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Comment · 4 years ago
Tested by manually expire the session cookie. You're right, thanks! :)
Comment · 4 years ago
uhm? just tried with incognito mode and I can view it without signing in.
Comment · 5 years ago
> So... either they should release a firehorse binary that can wipe devices, or they should add a small bit of code that can wipe and flash without needing a firehorse binary.

And how should they add code to a ROM of yet bricked devices?

> As I read it, dmitrygr was saying that the ostensible reason you can't do anything is fear of evil maid attacks, but that ostensible reason doesn't explain why there isn't a wipe+access mode. And "the bootloader is corrupt" isn't the reason, because this is about the pre-bootloader code.

Well, ask Google? :-)

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Sorry, actually I meant pads. However, there's nothing there that could bridge them.

Btw. there were several reports of signature validation errors right before the phone finally "died".

Comment · 5 years ago
Keyboard missing. Press F1 to continue. :P
Comment · 5 years ago
Mostly correct. Just a slight correction: You not only need the right image to flash, which you do get from google (factory images) but you need a signed firehorse/edl binary the boot ROM will accept.
Comment · 5 years ago
Read again. It does. The boot ROM fails to verify the bootloaders (XBL) signature for some reason.
Comment · 5 years ago
Don't compare Qualcomm to Mediatek... it's different
Comment · 5 years ago
Definitely not possible, since the board is not located under the battery but more like "around" it. (I know, because I had opened multiple Pixel 3 in the past) Also, the probability of just shorting exactly the right two pins is reeeeeeeaaaaaaally low
Comment · 5 years ago
Phones are stuck in EDL mode with no way to recover, due to Google not releasing the signed firehorse files.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282

https://www.google.de/search?q=pixel+3+brick&tbm=nws

I am not affected (yet). If anyone from Germany is interested in figuring out what the issue is and can risk losing their data, feel free to ping me on libera IRC. I have the ability to desolder and dump the UFS memory to start some investigation.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is an iteration of Allan's code

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