Help needed, installing stock firmware on a LG / Google Nexus 5X (bullhead)”

Catrine · January 16, 2025, 7:38pm

F***k
I get a popup window and the accept button is below my screen

I have a very small computer and the popup is bigger than my screen

See ?

aibd · January 16, 2025, 7:41pm

Is this on newly installed Chrome ? or before that ?

Does Ctrl and minus change resolution ?

Catrine · January 16, 2025, 7:43pm

Yeah its ok l managed to get through

Sorry for that…

Catrine · January 16, 2025, 7:47pm

No devices found

Manually add a new device ?

aibd · January 16, 2025, 7:50pm

And is it not prepared to look for the phone in Fastboot mode ?

Catrine · January 16, 2025, 7:52pm

The device was not able to be opened
So l unplugged then replugged the phone but same

aibd · January 17, 2025, 9:10am

I think you may have tried this before … but just to run through.

From the page in Post # 2, with Acknowledge at the foot, one would search for bullhead and then choose the latest build which I find as

8.1.0 (OPM7.181205.001, Dec 2018) Link

Download the link, I suggest to a new folder in your home directory.

From your file manager right click on the download and use “Extract here”

Before moving on, double check that from a terminal you can

cd (change directory) to the new folder and then
cd into the extracted folder
ls (list) and you find the same

as here

~$ cd TEST-bullhead/
~/TEST-bullhead$ cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001/
~/TEST-bullhead/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$ ls
bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img  flash-base.sh
flash-all.bat                   image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip
flash-all.sh                    radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.42.5.03.img

The final step is to boot the phone to fastboot mode …

check that the phone identifies itself with

fastboot devices

then run the flash all script with the command

./flash-all.sh

piero · January 17, 2025, 11:55am

as i remember Android Flash Tool don’t support this device (too old)

Android Flash Tool supports these devices:

Pixel 2 and newer

DragonBoard RB3 (also known as db845c)

HiKey 960

HiKey

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 7:19pm

hello
seems l have a problem here after l downloaded the file asked above and put it in a folder l called Bull in my folder Downloads

l tried the cd command and l get this… but maybe l am doing it wrong ?

I tried few locations and l get this

cate@cate-1011PX:~$ cd Bull
bash: cd: Bull: No such file or directory
cate@cate-1011PX:~$ cd bull
bash: cd: bull: No such file or directory
cate@cate-1011PX:~$ cd downloads
bash: cd: downloads: No such file or directory
cate@cate-1011PX:~$ cd home
bash: cd: home: No such file or directory
cate@cate-1011PX:~$

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 7:23pm

so now l try open a terminal in my folder Bull and do ls and then l see this ;

cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull$ ls
bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84
bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84.zip
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull$

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 7:34pm

aibd:

~$ cd TEST-bullhead/
~/TEST-bullhead$ cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001/
~/TEST-bullhead/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$ ls
bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img  flash-base.sh
flash-all.bat                   image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip
flash-all.sh

I should see this if lm getting that right …?

aibd · January 17, 2025, 8:13pm

Now you would change into the “extracted” directory

cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84

then

ls

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 8:23pm

cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull$ cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84$ ls
bullhead-opm7.181205.001
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84$

aibd · January 17, 2025, 8:36pm

So try

cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001

ls

If that turns out not to work, please try

ls -al

from a prompt at

~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84$

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 8:41pm

I get this with your two commands

cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84$ cd bullhead-opm7.181205.001

ls
bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img flash-base.sh
flash-all.bat image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip
flash-all.sh radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.42.5.03.img
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$ ls -al
total 1065828
drwxr-xr-x 2 cate cate 4096 nov. 21 2018 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 cate cate 4096 janv. 17 20:12 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 cate cate 4720884 nov. 21 2018 bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img
-rw-r–r-- 1 cate cate 977 nov. 21 2018 flash-all.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cate cate 932 nov. 21 2018 flash-all.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cate cate 878 nov. 21 2018 flash-base.sh
-rw-r–r-- 1 cate cate 1028666321 nov. 21 2018 image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip
-rw-r–r-- 1 cate cate 57989632 nov. 21 2018 radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.42.5.03.img
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$

aibd · January 17, 2025, 8:50pm

So you have the six required files including flash-all.sh

viz

bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img  flash-base.sh
flash-all.bat                   image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip
flash-all.sh                    radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.42.5.03.img

So you are ready for

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 8:54pm

~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$ fastboot devices
0271e789ba5bb3a3 fastboot
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$ ./flash-all.sh
fastboot too old
cate@cate-1011PX:~/Downloads/Bull/bullhead-opm7.181205.001-factory-5f189d84/bullhead-opm7.181205.001$

fastboot too old

aibd · January 17, 2025, 9:25pm

OK … of course this is untested, but your it seems that your “older” phone and build is not recognising the modern fastboot which comes with this adb version.

You might want to sleep on whether you think this is a good idea, but seems fairly safe to me as the phone appears unusable as is … maybe you think this would only be a last resort (??).

Please open flash-all.sh in a text editor and SaveAs flash-all-original.sh in the original location.

Below is a modified flash-all.sh where there is no check for fastboot version.

Should you choose to proceed

copy and paste my modified flash-all.sh below into your text editor
and SaveAs flash-all.sh in the original location.

Review: you have replaced the Google flash-all.sh by the aibd flash-all.sh.

flash-all.sh without fastboot version check

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright 2012 The Android Open Source Project
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#### Edited by aibd - hash out lines 17,18,19,20
#if ! grep -q dtbo.sig $(which fastboot); then
#  echo "fastboot too old"
#  exit 1
#fi
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-bullhead-bhz32c.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.42.5.03.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot -w update image-bullhead-opm7.181205.001.zip

Now run with the modified script by

chmod +x flash-all.sh

followed by

./flash-all.sh

Xxpsilon · January 17, 2025, 9:55pm

The latest version is not always the most advantageous, especially for older devices. Try platform version 34.0.5 or older…

Catrine · January 17, 2025, 10:14pm

it says the same
fastboot too old