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[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Salval:
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[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] dbrohrer:
They just haven't updated that yet. The system images are available for the 2 and 2 XL so it certainly is for our devices.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] clnzx2:
I have flashed 8.1 on my XL but it seems to just sit at the Google logo. Verified the checksum so I know the download is fine. Any ideas?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] lucky_strike33:
How long you been waiting at the google logo? May take awhile for it to load up
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] clnzx2:
20 minutes+
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kachaffeous:
It doesn't show my new Pixel XL 2 in the ota beta list, just my old Pixel XL.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] vansmack:
OTA's are not ready yet for the 2 line - they require manual flash.

But, for what it's worth, I (re)enrolled my OG Pixel and the OTA has not dropped yet.

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OTA's are not ready yet for the 2 line - they require manual flash.

But, for what it's worth, I (re)enrolled my OG Pixel and the OTA has not dropped yet.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] lucky_strike33:
That's kinda long
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] beerbaronstatic:
Images seem bad, flashed successfully and get a device corrupt error. Flash back to 8.0 and things work just fine again. No luck flashing the OTA as well from 8.0 (OPD1.170816.010)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] clnzx2:
Same here
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] PhoenixPath:
Color me three!

Whew...thought I had a bunk device.

Welp.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] mngdew:
Is it stable? Anything annoying?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] apristel:
Is HDR processing faster as they say it should be?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Eckless:
To those asking "is it stable" or "what's changed" - I don't believe anybody has successfully gotten 8.1 on their Pixel 2 XL yet. I'm with those above who get the red "corrupt" screen and then essentially hangs on a google logo. I went back to the bootloader to reinstall 8.0.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Empty Hand:
Has anyone tried sideloading the ota file?

https://developer.android.com/preview/download-ota.html
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] onilink67:
Pixel 2 XL is in the beta list now for the enrollment. I haven't received the update yet though
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
It boots
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] edd247:
OTA or factory image?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] techstudio:
Has anyone grabbed the ota link yet?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jbarcus81:
Anyone notice unlocking has a noticable delay? I thought it was just unlocking with my fingerprint being delayed. Using the power button... Sometimes there's pretty serious lag.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] h0l:
Same here. One time the phone froze completely, I had to hard reset it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] steviemch:
No lag for me with power button or fingerprint.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] h0l:
This might me a bug with ambient display. Once I turned it off, the problem was gone. Do you have ambient display turned on?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] steviemch:
Yeah I have ambient display on without causing lag issues, though if your problem is gone after switching it off it seems likely it has something to do with it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] km00000:
I've been trying to flash the image using the flash-all.bat script. Even left the '-w' in. Now my device is bootlooping. Shows the "device is corrupt screen". Then tries to reboot.

Please help!!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] dbrohrer:
Adb / fastboot drivers up to date? Older drivers can cause boot loop.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] km00000:
I just reflashed dp1 and everything worked... then let it update using the ota and it worked. I have no idea why it was bootlooping. Unless the dp2 image was corrupted or something.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] bigv5150:
I'm on Dp2 beta tester we should get the new Ota right due to Dec update.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] foosion:
DP2 will be upgraded to final. The only question is when this will happen.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] bigv5150:
Thanks I just tried to update with the Ota zip using adb side download and it aborted at 47% with some package incompatible error
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
Ota probably. I honestly don't remember. I flashed everything manually and it booted. previously i got that red corrupt screen and stuck at the white google screen.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
how did you remedy the corrupt screen?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
Flashed everything. It's about 20 files maybe. Takes about 5 minutes. I used the ota.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
hmmmmm.

factory images are 3 files to flash.

ota is one file.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
I have everything extracted. I can't seem to attach pictures like before.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] eqbirvin:
I tried sideloading but still got an error
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
everything is extracted.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] beerbaronstatic:
This appeared to work for me as well, very strange but at least it boots unlike using fastboot update
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
what exactly did you do to flash back to 8.0? I did that successfully, but still got the corrupt device and then boot to google screen, cant get back to a working OS.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Eckless:
beerbaronstatic - so you used the full image, took all of the files out of the .zip file in the image (which appears to be about 20 files - it used to be 4 or 5) and just fastboot updated each of those 20 files individually?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] beerbaronstatic:
fastboot flash whatever whatever.img for all of the files. It's up and running, verified to be version 8.1.0 in about
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
OK, for the record, you used the factory images, NOT the OTA.

once you extracted the original files which include the bootloader and radio files (and flashed those), you ALSO extracted the image file zip (image-taimen-opp5.170921.005.zip) then flashed all of those files individually.

This worked for me as well.

Mine however failed writing system_other, but now boots fine into the beta.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] JedixJarf:
That's what she said.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] gettingerr:
I think the flashing issue has something to do with secure boot. If you notice, when you use flash-all, secure boot turns green on the bootloader screen. Not sure what it means since I'm not a dev, but it definitely doesn't turn green when I flash all files individually, which lets me boot.

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In other news, this update appears to break the Andromeda/Substratum possibility. States that it cannot fall back to root mode, and the "Theme" setting no longer exists in the settings app.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] chazall1:
This is all you need to fastboot flash to get back to stock.

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-marlin-*.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio radio-marlin-*.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash boot_a boot.img (Flash to active slot) a or b

fastboot flash system_a system.img (Flash to active slot) a or b

fastboot flash system_b system_other.img (flash to the inactive slot)

fastboot flash vendor vendor.img (Flash to active slot) a or b

fastboot flash modem modem.img (Flash to active slot) a or b

fastboot reboot

Used this on this device and the 1st Pixel XL
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
I cannot flash any bootloader. Dev preview or Sept. security update. Gives a critical error. remote Cannot flash critical partitions. I also tried to boot into recovery mode. There isn't any recovery? Gives a no command message. Latest Sept. platform tools. This device is awesome. LOL
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
fastboot flashing unlock_critical

once at the no command screen press vol up + power button to enter recovery
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] clnzx2:
Did you unlock bootloader and critical?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
I didn't do critical. We never had to do that before? Did we?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
no, thats why it pays to read the manual ;)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
Well thank you very much. Just when you think you have it down, Google comes up with something else.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] hammer7t:
Those that have updated successfully to 8.1, do you see any improvements or remediations for any of the screen issues?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] gettingerr:
The navbar dims after a few seconds in an app and also changes colors to match the app that's open. Not sure if this all has anything to do with the reviews and reports. No color option as far as the display as a whole. I'm sure we can solve that with root and a kernel soon enough.

Personally, I don't have any qualms with my display aside from the one dead pixel, but my replacement should clean that up when it gets here tomorrow. Glad I bought the phone.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
I didn't have any issues on my Verizon version my unlocked version
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] hammer7t:
I don't have any issues so far either other than the blue shift at small tilt angles...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] stevetrooper:
Does fastboot flashing unlock_critical wipe your device?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] beerbaronstatic:
Yes
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] stevetrooper:
Thanks, I only ran the fastboot flashing unlock and setup my phone again. Not sure I want to do that again...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] beerbaronstatic:
I did the same thing, I figured it's only gonna hurt more over time so I did it tonight
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] dazed1:
So on a forum like XDA, no one compared the 8.1 photos with 8.0? WOW what a letdown.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Chronzy:
LOL sit right there and let us all take a turn slapping you
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Deuces:
I threw a script together for "manually flashing all"

Edit: my flashing tool has been moved to it's own post:

[TOOL] Deuces Bootloop-Recovery & Flashing Script
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] northmendo:
I can confirm that your script works [MENTION=1812777]Deuces[/MENTION]. I made a couple small changes and packaged it up if anyone wants to use it. The script gives you one change to cancel before you are commited.

LINK -> https://app.box.com/s/zk5myhhquqwygtn4ateok9b1xwt5l374
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] ChaosMinionX:
Does not work, corrupt file system with normal flash method, or with batch file method - did you guys get google store Pixel XL2 or another carrier?

EDIT: I even added some timeouts to the system section of the batch, because it was loading up too fast and giving "too many links" error - so I put a timeout of 5. I guess this just doesnt work on my phone...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] northmendo:
Did you ensure that all the files were in the same folder? It worked fine for me. Up and running now.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Deuces:
You may need to unlock critical, or use a usb2.0 port, or change your cable, check drivers and latest fastboot.

Normal Google branded unlocked 2xl
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] rester555:
Was hoping to use the OTA file, but I am getting a parse error -22....
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] rester555:
The script worked. Thanks so much for that. Rocking the 8.1.0.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] dpw2atox:
I'm curious if anyone running 8.1 notices any actual differences in how the phone runs. It seems that several of the features in the beta already came with the pixel 2 launch build.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] danon.brown:
The search bar at the bottom was bouncing when I first booted. Didn't do that on 8.0
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
So has anyone had FAILED (remote: Command Write Error) when trying to flash a bootloader?

I have Walleye, but that forum is dead compared to here but I was just checking to see if anyone has experience with it. This is what I have tried so far:

Tried multiple downloads of the image to make sure it was not a bad download

Tried the 8.0 factory image, same result

Tried multiple computers with various versions of Fastboot including the most recent direct from Google

Tried Flash_All.bat as well as flashing the bootloader individually

Tried flashing the OTA but get Parse Error -22

Tried switching slots and flashing

Tried switching slots and flashing the inactive slot

Any thoughts? Extensive Googling has found me nothing :(
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] THEbigSWEEN:
When you unlocked the bootloader did you also do the: fastboot flashing unlock_critical? From what I've read and heard others report it's needed to be able to flash a new bootloader, but it will wipe the device same as unlocking the bootloader. I screwed up myself by only unlocking the bootloader, getting ready to unlock critical so I can try out 8.1 and set up the device... again.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
That should not be required though. Flashing_Unlock allows for signed bootloaders to be written to the device, Unlock_Critical removes those protections. Similarly, people who have this error usually get the Critical error on the bootloader flash which I do not get.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] henderjr:
I registered for the Beta but haven't got an OTA. Does that usually come soon after the images are posted?

I suppose I should just do it manually since regardless my device will be wiped... Hate setting up my watch and other BT devices
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] THEbigSWEEN:
Just figured I would throw it out there. I think it was earlier in this thread (or could've been a different thread) someone mentioned about having issues flashing the bootloader and I believe it was solved with unlock_critical.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
I just tried it and no luck
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] henderjr:
I did the fastboot flashing unlock_critical and said I was unlocking bootloader and wiped my device but still had a state of locked. I then toggled oem unlock off and on and was still stuck. Then I just did fastboot flashing unlock without the _critical and all is well. I was able to run the flash all someone posted without issue. I then locked my BL again as I want Android Pay to work. Can't wait for Magisk for root and being able to pass safetynet
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] VanGolfer:
The image posted on Google preview site probably is for Verizon version, not for the international version. Normally there will be two different image files. Is anyone success with the international version?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
Maybe the OTA, but not the Factory Image. Verizon bootloaders are locked which mean you cannot flash the factory image
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] northmendo:
You do need to do the flashing unlock_critical for the script to work. It has to flash the new bootloader and that can not be done without the additional bootloader unlock.

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You need to run

fastboot flashing unlock_critical

before you run the flashing script. It flashes the new bootloader and that can't be done without the additional unlock.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
Still no luck for me. I don't believe Walleye has the Unlock_Critical requirement like the XL does.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] vpkb:
Color me four! I thought I did something wrong and tried about 5x and kept seeing the same result. I was able to flash back to 8.0 (5x) and it booted up fine with the exact same process.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] vpkb:
Nevermind, I was running the script as administrator. I tried it again by just double clicking the script and it worked.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] foosion:
For the 2XL you have to both "fastboot flashing unlock" and "fastboot flashing unlock_critical" https://developers.google.com/android/images#instructions

Locking your BL again wipes the phone, doesn't it?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] henderjr:
Good catch! I read that but for some reason thought it was one or the other, not both. But I eventually did both.

And yes relocking my bootloader did wipe again but I knew that so I didn't set anything up until I locked my BL. I use too many apps that require passing safetynet.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] woSaa:
still use on my Pixel 2 fastboot flashing unlock_critical after reboot and erease i get this error when i start flash-all..

i don't know why... its a Pixel 2 without any branding...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] wctaylor79:
Has anyone received the OTA without flashing manually? Heard that's supposed to drop today for those enrolled?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] northmendo:
I didn't see before that you had the 2 and not the XL. This script won't work on the 2. You will need to change the names in the script for the bootloader and radio image. On the Walleye those 2 files will have different names.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] vpkb:
It works fine now. Plain old fastboot will also work. I was running the script as admin instead of just double clicking the file.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
I have the exact same issue on Walleye. Don't waste your time, I have tried for hours and dozens of fixes and nothing corrects it. Hopefully the OTA from the beta program works, otherwise it goes back as an RMA.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Dani769:
I can confirm I had the same experience with the taimen-opp5.170921.005-factory-879b105d.zip image when I tried flashing it. Shows the device is corrupt (complaining about an unlocked bootloader), boot continues but gets stuck at the google logo. I then relock the device ("fastboot flashing lock_critical","fastboot flashing lock") and I get stuck with a "can't find valid operating system." and have to reflash the factory image taimen-opd1.170816.010-factory-c796ddb4.zip (this image works! :relieved: ). The OTA image taimen-ota-opp5.170921.005-a1bf3998.zip loads to ~47% (seams like it hits the "max download size of 536870912 bytes") and errors out. This is really frustrating....
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] woSaa:
YES it's sucks! i try follow steps in Windows 10:

- download two times the walleye-opp5.170921.005-factory-0d727d22

- update last Google drivers & platform-tools #FAIL

- older platform-tools #FAIL

- fastboot flashing unlock #FAIL

- fastboot flashing unlock_critical #FAIL

- USB Port 3.1 #FAIL

- USB Port 2.0 with differnt cable #FAIL

- and try to install from Ubuntu same... #FAIL

... still wait of the Beta OTA!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] altimax98:
Hahaha I have done all of that except Ubuntu plus

- try to flash last update #FAIL

- try to flash OTA #FAIL

- flash to a slot #FAIL

- flash to b slot #FAIL

- switch slots and flash the other #FAIL
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] purian23:
It seems like Google has pushed out a fix for the OTA's. That's the case on both my Pixel 2 XL and Nexus 6P who weren't receiving the OTA's earlier.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] TheSt33v:
Just got the OTA pushed to my phone. Captured the link: https://ota.googlezip.net/packages/.../63139d327c3ac033a4990364f7ebabcb515a7d1a.zip

My phone is the Google version if that matters.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Dani769:
I also recieved the OTA, before that I did try to sideload the ota image via adb and that still did not work. The pushed update did work though.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/1...a-files-temporarily-hold-due-flashing-errors/
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] TheSt33v:
The update pushed to my phone, and that I linked to, worked fine and is larger in size than the one mentioned in this article, so I think it's different.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
Enrolled this device in the beta, got the notification in about 5 minutes, downloaded & installed. So far so good... ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] ozzyager:
Did it take a long time to download and install? Step 2 of 2 is really crawling along for me. My 6P only took a few minutes in total...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
As a matter of fact, yes, step 2 seemed to take about 10 minutes...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] gettingerr:
Anyone else on 8.1 having an issue where waking from ambient display sends the screen blank for a bit then comes on, or doesn't at all and required a reboot?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] bryantjopplin:
First of all, thanks Deuces and Northmendo for the idea to help people.

I have created a pretty easy all in one that will install the lasted adb and fastboot system wide and fastboot flash unlock and unlock_critical. It will install the latest 8.1 developer preview for the Pixel 2 XL for you as well with all the necessary files included. I did not inlcude the lock and lock_critical function as most do not use it.

As the instructions state, please use a usb 2.0 port and and usb-c to usb-a cable that supports data. Also enabling debugging and oem unlock is a must.

It includes a menu driven batch file that is super easy to use.

For those that want to use this same batch file on the pixel 2 itself, please extract the zip from google and then extract the zip within the zip. Next pull the bootloader and radio img file from the root of the zip to the FILES folder included in this program. Then copy all the contents from the zip within the zip to the same FILES folder. It should contain about 22 files in total. We really don't need the android-info.txt file.

I will also be including a batch file with a semi empty FILES folder that does not include any Google related 8.1 files for those that want to download it quicker and copy their own contents to it for flashing. Like Pixel 2 owners that already have the 8.1 preview downloaded.

If anyone needs any help please feel free to ask. This post was rushed so please excuse my grammatical errors.

FOR PIXEL 2 and PIXEL???? ----NO IMG's inlcuded

http://www.mediafire.com/file/eksn04aiaeqvvia/PXEL_2_&_PIXEL_SAUCE_NO-IMGS.zip

FOR PIXEL 2 XL ---- IMG's included

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1wde39mj7ssbxb3/PIXEL_2_XL_SAUCE_V1.zip