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It's incredible that bricking the phone and total, catastrophic data loss is only a medium level severity ticket and with no one assigned. EDIT: appears a user
by mksybr 3y ago
It's incredible that bricking the phone and total, catastrophic data loss is only a medium level severity ticket and with no one assigned.
EDIT: appears a user was able to recover from bootlooping, so not hard bricking.
Quote from https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/178jj3i/need_help_pixel_7_stuck_on_phone_is_starting/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/178jj3i/need_h... below:
They escalated me to someone on the hardware team that sounded like they have been around for a while XD. But here's what I was able to do: From the fastboot menu (using the power + vol down button to boot the phone) select "Recovery mode" then when the phone goes to the No Command screen, hold the power button for 1 second then press the vol up button and release both at the same time. This will give you a command prompt of sorts. Go to factory wipe/reset and vioala. You can reload your phone. Sure it sucks but if you were stuck like I was this is good enough.
EDIT2:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/305766503?pli=1 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/305766503?pli=1
- V__ 3y agoLocking down phones so much was really a mistake. If you have to do what basically amounts to voodoo just to restore it.
- teddyh 3y ago> Locking down phones so much was really a mistake. On the contrary, I believe it was done quite on purpose.
- alwayslikethis 3y agoIt's all a part of the grand plan to take away general computing from the unwashed masses.
- teddyh 3y agoRelevant links: • The Right to Read by Richard Stallman, 1997: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en> • The Digital Imprimatur by John Walker, 2003: <https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/> • The War on General Purpose Computing by Cory Doctorow, 2012: <https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/ https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-w...>
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- jacquesm 3y agoFactory wipe/reset followed by 'Reload' sounds like you end up losing all of your data if it wasn't backed up elsewhere. Usually the value of the data outweighs the value of the device, especially with phones that are harder to backup than they should be.
- mksybr 3y agoYes, I believe that is the case that you lose all the data.
- PeterisP 3y ago> especially with phones that are harder to backup than they should be. That's interesting, my experience with a physically destroyed Android is that I didn't lose any data without any backups other than the default settings, since apparently all the apps that I use sync to cloud by default, without me needing to configure any backups, and use local storage only for caching, so all the apps, settings and data could be automagically restored.
- autoexec 3y agoHanding your data over to Google's cloud is the sanctioned option, but I prefer an SD card and local backups to another device.
- mook 3y agoMy fear is that your phone is also the primary MFA device, so losing that could mean you can't log into your account anymore (and therefore can't restore the cloud backup)…
- charcircuit 3y ago>is only a medium level severity ticket and with no one assigned There are likely internal issues for the actual bugs.
- mksybr 3y agoNot much of a consolation.
- xorcist 3y agoMaybe cheaper than smashing the phone and buying a new one but isn't the outcome the same? Isn't all your data gone?