[GTALUG] Android / fastboot / ROM problem

[Evan Leibovitch]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:29, Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 8:35 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
>
>>

>  Since its OS stopped being upgraded in 2015, I'd installed LineageOS on
>> it some time ago. A few months ago when I went to upgrade, the install from
>> TWRP didn't take and it just bootlooped on the Lineage animation about 15
>> seconds in.
>>
>
> Was it the latest version of TWRP?
>

Yes. There appears to be no problem flashing recovery.

[...]
>
> fastboot -w update image-nakasi-ktu84p.zip
>> target didn't report max-download-size
>> sending 'bootloader' (2100 KB)...
>> OKAY [  0.262s]
>> writing 'bootloader'...
>> OKAY [  0.601s]
>> finished. total time: 0.863s
>> rebooting into bootloader...
>> OKAY [  0.015s]
>> finished. total time: 0.065s
>> extracting android-info.txt (0 MB)...
>> extracting boot.img  (4 MB)...
>> target didn't report max-download-size
>>
>
> The archive doesn't sign correctly.
>
> archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
>> archive does not contain 'dtbo.img'
>>
>
> The link below mentions a problem with dtbo.img.
>
> archive does not contain 'dt.img'
>> extracting recovery.img (5 MB)...
>> archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
>> extracting system.img (628 MB)...
>> archive does not contain 'system.sig'
>> archive does not contain 'vbmeta.img'
>> archive does not contain 'vendor.img'
>> wiping userdata...
>> Couldn't parse erase-block-size '0x'.
>> Couldn't parse logical-block-size '0x'.
>>
> mke2fs 1.44.6 (5-Mar-2019)
>> /tmp/TemporaryFile-fnXNLB:
>>
>
> Looks like the install script was out of date and wasn't linking things
> correctly.
> .
>
>> Unimplemented ext2 library function while setting up superblock
>> /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/mke2fs failed with status 1
>> mke2fs failed: 1
>> error: Cannot generate image for userdata
>>
>
>
> At this point, if it's not bricked, it looks a bit more like software to
> me. A little research found similar problems.
>
>
> https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel/help/mke2fs-error-flash-factory-images-pixel-t3734828
>

Thanks! Lots there to check out. Guess these problems weren't limited to
Nexus devices.

- Evan
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