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Akansha Shukla
Akansha Shukla

Reputation: 11

Mac doesnt recognize Pixel 3A in fastboot mode

I have a Pixel 3A device in which I need to unlock the bootloader mode. I have Mac with Big Sur.

Steps followed:

  1. Connect Pixel via the type-c cable.
  2. Enable USB debugging & OEM unlocking toggle.
  3. Installed latest adb/fastboot tool and Android File Transfer Tool.
  4. Run adb devices
    • device is shown with its serial number
  5. Android File transfer tool detects the device, and shows its contents.
  6. Run adb reboot bootloader
    • device goes into "fastboot" mode, as visible on its screen.
    • Run fastboot devices gives no result
    • Run adb devices gives no result.

I have also tried manually putting device into fastboot mode using the combination of volume up key & the power button, but the device is still not shown.

Is there a way for MAC to detect device in fastboot mode? Is there any other way to unlock OEM?

Please anyone/any help is appreciated, kind of stuck in a desperate situation. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 343

Answers (1)

jsjrobotics
jsjrobotics

Reputation: 1933

This is old but I have encountered this problem several times so I'm posting how I solved it.

I wrote a script to download each version of fastboot, and then execute fastboot devices.

for x in 25.0.3 25.0.4 25.0.5 26.0.0 26.0.1 26.0.2 27.0.0 27.0.1 28.0.0 28.0.1 28.0.2 29.0.0 29.0.1 29.0.2 29.0.3 29.0.4 29.0.5 29.0.6 30.0.0 30.0.1 30.0.2 30.0.3 30.0.4 30.0.5 31.0.0 31.0.1 31.0.$
do
    echo $x;
    wget "https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r${x}-darwin.zip" -O t &&  unzip t && rm t && mv platform-tools "platform-tools-${x}"
    sleep 5
done

find . -name fastboot | xargs -I {} bash -c 'echo {}; {} devices'

After running the above, many iterations returned nothing but once a single iteration returns a result, all versions of fastboot started working for me.

Upvotes: 0

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