Can't flash custom roms. Hangs and never finishes. - Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers

Ptxel 2xl. Stock. I can root and i can flash stock firmware. I have used productpartition-pixel2xl-extended.zip. I have changed cables and insured the google drivers are installed. On the same PC i can flash custom roms on my 3xl 4a5G 6Pro and 7Pro.
I have flashed the latest stock to both slots and done a factory reset to bith slots. I just can not get a rom to flash. I can flash partitions individually like vbmeta and boot and system. Can't get a rom to go.
I have tried all the recoveries that come with the roms and also i have tried several versions of twrp and PBRP to no availl.
Any ideas would be great. Not a noob but this has me stumped. I wil even mail it to someone that thinks they can get it flashed with a custom rom! lol
Ideas?
And.........GO!

Slim2none4u said:
Ptxel 2xl. Stock. I can root and i can flash stock firmware. I have used productpartition-pixel2xl-extended.zip. I have changed cables and insured the google drivers are installed. On the same PC i can flash custom roms on my 3xl 4a5G 6Pro and 7Pro.
I have flashed the latest stock to both slots and done a factory reset to bith slots. I just can not get a rom to flash. I can flash partitions individually like vbmeta and boot and system. Can't get a rom to go.
I have tried all the recoveries that come with the roms and also i have tried several versions of twrp and PBRP to no availl.
Any ideas would be great. Not a noob but this has me stumped. I wil even mail it to someone that thinks they can get it flashed with a custom rom! lol
Ideas?
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Doubt I can help you here, but mailing it would not be a good idea, using remote control software could be smarter.

I know you've already tried, but these two things are practically always the problem:
1) Using a new USB port on the computer. USB-C is particularly problematic.
2) Wrong drivers. The PC can use different drivers depending on whether the phone is in normal, bootloader or recovery mode. So you need to check your drivers while the phone is in recovery.

Arealhooman said:
Doubt I can help you here, but mailing it would not be a good idea, using remote control software could be smarter.
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Yeah not sure i really would mail it although it just a $50 toy and thats why i bought it...kind of a google fan boy and want the box set lol
Remote software would work and i would be willing as there is no sensative data on this PC.
But who would be willing?

Have you tried PixelFlasher

Arealhooman said:
Have you tried PixelFlasher
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Only to flash stock and to root. Most roms are a sideload updates and i can't figure out how to use PF to do custom roms.

I had the same issue in recovery mode. I resolved it by buying a USB hub and connecting the phone through that.

zpunout said:
I had the same issue in recovery mode. I resolved it by buying a USB hub and connecting the phone through that.
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I have a hub...may give that a try. Haven't touched the phone for a while now.

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usb issues

So I've tried connecting my phone to several computers and they all end up saying that the device is not recognized. Because of this, I can't even odin my phone to stock or anything else. So I can't exactly call sprint or samsung about it. It was working fine up until just now. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Did you download the Samsung driver ?
Simply AOSP 3.1.1
fiendslyr said:
So I've tried connecting my phone to several computers and they all end up saying that the device is not recognized. Because of this, I can't even odin my phone to stock or anything else. So I can't exactly call sprint or samsung about it. It was working fine up until just now. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Yes, sounds like your data cable is going bad. Grab another one. Palm Pre or Blackberry has heavy duty cables. Heard there was a good one for $2 on Amazon. Get fresh drivers from Samsung's site or from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Hope this helps.
Yea I've gotten the right drivers. Right now, I'm in the process of doing root and flashing roms without a computer... using rom manager. Maybe a new rom will fix it. I'm going to order a new data cable and hope that will work.
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Yea I've gotten the right drivers. Right now, I'm in the process of doing root and flashing roms without a computer... using rom manager. Maybe a new rom will fix it. I'm going to order a new data cable and hope that will work.
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I've tried 4 different cables on multiple computers. Mine says USB not recognized as well. How do you root and flash roms with rom manager???
Hey man, same thing was happening to me, I ended up bricking my epic with the stock cord, but I grabbed my brothers evo cord, and worked first try, dump the stock cable definitely.
Sent from my gingerbreaded epic.
BWFBezerk said:
I've tried 4 different cables on multiple computers. Mine says USB not recognized as well. How do you root and flash roms with rom manager???
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I used this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062395
Also, instead of using cwm 2.x, you can go the development forum and get the new cwm and flash that instead, just make the necessary adjustments (i.e. when flashing using ROM manager, tap 3.x instead of 2.x etc. etc.)
I am now running gingerbread on here. And I am going to try a new cable that I ordered later this week.

Hardware ID Missing after rooting......

Hello.
I used the Toolkit to root my Note 2, and I had to use option 4 on the rooting menu, Install Custom Recovery, Install via Recovery to get it to work. I tried several times via the Odin tool and Twrp recovery, and the phone kept booting into Android Recovery instead of Twrp recovery.
I finally used Odin to flash back to stock ROM that I got here, but, along the way, even though the Toolkit was able to connect to my Note 2, I get the Hardware ID missing, and I cannot connect to it any longer like I could after I installed the initial drivers.
Anything I can do and stay rooted?
Change usb ports or restart your device. Mine did it last night and I fixed it by doing both..
I have the same problem.
Changing ports and restarting in most cases didn't help and only in few cases I managed to access files on the phone via USB.
Any other suggestion how to solve this?
don't use windows..
Ditto
dstenc said:
I have the same problem.
Changing ports and restarting in most cases didn't help and only in few cases I managed to access files on the phone via USB.
Any other suggestion how to solve this?
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glen4cindy said:
Hello.
I used the Toolkit to root my Note 2, and I had to use option 4 on the rooting menu, Install Custom Recovery, Install via Recovery to get it to work. I tried several times via the Odin tool and Twrp recovery, and the phone kept booting into Android Recovery instead of Twrp recovery.
I finally used Odin to flash back to stock ROM that I got here, but, along the way, even though the Toolkit was able to connect to my Note 2, I get the Hardware ID missing, and I cannot connect to it any longer like I could after I installed the initial drivers.
Anything I can do and stay rooted?
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I was able to gain root back using the toolkit. I flashed stock rom image I believe the ROM from the factory then flashed back stock recovery. Went back in after I updated and re-rooted to flash the triangle away. Now I need to unroot and after speaking with Sprint Rep on phone and trying a few things they advised me to take it to store to let them try it. I believe ALL of my problems started when I tried to use Mobile Odin Pro to flash the latest update to LJC (should I have been on stock recovery?). It started to flash then stopped and went into CWM recovery which is the recovery that the toolkit flashed. I for some strange reason was going to flash the update from there except I didn't have it in the right place on my sd card (couldn't access it GOD I'm a Dumbass!). God help me cause I'm too stupid to even understand what side loading is let alone how to do it. If some kind soul would take pity on me and pm me I could get a handle on the differences between HTC and Samsung. Anyway need to unroot now. Oh I keep seeing in the flash counter saying 1 but I'm on stock rom with stock kernel and stock recovery how do I get it to zero. Using triangle away. Anyway to check counter with stock recovery?
OH yeah does anyone keep getting "Internal Error Code 1500" in addition to the hardware id is missing?
Thanks to everyone that takes time to help idiots like me. I promise I CAN learn.
Charles
chrisc627 said:
Change usb ports or restart your device. Mine did it last night and I fixed it by doing both..
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Thank you...Unlike user: dstenc, the above procedure fixed my issue. As has been the case many times, XDA helpful users to the rescue!
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Just to report that for now I've found woraround. I've installed old drivers 1.4.103.0 and now both Kies and file access works.
Still looking for final solution with latest drivers.
Could you walk me through your fix?
dstenc said:
Just to report that for now I've found woraround. I've installed old drivers 1.4.103.0 and now both Kies and file access works.
Still looking for final solution with latest drivers.
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Hi dstenc,
Would you be so kind as too help me do what you did? I don't have kies on my pc, did you get the old drivers from the s3 forum? I would love to give it a shot.
Thanks for any help
Charles
Could you walk me through your fix?
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ceabbott2 said:
Hi dstenc,
Would you be so kind as too help me do what you did? I don't have kies on my pc, did you get the old drivers from the s3 forum? I would love to give it a shot.
Thanks for any help
Charles
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I don't remember link. I googled so you might try that way.
Just FYI, even with older drivers I have sporadic Hardware ID Missing error, but far too less than with the latest version.
I'm posting this to keep it to the top of this board.
This is my second Note 2 in 2 weeks. I returned the first one because it stated Hardware ID missing, so within my first 2 weeks Sprint gave me a new one thinking that it was my phone. While at the Sprint store, and not yet rooted, we installed the unit and removed the unit 15 times to see if we could get it to have the Missing Hardware ID to pop up, it DIDN'T pop up once, so I thought I was good to go.
I came home and did the common root method that uses Galaxy Note 2 Toolbox. I IMMEDIATELY started getting the Missing Hardware ID again.
So now that we have it localized, what could be missing or creating a problem from the root procedure from the Galaxy Note Toolbox 2???
What I find really strange is that many are not experiencing this problem or they are just living with it.
I even tried the USB Switcher that appeared to install and does switch between Mass Storage and MTP, but although my PC makes the upward noise that sounds like it is installing and recognizing the USB Mass Storage, it doesn't end up recognizing it. It was ZATTA's build but he said it didn't work for his Galaxy 3 or Note 2 either.
Will anyone find a cure????
This will be no fun to have to deal with for the next 2 years.
Chime in PLEASE!!!!!! Even if it's only to insult me, I don't care if you have a cure.
Regards
Dave
if you do Google search, it's a known issue. From what I read, it's a driver issue. Some have had luck using the older Samsung USB drivers. You have downloand them, and install, and have your PC completely disconnected from the internet before plugging in your GN2 after the install. Appaarently the drivers on Microsoft's servers are bad; may be the wrong device.
I've done this, and still have the issue. I just find I don't have plug and unplug the USB cable as much.
What I have seen, the PC does connect to the GN2. It just doesn't recognize it as a storage device. It wants to use it as a modem, probably from the tethering capabilities with a USB OTG cable.
It may not be so much that it's not wide spread, but more that not everyone uses the GN2 as storage device or connects it their PC.
I dont think this is all due to Windows issue. This is what i notice before and after root.
If you have restore to Original Stock ROM, you will notice that your device doesnt encounter this issue.
If you have rooted your device Custom ROM or Flash CMW (this resulted as Binary Counter increased), you would have Hardware Missing Id issue. Somehow the MTP is not working.
If you have Flash your device with a pre rooted stock rom, there is no issue at all until you flash CMW where flashing increase counter.
How i notice this, i have root/unroot my device like 20 times since i got my device.
The issue is here is more of where Binary Counter Increase, in Windows 7 you would face Hardware ID Missing issue. Restart and connect to other USB port will not work.
Some how we need to no let the Binary Counter changed and Triangle Away is only useful if you want to return you device to original state.
knightfox said:
I dont think this is all due to Windows issue. This is what i notice before and after root.
If you have restore to Original Stock ROM, you will notice that your device doesnt encounter this issue.
If you have rooted your device Custom ROM or Flash CMW (this resulted as Binary Counter increased), you would have Hardware Missing Id issue. Somehow the MTP is not working.
If you have Flash your device with a pre rooted stock rom, there is no issue at all until you flash CMW where flashing increase counter.
How i notice this, i have root/unroot my device like 20 times since i got my device.
The issue is here is more of where Binary Counter Increase, in Windows 7 you would face Hardware ID Missing issue. Restart and connect to other USB port will not work.
Some how we need to no let the Binary Counter changed and Triangle Away is only useful if you want to return you device to original state.
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Yep I think you may be on to something. Because when I rooted I tried both TWRP and CWM and then I had to go back to stock to get to apply the LJC update. Ever since I have had the chameleon error and Handsfree activation issues. Oh my counter always says 1 and I can't remove it with triangle away. I think it says custom binary yes and the counter says 1. I am using a laptop with Windows 7 and it now recognizes the device just can't stop the errors on start up.
Charles
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Samsungs older drivers: uploaded.net/file/hdh0f1xd

Touch screen not working, even after factory reset

My phone arrived last night. I immediately, following the instructions I found here, magisk'd it. As soon as I flashed the patched image and rebooted... I found that the touch screen had stopped working.
So I booted into recovery (which was hard, because I can't figure out any way to shut my phone down), and wiped data / factory reset. The bootloader is still showing as unlocked. And the touch screen is still not working.
Does anybody know why this might be or what I should do about it? Note that I didn't buy from Google, I bought new from a well-reputed ebay seller...
Send it back. It sounds like a hardware issue.
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Send it back. It sounds like a hardware issue.
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Alright.
Problem number 2: if I lock the bootloader, it tells me there's no valid operating system on the phone and won't start up. It only starts up while the bootloader is locked. So... do I send it back with the bootloader unlocked and hope they don't mind?
DanHakimi said:
Alright.
Problem number 2: if I lock the bootloader, it tells me there's no valid operating system on the phone and won't start up. It only starts up while the bootloader is locked. So... do I send it back with the bootloader unlocked and hope they don't mind?
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If they are a reputable seller on ebay they probably wouldn't want to sell you a broken phone as it hurts their reputation; I'm not saying it didn't happen, but individual sellers are usually careful on that end.
Have you at least tried fastboot flashing the stock "bonito" image yet and see if that restores your touch? https://developers.google.com/android/images
*Also, keep in mind that Q is supposed to be coming out pretty soon(which may or may not help you situation). Pixel phones supposedly get official Q on Sep 3rd or you can join the beta program if you can't wait until then.
good luck:good:
Reflash the factory image and relock the bootloader... It is an official process from Google, if that fails contact the seller and RMA the unit.
Hey buddy! I was in the same boat as you, so maybe your situation was the same as mine. My problem was that I had flashed the incorrect boot image. What I'd suggest is what I did: use a mouse to navigate through the phone and check the system version, then download the exact same OS version from google, extract, and flash that stock boot image. If it works, you can patch that same stock boot image with magisk and flash that one to get root and keep the touch screen working.
I hope this works out for ya. Cheers!
As it's new and you've got nothing to worry about saving I'd just flash the latest factory image via fastboot and once it's up extract the boot from that image and patch it. The fellow above is probably correct but there is one other thing, use an A to C cord, not the C to C cord for all your flashing.
Bob nesta said:
If they are a reputable seller on ebay they probably wouldn't want to sell you a broken phone as it hurts their reputation; I'm not saying it didn't happen, but individual sellers are usually careful on that end.
Have you at least tried fastboot flashing the stock "bonito" image yet and see if that restores your touch? https://developers.google.com/android/images
*Also, keep in mind that Q is supposed to be coming out pretty soon(which may or may not help you situation). Pixel phones supposedly get official Q on Sep 3rd or you can join the beta program if you can't wait until then.
good luck:good:
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Yes, I've tried multiple versions of the bonito image, and none of them would flash properly. I'm really just trying to figure out if they're going to blame me because I unlocked the bootloader.
Will Q actually release tomorrow? Like, stock images up and everything? Oh, well, I might as well wait until tomorrow while I try to figure out their return policy.
DanHakimi said:
Yes, I've tried multiple versions of the bonito image, and none of them would flash properly. I'm really just trying to figure out if they're going to blame me because I unlocked the bootloader.
Will Q actually release tomorrow? Like, stock images up and everything? Oh, well, I might as well wait until tomorrow while I try to figure out their return policy.
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You can relock the bootloader. Instructions are in the link I provided earlier. How would they know you unlocked it?
As far as Q - maybe? That's why I said "supposedly" it comes out the 3rd (https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...ndroid-10-pixel-september-3-release-leak-date) , but there are no guarantees in life (except death & taxes).
Again, just to be sure, you are using a USB A to C and not a C to C, correct?
DarkShadowMX said:
Hey buddy! I was in the same boat as you, so maybe your situation was the same as mine. My problem was that I had flashed the incorrect boot image. What I'd suggest is what I did: use a mouse to navigate through the phone and check the system version, then download the exact same OS version from google, extract, and flash that stock boot image. If it works, you can patch that same stock boot image with magisk and flash that one to get root and keep the touch screen working.
I hope this works out for ya. Cheers!
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I don't have a USB-C mouse, but I guess I could keep trying images until one of them works...
krabman said:
Again, just to be sure, you are using a USB A to C and not a C to C, correct?
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Yes, A to C.
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You can relock the bootloader. Instructions are in the link I provided earlier. How would they know you unlocked it?
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No, again, like I said, I can't. I tried fastboot OEM lock. And I tried flashing multiple stock images. Nothing seems to be working. I can try again and get you the exact error messages...
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No, again, like I said, I can't. I tried fastboot OEM lock. And I tried flashing multiple stock images. Nothing seems to be working. I can try again and get you the exact error messages...
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Please do. I'm no dev & can probably offer little to no help, but if you post your errors someone else may be able to help you out.
It could just be a cable/driver/fastboot issue & not the phone, so please provide error info.
Ok, do the full smash. This assumes a basic familiarity with flashing mechanics.
1. Download and install the latest fastboot package.
2. Download the latest image from google again.
3 Use a known good A to C usb cord
4 Before flashing the image type all the following commands one by one in fastboot...
fastboot erase system_a
fastboot erase system_b
fastboot erase boot_a
fastboot erase boot_b
fastboot reboot-bootloader
5 Flash the image using the flash all script.
6 Once you're up extract the boot from the image you flashed and patch it in magisk.
7 Flash the patched boot image.
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I don't have a USB-C mouse, but I guess I could keep trying images until one of them works...
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I don't either. I used a USB OTG cable
Had a **** ton load of issues trying to go from rooted and TWRP with custom rom to Android 10.. Every time I ran the flash-all.bat it would fail at one stage or another.. Finally grabbed the Pie Ota from the site, sideloaded it through TWRP then wiped everything through stock recovery and then took the Android 10 update. My point is, use the OTA and sideload it
I was rooted on Android 10 beta 6 and trying to download the OTA through the phone update failed every time. I uninstalled magisk and restored images..but still failed. I finally had to sideload the OTA image and it finally updated. That was the only way to get mine to work. Then I took the boot image from beta 6 that was already patched through magisk and re-flashed it because the boot image from Android 10 official patched through magisk would not give root...kept failing. Then when I re-flashed last months beta 6 image, upon reboot the screen would freeze and no apps would load. I then booted into recovery and did a factory reset and upon reboot magisk was identified and root was acquired....phone worked perfectly after that and no issues....weird. I then just reloaded all of my apps from backup and was on Android 10 official, rooted through magisk.
I used the dongle included with the phone to make my usb-wireless mouse work. The OS is currently showing the July 5 version of Android 9. When I try flashing that specific version, I see what I attached in my screenshot. Other versions show similar bugs, although perhaps a few more. I haven't tried Android 10 yet...
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I used the dongle included with the phone to make my usb-wireless mouse work. The OS is currently showing the July 5 version of Android 9. When I try flashing that specific version, I see what I attached in my screenshot. Other versions show similar bugs, although perhaps a few more. I haven't tried Android 10 yet...
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I suspect you are running out of hard disk space on the computer that you are using to try to flash all this with. I ran into a similar issue once when the C drive of my computer was nearly full. The system file ends up needing a lot of disk space in order for it to be unpacked. The error you are getting is that you are running out of space and it cannot unpack it. Again, this isn't phone memory space, this is actual computer hard drive space.

Question Android 13 bootloop

Hi all.
Maybe someone came across.
I update by ota to Android 13, the phone starts to reboot or gets stuck in the bootloop, stops entering the recovery and fastbootd. The bootloader from 13 is flashed on both slots, the full factory image does not get up due to the inability to boot into fastbootd. And even if the firmware still succeeds, the phone either boots into the firmware for 5 minutes and goes into reboot, or even hangs on the Google logo.
Moreover, if after that you flash it via fastboot to the 12.1 developer for the new bootloader, the phone loads and works completely properly, enters all partitions, does not reboot.
If i run Android 13 using DSU through the 12.1 developer, everything also works fine, without any problems
I tried all options of flashing android 13. And the full image, and ota by air, and ota through sideload recovery - always the same result.
What could be the reason, has anyone encountered and how can this problem be solved?
Delete the cache in recovery if all else fails it should fix whatever the conflict is
Shipoftheline said:
Delete the cache in recovery if all else fails it should fix whatever the conflict is
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I can't enter to recocery after flashing android 13
Kirya27 said:
Hi all.
Maybe someone came across.
I update by ota to Android 13, the phone starts to reboot or gets stuck in the bootloop, stops entering the recovery and fastbootd. The bootloader from 13 is flashed on both slots, the full factory image does not get up due to the inability to boot into fastbootd. And even if the firmware still succeeds, the phone either boots into the firmware for 5 minutes and goes into reboot, or even hangs on the Google logo.
Moreover, if after that you flash it via fastboot to the 12.1 developer for the new bootloader, the phone loads and works completely properly, enters all partitions, does not reboot.
If i run Android 13 using DSU through the 12.1 developer, everything also works fine, without any problems
I tried all options of flashing android 13. And the full image, and ota by air, and ota through sideload recovery - always the same result.
What could be the reason, has anyone encountered and how can this problem be solved?
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First make sure you don't have any other/older versions of adb/fastboot tools on your computer, just the latest Platform Tools. Also try using an A to C cable using USB 2.0 port. Then try flashing the factory image again or using Android Flash Tool.
Lughnasadh said:
First make sure you don't have any other/older versions of adb/fastboot tools on your computer, just the latest Platform Tools. Also try using an A to C cable using USB 2.0 port. Then try flashing the factory image again or using Android Flash Tool.
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How is a bad cable connected or an old version platform-tools with the fact that after flashing the bootloader and some more files of the 13th version, my recovery, fastbootd and system stops loading and constantly reloading?
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How is a bad cable connected or an old version platform-tools with the fact that after flashing the bootloader and some more files of the 13th version, my recovery, fastbootd and system stops loading and constantly reloading?
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You need the latest Platform Tools to properly flash everything. Many people have found that when having problems flashing that switching to an A to C cable using USB 2.0 solved their problems.
Lughnasadh said:
You need the latest Platform Tools to properly flash everything. Many people have found that when having problems flashing that switching to an A to C cable using USB 2.0 solved their problems.
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This doesn't solve my problem. I always use the latest version of platform-tools or flash through Android FlashTool. I tried different cables, and think logically how this could be the case if Android 12.1 installed and working without any problems?
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This doesn't solve my problem. I always use the latest version of platform-tools or flash through Android FlashTool. I tried different cables, and think logically how this could be the case if Android 12.1 installed and working without any problems?
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Well, you didn't mention you were using the latest Platform Tools, so I suggested it as that's one of the 1st steps of troubleshooting in these situations. You also didn't specifically mention using Android Flash Tool, so I suggested that as well.
Are you flashing BOTH SLOTS with the flash tool? Use Pixel Flasher and force flash both slots SEPARATELY don't choose the "both slots" button, it usually bricks for me. But see if thay fixes your problem. I couldn't use the android flash tool since about February of this year.
And since you did the OTA it might be a good time to bite the bullet and wipe if you haven't.
Gytole said:
Are you flashing BOTH SLOTS with the flash tool? Use Pixel Flasher and force flash both slots SEPARATELY don't choose the "both slots" button, it usually bricks for me. But see if thay fixes your problem. I couldn't use the android flash tool since about February of this year.
And since you did the OTA it might be a good time to bite the bullet and wipe if you haven't.
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This sounds interesting. I'll try it today when I get home and post the results here.
Gytole said:
Are you flashing BOTH SLOTS with the flash tool? Use Pixel Flasher and force flash both slots SEPARATELY don't choose the "both slots" button, it usually bricks for me. But see if thay fixes your problem. I couldn't use the android flash tool since about February of this year.
And since you did the OTA it might be a good time to bite the bullet and wipe if you haven't.
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I tried the method that you described and indeed, for some time the phone worked on Android 13 (however, when it was turned on, it wrote that this device was suddenly damaged due to something, photo below). True, after 15-20 minutes of use, phone rebooted into the bootloop, just for no reason at all. I flashed exactly as you said, separately in each slot ...
I have had this screen when I soft bricked after flashing lineage os. I fixed it with flashtool. My exact setup is windows 11, flashtool through Microsoft edge with the options to force flash and wipe device checked in flashtool. Flashtool has rescued my p6pro many times with this setup.
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У меня был этот экран, когда я завис после прошивки Lineage OS. Починил флештулом. Моя точная настройка — это Windows 11, flashtool через Microsoft Edge с параметрами принудительной прошивки и очистки устройства, отмеченными во flashtool. С помощью этой настройки Flashtool много раз выручал мой p6pro.
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I've tried this method many times. Exactly the same as you described. Either the phone simply did not start, or it loaded, but rebooted into an eternal reboot after 15 minutes
Kirya27 said:
I've tried this method many times. Exactly the same as you described. Either the phone simply did not start, or it loaded, but rebooted into an eternal reboot after 15 minutes
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If it happened to me. Idk. I think I'd fastboot -w in fastboot then try while still in fastboot
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If it happened to me. Idk. I think I'd fastboot -w in fastboot then try while still in fastboot
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I tired fastboot -w many times
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I tired fastboot -w many times
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Sorry if it sounds stupid.. but have you tried flashing a custom rom? Fastboot -w, fastboot update "customrom.zip" to see if they boot? Try paranoid android
fil3s said:
Sorry if it sounds stupid.. but have you tried flashing a custom rom? Fastboot -w, fastboot update "customrom.zip" to see if they boot? Try paranoid android
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Tried. It turns out the same as on the stock firmware
I have faced this issue and the only solution is by sending it to the service center. They said it is the system issue and they replaced mainboard with a new one. And yeah. They said it is not related to android 13 update
apis903 said:
I have faced this issue and the only solution is by sending it to the service center. They said it is the system issue and they replaced mainboard with a new one. And yeah. They said it is not related to android 13 update
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They clearly designed these phones to fail. They implied they would be usable for 6 years, but like all previous google phones, it will brick itself within 2. This 6 Pro is definitely the last product I buy from Google. I've had 3 other Nexus/pixel phones, none of which lasted. My sister is still using my hand-me-down iPhone 7 that I dropped off a cliff.
I can't do iphones though, and I don't want to support slave labor.. so my options are extremely limited. I'm only going to buy smartphones produced in the USA. It's dangerously cheap to produce phones using the less strict labor and material laws of foreign countries, phones are being treated as disposable, which is unacceptable. My modified Nexus 5X is perfectly usable despite having half the CPU disabled and being a 7 year old phone, thanks to overclocking. Companies should not release a new device unless it is a worthy upgrade over the previous one. It should happen every 3 years, not every year.
I just hope other nerds wake up and stop supporting Google. We have to boycott Google until they create desirable products. Pixel is so undesirable that they spend their ad money on woke bull**** that no one cares about except the sheep, but they like iPhones. Google is just burning our money and ignoring our needs.
Edit: I'm just salty that I got scammed by Google. They lost all of their people who cared. Google is full of corrupt people who want to make a buck. Pixel 7 is essentially the exact same as Pixel 6. The lack of a pro mode in the camera app perfectly represents Google's priorities. It would take one developer a couple days to add such a feature to the app. Google is not doing ANYTHING good.

Question FOLD 4 VBMETA STUCK

I need help as I have no idea what I'm doing or how to fix this. Fold 4 rooted, went to reset phone and lock bootloader but apon restarting the phone I get a screen like attached and I can only boot to this screen and download mode. USB debugging is off and on Odin it displays COM4 but I cannot flash anything as it just says setting up connection. I have no idea what to do as there's nothing online that remotely helps. Been 3h and I'm still just going back and forth on sites ECT.. completely stuck here. I'm not that techy with this type of stuff... I have no idea what I've done wrong I just wanted to reset and flash new firmware with no root and be stock. Never had this happen before and I'm unsure if this is the right place to ask for assistance
Could be a bad download on one of the files, including Odin. That's the first step to troubleshoot this, redownloading the files.
dirtybudha said:
Could be a bad download on one of the files, including Odin. That's the first step to troubleshoot this, redownloading the files.
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I've redownloaded everything, I have never seen this issue anywhere before I'm losing my mind. Think the whole phone is now ****ed, vannot flash stock firmware, just says setting up connection ect no clue what to do....
DragonBytePC said:
I've redownloaded everything, I have never seen this issue anywhere before I'm losing my mind. Think the whole phone is now ****ed, vannot flash stock firmware, just says setting up connection ect no clue what to do....
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It's pretty standard procedure in terms of troubleshooting. What you can also do is download the stock image for the phone. Perhaps something got messed up and needs to be reset with the original stock image.
I've already downloaded a fresh firmware but I cannot flash it as it just sits at setting up connection
DragonBytePC said:
I've already downloaded a fresh firmware but I cannot flash it as it just sits at setting up connection
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Then redownload Odin. IF the files are fine, then Odin is having issues.
You can also try rebooting your computer.
I solved the issue, if you throw it against the ground full force it no longer works and you won't have to worry about it again, easy fix.
Solved the issue BTW, just used a different pc
Try and download the May update and flash it
Were you trying to flash the ROM?
DragonBytePC said:
I solved the issue, if you throw it against the ground full force it no longer works and you won't have to worry about it again, easy fix.
Solved the issue BTW, just used a different pc
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I have a similar Issue but in my case, was the USB cable. I was using a old Samsung USB-A to C cable and I just solved when using a new cable, USB-C/C and the only USB-C port on my desktop...

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