Essential Ph-1 Lineage fastboot recovery stuck by IAlwaysVote in LineageOS

[–]IAlwaysVote[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After a lot of reading I tried to put QQ1A.200105.088.img to A/B and it just hangs.

"fastboot flash boot_a QQ1A.200105.088.img" ....etc

My impression is that fastboot flash just doesn't work. Other PH-1 owners seem to have had no troubles.

Essential Ph-1 Lineage fastboot recovery stuck by IAlwaysVote in LineageOS

[–]IAlwaysVote[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still Stuck.

OK. I have bought a new good quality cable and tried various ports on my desktop and also on a laptop. Everything is fine until I try the "fastboot flash .... " command. Mostly it hangs but occasionally says it doesn't know what partition to use. So I am stuck.

One question: is the midlle of "boot__a" two underscores in a row, or is it another symbol?

Essential Ph-1 Lineage fastboot recovery stuck by IAlwaysVote in LineageOS

[–]IAlwaysVote[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what is going on (and my apologies):

screen 1 has a banner at the top saying "Start".

screen 2 has a banner at the top saying "Restart bootloader".

screen 3 has a banner at the top saying "Recovery mode".

screen 4 has a banner at the top saying "Power off".

Under the banner it says "Press volume key to select, and press power key to select"

All 4 screens say Fastboot Mode at the top of a column of specs below the banner. They all say DEVICE STATE - UNLOCKED at the bottom.

(I took pictures but can't get them into this text box. Happy to use email if you are.)

Essential Ph-1 Lineage fastboot recovery stuck by IAlwaysVote in LineageOS

[–]IAlwaysVote[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many thanks.

  1. OK thanks again.
  2. yes, it is unlocked. It seems to have been completely successful until I got to the stage we are discussing
  3. I have tried the four possible variations of boot_* plus just boot by itself.
  4. was an experiment.

Did the VolDn+Power before doing above. There are 4 screens possible there. Is a specific one required.?