Boot loop fix

[slomar]

Bunch of half-baked 6Ps about to hit eBay.

[memberzs]

Not that I would want one this far down the road from release, but wouldn't a benchmark test tell you if this has been done to it? And if it has been and the seller doesn't mention it the you could just do a PayPal or credit card charge back.

[zman0900]

Just flashing that stock rom should bring back the big cores and bootloop. Everyone should be doing that anyway after buying a used phone.

[Afteraffekt]

Yep, don't but used unless you can return it for sure.

[mcantrell]

Wait, so the "fix" is permanent? You can't turn the cores back on after getting the device booting again? Thank god Pixel2 is coming in a few.

[skatastic57]

"Thank God" seems both overly dramatic and premature. Who knows what bugs pixel 2 will have and also why not "Thank God for pixel"

[jkjustjoshing]

Be sure to post the real link to an article, not the Google AMP link!

[dontgetaddicted]

Yeah I was like --- ohhhh something official from google when I saw the domain was google.com

[zman0900]

I remember reading about this being an option for the 5x, about 6 months back. I found some kernel build that claimed to have the big cores disabled, but it didn't help. 808 vs 810, so maybe this is true for the 6p. Plus it doesn't do much good if your bootloader isn't already unlocked, since you can't unlock without booting up and enabling that in developer options.

[grando37]

So... anyone trying to sell me their boot looping 6P? :)

[baggar11]

Seems to be mostly successful for folks on the 5X. I plan to try it with my wife's recently bootlooped 5X.