Please help in finalizing pix 8 installation

Hi,
I fear I was too ambitious for my litle knowledge. I am trying install via terminal on a pix 8 and i am stuck… thank you for your patience.

  • I was able to downgrade to android 14
  • i downloaded installation file and recovery
  • i enabled OEM unlock
  • I unlocked the fastboot
  • i reenabled USB debugging
    If i understand well, I should be now ready to flash the recovery.
    instruction asks to previously “reboot into bootloader or download mode” by pressing vol down+ power.
    The phone boots and shows " restart bootloader" next to the power button and a red warning sign over “fastboot mode”.

…Here i’m getting confused

  • is the phone in download mode or in fastboot mode? or is the same thing?
  • once the previous point is cleared i should come back to the terminal and flash the boot, dtbo and vendor kernel files, right?

sorry for asking trivia and thank you for your time and help

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Merci beaucoup Piero!

another question if i may. I proceeded with the following steps, i successfully flashed the 3 files and installed the recovery.

now trying to install e os via adb and got this error

./adb sideload /Users/adm/Documents/SOFTWARE\ E\ OS\ PIXEL\ 8/e-2.6.3-u-20241217455359-official-shiba.zip.cpgz
adb: sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
adb: trying pre-KitKat sideload method…
adb: pre-KitKat sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
MacBook-Pro:platform-tools adm$

thank you for your help

the device don’t react to adb commands when the device is in fastboot mode, but only when it is in normal mode or recovery mode

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after flashed the needed partitions and the recovery-e.img, you need to reboot the device into recovery mode

mh guss i am missing something …the phone is indeed in recovery mode… I wiped out the phone (factory reset) then booted in recovery, selected apply update and than back to the terminal to flash the e os.
At this point i got the error mentioned in my previous msg…

“spaces” and "\" in the command looks incorrect,

do you mean

./adb sideload /Users/adm/Documents/SOFTWARE/E/OS/PIXEL/8/e-2.6.3-u-20241217455359-official-shiba.zip

?

mince…

non it did’nt help

./adb sideload /Users/adm/Documents/SOFTWARE\ E\ OS\ PIXEL\ 8/e-2.6.3-u-20241217455359-official-shiba.zip
adb: sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
adb: trying pre-KitKat sideload method…
adb: pre-KitKat sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
MacBook-Pro:platform-tools adm$

TROUVÉ!
advance settings → enable adb

now installing :slight_smile:

Merci encore, ça devrait etre bon d’ici.

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