Pixelmod is a custom ROM for the Pixel 5 (redfin) devices, based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) with small modification to make it usable. By this, it excludes some of the default apps and includes some other prebuilts apps like F-Droid. It's a personal project to make AOSP usable for my needs and to make the compilation of AOSP with custom changes easier.
Use at your own risk.
- Remove Browser2 (WebViewShell)
- Remove Camera2
- Remove QuickSearchBox
- Add F-Droid Prebuilt APK
- Remove Quick Search from Home Screen
You can always obtain the latest pre-built ROM at the Release Page.
To enable OEM unlocking on the device:
- In Settings, tap About phone, then tap Build number seven times.
- When you see the message You are a developer, tap the back button.
- Tap Developer options and enable OEM unlocking and USB debugging.
Turn off the phone, press and hold Volume Down, then press and hold Power.
fastboot flashing unlock
fastboot update aosp_redfin-img-eng.bob.zip
You may need to flash the latest Stock ROM first, in order to take care of partitioning if another ROM was in use before. Stock ROM Download Page (Direct Download)
lxc-create aosp -t download -- -d ubuntu -r bionic -a amd64
sed -i "s/lxc.net.0.type = empty/lxc.net.0.type = none/g" /var/lib/lxc/aosp/config
lxc-start aosp
lxc-attach aosp
echo 'echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf' >> /root/.bashrc && exit
lxc-attach aosp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rsync git-core gnupg flex bison build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libncurses5 libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip fontconfig python2.7 repo android-sdk-platform-tools-common vim
git config --global user.name "Bob Builder"
git config --global user.email "build@example.org"
Check google's build numbers to identify the best tag for pixel 5: Codenames, Tags, and Build Numbers
mkdir aosp; cd aosp
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-11.0.0_r27
repo sync -d -q -c -j8
The latest version of the binaries can be found on the Driver Binaries page.
At the time of writing, this is RQ1A.210105.003 according to this post.
curl https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/google_devices-redfin-rq1a.210105.003-53b67adf.tgz | tar xvz
./extract-google_devices-redfin.sh
curl https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/qcom-redfin-rq1a.210105.003-448ee17f.tgz | tar xvz
./extract-qcom-redfin.sh
git clone https://github.com/shagu/pixelmod/ vendor/pixelmod
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch aosp_redfin-userdebug
vendor/pixelmod/redfin/enable.sh
m dist
Flash all images:
export ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT=/home/lxc/aosp/rootfs/home/ubuntu/aosp/out/target/product/redfin
fastboot flashall -w