My phone stuck while using so as usual I pulled out the battery and it was his end. From then on bootanimation glitched and the phone restarted all over again. Sth like a bootloop but with complete phone restart. Then I tried to full wipe but with no luck, recovery hung and rebooted the phone. Even now restoring/zip installing etc suddenly restarts the phone. I also tried to flash new recovery/rom via fastboot as well as via Nexus Root Toolkit but everytime I got 'too many links error'
Flash Stock + Unroot...
------------------------------------------------------------------
sending 'bootloader' (2308 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.227s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.404s
rebooting into bootloader...
FAILED (command write failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.005s
sending 'radio' (12288 KB)...
FAILED (command write failed (Invalid argument))
finished. total time: 0.005s
rebooting into bootloader...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 5.004s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
error: out of memory
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I used two different cables that I use for every flashing so far, and different usb slots... I have no idea what else I can do.
Sth has changed, I tried to flash TWRP instead of CWM via fastboot and again, got 'too many links' error BUT it flashed the new recovery anyway . So now I have TWRP, managed to flash cm 10.2.1+gapps. I have a recovery log for sb to analyze. Could you check if my emmc is corrupted telling ftom this log?
i9250 recovery log http://pastebin.com/4Yx0ZwJK
Thanks
EDIT/
A second ago it booted to system in a normal way, then a sudden restart and the phone is stuck while boot animation, like a catch 22...
Hi all,
I'm trying to unroot and relock my Pixel 2 XL because I need to send it in for warranty for an issue with the phone's microphone.
when I try to run the flash-all command in adb I get errors during each step. Could somebody help me figure out what's going on?
Here is what adb is kicking back at me:
Code:
C:\platform-tools>adb reboot bootloader
C:\platform-tools>fastboot devices
712KPRW1212070 fastboot
C:\platform-tools>flash-all
Sending 'bootloader' (36336 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 15.045s
rebooting into bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
Finished. Total time: 0.040s
Sending 'radio' (60388 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 15.045s
rebooting into bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 5.035s
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
--------------------------------------------
getvar:version-bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
fastboot: error: requirements not met!
Press any key to exit...
Chelseablue said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to unroot and relock my Pixel 2 XL because I need to send it in for warranty for an issue with the phone's microphone.
when I try to run the flash-all command in adb I get errors during each step. Could somebody help me figure out what's going on?
Here is what adb is kicking back at me:
Code:
C:\platform-tools>adb reboot bootloader
C:\platform-tools>fastboot devices
712KPRW1212070 fastboot
C:\platform-tools>flash-all
Sending 'bootloader' (36336 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 15.045s
rebooting into bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
Finished. Total time: 0.040s
Sending 'radio' (60388 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 15.045s
rebooting into bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
Finished. Total time: 5.035s
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
--------------------------------------------
getvar:version-bootloader FAILED (Write to device failed (Unknown error))
fastboot: error: requirements not met!
Press any key to exit...
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By the way, I am flashing image 9.0.0 (PQ1A.181205.002, Dec 2018)
I tried flashing the most recent one and got the same errors so I tried an older image.
Chelseablue said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to unroot and relock my Pixel 2 XL because I need to send it in for warranty for an issue with the phone's microphone.
when I try to run the flash-all command in adb I get errors during each step. Could somebody help me figure out what's going on?
Here is what adb is kicking back at me:
By the way, I am flashing image 9.0.0 (PQ1A.181205.002, Dec 2018)
I tried flashing the most recent one and got the same errors so I tried an older image.
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What version of platform-tools are you using?
And, if your already on stock rom, just do a factory reset and send it back. An unlocked bootloader doesn't void your warranty.
Badger50 said:
What version of platform-tools are you using?
And, if your already on stock rom, just do a factory reset and send it back. An unlocked bootloader doesn't void your warranty.
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I'm running r28.0.1. Really? I thought it had to have the bootloader locked for warranty. If that's the case, it would save me the time...
Chelseablue said:
I'm running r28.0.1. Really? I thought it had to have the bootloader locked for warranty. If that's the case, it would save me the time...
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Just reset it and send it in. Many have done so including myself with the 6p. Question, have you tried a different cable, and are using the command...fastboot flashing lock....?
And, have you run the magisk uninstaller zip to fully get rid of root?
Okay, I've seen similar problems to mine but none of the suggested solutions seem to work out the problem. This seems to be the recommended solution, but it's not getting me anywhere:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/info-how-restored-to-stock-soft-t3494478
My bootloader is unlocked. I unlocked it the second I got the phone to save pain down the road. I've now hit the fork. It's an unlocked phone, not Verizon, I'm not sure what the original carrier was, it was second-hand and under no warranty. I'm on Android 10 Marlin, I updated it to the latest about a month ago. I got up to do some laundry last night and came back to a spontaneously dead phone. For detail, I was transferring a movie to my phone via USB to internal storage so I could watch it later. No idea what happened while I was up, but the phone was in the exact same position as when I left. Developer options were on, USB debugging was on.
What I have now is this: It will enter fastboot. When I prompt it to boot to recovery, it shuts down, or it will go to the unlocked bootloader warning screen, allow me to pause/continue booting, at which point it will either go directly to black, or briefly show the Google bootloader and then shut off. When I leave it on a charge, either trickle or full, it will sometimes loop through the unlocked bootloader warning, flicking that screen on and off, but sometimes it's just off. I never see the charging battery screen. I've left it to charge for hours.
Sometimes windows acknowledges a USB device is connected and that it's android, but at no point can I access storage. When working through a command line prompt, acknowledges that the device is there, but trying to flash anything fails immediately. Here is a sample of some of my results.
When trying the flash-all solution:
PHP:
Sending 'bootloader_b' (32480 KB) OKAY [ 1.779s]
Writing 'bootloader_b' FAILED (remote: 'Verify bootloader image failed on production device.')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Rebooting into bootloader OKAY [ 0.040s]
Finished. Total time: 0.044s
The device goes black. I'll bring it back up to fastboot and the command line spits this out:
PHP:
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'radio_b' (57156 KB) OKAY [ 3.785s]
Writing 'radio_b' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Rebooting into bootloader OKAY [ 0.199s]
Finished. Total time: 0.207s
Using fastboot to try and boot factory bootloader, it says it's worked but then the phone again just goes to black and does nothing:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot boot bootloader-marlin-8996-012001-1908071822.img
< waiting for any device >
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 33261568 bytes
Sending 'boot.img' (32482 KB) OKAY [ 2.100s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.531s]
Finished. Total time: 2.944s
Flashing that factory bootloader, seems successful, again, back to black screen and nothing until going back to fastboot:
PHP:
>> PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot boot bootloader-marlin-8996-012001-1908071822.img
>> < waiting for any device >
>> creating boot image...
>> creating boot image - 33261568 bytes
>> Sending 'boot.img' (32482 KB) OKAY [ 2.100s]
>> Booting OKAY [ 0.531s]
>> Finished. Total time: 2.944s
And finally, trying to push an update image over fastboot:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot update image-marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: N/A
Baseband Version.....: N/A
Serial Number........: HT6AD0202367
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product' OKAY [ 0.044s]
Checking 'version-bootloader' FAILED
Device version-bootloader is 'N/A'.
Update requires '8996-012001-1908071822'.
fastboot: error: requirements not met!
I am wondering if locking the bootloader would give this thing what it wants and let me boot into recovery, but I have a terrible feeling it would just further lock me out of saving this phone. Does anyone have any insight? Is this a shot motherboard? Sorry, I know my problem has a ton of commonalities with a lot of other people's but it seems for all my searching, reading and Googling that it's idiosyncratic to the point of every solution not working for me. Thank you so much.
Edit: For interest, I just saw the screen throw up an odd block of static, for lack of a better term. In the bottom right corner, it took up a little more than 1/4 of the screen. It looked lik there was cut off text at the top, too little showing to read. It disappeared before I could take a picture with a spare phone. It lasted maybe 5 seconds and then it was gone. It's on USB charge, not sitting on fastboot right now.
ekjean said:
Okay, I've seen similar problems to mine but none of the suggested solutions seem to work out the problem. This seems to be the recommended solution, but it's not getting me anywhere:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/info-how-restored-to-stock-soft-t3494478
My bootloader is unlocked. I unlocked it the second I got the phone to save pain down the road. I've now hit the fork. It's an unlocked phone, not Verizon, I'm not sure what the original carrier was, it was second-hand and under no warranty. I'm on Android 10 Marlin, I updated it to the latest about a month ago. I got up to do some laundry last night and came back to a spontaneously dead phone. For detail, I was transferring a movie to my phone via USB to internal storage so I could watch it later. No idea what happened while I was up, but the phone was in the exact same position as when I left. Developer options were on, USB debugging was on.
What I have now is this: It will enter fastboot. When I prompt it to boot to recovery, it shuts down, or it will go to the unlocked bootloader warning screen, allow me to pause/continue booting, at which point it will either go directly to black, or briefly show the Google bootloader and then shut off. When I leave it on a charge, either trickle or full, it will sometimes loop through the unlocked bootloader warning, flicking that screen on and off, but sometimes it's just off. I never see the charging battery screen. I've left it to charge for hours.
Sometimes windows acknowledges a USB device is connected and that it's android, but at no point can I access storage. When working through a command line prompt, acknowledges that the device is there, but trying to flash anything fails immediately. Here is a sample of some of my results.
When trying the flash-all solution:
PHP:
Sending 'bootloader_b' (32480 KB) OKAY [ 1.779s]
Writing 'bootloader_b' FAILED (remote: 'Verify bootloader image failed on production device.')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Rebooting into bootloader OKAY [ 0.040s]
Finished. Total time: 0.044s
The device goes black. I'll bring it back up to fastboot and the command line spits this out:
PHP:
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'radio_b' (57156 KB) OKAY [ 3.785s]
Writing 'radio_b' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Rebooting into bootloader OKAY [ 0.199s]
Finished. Total time: 0.207s
Using fastboot to try and boot factory bootloader, it says it's worked but then the phone again just goes to black and does nothing:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot boot bootloader-marlin-8996-012001-1908071822.img
< waiting for any device >
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 33261568 bytes
Sending 'boot.img' (32482 KB) OKAY [ 2.100s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.531s]
Finished. Total time: 2.944s
Flashing that factory bootloader, seems successful, again, back to black screen and nothing until going back to fastboot:
PHP:
>> PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot boot bootloader-marlin-8996-012001-1908071822.img
>> < waiting for any device >
>> creating boot image...
>> creating boot image - 33261568 bytes
>> Sending 'boot.img' (32482 KB) OKAY [ 2.100s]
>> Booting OKAY [ 0.531s]
>> Finished. Total time: 2.944s
And finally, trying to push an update image over fastboot:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot update image-marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: N/A
Baseband Version.....: N/A
Serial Number........: HT6AD0202367
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product' OKAY [ 0.044s]
Checking 'version-bootloader' FAILED
Device version-bootloader is 'N/A'.
Update requires '8996-012001-1908071822'.
fastboot: error: requirements not met!
I am wondering if locking the bootloader would give this thing what it wants and let me boot into recovery, but I have a terrible feeling it would just further lock me out of saving this phone. Does anyone have any insight? Is this a shot motherboard? Sorry, I know my problem has a ton of commonalities with a lot of other people's but it seems for all my searching, reading and Googling that it's idiosyncratic to the point of every solution not working for me. Thank you so much.
Edit: For interest, I just saw the screen throw up an odd block of static, for lack of a better term. In the bottom right corner, it took up a little more than 1/4 of the screen. It looked lik there was cut off text at the top, too little showing to read. It disappeared before I could take a picture with a spare phone. It lasted maybe 5 seconds and then it was gone. It's on USB charge, not sitting on fastboot right now.
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First, do not repeat do not lock your boot loader.
Second, try this:
- Make sure you have the latest SDK Platform-tools installed on your computer r29.0.5.
There is a link for it in the guide below (Prerequisites c.).
- Make sure you plug the USB into a non charging USB port.
- Extract the boot.img (#6 in the guide brlow) from the Factory image you are currently using and flash it:
fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
or
fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Guide
Homeboy76 said:
First, do not repeat do not lock your boot loader.
Second, try this:
- Make sure you have the latest SDK Platform-tools installed on your computer r29.0.5.
There is a link for it in the guide below (Prerequisites c.).
- Make sure you plug the USB into a non charging USB port.
- Extract the boot.img (#6 in the guide brlow) from the Factory image you are currently using and flash it:
fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
or
fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Guide
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Thank you thank you thank you for lending a hand. And for confirming that my temptation to lock the bootloader is a bad idea.
I have three ports on my laptop, I'm not sure any are non-charging. I'm selecting one that it wasn't attached to when the file transfer apparently went wrong.
Here goes nothing. I updated SDK tools last night during all this to be sure everything was kosher.
Unfortunately this was my result from all USB ports, testing both formats of the command:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.846s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.873s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.936s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.864s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.827s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.821s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed in SendBuffer() (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.939s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3>
ekjean said:
Thank you thank you thank you for lending a hand. And for confirming that my temptation to lock the bootloader is a bad idea.
I have three ports on my laptop, I'm not sure any are non-charging. I'm selecting one that it wasn't attached to when the file transfer apparently went wrong.
Here goes nothing. I updated SDK tools last night during all this to be sure everything was kosher.
Unfortunately this was my result from all USB ports, testing both formats of the command:
PHP:
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.846s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.873s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.936s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.864s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.827s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.821s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) FAILED (Write to device failed in SendBuffer() (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.939s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3>
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Are you using SDK Platform-tools r29.0.5?
Why? When you extract it it creates a Platform-tools folder.
Put this folder in PS C:\ so you have a
PS C:\Platform-tools folder.
Not: PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3>
That folder set up may be causing the to many links
error.
Then put the boot.img in the Platform-tools folder and do #6 in the guide.
Homeboy76 said:
Are you using SDK Platform-tools r29.0.5?
Why? When you extract it it creates a Platform-tools folder.
Put this folder in PS C:\ so you have a
PS C:\Platform-tools folder.
Not: PS C:\Google\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3-factory-bef66533\marlin-qp1a.191005.007.a3>
That folder set up may be causing the to many links
error.
Then put the boot.img in the Platform-tools folder and do #6 in the guide.
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I was still working from the soft-bricked guide, where I had a copy of fastboot/platform tools pasted to everthing else. Not a problem at all to move Platform tools to C:/ Thank you!
I have noticed that what I have is r29.0.6. Should I roll it back? Assuming I should have the newest, I get the same result...
PHP:
PS C:\platform-tools> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 1.729s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\platform-tools> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.788s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\platform-tools>
ekjean said:
I was still working from the soft-bricked guide, where I had a copy of fastboot/platform tools pasted to everthing else. Not a problem at all to move Platform tools to C:/ Thank you!
I have noticed that what I have is r29.0.6. Should I roll it back? Assuming I should have the newest, I get the same result...
PHP:
PS C:\platform-tools> fastboot flash boot --slot all boot.img
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 1.729s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\platform-tools> fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot all
Sending 'boot_a' (30969 KB) OKAY [ 0.788s]
Writing 'boot_a' FAILED (remote: 'flash write failure')
fastboot: error: Command failed
PS C:\platform-tools>
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No, do not roll back you have the latest version.
At this point I really don't know what will fix the problem but here are three long shots that might help/work:
1. Try fastboot flash boot boot.img. If that works. Do fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot other.
2. Download the latest Pixel or Pixel XL OTA image (which ever phone you have) and sideload it.
3. Do a Factory Reset. Settings => System => Advanced => Reset options => Erase all data (factory reset)
Good luck.
If none of them work, it could be a hardwear problem. Pixel/Pixel XL are failing because of age or manufacturing. I don't know which.
Homeboy76 said:
No, do not roll back you have the latest version.
At this point I really don't know what will fix the problem but hear are three long shots that might help/work:
1. Try fastboot flash boot boot.img. If that works. Do fastboot flash boot boot.img --slot other.
2. Download the latest Pixel or Pixel XL OTA image (which ever phone you have) and sideload it.
3. Do a Factory Reset. Settings => System => Advanced => Reset options => Erase all data (factory reset)
Good luck.
If none of them work, it could be a hardwear problem. Pixel/Pixel XL are failing because of age or manufacturing. I don't know which.
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Sadly, anything that requires ADB/recovery is cut off to me, and so is anything that requires the actual OS interface, so accessing settings and factory resetting is out, and so is sideloading. All I can work from is fastboot.
The final option you had gave me another write failure. Thank you for working with me on this - this is my favorite phone I've ever had, and it may be time to eulogize it. I appreciate all you ran me through. <3
ekjean said:
Sadly, anything that requires ADB/recovery is cut off to me, and so is anything that requires the actual OS interface, so accessing settings and factory resetting is out, and so is sideloading. All I can work from is fastboot.
The final option you had gave me another write failure. Thank you for working with me on this - this is my favorite phone I've ever had, and it may be time to eulogize it. I appreciate all you ran me through. <3
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RIP Pixel/Pixel XL!
hey bruh, try to cooling it in the freezer, my pixel xl turned on that way, give it a shot
@mateodiaz802 said:
hey bruh, try to cooling it in the freezer, my pixel xl turned on that way, give it a shot
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Maybe I will! Did it stay on?
it will stay on the enough time to recover your data
@mateodiaz802 said:
hey bruh, try to cooling it in the freezer, my pixel xl turned on that way, give it a shot
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I'm afraid in my case this was the death blow. Let out a few buzzes when attempting to power into fastboot, flashed a red light at the top and then nothing. She was euthanized by freezer around 5PM, 3/2/20, went quietly into that good night surrounded by friends and family at home. RIP Pixel.
did you cover the phone holes like the charging port and aux jack? I forgot to mention because I thought it was obvious
@mateodiaz802 said:
did you cover the phone holes like the charging port and aux jack? I forgot to mention because I thought it was obvious
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I wrapped 'er in plastic wrap before putting it in. So it would've been covered. Oh well, stuff happens. Funny thing, I tried it again just to see. It started vibrating and hasn't stopped. XD
i covered the holes with tape, it's more effective, also you should try booting it with "start" optino from the bootloader
Hello,
I'm a beginner in the field of flasing custom roms but I would really like to abandon using google on my phone and find your work here really awesome. So yeah, I hope my question doesn't sound stupid but I'm seriously stuck and hope I didn't completely break my phone.
I am using a Redmi Note 8 (2021) and wanted to flash lineageOS. So I unlocked the bootloader via my mi account, booted into fastboot mode (usb-debugging was of course enabled) and tried to flash twrp to recovery using the cmd-window via platform-tools.
This didn't work because when I typed:
./fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
I got the reply:
Sending 'recovery' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.743s]
Writing 'recovery' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
I therefore started googling and found a threat on xda where someone had solved the problem by replacing 'recovery' with 'boot':
./fastboot flash boot twrp.img
What I got was:
Sending 'boot_a' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.818s]
Writing 'boot_a' OKAY [ 0.827s]
Finished. Total time: 2.681s
After that my phone was bricked. I cannot enter recovery mode anymore and even fastboot mode appears a bit different (I don't see the bunny anymore, all I see is the word 'fastboot' in orange letters on a black screen). When I enter fastboot mode, the device is detected by my computer - the only sign that still gives me an inch of hope. When I'm not in fastboot mode my phone keeps vibrating and then turning of, then suddenly it vibrates again and turns on, the logo 'redmi' appears and then it suddenly turns off again - and it just keeps repeating this procedure.
I downloaded the mi flash tool and tried to flash the Xiaomi ROM, but that didn't work either - after about five minutes of waiting I get an error. I tried different versions of MIUI but keep getting errors. When I try to flash the Xiaomi ROM via cmd-window, as suggested here ( https://www.droidwin.com/unbrick-redmi-note-8-fastboot-commands/ ) I get this:
fastboot flash xbl xbl.elf
Sending 'xbl' (3449 KB) OKAY [ 0.105s]
Writing 'xbl' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Is there anything left for me to do or should I give up and save money for a new phone? I am also wondering why the command-window keeps talking about 'boot_a'. Is there a 'boot-b' also? And should I write something onto it? When I try to boot the twrp.img by typing:
fastboot boot twrp.img
I get:
Sending 'boot.img' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.592s]
Booting FAILED (Status read failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
I would be very, very grateful for help
Try this
https://www.getdroidtips.com/twrp-recovery-redmi-note-8-2021-root/
I guess you have used a wrong recovery file, maybe one for another device
The problem is that the command 'flash recovery' does not work, because it says th partition does not exist....
Norah1838 said:
I am using a Redmi Note 8 (2021)
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wrong forum ! , see Biloba forum
on some devices, boot+recovery are on the same partition, but not for Biloba
boot partition (+dtbo on some cases) is the kernel
i think you should look for official install of miui rom since it has IMG of most partitions ...
Hello,
I'm a beginner in the field of flasing custom roms but I would really like to abandon using google on my phone and find your work here really awesome. So yeah, I hope my question doesn't sound stupid but I'm seriously stuck and hope I didn't completely break my phone.
I am using a Redmi Note 8 (2021) and wanted to flash lineageOS. So I unlocked the bootloader via my mi account, booted into fastboot mode (usb-debugging was of course enabled) and tried to flash twrp to recovery using the cmd-window via platform-tools.
This didn't work because when I typed:
./fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
I got the reply:
Sending 'recovery' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.743s]
Writing 'recovery' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
I therefore started googling and found a threat on xda where someone had solved the problem by replacing 'recovery' with 'boot':
./fastboot flash boot twrp.img
What I got was:
Sending 'boot_a' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.818s]
Writing 'boot_a' OKAY [ 0.827s]
Finished. Total time: 2.681s
After that my phone was bricked. I cannot enter recovery mode anymore and even fastboot mode appears a bit different (I don't see the bunny anymore, all I see is the word 'fastboot' in orange letters on a black screen). When I enter fastboot mode, the device is detected by my computer - the only sign that still gives me an inch of hope. When I'm not in fastboot mode my phone keeps vibrating and then turning of, then suddenly it vibrates again and turns on, the logo 'redmi' appears and then it suddenly turns off again - and it just keeps repeating this procedure.
I downloaded the mi flash tool and tried to flash the Xiaomi ROM, but that didn't work either - after about five minutes of waiting I get an error. I tried different versions of MIUI but keep getting errors. When I try to flash the Xiaomi ROM via cmd-window, as suggested here ( https://www.droidwin.com/unbrick-redmi-note-8-fastboot-commands/ ) I get this:
fastboot flash xbl xbl.elf
Sending 'xbl' (3449 KB) OKAY [ 0.105s]
Writing 'xbl' FAILED (remote: 'This partition doesn't exist')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Is there anything left for me to do or should I give up and save money for a new phone? I am also wondering why the command-window keeps talking about 'boot_a'. Is there a 'boot-b' also? And should I write something onto it? When I try to boot the twrp.img by typing:
fastboot boot twrp.img
I get:
Sending 'boot.img' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.592s]
Booting FAILED (Status read failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
I would be very, very grateful for help
Norah1838 said:
Hello,
I'm a beginner in the field of flasing custom roms but I would really like to abandon using google on my phone and find your work here really awesome. So yeah, I hope my question doesn't sound stupid but I'm seriously stuck and hope I didn't completely break my phone.
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Use this tool:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/flash-tool-guide-use-xiaomi-flash-tool.4262425/
First off: don't go punching in commands you don't understand.
You literally flashed an incompatible image to your boot_a.
You could try and set the active partition to b using: fastboot --set-active=b.
Other option, if you have the firmware image for your boot partition, flash that image to boot_a.
you only need to flash the original boot.img from firmware lol it's so easy