Stuck on flashing factory images for Pixel 6

ruberine

Attempting to install Graphene on a Pixel 6 through MacOS, and when attempting to run the command sh flash-all.sh, I encounter the error of;
Available devices:
24281FDF6003KY fastboot usb:18874368X
Warning: skip copying bootloader_b image avb footer (bootloader_b partition size: 0, bootloader_b image size: 14125140).
Sending 'bootloader_b' (13794 KB) ERROR: usb_write failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (Write to device failed in SendBuffer() (Undefined error: 0))
fastboot: error: Command failed

Every other command has been successful as far as I'm aware.

de0u

ruberine Warning: skip copying bootloader_b image avb footer (bootloader_b partition size: 0, bootloader_b image size: 14125140).

I think this is ok.

ruberine Sending 'bootloader_b' (13794 KB) ERROR: usb_write failed with status e00002ed

Did that failure happen right away, or after a delay?

It looks to me as if there is a problem with USB transport. Can you confirm that you are using a high-quality cable, directly connecting the phone to a port on the Mac, without intermediary hubs?

What kind of Mac is this? Which OS release?

ruberine

de0u iirc the faliure was almost immediate. The cable should be high enough quality; it's around 10Gbps, but I have several good ones spare to test if the cable might be causing problems. It's directly connected to a port on the Mac, and the Mac is a MacBook Air, M1 chip and 8GB memory, with more than enough storage space. MacOS release is Sonoma 14.6.1

de0u

ruberine The cable should be high enough quality; it's around 10Gbps, but I have several good ones spare to test if the cable might be causing problems.

The installation instructions say "Whenever possible, use the high quality standards compliant USB-C cable packaged with the device", and using Google's cable really is the best way to stay out of trouble. After that, personally I would recommend Cable Matters, Best Buy, Anker, Belkin. In general a short cable is better than a long cable.

ruberine

de0u It seems the cable was the issue for some reason. I redid the install process through a different one of the same quality and it worked, so I think I might end up needing to replace that cable. Thanks.

de0u

ruberine It seems the cable was the issue for some reason.

It often is!

Thanks for reporting back. I'm glad it worked out.