Pixel Experience (Android 11) on the Samsung Galaxy S6

Having recently installed Pixel Experience on the Redmi Note 4X, I might as well do the same for the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Checked out the ROMs on XDA Developers for S6 (zerofltexx) and settled on the Pixel Experience (Android 11). Not the newest one, but most of the stuff works. Latest build was released July 2021, but if you trawl through thread, famemanoan posted a newer build - August 2022.

For that, you'll need a new OrangeFox recovery. First things first, copy the recovery zip and ROM to the phone's root directory.

To flash OrangeFox recovery:

1. boot to recovery by pressing Home+VolUp+Power
2. flash the OrangeFox recovery zip
3. phone will auto-reboot to recovery

To flash the ROM:

1. ROM install instructions say to wipe cache, system and vendor partitions
2. However, OrangeFox wiki says to NEVER wipe system
3. As a compromise, I only wiped dalvik cache, cache, and data. Format data. Boot to recovery.
4. After reboot, the files on the internal storage are gone, so no ROM to flash. Good thing MTP is enabled (and works), so I was able to re-copy the ROM to /sdcard. Whew!
5. Flash ROM
6. Boot to recovery
7. Wipe cache again. Format data again.
8. Boot to system.

Checked Google Photos, and this ROM is able to upload unlimited photos in Storage Saver quality. Not bad!