get anything to work. Now I've gone ahead and cleared cache, force stopped, removed data, and re-enabled Text-to-speech, but it the app is still crashing. Any ideas? I had Swift Black installed, but I removed it w/ no effect.

EDIT: Went ahead and downloaded a system app deleter (root) and erased as much as I could of it. After deleting it still kept throwing error messages however after I rebooted it, it is working fine. Not sure what went wrong.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] satori83:
So I decided to try this again so I wiped my CR Droid rom i was testing, Fastbooted into twrp and ran through all the install steps and ran into issues. First I think it wasn't switching slots so I plugged into my laptop and did it a completely again, but now when it boots all I get is the "Just a sec..." screen. Ive tried over and over I dont know whats wrong, can anyone give a suggestion?:crying:
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pnjboyzz:
unable to install vendor image

hi guys

nobo here

i am unable to install vendor image. it keep giving me corrupt zip file.

i am doing adb sideload then vendor image.

is there i am doing anything wrong.

thanks
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Soooperstar:
Did you do a restore with TWRP at any point prior to that
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] satori83:
Restore with Twrp "at any point"? Not sure exactly what your saying, I mean, if your referring to after I wiped the CR Droid build then no. I was using Twrp for all the flashes obviously, but at no point did I do a full restore with it. I am up and running RR v6 20180404 currently and I may have a clue what was going on because the OP and corresponding links are a bit mixed up, so I think I may have been flashing old vendor with newer factory and older RR, and diff variations of that mix up lol.

Heres what I think is listed:

Says based on OPM1 April, but OPM2 is April. The download link does go to an OPM2 download though.

I also was using the first RR v6

I used the vendor img to flash from when I first tried the new RR

So basically I downloaded the newer OPM2 factory image but since everything was labeled April including the older vendor I didnt realize I was mixing it all up.

I have the newer RR and factory images, so to update now to the latest what all do I need to flash? Just newer RR? Or do I need to flash new factory and extract the newer vendor to flash as well?

**And separate question if anyone knows, but how come Titanium Backup doesnt include any apk's or apps that didnt come from the Play Store? I just noticed this when changing the roms this time and didnt see an answer on it anywhere...:confused:
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Soooperstar:
Flash new RR with Apr vendor is all you need. I had an issue a couple times with RR loading after a restore and had to do a clean flash to fix it. As for Titanium,everything shows for me
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Drussell4801:
The zip file you have actually has multiple files inside it. One of the files is the actual vendor image (with a .IMG file extension). That's the file you flash with twrp during the install of this Rom. In twrp, go to install, then at the bottom right select install image and select vendor image partition only.

Hope that helps. I just went through this exact thing as a noob last week.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] satori83:
Cool thanks, just a pain since the flash-all scripts never work lol. I did notice now the apps like my Cam NX, etc are showing as backed up they just maybe never made it up to Drive for the reinstall? Ill pay more attention. But now my issue is the force closed apps after dirty flashing. I saw someone else have the same issue and it was recommended to be sure BOTH system and cache are wiped, so I did that but when I booted up again it wasn't just the Gapps force closing right away....so do I have some other issue going on?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Soooperstar:
I've never had success dirty flashing. I've tried everything with no luck along with all the suggestions. I always have to clean flash
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
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Thanks for the suggestion I went ahead and wiped the system completely and started fresh I have the new Elemental kernel and the battery is 100% better. Thanks
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] coolhandz:
One issue I've noticed (probably my error) is that whenever i reboot my phone it boots into twrp. I reboot from there into system must fine. Is this normal?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Soooperstar:
Nope just you [emoji41]
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] coolhandz:
I figured.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] goldsilver13:
I absolutely love this ROM. After several days of setup I have everything just the way I like it, HOWEVER...

there is an annoying audio issue. When I play Grand Summoners I hear a crackling /static/stutter noise only when listening to the BGM music. I mute the BGM, no issue. I dumped the game altogether and downloaded Dragon Ball Legends. Same issue! Only during the BGM music!

I tried different volumes, HiFi wired earbuds, Bluetooth earbud, same issue. This problem doesn't exist when listening to Google play music or podcasts, it does however exist when watching YouTube videos from the Overlays app. The Overlays app has an overlay window browser/YouTube player. Could this problem have something to do with overlays?

I thought it'd be clever to use the elemental x kernel, but still, the problem persists.

I used APK Editor to peek inside the Dragonball Legends Apk, and found its BGM file to be an AWB file type. Does that file type have something to do with it? The background music of the World Conquerer game app plays fine, it's an MP3 file type.

I don't ever remember having this problem using benzo rom or pixel dust (with just the Overlays app)

I really don't want to flash another rom again, for one isolated issue.

Please, if someone could shed some light on this issue or offer a fix, it would make me super happy and totally satisfied with the ROM.

Update: I'm getting static /crackling from embedded YouTube videos now. I think it must be this garbage Google phone. I'll probably flash a different ROM, if that doesn't work it's off to Samsung. I had it with garbage Google phones.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dying4004:
does this rom has AOD?

cheers
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Is there anybody having fast charge issues I remember a couple of updates back all we had to do was reboot the phone and it would show that it's charging rapidly. So I've tried that recently and it does show rapid charging for a few seconds but then goes back to a charging slowly does anybody have any issues like this?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Soooperstar:
I noticed it alternating but I also read somewhere about a charging issue fixed for 8.1 in may security patch
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sslayer22:
I tried to pm you about that custom build but it doesn't look like it's working. I wanna get in on that if you've got the kill app back button to work
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Has anybody upgraded the elemental X kernel through the app? Last time I tried it put my phone into a bootloop. Is there a special way to do it or do you have to reinstall the rom and start fresh?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dragon1313:
So I went to my carrier and bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. I actually do like the Note. Then I flashed my Google Pixel XL with Android P beta and guess what? The audio issues are non existent. This RR Rom will mess with your audio! And as you can see, you will not get support from dev about it. The Galaxy Note will be returned to the store and the Pixel XL will live on with Android P for the time being.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] PFusion:
can someone please explain what flashing gapps is? I understand this is the google apps, but I was reading the instructions on the 1st page of this thread, and one of the steps is flash gapps? What is the purpose? how is it different than installing from Google Play?

Thanks

1. boot into twrp and factory reset and wipe and dalvik/art cache

2. flash rom zip

3. flash twrp zip

4. reboot -> recovery (this will reboot you into the other slot)

5. flash stock vendor img

6. mount -> vendor, then open the file manager and delete the /vendor/overlay folder

7. Flash Gapps

Reboot & enjoy.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dark2099:
Without flashing gapps, you won't have some of the necessary system apps that are preinstalled on stock ROMs, and not available via the play store. That would result in not being able to see on your phone.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stebomurkn420:
You should just keep the note 8 and stop modding/flashing while you are ahead. It is clear that you are very uneducated when it comes to the Android world, you have not once provided a log I'm sure. You are basically the reason devs leave XDA.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Phalanx7621:
This forum wasn't created for perfect people where everyone has a degree in software engineering or a background in programming languages, it was created to share ideas and help each other. He may need to learn some things, we all do. But don't jump all over his **** like you don't fu*k up every single day like the rest of us. And do me a favor and don't respond with some stupid comment that I don't want to read, just take my advice, be kind to people, and help when you can.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Goldsilver13

You messed up somewhere I don't know exactly where but I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with this Rom. The double partition on this phone does give people a hard time. I'm in no way a professional and it gave me a hard time for a little bit but I'm now getting the hang of it and like I said there's nothing wrong with this rom. The ROM is free which means the dev works on it on his spare time, sometimes you get a quick response sometimes it could take days. That's what's good about this forum if anybody else is having the issue they can give out some suggestions. So far you're the only one with this problem that I can see. I know you already went and got your Samsung but give it some time and someone would have come up with a solution I'm sure.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stebomurkn420:
I didn't jump on anyone. He is the one who flamed the dev for not supporting his problems when he hasn't provided any logs. There are rules on XDA. You should read them as well. And I think a week ban is in order for you for cursing. That is childish and unacceptable.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Phalanx7621:
Look, I can see you're upset about this. If you'd like, we can continue this on a PM level. I never enjoy being the cause of snowflakes melting.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] BDogg718:
I have updated OP and OTA with New build. Includes edge gestures, pulse bar animation smoothing and some fixes and updating. This build is updated to May patches so flash vendor.img accordingly(links have been updated in OP and OTA). Thanx for supporting RR! Cheers!
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Wiebenor:
As far as i know audio has always been a problem in custom roms for the original pixel and pixel xl, at least in the beginning of the RR support... nor sure if they were all fixed as of this thread, but that's a major reason why I didn't buy one to mod back then...
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dying4004:
is there any OTA app in this rom?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ofirmz:
Hi., Can someone tell me., How to update the rom at the right way., Cause when i just flash it over the older one my gapps start crashing., Help
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jnewberry1:
Has anyone managed to get the "kill app" action to work on smart bar settings? Thanks.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Old Man Dave:
Hasn't worked on any Oreo rom I've flashed.... And that's pretty much all of them.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] coolhandz:
If I go ahead and (attempt) install the OTA version of the latest update, will I need to reinstall Magisk? Or should I uninstall Magisk along w/ Substratum and installed themes prior to taking the OTA?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] kd0g:
Love the new edge gestures, except long pressing is not opening recents for me. Once that works properly, this will definitely replace pie for me.

Keep up the great work!

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I just reinstall magisk right after gapps on the second recovery boot

BTW, I just disable substratum themes, haven't had to actually uninstall anything, and I've had no issues with apps closing. Easy to just re-enable all my themes after the update.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] coolhandz:
So you have to reinstall Gapps too?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ofirmz:
Ok this is what i did for update the rom.,

Unistall any subsatrum overlays if you have installed

Flash recovery into slot_a and flash the RR update and reflash twrp installer

Then recovery reboot into the slot_b and reflash gapps and magisk if you have it isntalled., Done.

Gapps should be right no crashing at all here., Everyrhing right., ??
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
I just noticed a strange and annoying issue that I've never experienced with any other ROM. When watching YouTube in landscape orientation I am supposed to be able to swipe in from the side to bring up the navbar which will allow me to navigate back. But in this ROM swiping in from the side does nothing. I have to rotate back to portrait to get the navbar. This is only in RR, only in YouTube (so far) and only in landscape.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
I'm not sure what's wrong but I just checked mine and it works. I swipe from the right side which is still the bottom of the phone.

Sent from my Pixel XL
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ayeyah:
Not really a breaking issue, but it looks like ro.build.id and ro.build.display.id were not updated?

marlin:/ $ getprop | grep ro.build
...
[ro.build.date]: [Sun May 20 01:21:54 CEST 2018]
[ro.build.date.utc]: [1526772114]
[ro.build.description]: [marlin-user 8.1.0 OPM4.171019.016.B1 4720843 release-ke
ys]
[ro.build.display.id]: [rr_marlin-userdebug 8.1.0 OPM2.171019.029.B1 5c25905556
test-keys]
[ro.build.fingerprint]: [google/marlin/marlin:8.1.0/OPM4.171019.016.B1/4720843:u
ser/release-keys]
[ro.build.flavor]: [rr_marlin-userdebug]
[ro.build.host]: [kaby]
[ro.build.id]: [OPM2.171019.029.B1]
...
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
So I did some testing with a clean install and found that this only happens after all my apps are installed from the Play store. So it definitely seems like it's one of my apps. The problem is I have over 130 apps. Is there any way I can try to figure out which app is causing the problem without using them one by one?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ofirmz:
Does anyone knows how to make work the cLock weather widget., Just displays the time but not the weather ., I try to install the weather plugins from lineage web but dont work., Please.,
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
How do you perform a factory reset on this device? On any other device you could just wipe the data partition. If I do that with the Pixel XL it won't boot anymore. I guess it has to do with the A/B slots. There must be a way.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pizza_pablo:
I flashed Magisk v16.4 to Slot B, in TWRP, then it keeps booting up in recovery mode, and when Slot A is selected a note at the top of the TWRP screen states there is no os installed.

I read first, but how did I go wrong?

ETA, I restored the Nandroid, I made, prior to the Magisk attempt, to Slot A and the PXL is booting into RR.

ETA2, nope, stuck on the RR bubble splash screen.

WTH? This phone sure perplexes me. I tried three times and failed to root RR Nougat. I thought this version would be easier.

ETA3, I just recalled that I chose to flash the TWRP Installer zip after Magisk. Is that what broke it?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] cerj:
Only flash maigisk after first boot. Pm me if you still need help.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
I just wanted to follow up on this. After a ridiculous amount of reflashing and process of elimination I figured out the cause of the problem. It was an automation app I use called MacroDroid. The crazy thing is it seems whatever change it makes to screw up the navbar in YouTube is irreversible. Before installing the app the navbar works fine in YouTube. After installing it gets screwed up. After uninstalling it stays screwed up. The only way I could come up with to fix it was to do a clean install and make sure that MacroDroid never gets installed.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] teflon252:
anyone having there phone boot and then upon unlocking the screen it says 'android is starting' and stays that way...?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
It's because you have the special fingerprint unlock setting turned on. The one that lets you unlock with your fingerprint immediately after a reboot without entering your PIN or password. It's a buggy feature and it always did that for me after rebooting. It's best to just turn it off and just deal with entering your PIN/password the first time after reboot.
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] loonix:
I agree with [MENTION=5165568]KTac[/MENTION] Happened to me as well because I forgot to turn that off and was not on the latest TWRP which couldn't decrypt in an earlier step. The solution was to start over from factory and follow steps from OP
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pizza_pablo:
I had that issue, except for staying. It would show up every unlock and go away after a few seconds.

Which is the exact setting to stay away from?
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] roman.ramirez.12:
Look under configurations on your fingerprint settings and check fingerprint unlock. Also if you go back to configurations and hit lock screen settings and choose the quick unlock settings it says there if your PIN is longer than 6 digits it can lock you out. Hope this helps

Sent from my Pixel XL
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KTac:
Right here:

[IMG="Configurations / Interface"]https://i.imgur.com/cs0hwpO.png[/IMG] [IMG="Fingerprint settings"]https://i.imgur.com/noxJSs0.png[/IMG]
[Google Pixel XL ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pizza_pablo:
Great! Thanks!

I don't think I saw that one. It must be on by default.

:good: