Pixel Call Notes Root Sync

An auditable, privacy-first toolkit for restoring Pixel Call Notes on a rooted Pixel and exporting its on-device artifacts to an optional AWS transcription and summarization pipeline.

[!CAUTION] Unlocking a bootloader factory-resets the phone and weakens its security posture. Root can break Play Integrity, banking apps, Wallet, DRM, enterprise policy, and warranty/support expectations. Read Safety, Android setup, and Security completely before changing a device.

What this repository does

Magisk → NeoZygisk → Vector → Public Compute Services (PCS)
                                      ↓
                            Google AICore / Gemini Nano
                                      ↓
                         Pixel Call Notes in Google Phone
                                      ↓
                   rooted read-only sync → private S3 bucket
                                      ↓
                  Transcribe channels → Bedrock summary

Status: the on-device audio/transcript/summary path and redacted rooted sync dry run were verified on the reference device. The AWS templates and functions pass local tests and linting but have not been deployed end to end.

• Documents the exact stack tested on a Pixel 11 Pro Fold running Android 17.
• Verifies the rooted Android and PCS configuration without embedding device IDs.
• Reads Google Dialer's private Fermat audio without modifying the phone.
• Uploads immutable audio and privacy-configurable metadata to a private S3 bucket.
• Provides an undeployed AWS SAM pipeline for dual-channel transcription and structured summaries.
• Gives AI coding tools the same safety rules through AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, and VS Code/Copilot instructions.

It does not contain patched boot images, APKs, Magisk modules, model files, phone numbers, call audio, transcripts, cloud credentials, or device-specific factory images. Download third-party software only from the linked upstream projects and verify it yourself.

Tested baseline

Other Pixel models or releases may use different partitions, labels, scopes, or model manifests. Never flash an image from another device or build.

Start here

1. Read Android setup, especially the backup and recovery gates.

2. Run scripts/check-prerequisites.sh.

3. Download the matching Google factory image and upstream releases yourself.

4. Unlock, patch, and flash only after personally confirming the irreversible wipe.

5. Install NeoZygisk, Vector, and PCS one layer at a time, rebooting and verifying after each.

6. Configure PCS using a pinned manifest commit:

   export PCS_MANIFEST_COMMIT=f18a0d6e464febc2f21342f2e0b927fe758f1c7f
   scripts/configure-pcs.sh --yes
   

7. Make a consented test call longer than one minute and run:

   python3 scripts/verify_call_note.py
   

8. For private backups, follow S3 sync.

9. For cloud transcription and summaries, follow AWS setup.

10. To connect an AI agent, use the versioned contract in Agent integration.

Upstream projects

This repository is independent of Google and all projects above.

Privacy defaults

• Runtime state, bucket names, cloud profiles, binaries, databases, protobufs, recordings, transcripts, and screenshots are ignored by Git.
• Exact call metadata, contact details, and device/build facts are separate explicit opt-ins; default S3 object IDs are pseudonymous.
• The public safety scanner runs locally and in CI.
• AWS resources default to private access; do not deploy with account-root credentials.

Development

Use Python 3.10 or newer; Python 3.13 is the tested host and Lambda runtime. The dependency floor intentionally rejects the vulnerable urllib3 1.26 line selected by older Python/Botocore combinations.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
python3 -m unittest discover -s sync -p 'test_*.py' -v
python3 -m unittest discover -s aws/tests -p 'test_*.py' -v
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py' -v
python3 scripts/public_safety_check.py --root .
cfn-lint aws/template.yaml aws/bucket-template.yaml
pip-audit -r requirements-dev.txt
bandit -q -r sync scripts aws/functions -x '*/test_*.py' -ll
shellcheck scripts/*.sh

Read Privacy, Version-aware erasure, and Contributing. Licensed under the MIT License; see Third-party notices.