Hello everybody,
Nice to find more people here trying to keep their privacy!
Although I’ve been spending already 2 weeks, 5231million hours and 3 minutes on trying to get /e/ installed on my specially for this aim bought Oneplus 6, I consider myself as a complete newb, a noob, a dummy and a nono. It feels like being “flashed” into a new galaxy of phone-hacking-pirates where everybody speaks a language I don’t understand.
But it feels good, this is the way to go.
I needed all the How-to’s on the internet to get this far: the phone got stuck in a fastboot-loop: can’t even be powered off, can’t get recovery on,
etcetera. So I managed to get to this part of the Howto where it went wrong, I guess,
** Sideload the /e/ .zip package:*
** On the device, select “Advanced”, “ADB Sideload”, then swipe to begin sideload.*
** On the host machine, sideload the package using:*
```
adb sideload filename.zip* ```
I don’t remember at what step exactly I ended in this fastboot-loop, I’m sorry. I guess I was too excited seeing things happening in the right direction.
So now I think this is what they mean with “bricked”?
Spending another few hours on finding a way out, even trying to understand some french and german workarounds I found only a solution for Window-pc’s, but I have linux Ubuntu 18.04.3. so I finally thought “let’s ask for some help!”
HELLLP
Some info I saved for “you never know”, maybe somebody finds something:
l@l-Latitude-E6500:~/Bureaublad/platform-tools$ fastboot devices
d8fb360a fastboot
l@l-Latitude-E6500:~/Bureaublad/platform-tools$ fastboot flash recovery ./twrp.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending ‘recovery’ (28980 KB)…
OKAY [ 1.364s]
writing ‘recovery’…
FAILED (remote: (recovery_b) No such partition)
finished. total time: 1.366s
l@l-Latitude-E6500:~/Bureaublad/platform-tools$
Sorry, but your post is to long for me for reading on mobile phone. So it could be that you have tried my solution. But if not, try this:
Boot in twrp
Wipe system, data, cache, davlik
Format data
Reboot to recovery again
Tranfer eOS.zip via file explorer or adb push to your device
Flash eOS once more via twrp
Reboot system
Thanks a lot for helping, realy appreciate your help!
Output:
l@l-Latitude-E6500:~/Bureaublad/platform-tools$ fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.3.1-2-enchilada.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending ‘recovery’ (28980 KB)…
OKAY [ 1.281s]
writing ‘recovery’…
FAILED (remote: (recovery_b) No such partition)
finished. total time: 1.282s
l@l-Latitude-E6500:~/Bureaublad/platform-tools$
Thank you @harvey186 I’m glad you said it. Can you please make sure that this gets into the /e/ documentation is changed. Your voice will be heard at the appropriate place.
This device seems to have a special installation procedure, as described here : https://twrp.me/oneplus/oneplus6.html
In short, TWRP flash should be done in TWRP himself, having the image somewhere in phone’s storage.
There is a screenshot in the XDA support thread.
