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I'm almost tempted to try out the beta on my daily driver Pixel. Seems like a stupid decision though.

Is there an easy way to manage this from a worktation? Completely backup my current state and restore it afterwords?

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Posting on the phone! I have just upgraded and the update is absolutely flawless and can be considered as a dail

And the only flaw is it cuts off in the middle of messages if you try to type "daily driver"?

That's the joke.

It seems premature to make such a proclamation right after updating.

I felt the same and had mentally prepared for a factory reset, and all the pains that accompany having to re-setup a phone from scratch.

I upgraded anyway.

I have literally had nothing break or change for the worse, and moreover, the phone (Pixel XL) is noticeably more responsive. I was such a ludicrously smooth upgrade I have been actively looking for colleagues to compliment on the work.

installed it about 3 hours ago and it definitely feels good enough to use as a daily driver

Do you feel it is worth the upgrade ?

Yes! It feels.. very polished. The new notifications and settings area are just awesome. Also the app drawer is pretty great. And the animations... smooth as butter!

Until you discover in X months that moving from the beta to release versions that get security updates requires wiping your phone.

This is not the case if you installed the beta via the beta tester program (and thus received the beta via OTA) and wait until P is released.

If you flashed the beta manually or want to downgrade, then yes, you need to wipe and flash.

You have to wipe the phone to upgrade to the release version? Might change my mind about installing the beta.

If you do OTA (over the air) updates, no, you don't need to ever wipe your device. At the end of the beta they'll just push the retail version and de-enroll your device.

This is my third beta (8 and 8.1) and I never wiped.

famous last words

Still here! Definitely stay away from preview release on your main phone, but once Google slaps beta on a build stuff is pretty stable (have not tried in car Bluetooth yet -- knock on wood).

As a dev, days like these are the ones where I get my moneys worth buying into Googles hardware :)

Updated. Runs smoothly without any apparent bugs so far.

You have to enable the new gestures manually, it seems. Also, none of the new app features demonstrated in the conference seems to have made it to this beta. :(

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