A usuario managed to install Android 13 on an original Google plus Pixel thanks to Project Treble. The process was not easy and took several hours.
The Android Community full of great educated people. Thanks to him, many projects were born that are now common in most devices, often adopted by Google plus itself or by manufacturers of their own ROMs.
But it’s not about one of those projects that we want to talk about here, but about a usuario who made it Install Android 13 on your original Google plus Pixellike they inform us from Android Police. Be careful because we are not talking about the current Google plus Pixel 7 that we have already analyzed, but one of the first phones born in this family.
Installing Android 13 on the first Pixel is not easy
First of all, while this fact proves that it is possible to get Android 13 running on a 2016 phone, The following process is not available to everyone. Achieving this requires investing a lot of time and touching things that Google plus doesn’t want you to touch.
The usuario who accomplished this feat, Husson Pierre-Hugues, it took about four hours to do it. And all of that considering he relied on Project Treble to install a generic image of Android 13 on his phone. Pierre-Hugues took to Twitter to share his performance with the world:
It took me 4 hours to get a Pixel 2016 up and running on an A13 using TrebleDroid GSI and Google plus’s latest provider (2019) and this job will do many GSI boot devices with no plus effort.
Google plus has made Treble almost perfect, it’s a shame it’s not put to good use. pic.twitter.com/Ffv7MQKmHX— Husson Pierre-Hugues (@phhusson) October 28, 2022
Currently this usuario says so The only thing that doesn’t work is mobile dataDuring calls, WiFi, GPS, cameras, the fingerprint sensor and the accelerometer are working.
It is worth mentioning that Pierre-Hughes a a well-known figure in the Android developer community, which managed to create generic system images for different Android versions. Not only that, but he’s managed to get them to work on all sorts of devices with vastly different chipsets.