[OnePlus 11] Mr. Pi dot:
Hi all,

I used a Oneplus 5t for a long time as a daily driver. Now, as I saw the specs of the new OP11, I was totally convinced that this should be my new phone.

Unfortunately, I ran through several software quirks with this brand new device and I am currently hoping, that someone from the community can help me out:

When I received the Phone and switched it on for the first time, it directly offered an update to OOS 14. I did not think too much about it and confirmed the Update.

The Update went well but after reboot I noticed, that I was not able to enter Fastboot mode anymore (also see https://xdaforums.com/t/no-bootload...oxygen-os-14-0-open-beta-2-14-0-0-82.4641066/ ).

Then I noticed that there is the "OxygenOs-Updater" App available ( https://github.com/oxygen-updater/oxygen-updater ) which offers the ability to download almost every OOS Update Package. It also provides a package of "Local system update tools" which allow to install any local ZIP File as an update. By using the "OPLocalUpdate_For_Android12.apk" App from the provided package, I was able to choose a OOS13 Update Full ZIP Package and install it. After that, the system was back to OOS 13 and Fastboot was accessible again.

I then again updated to OOS14 (as I could hardly believe it) but again, Fastboot was inaccessible.

So, time to go back to OOS13 once again. Once done, I went into fastboot mode and performed "fastboot flashing unlock" in order to unlock the bootloader. After that, I installed Magisk and flashed the patched init_boot.img file. By doing so, I was able to gain root access. After a while I got cocky and decided to (once again) flash the OOS14 Update via the local system updater. The Update went well, I kept root access under OOS14 but as expected, no more Fastboot access. I was hoping, that the Fastboot-Issue would be fixed with the next OTA-Update...

Yesterday, the OxygenUpdater informed me that Version 14.0.0.304 is now ready for download. For some reason I decided to uninstall OPLocalUpdate_For_Android12.apk and install "OTA-OnePlus-localUpdate-Oplus_key.apk" instead (both came with the package and for some reason I was thinking that the "latest" local update APK would be the recommended one right now).

After activating Developer Mode, the "System update" dialogue in Android offered the three dots at the upper right, which now also included the option "Apply local install".

But for some Reason, this does not work. It only returns the error "dm-verity is disable. Please check fastboot unlock status".

To me, it seems logical that dm-verity is disabled as I had previously unlocked the bootloader. To me it rather looks as if the local-update-option is refusing to perform an update in the current environment (i.e. with unlocked bootloader).

The Problem is: If I now try to re-install the "OPLocalUpdate_For_Android12.apk" app, I get an error which says that the desired update is interfering with an existing package. And at that point I am stuck now. Fastboot is broken, local update does not work, and the App, which previously offered a local install, I cannot re-install anymore.

Does anyone our there have an Idea how I could get out of this situation, or what I am doing wrong?

Kind regards,

Mr. P