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gabx

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From: Geneva, Switzerland

Registered: 2011-11-20

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[SOLVED]fastbbot flashall command broken

My issue is widely reported on internet, but I couldn't find an answer (except a poor quality cable). Here is my issue.
I have GrapheneOS rom installed on my device, and /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules installed by arch linux.
I can run the following basic commands:

% adb devices
List of devices attached
29231JEGR05502  device
% fastboot devices
29231JEGR05502   fastboot
% lsusb
Bus 002 Device 036: ID 18d1:4ee7 Google Inc. Nexus/Pixel Device (charging + debug)

there is no issues with the above commands. Now, when in fastboot mode, I want to flash an OTA zip.

% export ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT=extracted  <-- extracted is a folder in my current directory
% ls -al extracted
total 1.6G
drwxr-xr-x 1 gabx gabx  152 Dec  9 04:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 gabx gabx  120 Dec  9 06:21 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx   22 Dec  9 04:47 android-info.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx  64M Dec  9 04:47 boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx  278 Dec  9 04:47 fastboot-info.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx 1.5G Dec  9 04:47 system.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx 8.0K Dec  9 04:47 vbmeta.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabx gabx  64M Dec  9 04:47 vendor_boot.img
 % fastboot flashall --skip-reboot
< waiting for any device >

and this message will stay for age until I stop the command.

Cany anyone help me to solve this issue? Why the fastboot flashall command can't find the device?

Last edited by gabx (2025-12-09 07:48:10)

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: [SOLVED]fastbbot flashall command broken

sanity check: is the phone actual in the fastboot menu?
what happens when you manual reboot the phone into fastboot and only connect the cable when fastboot waits for it? IIRC last time I did a flash (years ago, windows) I was prompted to attach the cable only after a specific point so the flash could hook right into the initialization

gabx

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From: Geneva, Switzerland

Registered: 2011-11-20

Posts: 244

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Re: [SOLVED]fastbbot flashall command broken

The content of the extracted folder was far from being completed, thus the impossibility for fastboot to flash and its wait status

bam

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Registered: 2022-01-03

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED]fastbbot flashall command broken

Got the same problem. @gabx how did you solve it?

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED]fastbbot flashall command broken

The content of the extracted folder was far from being completed

gabx probably waited until the extraction had completed and then tried again.

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