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I am in the market for a new phone soon. I currently have an OG Google Pixel. I have several needs for any new device. 1. Rooting capability. I still have an old grandfathered Verizon plan where I do not get throttled for any amount of data usage, however hotspot capability is cut unless I...

I would like some pointers on what phones would be best suited for me right now. Here are my needs: 1. My price line varies on if a phone can be bought on a payment plan. If a plan is available, price is not much of an objective. If I have to buy outright, my limit is $500. 2. Root! I used to...

I'm on the hunt for a new device. I currently have an original Google Pixel. I have loved the device but I am having severe battery issues where it dies on me anywhere from 30-55% battery with no warning. My needs are as follows: - I am on Verizon network - I have a grandfathered unlimited data...

I have a Verizon Pixel 128 GB devicr. I am having an issue with the bottom back/home slider bar burning into my screen. I already spoke to Google support about this issue and they are going to issue me a replacement device. I used DePixel to unlock this device long ago. I know I need to wipe the...

Problem is there are few people left who still have a Note 2 with unlocked firmware at this point that it is not worth developing for. Mine is still unlocked but I see others still posting here rocking locked devices. Developers are only going to work on devices where there work can be used and...

It would be awesome but kinda doubtful because with how old this device is, all the devs have moved on to new and better. If it does come to our device, I will load it up immediately. I still use my Note 2 as a secondary device almost every day and would like to continue to play around with new...

Good news on my end. I was just sent the magic text an hour ago that my order is ready and am going to be texted the shipping info when it ships. I am excited to finally get my hands on that phone. I still use my Note 2 as a gaming device and the size of the screen difference is ridiculous...

According to the Verizon preorder post, people have been getting the phones this month shipped with October security update. Tough to say how long this will be the case, but as of this moment 7.1.1 is not being uploaded to these devices. I am hoping my order gets shipped early and I can get one...

I am on a Pixel now and miss the size of my Note 2. Going from a 5.7 inch screen to a 5 inch feels like a downgrade even though the hardware is so much better. I still use my Note 2 on a daily basis for use on apps to use less battery time on my Pixel.

Glad you are finally getting your device. If I had preordered early enough to get the free VR I might not have cancelled my 10/21 order. Right now with the order I placed for the Black Friday price, I am stuck in the no date purgatory. Hopefully orders this late will also ship with 7.1 and then...

Well then I look forward to seeing you on the Pixel forums! I currently have a Verizon Pixel 128gb with the bootloader unlocked and set up to dual boot. I have slot A set to stick with ElementalX kernel to fix SafetyNet and slot B as my rooted slot. A slot is going to stay stock but B will be...

Thank you for the response! We users truly appreciate all the hard work you devs have put into this device through all the years. Time has finally taken a huge hit to this device. The fact it stayed relevant with a vibrant development community for this long shows how well made the Note 2 was...

I use fastboot to change slots. I noticed with the alpha twrp slot changing did not quite function properly. I have not patched in the twrp update as of yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Fantastic news. Well when he is ready to push this rom into testing, definitely put me on the list. I have my phone already set up to dual boot but just need another rom to test in my other slot. Still making sure to leave one slot set up for stock though for Android pay.

Is there still hope of a Nougat build for this device? Even though I upgraded my phone to a Pixel, I still use my Note 2 on a daily basis for light gaming to ease the load on my Pixel and would love to see some Nougat goodness on it. I am currently using your last M build and it was the...

What firmware do you have? If you have anything above MJ9 firmware, the bootloader is permanent locked as an unlock method to firmware above those has never been found. Basically, if it is running anything above Android 4.3, you cannot be rooted. If your friend is still on 4.1 however, I could...

The Note 2 is limited to a 64gb memory card and no higher unfortunately. So unfortunately you are stuck with only using the 64 card.

Do you have a version of this ROM to use on the regular Pixel? I would like to try it out as well if you have a version set up for that device as well.

I still have my order for the Pixel XL 128 black in place. I just checked and the order date is deleted again off from my order. It was scheduled for 1/6/17 as a black Friday order after cancelling my original 10/21 order. I do really like the Pixel I have. Flat out, it is the smoothest device I...

Update: I now have full dual boot on my phone. Once I became familiar with the slot command in fastboot, I see how easy it was to get it working. It is nice having the best of both worlds.

That's kinda what I figured. What I had wanted to do was be able to load up a ROM that passed SafetyNet. I know the kernel does not know about the unlocked bootloader like the new Pixel does, yet even fully unrooting any marshmallow builds failed to pass on my device. I tried everything from...

Thank you very much for the tips. I have the latest adb and fastboot already so I am fine there. It is exactly like you said though on making the flash not affect both slots at once. I had not done a whole lot of research on the new dual slot setup yet and was just fiddling with it to see if I...

They both deserve it for sure at this point. It still makes me wonder why Google decided on having a 32gb and 128. I would actually have considered a 64 in this debacle but 32 is just entirely too small having no expandable storage.

I don't think so. There has been absolutely no word at all from Verizon when they expect these devices to show up. That's why I gave up and got the Pixel 128gb when I could off a Black Friday deal. That way I also assured myself of having an unlocked bootloader. At this point, I am not sure who...

That is awesome and is exactly what I wanted to do. What I had tried doing was my original stock ROM was in slot A and I tried to fastboot another stock image into slot B. It immediately went into a boot loop in slot B. When I tried booting back to slot A, it also went into boot loop. Upon going...

Ouch. That sucks. Fastboot would not even connect to it then huh?

I also want to know about this. I bricked my device also and had to use fastboot to reload a stock image. Thankfully I lost nothing important. I have made sure not to have anything important on my phone until I get it fully set up the way I want it.

Glad you got it figured out. I still had a few lingering issues so I used fastboot and put myself back on stock, put twrp on, and flashed EX kernel. I am not the phone expert per se, but I have been fiddling with them since the OG Droid. The layout of the Pixel takes some getting used to but I...

Sorry I edited my post after you replied. I have worked on computers for years. What I have found is it is easier to start over than it is to fix something that is broken. Unless you have valuable data that could be lost with restoring to stock, I would just start over again and reload stock...

Did you install twrp yet? What I had to do when I soft bricked my device was to flash a new stock image through twrp. You may have to do that. If you do not have twrp, you will probably have to do it through fastboot. I'm sure someone else will be able to chime in on the details on that or they...

Did you flash a kernel? I noticed when I did my phone, I had a small bootloop issue when I did a kernel after SuperSU. Installing the kernel before SuperSU worked just fine however.

Since this is a new setup for Android phones, I am trying to take full advantage of it. I already unlocked the bootloader and installed twrp. I was running under slot a and installed EX kernel and rooted. What I want to ultimately do is have slot A handle anything I want to use root for and slot...

At least that is more reasonable than expecting people who ordered at or before the phone release date to expect to wait until Christmas. Google has really disappointed me with this phone release. If they want to ever be seen as a legitimate phone manufacturer, then they cannot favor their own...

Ahh okay. Maybe what I will try then is to switch slots (I am in slot A right now), flash a stock image on slot B, then just twrp and ElementalX on there. The only reason I don't want to leave root on is my banking app which I use constantly. And without a way to hide root yet, I would prefer to...

Yeah I didn't have any faith at all with the line the reps were feeding me. That's why I went about getting the regular pixel instead just to make sure I got a device. I now have my bootloader unlocked, twrp installed, and running EX kernel. The way I look at it is if the new security update can...

Forgive me if this has been answered already. I am bootloader unlocked, twrp installed, running EX kernel, and running SuperSU. I rooted long enough to make a few system modifications I wanted to do, which worked just fine. Now I wish to remove root to allow SafetyNet to pass. However, using the...

My note 2 was on a VRALJB radio and worked fine using OctOs rom. Hopefully your sim card slot was not damaged somehow. It may be worth a try to reload a fresh rom installation and see how that goes.

I guess it all has to do with who you talk to then. A manager refused to do this for me. I went into a store today and got the Pixel 128gb instead so I have that device now. The rep there though was more helpful than the CS manager I dealt with before. The rep in the store set me up with the...

You may have an easier time trying to get them to change the price before it ships. I could see Verizon saying that once the device ships, their end of the contract is fulfilled thus locking you in for the higher price. You may get a rep who would change the price point after the fact but I see...

The only thing holding me with Verizon is being grandfathered in to the unlimited plan. I average around 30-40 GB per month and I would be paying a lot more a month to keep up with that data usage.

It is only with the Pixel XL 128GB devices. All others have early shipping dates.

They also dropped the price of the Pixel XL 128GB down to 25 a month for the payment plan. However, the shipping dates for that are sometime after the new year.

Frankly I cannot find myself justifying this purchase anymore at this point in time. I just saw the Black Friday deals Verizon has going for the regular Pixel, which will be the equivalent of $15 a month. Even though I prefer the bigger and better screen and battery, I cannot justify paying over...

I read in other threads that the December security update will patch the loophole that allows all the current modifications. The chance is high that any phones being shipped after that update is live will have this update already preloaded, blocking all of the current mods. If this happens...

No problem. I am just trying to let everyone know what I am finding out. The wait itself is okay with me because my Galaxy Note 2 still is working well. My only impatience centers around getting the Pixel before the December security update. I have faith that the awesome devs working on this...

After another chat with a rep, it looks like the December dates look more and more accurate. An interesting note from this Congo is the rep implied that some of the phones they did get were shipped to stores first before fulfilling the orders placed already. Whether that did actually happen or...

This ROM requires the MJ9 firmware I know. I have an unlocked bootloader with VRALJB firmware. My question is can I flash the MJ9 firmware without locking my bootloader and be able to Odin back to VRALJB if I so choose? I want to try out a stock style ROM again but I don't want to change my...

Either way, I am still not a happy camper. I want this phone before the security update patches the bootloader exploit and then left with only the possibility of unlocking it again if it can be cracked open again.

Odd. My order date is 10/21 and when I checked through the Verizon app, it would not let me even load the details of the order but the website loads fine. Pretty fishy.

What was your order date? I just checked mine and it still says processing for 12/26.