Since the last OTA update, my Pixel XL is unusable in that it’s stuck in a bootloop and there is no way to load a custom recovery (TWRP). Details of that ordeal can be found here.
fastboot is the only command I can use (adb is unusable due to the bootloop). I went to use @Chimpthepimp 's HOW-TOfastboot flash, but when I unzip e-1.0-r-20220527188878-dev-marlin.zip I don’t see any of the .img that are listed in the HOW-TO.
Does someone know where I can access the .img files?
Easiest route would be to restore your phone to stock android 10. Google makes this easy for pixels!
Simply download the last build for marlin from this page and follow the section entitled Flashing Instructions. It’s all done in fastboot mode.
The beauty of it is that the script will flash both slots.
When the script is running it will do all the work, don’t touch anything on the phone until it has finished. The screen may go on and off a couple of times (it does on pixel 5, might be slightly different on marlin), you may be tempted to think it’s finished, just sit tight and it may reboot itself when finished or prompt you to reboot.
Copy and paste the terminal output into a text file when finished, it will act as a log just in case anything needs investigating.
Afterwards you will need to reset usb debugging etc on the phone before installing eos again.
The best way to recover your device is to flash the original firmware (from Google) as the other user told you.
And when you have your device working again, if you want you can flash eOS from TWRP.
About your question, where are the .IMG inside the .ZIP of eOS? They are inside the payload.bin file, which you will have to unpack. There is a very simple utility written in PYTHON that is able to extract the content of the payload.bin files (vendor.img, boot.img, system.img).
Thanks @chrisrg . I’m not ignoring your advice, just trying one last ditch effort to get back into the OS before I wipe everything out. I will implement the stock image as you suggested…soon
@LEPT yes, I’ll do the stock Android install. Thank you for the utility suggestion. My prior attempts with WinRAR & 7-Zip to crack open the .bin were false starts. Do you recall the name of the utility?
@aibdpayload.bin is the only file with any data in it. Just need to crack it open to extract the .img files.