Sultan Kernel Updates: Pixel 7 series
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The official Sultan kernel update channel for Pixel 7 series (7, 7 Pro, 7a)

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December 12, 2024 (A15 stable):
*Updated to December security patch
*Improved the CPU governor for massively better performance and overall smoothness
*Greatly enhanced the scheduler's ability to track CPU load, for better overall performance
*Greatly improved sustained performance when the CPU is thermal throttled, such as during gaming
*Improved battery life as a result of the significant scheduler improvements
*Improved my RAM speed governor for better performance during short bursts of high-intensity CPU load
*Fixed a huge bug in my IRQ balancer (SBalance) that caused it to never work correctly, improving overall performance
*Backported a stability fix from a newer version of the mali GPU driver, to fix a bug introduced in the December mali driver upgrade
*Fixed a bug in Google's code for determining memory bandwidth requirements of various processors in the SoC, improving performance in some specific scenarios
*Fixed issues with various hardware components sometimes not getting initialized correctly during boot (e.g., sometimes when you booted up your phone the touchscreen wouldn't work and you'd have to reboot to get it working)
*Fixed several memory leaks and out-of-bounds memory accesses in Broadcom's WiFi driver
*Fixed severe out-of-bounds memory accesses in Google's updated Android 15 battery driver, which could cause random reboots
*Improved boot up time
*Improved wireless charging reliability
*Increased wireless charging speed from 700 mA to 900 mA for basic 5 W chargers
*Fixed flashing via custom recovery
*Added TTL/HL netfilter modules

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A15-20241212.zip
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January 20, 2025 (A15 stable):
*Google didn't release a January kernel update for the Pixel 7 series, so there is no security patch update for the kernel this month
*Fixed libperfmgr high CPU usage, improves overall battery drain
*Improved power consumption during idle and light/medium activity
*Improved zRAM compression speed
*Reduced memperfd CPU usage

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A15-20250120.zip
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February 7, 2025 (A15 stable):
*Updated to February security patch
*Improved active power consumption
*Improved overall performance

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A15-20250207.zip
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July 10, 2025 (A16 stable):
*Updated to June security patch (Android 16 stable)
*Brought to feature parity with everything from my Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 kernels

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A16-20250710.zip
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July 14, 2025 (A16 stable):
*Fixed a random reboot bug in the Broadcom WiFi driver (caused by a mistake I made during the big 6.1 update, Pixel 7a isn't affected)

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A16-20250714.zip
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September 11, 2025 (A16 stable):
*Updated to September security patch
*Fixed errors when installing the kernel due to the zip containing 32-bit busybox

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A16-20250911.zip
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Google did not update the kernel at all in the October 2025 security patch. Therefore, you can continue to use the September 11, 2025 kernel on the October 2025 security patch.
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January 25, 2026 (A16 stable):
*Updated to January security patch (same as December because Google didn't update this kernel in January)
*Fixed missing PCIe driver optimizations I made to Pixel 8 and 9 series
*Fixed Google's pixelstats-vendor service not getting blocked (it would run in the background and use some battery)
*Fixed device unexpectedly rebooting shortly after booting into this kernel for the first time
*Fixed Play system updates failing to install; the device would unexpectedly reboot and rollback to the previous Play system update, which caused the "device rebooting shortly after installing the kernel" bug
*Fixed gpuservice crashing in the background, which caused the above two bugs related to Play system updates
*Unified kernel source tree for Pixel 7, 8, and 9 series into one repository named android_kernel_google_tensynos
*Updated the flashable zip to check for vendor patch level instead of security patch level (fixes the security patch level installation error encountered on custom ROMs)

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A16-20260125.zip
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March 14, 2026 (A16 stable):
*Updated to March security patch

Sultan-kernel-gs201-A16-20260314.zip
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