[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techy121592:
I have bricked my Pixel C :crying: when I was trying to restore it back to how it was when I got it from the factory, because my girlfriend has been using it lately and complained about the message when booting. I thought maybe all I have to do is a factory reset, but that only wiped the data, so I foolishly :silly: figured this would be extremely easy, all I would have to do is pull down the newest factory image and flash it using the included script. That failed when trying to flash the bootloader saying something like "unknown command" sorry, didn't capture the exact wording, but that is pretty close. After that I rebooted the device and it wouldn't boot, as you could've guessed from me posting, instead it sat at the google screen. I left it for the night because for all I know, it was encrypting stuff or something.

I can still get to the custom recovery(TWRP) and fastboot, but I can't get into actual android. I tried applying an OTA update through TWRP after that figuring it will have access, but now instead of hanging at the google logo, I get bounced over to the recovery system.

At this point, I decided I need to slow down and do some more research, maybe even reach out for help. Could you guys help me troubleshoot my/soon to be my girlfriend's tablet? You can find the output of fastboot getvar all below, I can see mismatched versions and secure set to yes, but unlocked set to yes. I don't know what to be concerned about or what to do(I was about to research how to set the secure flag to no, but I realized how deep this hole is becoming.) :eek:

(bootloader) version: 0.3
(bootloader) version-bootloader: Google_Smaug.7900.27.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: N/A
(bootloader) product: dragon
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) max-download-size: 0x10000000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:kernel-a: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:kernel-b: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:kernel: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:system-a: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:vendor: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:vendor-a: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:data: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:metadata: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:lnx: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:misc: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:persistent: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:system-b: ext4
(bootloader) partition-type:vendor-b: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:kernel-a: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:kernel-b: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:kernel: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0xe0000000
(bootloader) partition-size:system-a: 0xe0000000
(bootloader) partition-size:vendor: 0x13000000
(bootloader) partition-size:vendor-a: 0x13000000
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x19000000
(bootloader) partition-size:data: 0xd76b00000
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0xd76b00000
(bootloader) partition-size:metadata: 0x4000000
(bootloader) partition-size:lnx: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-size:misc: 0x400000
(bootloader) partition-size:persistent: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-size:chromeos: 0xe8f800000
(bootloader) partition-size:mbr: 0x200
(bootloader) partition-size:gpt: 0x4200
(bootloader) partition-size:RO_SECTION: 0x3f0000
(bootloader) partition-size:RO_VPD: 0x10000
(bootloader) partition-size:RW_SECTION_A: 0x580000
(bootloader) partition-size:RW_SECTION_B: 0x580000
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x1000000
(bootloader) unlocked: yes
(bootloader) off-mode-charge: 1
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4319 mV
(bootloader) variant:
(bootloader) battery-soc-ok: yes
(bootloader) Bdev-size:mmc: 62537072640
(bootloader) Bdev-size:flash: 16777216
(bootloader) Gbb-flags: 0x0
(bootloader) Oem-version:RO: Google_Smaug.7132.226.0
(bootloader) Oem-version:RW_A: Google_Smaug.7900.27.0
(bootloader) Oem-version:RW_B: Google_Smaug.7900.27.0
all: Done!
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