Update:

Tried, and I cannot flash stock Android. I do not understand how. I have got PixelFlasher, and it always worked.

But not it won't flash after that I have installed Grapheneos

I can try from the cli to flash this with the fastboot command? It write about flashing to either an active or inactive partition.

  1. Does Grapheneos have the concept of active and inactive partitions? I thought it changed the layout of the discs.

  2. is this applicable with a pixel five?

    I have got this image to flash: redfin-rq3a.211001.001-factory-23f4cec2.zip

    Shall I run this:

    $ fastboot flash active redfin-rq3a.211001.001-factory-23f4cec2.zip

    or

    $ fastboot flash inactive redfin-rq3a.211001.001-factory-23f4cec2.zip

    Does Grapheneos bootloader have the concept of active and inactive partitions?

    If I get it wrong, with I hard brick the phone ( and throw it away), or will it boot to the bootloader if bricked?

    shbsssn I don't know where you trajected in your journey, but you're going weird places definitely. What you should try, is using the Android Flash Tool to get back to Stock. Then you can test out eSIM functionality. I don't know the purpose of PixelFlasher, I either use WebUSB or the command line to flash phones, it just doesn't get easier than that.

      Re-installed stock Android 11.
      Test an esim.
      Esim works.
      Ego phone is not SIM locked.

      eSim works with stock Android 11.
      eSim did not work with GrapheneOS (Android 14).

      Unfortunatly, I do kinda need an eSim :-)

        a month later

        Carlos-Anso

        But it is impracticable.

        I install an esim once every two months.

        This means I have to install stock and then Graphene again 5-6 times a year.

        For example, nextMarch I will convert 3 physical sim cards to eSIM and add these into the Pixel5, and we plan to add more eSims into the phone in May. I agree mine is an uncommon use case, but this will be more common.