So, you abiding your Pixel 2 or 2 XL and aggregate seems to be alive absolutely well. However, a ages passes, and you get a notification to install the account security update. Like clockwork, Google has been blame out OTA security patches every distinct ages for a while, but there is a new botheration for you at this point — as a abiding user, you are clumsy to administer the amend correctly.
Not alive this basic detail can bandy off basis beginners and alike accomplished Pixel owners abiding to the basis arena all the same. It is alarmingly important to accumulate up with security updates, abnormally with all of the awful malware and exploits that accept been alive amok in contempo times. We will dive into added specific capacity on how to break this amend affair for abiding users in the sections below.
The A/B Partition
Google alien the aboriginal Pixel phone aback in 2016 with a new affection alleged seamless updates, which allows an OTA amend to install on a accessory allotment while befitting the alive allotment complete (your accepted session). This makes it easier to amend on the user ancillary since, aloft a arrangement reboot, the two partitions about-face places. For the new amend adjustment to assignment as intended, Google had to acquaint addition arrangement allotment in a new abstraction they are calling the A/B partition.
This airish a claiming to the basis arena in the beforehand canicule aback the accretion and cossack partitions were alloyed as a aftereffect of the new layout, but has aback been ample out acknowledgment to the abutment from abundant developers above the community. It is important to agenda that the seamless arrangement updates and A/B allotment are no best absolute to the Pixel phones. We can apprehend these new appearance to be included in abounding added Android accessories now and able-bodied into the future. If you appetite to apperceive the specifics on how the A/B allotment works in newer accessories like the Pixel phones, you can analysis out Google's official explanation.
The Band-aid for Basis Users
While the addition of the A/B allotment is accomplished for the bodies who are alive banal after basis access, what about the basis users like yourself? In the canicule of old, you had to acquisition the branch images from the architect of the phone and beam the arrangement aback to the aboriginal banal firmware. This was a bit cutting for many, abnormally aback it about agency you charge clean the user abstracts allotment — no one brand accepting to do a branch displace and alpha from blemish every distinct time. But the A/B allotment blueprint has helped allay this problem.
The solution? We charge advantage the ability of TWRP and use the ADB sideload action in a accretion environment. Sideloading an OTA amend appliance this adjustment will acquiesce your accessory to booty the amend aloof like a banal accessory can, but assumption what? You get to accumulate all of your abstracts all the aforementioned — no added annoying about accepting to alpha over every distinct month! Let us dive into how we can achieve this already and for all with the accessible to chase accomplish below.
Step 1: Aces the Right Cable
Go advanced and accomplish abiding you accept your phone affiliated to your computer via a USB anchorage afore affective on. If you are advantageous abundant to accept a built-in USB Type-C anchorage on your computer you can use that; otherwise, you will accept to use or acquirement a USB Type-C to USB-A cable to advance with this basis abundant guide. Aback you are attractive to amend your abiding accessory with an OTA file, you apparently already accept the cable you charge anyways.
Step 2: Download the OTA File
There is no way about it — you'll still charge to download the OTA angel book manually. You can acquisition the newest and best up to date account of OTA images for the Pixel accessories on Google's official firmware page:
For the account of this guide, you will be attractive for the accessory codename of either taimen (Pixel 2 XL) or walleye (Pixel 2). Scroll bottomward to acquisition the best contempo account security amend you appetite to install and hit the download articulation abutting to it. Accomplish abiding to save this book to your computer.
Step 3: Download the Platform-Tools
The A/B allotment changes the way basis works aback it comes to aflame files, which makes this a binding footfall so the OTA amend can be activated to your arrangement correctly. If you try to beam the OTA after the belvedere tools, you could account yourself a bootloop. To abstain all of that headache, download the latest SDK Platform-Tools amalgamation from Google:
As of this guide, 28.0.1 (September 2018) is activity to be the best accepted platform-tools absolution we appetite to use for the Pixel devices. Best basis users are apparently activity to download the Windows release, but aces the belvedere that corresponds with your accepted system.
Step 4: Move Files Around
Once you accept the platform-tools downloaded from Footfall 3, go advanced and abstract that book to any area of your choosing. To accumulate things simple, we acclaim extracting it to your desktop.
You'll afresh appetite to booty the OTA book you downloaded in Footfall 2, and annoyance that book into your anew abstract platform-tools binder on the desktop. To accumulate things easier still, go advanced and rename this zip book aloof to "ota" (or "ota.zip" if your computer is set to appearance book extensions).
Renaming the ZIP book will accomplish it easier to admit the sideload command in TWRP later. You additionally do not accept to anguish about extracting the OTA book aback the ADB sideload command will apprehend it as-is.
Step 5: Prepare ADB & Fastboot
Next, if you're appliance Windows, install the ADB and fastboot drivers if you haven't already done so (you best acceptable did this aback you abiding your phone initially). Then, on your phone, accredit the hidden Developer Options card and accomplish abiding "USB Debugging" is angry on.
Step 6: Amend TWRP
It is acute that you grab the latest adaptation of TWRP aback it has had a lot of problems in the accomplished with the Pixel 2 accessories in particular. This was again, because of the A/B allotment — it aloof afresh got to the point area aggregate is alive accurately now.
Before the latest update, if you had the fingerprint security affection enabled, you had to attenuate it every distinct time you capital to cossack into accretion mode. Accepting to abolish your security appearance every distinct time was beneath than ideal, but that has aback been anchored in adaptation 3.2.3-1 and beyond. It is consistently appropriate to accumulate TWRP adapted as abundant as accessible to abstain approaching battle aback aflame files, abnormally on newer devices.
To amend TWRP, grab the latest ZIP for Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL, afresh artlessly beam the book in recovery. Appetite to apprentice added about installing or afterlight TWRP? We accept you covered!
Step 7: Accessible a Command Alert in the Right Folder
Now that TWRP has been updated, you'll charge to get a command alert or terminal window accessible to the platform-tools folder. This varies hardly depending on your computer's operating system.
Windows users:
Press the Windows button on your keyboard, afresh blazon in "cmd" and hit enter. Arch aback to your platform-tools binder on the desktop. Copy the book area of the binder by beat the bar in the accepted window that shows what binder you are in. Go aback to your terminal and blazon in "cd" followed by a space, afresh adhesive in the book area you aloof acquired and hit enter.
Mac users:
Press command and amplitude bar on your keyboard simultaneously, afresh blazon in "Terminal" and hit enter. Go aback to your platform-tools binder on the desktop, afresh bang on "File" and accept "Get Info." Copy aggregate from the "Where:" section, afresh go aback to your terminal. Blazon in "cd" followed by a space, afresh adhesive in the book area you aloof acquired and hit enter.
Linux users:
Without over complicating things on the Linux platform, arch into your platform-tools binder amid on the desktop, and afresh right-click any bare atom of the window. Now you charge baddest the "Open in Terminal" option, which will acquiesce the bounded files in that binder to acquaint with the terminal.
Step 8: Cossack into Recovery
Now that your terminal is pointing to the binder that we charge it to, go advanced and admission the afterward command:
Windows users:
adb reboot recoveryMac and Linux users:
./adb reboot recoveryNote: Aback ADB/fastboot commands may not be installed system-wide, it is acute for Mac and Linux users to manually add the "./" afore entering any of these commands in the future. This ensures you are ablution the files from the bounded binder after issue.
If all is well, your accessory will acknowledge by transitioning to the accretion environment. Aback you accept security appearance set up on your device, such as Pixel Imprint, you will be presented with a bulletin that asks you to admission your password. Go advanced and admission the countersign or PIN you use to alleviate your accessory aloft aboriginal cossack of your arrangement and tap the admission key. If you are on the best contempo adaptation of TWRP, it will break your abstracts auspiciously so you can move onward.
Note: There still appears to be a bug in TWRP with the awning off timer on the Pixel 2 devices. Aloof to be safe, you ability appetite to attenuate the awning abeyance advantage so that it will break on during the install process. It can occasionally about-face off absolutely and anticipate it from axis aback on, which after-effects in a bootless amend or a semi-bricked device. To do this, alpha from the capital TWRP menu, tap "Settings," and afresh tap the figure in the average with the accuracy symbol. Uncheck the alone box accessible in this section, and you are acceptable to go!
Step 9: Sideload the Update
From aural the TWRP capital menu, tap "Advanced" and afresh "ADB Sideload." You can accept to clean the caches if you feel the need, but it is not mandatory. Swipe the bar at the basal to admit the sideload command on the accretion card side.
From here, you charge to go aback to your computer's desktop and into the command alert or terminal aural the platform-tools binder from the antecedent steps. You should accept all the files renamed and accessible to go by this point, so we can assuredly alpha the amend process. If you bankrupt the terminal application, go advanced and echo the aboriginal allotment of Footfall 7 to accessible a terminal for the platform-tools binder on your desktop.
Once you accept your terminal accessible to go, admission the afterward command:
Windows users:
adb sideload ota.zipMac and Linux users:
./adb sideload ota.zipThe OTA book will activate to extract, and afresh it will administer the amend to your system. This accomplished action will booty a few minutes, so sit aback and adhere out while it does its thing. Already it finishes updating, you can manually hit the reboot advantage and acreage aback on your lock awning in no time! You ability see a bulletin that will let you apperceive the arrangement amend is finalizing, but you are acceptable to go from there. Now you charge not abhorrence the account security updates and can accouterment the bearings with about ease.
Step 10: Re-Root (Optional)
Since the new A/B allotment deeply integrates added amount arrangement files into the way updates assignment now, you will now be aback on the banal kernel, you will lose basis access, and you will absence aback to the banal accretion as well. Feel chargeless to install annihilation you ambition from this point on that fits into your claimed accessory usage.
If you charge a refresher on any of these extras, amuse appointment the guides below:
- How to Install TWRP (the Best Custom Accretion for Android)
- How to Install Magisk & Basis with TWRP
- How to Install the ElementalX Custom Kernel
It can complete like a lot of assignment at the alpha of this adventure, but it is additionally absolutely accessible to use and advance already aggregate is all set up. Accepting a new compassionate of how all these things assignment will advice you out abundantly in the basis scene. Aloof anticipate — now that the alertness is all done, it should be bland sailing from here. For example, the abutting time you appetite to install an OTA update, all you accept to do is download the book and barrage the ADB sideload command from TWRP. Nice and easy. Enjoy your account OTA updates after accident your abstracts anytime again!
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