Hello, I’m just trying to get off the ground with e/OS and try it out for a while. I bought a Pixel 7 off ebay -been an iphone user until now- and I’m trying to get through the installation. Using Chromium on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 on my old Macbook Air for what it’s worth. I keep getting to step 10/21 and the bootloader connection keeps throwing up an error.
Error on step: connect-bootloader
Cannot execute command connect bootloader
The device is not connected Failed to connect: Cannot connect Bootloader
Proposal: Check connection and that no other program is using the phone and retry.
I’ve tried it 4 or 5 times and still the same error. I realised it could be that I am actually on A16 but the on flash.android.com I come to a very similar looking error whilst my phone is on the ‘Fastboot Mode’ screen.
Action required to continue
Failed to connect to your device. Try disconnecting and reconnecting it.
And yet again, nothing I do seems to get it to connect the device. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on? I can take a photo of the bootloader / Fastboot Mode screen in you need. Its black with mostly white text.
Thanks in advance for any help. I’m really looking forward to trying it out as I’ve been on a bit of an anti-big-tech wave for a couple months, hence running Mint on my old laptop.
The Pixel 7 has to be on Android 15 for the install to work. Not sure if you can roll back the Pixel 7 from 16 to 15. I think they have implemented anti roll back from 16 forward (Google that is).
--------- From Google Website ------------ Warning: The May 2025 update for Pixel 6 (6, 6 Pro, 6a) and Pixel 8 (8, 8 Pro, 8a) devices contains a bootloader update that increments the anti-roll back version for the bootloader. This prevents the device from rolling back to previous vulnerable versions of the bootloader. After flashing the May 2025 update on these devices you won’t be able to flash and boot older Android 15 builds. ----------------------------------------------------------
The Rollback should possible to Android 15. Please try that before attempting another try. I would also recommend you not to use the /e/OS installer since for me it never worked but it also did for lots of others. If you ask me, for more of them it didn’t
I’ve tried the same thing with Ubuntu. It didn’t work through the web installation. Luckily, I have Windows on dual boot. I was able to use them without any problems with the web installation.
I only tried on Linux, maybe all the successful ones happend on Windows. Although on Windows the drivers (sometimes 3 of them, during different stages and sometimes need manual action) can also be a hinderanca
Hey, sorted it thanks to using a different computer, a mac. I think it might have been because I was using an old laptop that doesnt have usb 3.0 or later ports. Not sure, either way. Sorted. Thanks for the help.
Trust is good, verifying it is better