If I were to flash a custom ROM onto my Google Pixel, can I lock its bootloader?

[whole cove]

Which google pixel if you dont mind me askin

[dense coral]

7a.

[whole cove]

Im pretty sure you can do fastboot flashing lock to look the bootloader

Also let me know how CrDroid runs on your 7a, if it runs well on yours it'll run well on my 7 pro

[dense coral]

There is only like five fastboot commands for the ROM.

[whole cove]

[dense coral]

It's a bit risky. I flashed LineageOS onto my Samsung Tablet. I did quite well in one go for my first attempt but this is a different device. I don't know how to navigate through its bootloader and I could do with some help with that. I have an idea of it.

I miss those emojis. 😆

[whole cove]

I've done tons of shit with this thing's bootloader and flashing images in the... 4 days... ive had it. Im a bit of a tinkerer if i say so myself. So for any question you might have let me know and i'll have a shot at it!

[dense coral]

I have one possibly more that I'd like to ask.

[whole cove]

Shoot at it

[dense coral]

Unlocking the bootloader will void its warranty but I have the warranty through my carrier not from Google. What will happen with this warranty? Will the carrier know whether I do things like unlocking its bootloader?

How do I set up ADB for my Google Pixel?

[whole cove]

Im not sure about the warranty stuff - this is the first phone i've ever had that has warranty and that i have unlocked. Im not sure if the carrier would be able to realise the changes that were made even after a bootloader lock and a fresh ROM flash

[dense coral]

Ok.

[whole cove]

Dont forget to let me know how crdroid is on the 7a!

[dense coral]

I will but I don't have a conscious decision whether I'll do it because I have decision fatigue or whatever you call it. So, I don't really know what I want to do. 😅

[whole cove]

Id suggest you give it a shot as you can always https://flash.android.com

[dense coral]

What if I screw up the process and it becomes bricked, what can I do to recover it?

[whole cove]

Hey perfect timing i just sent the link on how to fix that

[whole cove]

actually used this tool a while back cz i kind of might have kind of bricked the 7 pro

[dense coral]

I was just about to mention that. 😆 What a coincidence.

[whole cove]

but hey! shows that it works.

[dense coral]

Ok but if mine is bricked, can this tool recover it?

[whole cove]

If it can get into fastboot and the CPU and storage aren't fucked in the ass, this can make it work again

[dense coral]

What precautions can I take to make sure that they aren't fucked?

[whole cove]

because this tool just requires:

pixel device, usb cable, computer, internet

[dense coral]

It's a web installer.

Like GrapheneOS. I know.

[whole cove]

yeah, it works suprisingly well tho. Google's upto some shit

[dense coral]

The stock ROM is awfully buggy.

I'm just having a hard time navigating and using the phone with the stock ROM.

[whole cove]

Just follow the instructions step by step - its quite hard to get it to fuck ngl, in my experience of fucking phones up ive only fucked up a j5 2016 by... putting a nail in the storage chip

[dense coral]

CRdroid seems promising but the only concern that I have about it is the stability. It is a fork of LineageOS.

[whole cove]

which broke it, but nonetheless all of my other phones which i've softbricked have been recoverable, this has been my first pixel and so far i can see that google's going out of their way to make sure that this phone is not brickable

[whole cove]

LineageOS is an OG. One of the most stable roms that i've EVER tried, not trying to sound ontop of myself but ive tested quite a few roms

[dense coral]

I'd like to get in touch with someone who has the answer to one of the questions.

[whole cove]

Which questions?

[dense coral]

This one.

[whole cove]

AH

What's your carrier? i can do a bit of googogoogling

[dense coral]

EE.

[whole cove]

EE?

[dense coral]

Yeah.

[dense coral]

EE BT?

https://ee.co.uk/

[whole cove]

Oh

Im not from the UK sorry, im albanian so i didnt know that

[dense coral]

Yeah, I have to leave the bootloader unlocked.

No worries. People had this issue too.

[whole cove]

Did you mean locked? or unlocked

[dense coral]

Unlocked.

But only if the device is running a custom ROM.

[whole cove]

So that means that you can take a shot at it

[dense coral]

I have so many questions about this Android Flash web installer thing.

[dense coral]

Yeah. The phone is unlocked. Not the bootloader, the SIM thing.

[whole cove]

Oh

[whole cove]

Go ahead and ask me then

[dense coral]

What recovery method does it use?

[whole cove]

It just uses fastboot and flashes the stock rom which is downloaded from google themselves

[dense coral]

Actually, that's the only question.

Ok. So, what'll happen with the existing boot loader? Will it get erased?

[whole cove]

The bootloader can't get erases, just the partitions of the device which hold the OS (and some other components such as modem radio etc )are touched

[dense coral]

Ok.

So the recovery isn't affected at all?

[whole cove]

By flashing a custom rom?

[dense coral]

No.

So for example, if I flash LineageOS onto this phone and I flashed it back to stock Android, will the LineageOS Recovery still be on the phone somewhere? Burried under some of the system files and is untouched until I ever want to switch back to LineageOS?

[whole cove]

To my knowledge no. it will revert back to stock android rrecovery

[dense coral]

Ok.

I'm a bit anxious to do this but I want to do it because I'm sick of this ROM.

I'm scared because I honestly don't know whether CRdroid will be great and I don't want to brick the device.

[whole cove]

You can also use the Force Flash all parititons in the flash tool to make Sure

[dense coral]

Make sure what?

[whole cove]

that it all gets removed and gets flashed to stock OS

[dense coral]

Ok.

[whole cove]

id say you give it a shot

@dense coral I can guide you thru it if you want to try

[dense coral]

I'd like that. Thanks.

[whole cove]

Sure, id say you start along by downloading platform-tools.

[dense coral]

Where from?

[whole cove]

What PC are you on?

As in OS

[dense coral]

Windows. I'm an Apple hater and I can't use Linux because it runs poorly with my NVIDIA GPU.

I know. 😆

[whole cove]

Got it, download platform tools here https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools#downloads

[dense coral]

Thanks. I struggled to set this up.

[whole cove]

Tap on here, accept the agreement, download them, extract them in a folder, open that folder, and then here where it says the folder just type in cmd and press enter

Actually would you mind hanging off for a little bit? I need to go to the hospital to get my daily dose of meds. I wont be longer than an hour, what time is it for you right now? @dense coral

[dense coral]

Sure.

16:43

[dense coral]

16:44

[whole cove]

looks like im an hour ahead of you.

Anyway im getting in the car, cya in a little while! (hope the nurses dont take long today)

[dense coral]

God darn it, why do I have to be the slow coach?

Bye.

[whole cove]

im so sorry but theres nothing i can do

you can give it a shot by yourself tho

[solar delta]

If you do brick it's easy to go back because Google has a no bullshit approch to flashing stock rom; you go to their Pixel Flash website and flash from there

[whole cove]

yeah thats what I'm saying google makes it hard to brick your devices

[dense coral]

How is this possible?

[solar delta]

https://developers.google.com/android/images
First check what version you are running Android.
Second find that version in YOUR device section and click Flash.
Third follow all instructions

[dense coral]

Android 14.

I'm just going to use the Android Flash Tool. Do I need to follow those instructions?

[whole cove]

for stock rom or custom

for custom just use fastbooy

and it's not a big deal if you brick it it's quite easy to fix

[dense coral]

I have a bit of confusion.

[whole cove]

express

[dense coral]

???

[whole cove]

whats your confusion about? express it

[dense coral]

What does express mean?

[whole cove]

basically say jt

[dense coral]

WHAT THE HECK IS FASTBOOY???

[whole cove]

FASTBOOT

[dense coral]

My brain legitimately hurts.

Ok.

[whole cove]

it's hard spelling while one of your arms is hooked upto a serum

[dense coral]

🤢

Use speech to text.

[whole cove]

yeah in the middle of a crowded hospital room lol

[dense coral]

I keep forgetting that hospitals are like that. Lol.

[solar delta]

I don't think the people around you IN A HOSPITAL want to hear helping a discord user about Fastbooy

[dense coral]

Lol.

[whole cove]

i can tell that your brain hurts

[dense coral]

Anyways, are these instructions actually necessary? Can I just use the Android Flash to go back to Stock Android and can I use fastboot to boot the phone into another ROM.

[whole cove]

[dense coral]

I know. It's in my name. 😅

NOT MY ACTUAL NAME!!!

[whole cove]

you cant dualrom

[dense coral]

I know.

I think that you misunderstood this.

[whole cove]

fastboot for custom roms
flash tool (which is just glorified fastboot) for stock

[dense coral]

Glorified? In what way? Thanks. I got the answer my brain wanted. 😵‍💫

[whole cove]

flash tool is just fastboot with a gui

[dense coral]

So, it's basically all of those instructions in a graphical user interface?

[whole cove]

yeah but its much more complicated, but the base is fastboot

[dense coral]

Complicated? How?

[whole cove]

flash tool has a base with fastbooy but it has much more like picking of the device the roms downloading etc etc etc etc

[dense coral]

You can message later if you want...

[whole cove]

it's fine lol

[dense coral]

For some reason, my brain isn't understanding anything. Sorry.

[whole cove]

flash tool for stock
fastboot for custom rom

[dense coral]

Yeah.

I suppose that I'm ready to flash CRdroid but I don't know if it's reliable. I could start with something simple like LineageOS or GrapheneOS but no. I want customisability and CRdroid is basically the king of all ROMs because it has all of them.

[solar delta]

Root

[dense coral]

No.

[solar delta]

Why

[dense coral]

I don't know.

[solar delta]

💀

[dense coral]

💀

[solar delta]

☠️

[whole cove]

crdroid is super stable ive had it before

[whole cove]

root on pixelui is a headache

[dense coral]

I could use Iconify but you can do things on CRdroid such as, getting the Android 11 QS, changing the look of the navigation buttons, changing the font, the icons, the volume panel, notifications, vibration patterns and even SpOoF. Unlimited Google Drive storage.

[dense coral]

Yeah.

PixelUI sucks.

I've had a terrible experience with my Pixel. It's buggy AF.

[solar delta]

It's fine for me??

[dense coral]

Your Pixel might have favourites.

What can I back my data to and how can I bring them back onto my Pixel?

I can back them onto my PC for starters.

[dense coral]

I believe you.

My laptop is so warm that it worserned global warming.

[solar delta]

I don't know if this is sarcasm or the truth

[dense coral]

Same here.

It's truthful.

It's a fact. IT'S A FACT!!!

My hospital is legitimately haunted. 💀

I can tell you both the entire story.

[solar delta]

💀

Facts????

[dense coral]

An old lady has been reported walking past the restaurant going into a private corridor. When staff have gone after her she has disappeared.

[solar delta]

Kirb_huh

[solar delta]

SMG4Mindblown

[dense coral]

I've gotten off-topic.

[solar delta]

Where are you gettings these pics?

Engrish is hard

[dense coral]

Facebook. 💀💀💀

[dense coral]

Noen ganger kan jeg ikke forstå.

[solar delta]

Who uses fase book 💀

[dense coral]

I did that on purpose.

Engelsk er vanskelig.

So what now???

[dense coral]

No comment.

0.9%
Product of **********

So, what now? I'm ready to switch. Literally.

Guide me, someone or god shall make it rain cheese.

[solar delta]

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-nintendoswitch-gif-6040673227133958734

[dense coral]

That's right.

So...

[whole cove]

let me finish my serum grrrr

[dense coral]

Gulp. 💀 I don't know how anything works anymore.

I'll have to disappear for the day around 19:00. For you, it'll be around 20:00.

Are you ok with this?

[solar delta]

i here

[dense coral]

Sweeeeet.

Cool. Nice. Awesome.

[solar delta]

FeelsClapMan

[whole cove]

sure

cmon stupid serum

[dense coral]

Can we aim at completing this in 15 minutes?

[whole cove]

i think

[solar delta]

It should

[dense coral]

30 at maximum.

@solar delta No offence. I would like this other person to help me out and I may leave you out but I may require additional assistance from you during the process. Sorry.

Sorry. 😔

[solar delta]

Ok I understand

[dense coral]

Ok.

[solar delta]

ablobwave

[dense coral]

I wish that those blob emojis stuck around a bit longer. They make up a lot of my nostalgia.

Most of my nostalgia is about Jellybean. I absolutely love it.

[dense coral]

I have a slight suspicion that I will have some of the issues that I'm currently having on this phone with its stock firmware on CRdroid. What made you switch from it? What do you hate about it?

[whole cove]

almost done

[dense coral]

I strongly feel, I want to say know, as if we had the exact same discussion before and at the end of it, I got CRdroid on my phone but I stayed up all night setting it up properly.

[whole cove]

with the serum

[dense coral]

Cool.

You are definitely a gangster.

If you were using Ubuntu, well erhm...

[whole cove]

oh i use all of them

macos windows linux android and ios

[dense coral]

Ok.

[dense coral]

I used them all too besides Mac.

@whole cove Sorry, can you help me today, still?

I don't mind waiting for a couple of days.

[whole cove]

IM HEEEEEEEREEEE

IM DONEEEE LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD @dense coral

[dense coral]

Ok. Lol.

[whole cove]

okay lets get a terminal with platform tools, and download crdroid

[dense coral]

I forgot to download the tools.

I have the CRdroid files.

[whole cove]

download them and open it in a folder and open a cmd in there

[dense coral]

Ok.

Done.

My heart is racing. 💀

[whole cove]

send me a screenshot of where you are at rn

[dense coral]

I got the CRdroid files in a folder and I just downloaded the platform tools.

[whole cove]

open the platform tools folder and send a screenshot of it

[dense coral]

Ok.

What's next?

[whole cove]

tap here and type in cmd and press enter

[dense coral]

Done.

[whole cove]

type in adb in that terminal window and send a screenshot

adb then press enter ofc

[dense coral]

Goodbye Einstein.

Ok.

The terminal says that ADB is an invalid command.

[whole cove]

hm

[dense coral]

It ain't working...

[whole cove]

try doing as folows

[dense coral]

I forgot to enable Developer options.

[whole cove]

ah PS, do ./adb then

[dense coral]

Done,

I'M EMBARRASED THAT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT FEATURE EXISTED.

[whole cove]

did this stuff pop up

[dense coral]

Yes.

Thank you.

[whole cove]

okay now go to device settings, about this phone, build number 7 times, go back, system, developer options, OEM unlocking, enable it, give the phone a ltitle while and get back to me

and your data is goign to get reset btw

[dense coral]

Before that, where should I put the data of the phone?

[whole cove]

do you need the data on this phone?

[dense coral]

No but I want to.

[whole cove]

what data?

[dense coral]

EVERYTHING.

Mainly contacts and images.

[whole cove]

well there must be some that youd need more than others

[dense coral]

Nevermind. Scratch the contacts. They'll be saved to my Google account.

[whole cove]

just move the images to the pc via MTP

[dense coral]

MTP?

[whole cove]

media transfer protocol

you connect the device with a usb cable and press the notification where it says "Charging this device via USB" and in that menu click File transfer / android auto

[dense coral]

I know that.

I just didn't recognise the term.

Hey bro?

[whole cove]

Sorry

[whole cove]

Yeah whats wrong

[dense coral]

Nothing. I just want to tell you that I'm a month away from 13. Lol.

[whole cove]

im a couple months away from 15

[dense coral]

Cool.

I have two-ish weeks from being 13.

[whole cove]

Are you transferring the data?

[dense coral]

So, what now? Will CRdroid come with GApps?

[whole cove]

Im pretty sure

[dense coral]

It shows that GApps is in-built.

[whole cove]

Well there's your answer then

[dense coral]

I'm not too sure with the meaning of the word. My vocabulary is lacking a bit.

It's taking a while.

I have 1287 images.

[whole cove]

i have about 20k

[dense coral]

And almost 500 places saved on Maps.

What stuff have you been saving? 💀

Don't tell me. This is a joke.

Have you used Fedora?

[whole cove]

Yup

[whole cove]

A lot of shit idk i have about 8tb of space so

[dense coral]

I'll be back.

[whole cove]

Sure!

[dense coral]

Anyways, how was your experience with CRdroid?

[dense coral]

Big brain.

Truri i madh.

@whole cove Hey.

How was your experience with CRdroid?

What did you hate about it?

What issues did you have with it?

[whole cove]

Quite quite quite nice

I loved almopst everything about it , the one thing that i didnt like was the included wallpaper but that was in an old version and im sure that it has changed

except from that everything was flawless in my opinion

[dense coral]

What bugs did you have?

Cool.

[whole cove]

Uhhh

[dense coral]

I have high hopes for this ROM. I can't wait to use it.

[whole cove]

From what i can remember nothing

you have many many more roms to experiment with too

[dense coral]

I can all of them. Most of them**

[whole cove]

EvolutionX alltho devcelopment died with the 7 series so i wont reccomend it

project elixir is super nice too

[dense coral]

Yeah. A lot of people didn't like it.

I don't have anything that supports Elixir but I would love to try it.

[whole cove]

Me personally i loved EvoX

[whole cove]

Your 7a does.

[dense coral]

Does it?

[whole cove]

https://projectelixiros.com/device/lynx

[dense coral]

...

I need a brain.

How is Elixir?

[whole cove]

Havent tried it

I have tried crdroid tho, super customization!

[dense coral]

Ok.

I'd like customizable things.

My brain is broken.

[whole cove]

lol

[dense coral]

💀💀💀

I have a phone that is filled with shitposts.

Poor Einstein.

[whole cove]

well ye ah i can tell

[dense coral]

Einstein is the name of my phone.

[whole cove]

Mine's

What is mine? I dont know.

[dense coral]

How do you not know the name of your own phone?

[whole cove]

Well, Mac's pixel 7 pro

[dense coral]

So, CRdroid.

[whole cove]

Are your photos done?

[dense coral]

Yeah.

I'm a bit nervous to do this.

[whole cove]

Okay then, open up developer settings and enable OEM Unlocking

[dense coral]

I'm nervous, dude.

[whole cove]

It's fine ill guide you thru it

[dense coral]

I've been considering this for months but I haven't been able to gain the courage to do this and I have some sort of decision making fatigue and stuff like this are really really difficult for me to do. I honestly don't know if I can do this.

I've been distribution hopping for a long time during the previous year. It gave me a headache but it was a habit that I couldn't simply stop.

[whole cove]

Hey, itll be fine, if anything its reversible. Google made is specifically hard for you to brick their phones. I even tried to brick it but i managed to fix it. Im sure that it'll be fine here too

If i could do it and im on the same series of phone im sure its fine with yourrs too

[dense coral]

Ok.

I might need more time to think about it but a part of my brain thinks that this is the right time to do it.

I told my parents that I have to stay up or else this phone is fucked. Which, I'm allowed to but I don't know if I'm ready to flash it and say goodbye to the data.

[whole cove]

Trust your brain. let me give you some reassurance, google's made it hard to brick their phonmes. you can lock the bootloader again, you can flash stock os VERY easily. Google's made it much easier than other vendors such as samsung with their odin and stuff and with some samsung phones OEM unlocking is just locked and you cant do it, google's one of the few companies which allows you to do this and make it simple

[whole cove]

You can always get the data back, and plus you backed up your photos locally

[whole cove]

Lets do this?

[dense coral]

Remember this. REMEMBER THIS.

[whole cove]

Huh?

[dense coral]

I don't know. Sorry for being difficult.

I'm trying to cooperate but a part of my brain is failing to do that even though the other half of my brain is wanting to cooperate.

[whole cove]

Hey im sure its fine. plus for any concers you have here we are, you can flash stock OS , you can lock bootloader anytime you want to, id say give it a shot, it was worth it in my opinion when i installed crDroid

[dense coral]

What ROM are you using right now?

[whole cove]

PixelUI as im just trying to get used to it, but ill 100% switch to it, and on my last phone i was using an unofficial version of crdroid which was VERY goopd, imagine official crdroid

[dense coral]

Is it buggy?

[whole cove]

Not at all

[dense coral]

WHY IS IT BUGGY TO ME?

[whole cove]

Oh i thought you meant CrDroid

PixelUI has been a bit of a headache yes couldnt work with my card and all of that stuff and couldnt get it to root and it was all that

[dense coral]

Here are the issues that I have:

• Status icons sometimes don't show

• The Task manager is quite buggy apps sometimes overlay everything and won't go away without restarting the device

• The clock in the QS panel sometimes doesn't show

• The navigation bar doesn't work on custom launchers

• I hate using the gesture bar

• System UI sometimes crash

[whole cove]

Yeah all of this also happens to me

But the task manager hasnt happened to mine, id say give CrDroid a shot, or dont. Im not here to make decisions for you

[dense coral]

I know.

[solar delta]

When you mean card do you mean Google Pay?

[whole cove]

Card i mean as in SIM

[solar delta]

Ah

[dense coral]

My brain can't cooperate.

[whole cove]

Id say fuck it, but you do you. Ping me when you make a decision

[dense coral]

Fuck what?

[whole cove]

Id say fuck it, as in fuck it lets install crdroid

[dense coral]

Yeah?

[whole cove]

But let me know when you make a decision and ill be here to guide you thru it.

[dense coral]

I'm telling you, I'm gonna regret doing it half way through.

[whole cove]

And if that happens just revert to stock, i told you, you have options

[dense coral]

I do have a lot of apps installed.

[whole cove]

Those are linked to your google account IIRC

[dense coral]

I have 66.

Mainly video editing and social media. NO TIKTOK.

[whole cove]

Okay just install it on crdroid then if you want

[solar delta]

TIKTOK BAD!!!!!

[dense coral]

YES.

I SPENT UNDER A MINUTE ON IT BEFORE I WANTED TO REMOVE IT FROM MY BRAIN.

[whole cove]

So make a decision and get back to me. But if i was in your place id say do it

[dense coral]

@solar delta What would you say?

Why am I watching iJustine?

[solar delta]

If you have a lot of Banking apps and apks then I would suggest staying to stock. If you don't care about that then Crdroid

[whole cove]

I mean im a user of MANY androids and many roms and if you want my opinion id say go for it. i have experience.

[dense coral]

I don't do any banking.

[whole cove]

Banking apps worked on Crdoird for me idk

[dense coral]

Yeah.

[solar delta]

Banking apps worked for me as well (I'm rooted)

[dense coral]

Hallelujah.

[whole cove]

So what will it be?

[dense coral]

🤷

[solar delta]

I find it funny that my Banking apps worked when Google Pay didn't. (I fixed it later)

[whole cove]

Ping me once you are ready.

[dense coral]

Ok.

@solar delta What do you think I should do?

I hate making decisions.

[solar delta]

If you're ok with your data potentially being exposed (rare but possible) and fine with your phone being (potentially) stolen with no way to track it then I would flash crDroid

[dense coral]

I need positive information.

[whole cove]

Wym no way to track it? And what does your data being exposed do anything?

I tracked my A50 on Crdroid, and my data didnt get leaked on an unofficial build

[dense coral]

Same here but it wasn't with CRdroid.

[whole cove]

So whats it gonna be?

[dense coral]

Cheeseburger?

I don't know. I'm not joking when I say that I have decision fatigue.

I'll give you answer tomorrow.

Or later tonight.

[whole cove]

Okay

[solar delta]

Because anyone can reset it and you won't be able to track using Find My Device

[dense coral]

Wrong.

[solar delta]

No FRP

[dense coral]

I tracked my Galaxy Note 10 that ran Lineage with that app.

[solar delta]

If it does get stolen they can reset it and you wouldn't know as there is no FRP

[dense coral]

NVIDIA "GeForce GTX 2070" engineering sample spotted with 2176 cores https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-gtx-2070-engineering-sample-spotted-with-2176-cores

[dense coral]

I was just gonna ping you.

[whole cove]

Im here!

[dense coral]

Yeah. First of all, I haven't made my decision but what would you recommend between Elixir, Lineage, CRdroid and the stock ROM? I know that you haven't used Elixir but it looks pretty clean.

What do you think is the best for customisation?

I'd say Elixir.

But I'm not sure what to flash. It's either Elixir or CRdroid.

@whole cove If you have nothing to do, can you flash Elixir and let me know your experience on it?

Scroll all the way to the bottom until you see some images.

https://projectelixiros.com/home

[odd nebula]

i haven't used the other ones but i can verify to you that Lineage is good

[dense coral]

Elixir looks very promising.

[whole cove]

I know about elixir, also sorry i was eatin some food. Id say try it, if you dont like it. Go to Crdroid

[dense coral]

I know. I have Lineage on my tablet and on my old phone but it feels too plain.

Will I not damage the device by flashing it too many times?

[odd nebula]

keyword: old!

[whole cove]

I dont see why

[odd nebula]

lineageOS has significantly improved over the years

i will say battery life and optimisation is almost as good as iOS

[dense coral]

Well, data will be written and removed constantly from the system on a chip storage thing.

[odd nebula]

i ran a battery test between my pixel 7a on stock and my galaxy a21s on lineage

[whole cove]

Yeah exactly, but thats what you do every day too so

[dense coral]

Ethan, Lineage is great but it feels a bit too plain.

[odd nebula]

over 7 days:
7a : dead
a21s : 51%

[dense coral]

You do make a point.

[odd nebula]

ok

ig it IS cyanogen so you could just theme it

[dense coral]

Ok. I know how great LineageOS is. I know that you are trying to help but I'm not wanting to use LineageOS on my Pixel. I am looking at trying something new.

[odd nebula]

alright sorry

[dense coral]

What? LineageOS is Cyanogen?

[odd nebula]

im pretty sure i heard that somewhere

yup

[dense coral]

You are wrong. I understand where you got that information but it's not exactly true.

[whole cove]

Huh?

[odd nebula]

i thinkidk

[whole cove]

Huh, never knew that, Lineage has been nice for me

Anyway whats it gonna be

[dense coral]

Elrir

[whole cove]

Elrir okay lets do this

[dense coral]

I can't be bothered to spell its name.

I'm not wanting to do it now.

[whole cove]

Oh okay

[dense coral]

Give me at least a day to do more research on the ROM. I don't know much about it either.

[solar delta]

You can use PixelFlasher

[whole cove]

Its just the same thing, i prefer doing it myself

[dense coral]

It's basically the same steps as installing LineageOS.

I struggled to get those steps around my head.

A meme is motivating me.

GApps are included with Exlrir

[dense coral]

I couldn't get that to work properly.

Bruh.

'You are now a PRO user'.

@whole cove It seems like there is something that I'll need to pay to gain extra functionality of Project Elixir.

I have chosen Elxirj.

[solar delta]

Did you use this? https://github.com/badabing2005/PixelFlasher

[dense coral]

Yeah.

AH SBITFJEIWK. I DID AN OSOSOSOEI.

[solar delta]

Have you done these?

[dense coral]

I did but I couldn't get it to detect the phone.

I had USB debugging enabled but I had the boot loader disabled.

[solar delta]

Click refresh

[dense coral]

I don't have it.

[whole cove]

yeha sure

[dense coral]

Can you please do some quick research to fact check this?

Is this what it is for? It must be.

[solar delta]

Is that project exlir?

[dense coral]

It's their website.

We are talking about it. Just putting it into consideration.

[solar delta]

I wouldn't pay

Imagine paying for a OS

[dense coral]

Paying for what though? I can't find anything that you can pay for besides access to the early builds.

[solar delta]

Early build

[dense coral]

Yeah.

@whole cove

I'm gonna fuck this stock ROM but I don't know whether there is an actual stable release for this phone of this ROM.

I'm ready to do it but I'm going to sleep in roughly half an hour. So.. how about tomorrow? Darn it. I don't think that I can but by tomorrow, all of my courage will be gone and I'll need to have this exact and difficult conversation from the beginning. That's how my brain works. It gets annoying.

Thank you everyone for the help.

@whole cove I made a decision.

I'm choosing Project Elxirjrjr

[whole cove]

Hello im mac, are we gonna do this now or tomororw? Nice that you chose elixir

[dense coral]

I don't know if I'll have time today.

[whole cove]

Whenever you want

[dense coral]

Is tomorrow ok?

3PM BST?

[whole cove]

BST, how much is that in GMT+2

[dense coral]

I don't know.

I'll ping you tomorrow if I remember about this which I doubt.

Can I send you a DM?

[whole cove]

sure

[dense coral]

Thanks.

@solar delta @whole cove I haven't had such a stable and smooth sailing conversation with people on Discord like this in almost a year. I truly appreciate it. Thank you both for the help. We need more people like you two on the internet.

[whole cove]

huh

[whole cove]

i try to be as nice as possible, no worries

[dense coral]

If I go on servers like the official LineageOS Discord server, I'm just welcomed by a literal pack of wolves. It's the worst Discord server that I've been in. Literally.

[whole cove]

eh depends on who you meet

[solar delta]

ablobnwn

Thanks.

[dense coral]

Literally everyone on that server is rude. Whenever I ask for help, people who work in that community respond like this 'No, I don't care.'

[dense coral]

No problem.

[solar delta]

(The text says device)

[dense coral]

I'm stupid. Lolololol

My brain sometimes doesn't want to work.

[solar delta]

Once connected should look like this:

[dense coral]

Ok.

That hurts.

I got to go, stay safe dude. Enjoy the rest of your day.

[solar delta]

ablobwave

[dense coral]

JACKPOT!

[solar delta]

You can combine the ✨ emoji with any other emoji for a blob emoji.

[dense coral]

I know.

[dense coral]

@solar delta Have you used Elixir?

[dense coral]

Bob + Turtle

[solar delta]

No, but I have used something similar (PixelPlusUI)

[dense coral]

What is it?

https://ppui.site/home#google_vignette

[dense coral]

What does this ROM feature?

A revamped Pixel experience and what else?

[solar delta]

I wouldn't use it

It's badly designed and less customizable than older versions

[dense coral]

I can tell by the quality of the website. Typos everywhere.

A lot of typos, no trust.

[dense coral]

What do you use? What ROM do you recommend?

[solar delta]

Right now I use a Pixel 7 with root but if I were to custom rom I would recommend crDroid

[dense coral]

How about Elixir? Why haven't you tried it yet?

[solar delta]

I don't like the look it it AT ALL

Looks like someone took AOSP and made it look like MIUI

[dense coral]

I don't understand where you got MIUI from it.

[solar delta]

Also doesn't line up with Material Design guidelines

[dense coral]

In what way?

[dense coral]

Why?

[solar delta]

MD3 madness

[dense coral]

???

[dense coral]

How is that madness?

[solar delta]

Wait

[dense coral]

HOW???

[solar delta]

Let me find an actual MD3 thing

[dense coral]

Ok.

[dense coral]

That looks a bit outdated.

[solar delta]

It isn't

Almost all apps follow these guidelines

[dense coral]

This looks better according to my eyes.

[dense coral]

So?

I love neomorphism.

And skeuromorphism.

Or whatever it is called. I'm not a big fan of MD.

I don't mind using it but some of its design elements take an unnecessary amount of space of the screen. They are unnecessarily big.

[solar delta]

I don't care what design it is, it just has to be consistent. And Elixir does not follows most of these guidelines

[dense coral]

OCD?

[solar delta]

There's like 40+ shapes in one menu and after you go into a submenu they're gone

[dense coral]

I prefer this design.

It looks more trendy and a tad bit modern.

[solar delta]

Why does it not properly line up 360 degrees???? Even Microsoft does it better

[dense coral]

What?

I have confusion.

[dense coral]

Black egg.

[solar delta]

Trendy where???? No app uses this design and if they are, they don't use obsessive shapes

[dense coral]

I prefer it.

I prefer individuality.

[dense coral]

WTF

GOOGLE!?!??!?!?

I'm suing them.

[solar delta]

Same with this menu. Those switches are a very massive accessiblity problem and they also are plain confusing.

[dense coral]

I understand that.

I'm not bothered. I very very very rarely go into that menu. Why should I?

[solar delta]

Those switches are applied everywhere in System UI

I wouldn't trust any project with Comic Sans in their landing page

[dense coral]

I don't mind Comic Sans but I wouldn't use it.

It's probably a brand thing.

[solar delta]

It is your choice with what ROM you choose

[dense coral]

I'm choosing Elxirrir. What ROM should I use if I get fed up with this one?

[dense coral]

@solar delta https://nusantararom.org/

[solar delta]

I would go for this one

[dense coral]

it doesn't support GOogle pixels.

[solar delta]

Ah

[dense coral]

@solar delta I have CRdroid.

All thanks to that other person.

I love it.