- The Android 15 update for Pixel devices is causing unexpected bricking of Pixel 6 devices.
- Users report their Pixel 6 becoming completely unresponsive, with troubleshooting methods yielding no results.
- The issue might be related to the Private Space on Android 15, but further investigation is needed.
I’m curious, what’s the recourse here when this happens? Does Google make it right somehow when their own software bricks their own devices?
Or is just “Oops, our bad. Just buy a new one, best of luck!!”?
Does reflashing a ROM fix it? (aside from some data loss, of course)
Don’t know about the rest, but…
The phones appear to be simply dead with no response to anything. No way to connect ADB, no way to connect fastboot, nothing.
Also the bootloader allows flashing over the cable only when it’s unlocked (at least on Pixels; I couldn’t find anything relevant in the Android documentation). The vast majority of Pixels should have their bootloaders locked, and it is only possible to unlock it through the system settings, so it’s pretty safe to say that most Pixels cannot be recovered if Android fails to boot because you cannot unlock the bootloader if you can’t get into settings.