I buy brand new unlocked pixel 8a from major retailer stuck at unlock bootloader

Rand-Uzer

spring-onion I really can't thank you enough, took 5 hours from when i first started, so much for YT vids from David Bombal and Naomi Brockwell and there 8 minutes lol great channels but ... that wasn't remotely true for me. Are you a Graphene Dev or a super user? You have uber skills the last post of commands you supplied got me over the line :)

spring-onion

I just have plenty of experience with helping people troubleshoot installation problems, I've seen it all.

GrapheneOS

@secrec Fastboot does not require root access. It requires having udev rules to use it as non-root which is covered in the install guide. The issue is either that they skipped the instructions about udev rules or are trying to use a Snap for Brave / Chromium that's unable to access USB without special configuration due to being improperly turned into a Snap without accounting for WebUSB. Snap lacks a way to actually request access to a USB device or even USB in general so there's no way for the application to handle it. Users should not have to run CLI commands to grant access. It's a broken approach. It's why we tell people not to use a Chromium Snap.

secrec

GrapheneOS Yes that is an alternative, but its over the top to do the udev rules just to install grapheneOS. Far far simpler just to run fastboot as root.

Rand-Uzer

GrapheneOS
I installed Brave via CLI not a Flat or Snap and still had problems.
The alternative commands that spring-onion supplied got me over the line.

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