Unofficial builds for Google Pixel devices

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@rik
I’d like to install your unofficial iodéOS on my Google Pixel 9 Pro (caiman). But before I’ll do this I’ve to questions:

  1. Will the original camera app run on your port? The one which is delivered with the original Google Android OS on the Google Pixel 9 Pro?
  2. When the “official” iodéOS is released, will I be able to install it as update/upgrade or will I have to install it completely new and from scratch?
    Regards
    “Klaus”
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No, as I understand it is not available publicly, it is “baked in” to Google’s builds. BUT, you can obtain .apks from GCam Hub, which I don’t fully understand but am testing with myself. It is some sort of mashup of the proprietary Google apks with mods to make it work for non-Pixel devices and / or devices without Google Play Services (like iodé or other microG builds). There is more discussion in this topic.

Since the “build keys” will be different, you won’t be able to update using the “Updater” app. But I would assume a “dirty flash” will work from recovery, meaning you should not need to wipe the device. So all your user data should be fine, installed apps still installed, etc.

Note that after installing the iodé version (when it becomes available), if you would choose to then re-lock your device it would then wipe your userdata (pretty sure about that).

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Hello everyone

I have recently installed iodeOS on a Pixel 4a. In the table it says tested: ‘no’. Is there something which needs to be tested which changes it to ‘yes’? Will that eventually make it switch to supported?

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No. It is marked as not tested because the team who make these unofficial builds (for Pixel and Sony devices) do not have

  1. access to actual devices for testing
  2. time (or motivation) to spend on testing. We do this stuff in our spare time.

The good news is that the code in these builds has been tested

  • by the LineageOS maintainers of the device-specific code
  • by the Iodé developers of the IodéOS code.

So you are unlikely to see any problems which do not occur (and which will nt be fixed eventually) in either the LineageOS, LineageOS for microG, or IodéOS ROMs for these devices.

Unlikely. As far as I know, the Iodé team are not looking to add devices to their list of supported devices. And if they did, they would probably focus in more recent devices rather than the five year old 4a.

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Thank you for your detailed and transparent explanation.