@Catrine I think that it would be OK to experiment as we were doing last night but in light of
and
I did a bit more research … perhaps for our next endeavour (??) … I introduce
Hypothetical department
If considering an early version of platform tools maybe required around a date during Nexus development of Oreo (??)
These bullhead downloads have been inspected
Aug 25 2016 bullhead-mtc20k # leading m Marshmallow No "if" clause
Sep 27 2016 bullhead-nbd90w # leading n Nougat No "if" clause
Aug 18 2017 bullhead-opr6.170623.013 # leading o Oreo No "if" clause
Nov 21 2018 bullhead-opm7.181205.001 # leading o Oreo "if" clause is seen
Possible contemporaneous platform-tools to experiment with
For reliable links to specific platform-tools releases please try GitHub - awake558/adb-win: adb.exe fastboot.exe
28.0.0 (June 2018) This revision concentrated on Pie
27.0.1 (December 2017)
27.0.0 (December 2017)
26.0.2 (October 2017) Add fastboot support for Pixel 2 devices.
26.0.1 (September 2017)
26.0.0 (June 2017) Updated with the release of Android Oreo final SDK (API level 26).