[INACTIVE THREAD] Dirty Unicorns 14

[amandeepparmar]

Hello all,

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT, DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION THREAD FOR OFFICIAL DIRTY UNICORNS 14.x BUILDS FOR PIXEL 2 XL (taimen).

Special thanks to all who were and are involved in the development and also to the maintenance of this ROM.

Flashing instructions:
Go to TWRP
Factory reset
Flash ROM and TWRP zip
Reboot and enjoy!!

If on a previous DU build:
Go to TWRP
Flash ROM and TWRP zip
Reboot and enjoy!!

Note:
If you're going to flash magisk make sure you flash it after you've booted the OS once.

Reminder
Weeklies and official builds are signed with private keys. This means that if you’re on the first official build or last week’s weekly, you can dirty flash this official build. If you’re on anything other than that and want to use this build you MUST perform a full wipe in recovery. If you decide to disregard this and flash this build or a weekly on top of anything, you will not be able to boot. Have fun looking at a black screen

ANY BUGS MAY BE DISCUSSED HERE OR WITH THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM ON THEIR TELEGRAM CHANNELONLY IF YOU HAVE CLEAN FLASHED

 

[amandeepparmar]

Reserved

 

[elliwigy]

its an excellent rom! i helped test here n there n can confirm its almost completely bug free

 

[Prattham]

its an excellent rom! i helped test here n there n can confirm its almost completely bug free

Can you tell how is the camera quality on that?
And they have listed audi during video is janky is that for stock camera or for apps like whatsapp and snapchat too?

Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs

 

[Reuben_skelz92]

Been waiting very impatiently for this lol

 

[amandeepparmar]

Can you tell how is the camera quality on that?
And they have listed audi during video is janky is that for stock camera or for apps like whatsapp and snapchat too?

Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs

Just might be seldom janky...not all the time...I've tested stock DU cam, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.... all working fine on all 3 different occasions:good:

Cam quality is as good as stock

No hangups...lags...or other issues

I will be using it as my daily driver

 

[Prattham]

Just might be seldom janky...not all the time...I've tested stock DU cam, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.... all working fine on all 3 different occasions:good:

Cam quality is as good as stock

No hangups...lags...or other issues

I will be using it as my daily driver

Can you post screenshot of the du tweaks that are currently in the rom?

Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs

 

[amandeepparmar]

Can you post screenshot of the du tweaks that are currently in the rom?

Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs

DU Tweaks...check screenshots attached

 

[Prattham]

DU Tweaks...check screenshots attached

Good
What steps did you followed to install?
Cheers ?

Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs

 

[pa.pn2]

DU Tweaks...check screenshots attached

Factory reset in twrp. flash rom and twrp. Setup phone and flash afterwards kernel and magisk if needed

 

[JagXK8]

Anyone know if it has support for esim on Fi?

 

[MacTheRipperr]

Flashing this will remove TWRP and Magisk. Just wanted to throw that out there.

 

[jr313]

Flashing this will remove TWRP and Magisk. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Yes it will according to what I've been reading. I just got my pixel and have been trying to catch up with all the new a and b slots and how recovery is now baked into the boot.img, so from what I understand is that if you flash anything new such as rom or kernel a flash of both twrp and your choice of root is needed also or you will have stock recovery. So much different from my Nexus 6P. Lol. I have a lot to learn that's for sure

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[Reuben_skelz92]

This rom is awesome !! DU always bring the goods

 

[bajasur]

I've been running since yesterday. Spaceman killed it! Amazing work, where can we donate?

 

[tmoore3496]

Flashing this will remove TWRP and Magisk. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Yes but you can reflash twrp and magisk with absolutely no errors ,also twrp has no touch issues with the kernal that's already baked in rom!!!! It's a great rom!

 

[ohlin5]

Anyone else having trouble getting this to boot?

I've followed the instructions exactly. Reboot to TWRP (3.2.1-0), factory reset via the wipe menu, install the ROM .zip followed by the TWRP installer zip.

Go to reboot, TWRP asks me if I'm sure I want to do this as there's not an OS installed. I don't know what else to do other than say 'yes' and then it boots to the Google logo with the unlocked icon at the bottom of the screen and just hangs indefinitely at that point. Tried redownloading and recopying the ROM .zip to internal storage and all steps again too.

Any ideas? I've wiped this damn phone so many times and flashed the factory images so many times trying to get a custom ROM to work I'm about to give up. And my phone seems to damn janky where sometimes it does that same freeze on boot (or freezes on the TWRP splash screen) but then a quick reboot will fix it. Doesn't make any sense.

 

[Reuben_skelz92]

Anyone else having trouble getting this to boot?

I've followed the instructions exactly. Reboot to TWRP (3.2.1-0), factory reset via the wipe menu, install the ROM .zip followed by the TWRP installer zip.

Go to reboot, TWRP asks me if I'm sure I want to do this as there's not an OS installed. I don't know what else to do other than say 'yes' and then it boots to the Google logo with the unlocked icon at the bottom of the screen and just hangs indefinitely at that point.

Any ideas? I've wiped this damn phone so many times and flashed the factory images so many times trying to get a custom ROM to work I'm about to give up. And my phone seems to damn janky where sometimes it does that same freeze on boot (or freezes on the TWRP splash screen) but then a quick reboot will fix it. Doesn't make any sense.

I went back to latest stock using deuces script. Boot twrp. Flash twrp then the rom...boot the rom. Go back into twrp and flash magisk

 

[jr313]

I had no problems getting it to boot, I followed the op. Factory reset, flash ROM, flash magisk, flash twrp and boot into system. It booted right up no problems

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[ohlin5]

I went back to latest stock using deuces script. Boot twrp. Flash twrp then the rom...boot the rom. Go back into twrp and flash magisk

Did you let the phone do it's initial boot after deuce's script ran? Or just stayed in fastboot mode, fastboot booted to TWRP, and flash the ROM and TWRP installer zip?

Also, did you format userdata when given the option in deuce's script? And you flashed TWRP before the ROM? I was under the understanding that the ROM flash would erase the TWRP install.

EDIT: I didn't format userdata, didn't reboot afterwards (just booted straight into TWRP and proceeded), and flashed TWRP before ROM and now it is indeed booting. Just need to figure out now whether or not TWRP is still installed. Many thanks! Deuce's must have fixed something I must have janked I guess.

EDIT2: Yeah appears TWRP should be flashed after the ROM not (just) before like the DU post says. I'm back to stock recovery afterwards.