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Android modding is alive and well
| Aye but can I flash my pixel without losing data
| >>417126 no. Don't think so. At any rate, it's always a good practice to back up your phone even if you're just going to upgrade stock firmware, anyway
| Not sure why anyone would think Android modding is dead. Just check XDA, there are new threads published every day with new roms, tools, builds, etc
| >>417126 it’s possible, but you really shouldn’t. It’s called “dirty flashing” for a reason. Make a titanium backup and restore when you’ve flashed a rom.
| >>417509 doesn't titanium backup require root anyway, for which I need magisk, for which I need to be able to flash the boot rom, which to unlock I need to wipe my phone :p unless the pixel has a root method other than that on 9 or a way to unlock without actually wipeing data
| >>c18f1f there's always the option to not get the newest phone right away, wait til a rom is made for it, then get it. That way you can flash it before you have anything on it.
| >>417664 I believe when I got it there were ROMs (pixel 2 was out before I got this) but I wanted to use stock for a while and didn't realize I would need to wipe to unlock bootloader as all my other phones had to use other rooting methods because bootloader unlocking was locked by the carrier
| (I switched to project fi just to check it out)
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| LineageOS: latest blog post was a month ago and latest code commit was an hour ago: https://lineageos.org/
Officially supports Android 8, already has unofficial builds for Android 9.