Hi everybody.
I’m new here this is my 1st post.
I’m ready to jump to /e/OS on a Pixel 4a but just to be sure before installing:
There is a warning here saying : Make sure that you can send and receive SMS and place and receive calls (also via WiFi and LTE, if available), otherwise it will not work on /e/OS as well. Additionally, some devices require that VoLTE/VoWiFi be utilized once on stock to provision IMS.
My phone has been reset, it’s on Android 13 with NO SIM card.
I was planning to use a eSIM (Bcengi travel eSIM) after installing /e/OS.
Can you please confirm that it won’t be possible later and I’ve to do it now.
Soory to ask confirmation even if the warning is clear enough but I’m really surprised by that.
But after that was not able to boot in recovery mode. For a very long time (about 15 minutes or more) the device was booting with the big blue G and a animated progress bar under. I tried to stop it by pressing power button for 60s but nothing happen and now it is blocked displaying “Google” I also had a message saying the device is corrupted
Here are some pictures
I messed things up a lot and probably messed things up on this phone. I can’t retrace everything that happened, but basically: I was stuck in a bootloop, always returning to the boot screen with the Google logo.
What got me out was finding the following combination: Press and hold the power and volume down buttons simultaneously for 15 seconds. As soon as the screen went black, release them, then press volume down again. This brought me back to the fastboot screen, and I restarted the process by flashing the recovery, eventually reaching the /e/OS recovery mode, etc.
So everything’s good now; I’m going to explore /e/OS at my leisure.
by reading help on the web (an some IA help)