[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Interesting! Have you looked at any of those apps' individual checkboxes to see if they're set to auto-update?

Hi, thanks for your suggestions on the subject.

Update of sorts: I scrolled through all 256 apps (not all of them user apps, and now uninstalled two) and didn't detect any particular pattern to the ones which had the checkbox set and which didn't. I believe among stock (in the firmware) installed apps that they were usually checked but I didn't pay close attention if any of those were not. I believe there were a few that were not.

At least 75% of the apps, but definitely not all - even not all of the user-installed apps, had auto-updates disabled.

As a side note, besides the usual pain of having to check that setting for each individual app, it's especially a pain to try to hit the 3-dot menu button right beside the curved edge of the screen, 250+ times. There was more than one app that it took several trials and errors to click the menu button.

The most recent time I factory reset, I only restored backups through Swift backup for particular apps that don't implement Google's cloud backup for the app data. I didn't restore the actual apps, just the data. Previous to that, I had actually had Google's cloud backup restore everything. I always do and have never had any obvious problems for several years now.

I did disable them the last time that I flashed because I knew I was going to be flashing the updated CleanSlate kernel and I wasn't sure if it was still going to be necessary. At this point, I don't remember if I later flashed verity and verification without disabling them (to enable them).

When the January update arrives, I plan on not disabling verity and verification. I know that the CleanSlate kernel has been updated to not require those being disabled.

I am on raven-sq1d.211205.017-factory-bf3da4b2 - for all U.S. Carriers.

You are the second or third person who has said in this section that the US Carrier image isn't the correct one if using the factory unlocked variant. I'd like to know what the source is of this information, as no one has pointed to an article or official Google source saying one way or the other.

At this point, over two months since my wife and I received our P6Ps, I don't remember the exact firmware that was on it, nor the exact OTA version that was available immediately - either one of the following two:

SD1A.210817.019.B1, Oct 2021, AT&T

or

SD1A.210817.019.C2, Oct 2021, T-Mobile (US), USCC, Google Fi, CA, & TW carriers.

I tend to keep things simple when possible and my interpretation and advice to everyone who has asked what update they should flash is simply, whichever one matches your carrier. After all, they contain radio optimizations geared towards the carrier(s) available in those areas. Certainly, all of the firmware versions work on any bootloader unlocked Pixel, but without evidence to the contrary, I have no reason to think I shouldn't be flashing the one for U.S. Carriers, and the December one that didn't specify a particular place would be for "everywhere else" other than the three others which did specify.

If you can lead me to the solid information that says I shouldn't, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm not trying to be contrary or argumentative - I'm just genuinely curious what the source is for this information. It would have to be a very solid source for me to change my thought on the matter.

I am on the November Play System update, with no update available.

Before I accidentally factory reset my phone three weeks ago, I had gotten the December Play System update. I remember reporting at the time in a thread here which someone made about the Play System update that the phone reported the update to December was ~650 MB, which was tons larger than what most were reporting as ~50 MB or so. As others have speculated, there are probably multiple updates available in the same month sometimes, so perhaps I was on an older October update before that, and most others were already on November - just speculation, though.

I didn't root right away because I was waiting on all the positive reports on success and methods, and then I had to wait for a time I felt comfortable taking the time necessary to set everything up on the freshly factory reset phone. I believe I had unlocked the bootloader immediately, as I knew that would factory reset and would be necessary for rooting, but of course then there was the disabling verity and verification which I didn't know about when I unlocked the bootloader, anyway, so I did that later, and then I had to factory reset yet again.

For the record, I haven't had any other problems, like others have.