How To Guide [GUIDE] Pixel 6 Pro "raven": Unlock Bootloader, Update, Root, Pass SafetyNet

[CPngN]

My P6P is locking up 2 minutes after booting! I rebooted today because I thought I had lost a widget and was hoping Nova 7 was just acting up. (After rebooting I found the widget 1 page over - need to lock the destop icons down!) Just after my Calengoo app loaded and popped up my reminders for the day, everything froze. ...except the clock. After about 1 minute it reboots. During that minute I cannot do anything on the screen, nor does it respond to holding the power button down for a solid 15-20 seconds! Rinse repeat.
After it boots up, I have about 2 minutes to do things. I paused Adaway, turned off modules in Magisk and then tried to apply the update. Which went all the way through and rebooted when I tapped the button, but... never applied. Oh, I also disabled the blacklist in Magisk in case I had "gone too far" hiding things.
I'm hoping I can just reflash and get out of this.. it's very strange how far it gets before it freezes. As if there's "one last app" or service that executes and gets stuck. Anyone know how to diagnose?

 

[CPngN]

My P6P is locking up 2 minutes after booting! I rebooted today because I thought I had lost a widget and was hoping Nova 7 was just acting up. (After rebooting I found the widget 1 page over - need to lock the destop icons down!) Just after my Calengoo app loaded and popped up my reminders for the day, everything froze. ...except the clock. After about 1 minute it reboots. During that minute I cannot do anything on the screen, nor does it respond to holding the power button down for a solid 15-20 seconds! Rinse repeat.
After it boots up, I have about 2 minutes to do things. I paused Adaway, turned off modules in Magisk and then tried to apply the update. Which went all the way through and rebooted when I tapped the button, but... never applied. Oh, I also disabled the blacklist in Magisk in case I had "gone too far" hiding things.
I'm hoping I can just reflash and get out of this.. it's very strange how far it gets before it freezes. As if there's "one last app" or service that executes and gets stuck. Anyone know how to diagnose?

I booted and flash booted the original boot.img. Magisk acknowledges that it can't load, no root. No change.. meaning even on stock it is rebooting. Anyone have ideas or seen this yet on their P6 ?? T.I.A.

 

[CPngN]

I booted and flash booted the original boot.img. Magisk acknowledges that it can't load, no root. No change.. meaning even on stock it is rebooting. Anyone have ideas or seen this yet on their P6 ?? T.I.A.

Interesting to note:
While frozen for 60-90 seconds, I can plug it into my Mac again and issue "adb reboot bootloader" and can then flash things. So someone underneath everything, it's running enough to respond to this, and to keep the seconds ticking in the clock. But I can't imagine reflashing everything else will change much, but I suppose it won't hurt either. Going to try, as I was hoping to use the camera tonight. Grrr

 

[CPngN]

Interesting to note:
While frozen for 60-90 seconds, I can plug it into my Mac again and issue "adb reboot bootloader" and can then flash things. So someone underneath everything, it's running enough to respond to this, and to keep the seconds ticking in the clock. But I can't imagine reflashing everything else will change much, but I suppose it won't hurt either. Going to try, as I was hoping to use the camera tonight. Grrr

More fun facts: If I play media before it freezes, the music or video keeps playing. I just reflashed everything (without the "-w" on last command) and rebooted. Started music. It still froze, but played music right until the quick reboot.
I'm still rebooting. It stays "frozen" (unresponsive) longer than it takes to reboot (which is like < 10 seconds).
After that, the first boot had the original colors on the G boot animation. But after that... I've noticed the faded color which I assume means it's acknoledging that it has been "altered" or rooted. Perhaps I should push to both banks, but am I just wasting time flashing the same content that's already there?
This is frustrating!

 

[Koss4c]

Yeah I didnt run any su commands like the video does....my banking app and gpay works as advertised so I am good there. I need to rewatch when I am less buzzed...now I need to get my google work profile working without failing its checks...

Super interesting how different people are getting different results :S i would have thought it was be universal. Glad ur is working "off the bat"

 

[Koss4c]

Interesting to note:
While frozen for 60-90 seconds, I can plug it into my Mac again and issue "adb reboot bootloader" and can then flash things. So someone underneath everything, it's running enough to respond to this, and to keep the seconds ticking in the clock. But I can't imagine reflashing everything else will change much, but I suppose it won't hurt either. Going to try, as I was hoping to use the camera tonight. Grrr

Just confirming you have "canary" magisk -> when it downloads, it downloads as app-debug. if u dont have that it wont work (that was my issues)

 

[splinterededge]

More fun facts: If I play media before it freezes, the music or video keeps playing. I just reflashed everything (without the "-w" on last command) and rebooted. Started music. It still froze, but played music right until the quick reboot.
I'm still rebooting. It stays "frozen" (unresponsive) longer than it takes to reboot (which is like < 10 seconds).
After that, the first boot had the original colors on the G boot animation. But after that... I've noticed the faded color which I assume means it's acknoledging that it has been "altered" or rooted. Perhaps I should push to both banks, but am I just wasting time flashing the same content that's already there?
This is frustrating!

I would consider flashing back to stock to see if these problems continue to occur, if you still see crashing you can do a log dump and look for why the device is crashing, my first pro was experiencing phy errors when I was watching videos outside, it was really cold here, did and RMA and my new device does not crash. Currently experimenting on the original phone before I return it.

 

[CPngN]

Just confirming you have "canary" magisk -> when it downloads, it downloads as app-debug. if u dont have that it wont work (that was my issues)

Yep, had that one after trying alpha and failing early. The fact that my phone boots and works perfectly fine but only for maybe 2 minutes makes me think that there's something loading that comes near the end or just takes longer than everything else, and then it crashes and boom. I've disabled Tasker, and I had recently set up Greenify again and probably should not have. So since I saw that notification icon show up late one of my reboots, just before it "soft froze", I thought that may be the culprit. Seems logical given what it can do. But I can't uninstall it until I remove it from Device Admin Apps. Which I have tried to do, but it doesn't stick! If I boot, jump in real fast and disable that setting, back out, and hold power+up -> Power Off so that things should definitely save before restarting.... it still comes back as a Device Admin.
I have a bad feeling that it may be faster to jump in and try to do a full reset and just restore everything yet again. At least I can get enough time to save my Nova setup and other configs.
Can I grab logs from an adb shell to review on the computer? I'm not sure where to look on Android 12 or what to grab with the short period of time I have under a normal boot. (Can one pull files from fastboot or recovery?) Thanks all!!!

 

[CPngN]

I would consider flashing back to stock to see if these problems continue to occur, if you still see crashing you can do a log dump and look for why the device is crashing, my first pro was experiencing phy errors when I was watching videos outside, it was really cold here, did and RMA and my new device does not crash. Currently experimenting on the original phone before I return it.

Yeah I have put stock back on. Then I switched to the other slot and repeated everything including the zip file push which takes a while. It booted and runs.... just as it has all day. I have definitely lost root; verified in 3 apps.
During a reboot in one part of that attempt, I noticed the usual faded G logo was back in full rich colors, like I had relocked the bootloader?! But since then it's been back to that faded look. Maybe that was related to the first time booting on slot_a.

So yeah, I think logs would be key before wiping everything. How can I grab the right ones? I'd say between the time I boot and can get in with adb and the time it finally reboots itself I have 4-5 minutes.
Thx guys

 

[Koss4c]

You didn't read the OP. I absolutely did cover this under "Pass SafetyNet". Don't hijack my thread. I tried to keep instructions relatively simple. I am passing SafetyNet on my Pixel 5 using the modules I mentioned, and did not have to run any commands.

No

Unfortunately I can't provide any insight to that issue.

Doesn't work for anyone, and problems with unlocking the bootloader are outside the scope of this thread.

Sorry mate you did cover it.

Just wanted to give people the easy version *hands the floor back to you* its all yours

 

[Lycidias]

New magisk update

 

[Dragon Kumera]

Yeah I have put stock back on. Then I switched to the other slot and repeated everything including the zip file push which takes a while. It booted and runs.... just as it has all day. I have definitely lost root; verified in 3 apps.
During a reboot in one part of that attempt, I noticed the usual faded G logo was back in full rich colors, like I had relocked the bootloader?! But since then it's been back to that faded look. Maybe that was related to the first time booting on slot_a.

So yeah, I think logs would be key before wiping everything. How can I grab the right ones? I'd say between the time I boot and can get in with adb and the time it finally reboots itself I have 4-5 minutes.
Thx guys

Have you tried flash full factory image no modifications and try safe mode? (do not restore anything or sign into google account). Let it sit stock as bare bones as can be.

 

[Dragon Kumera]

New magisk update
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just launched my magisk app and wow hey there is an update. Where would I download an offline version? (or can I save the download from magisk app itself).

 

[V0latyle]

just launched my magisk app and wow hey there is an update. Where would I download an offline version? (or can I save the download from magisk app itself).

Magisk Canary 23018

If you go to the main Magisk page, there's a small easy to miss button:

When you update from within the app, it does download the apk file to /storage/Downloads

 

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

Oops, I didn't refresh and see @V0latyle's answer. LOL!

just launched my magisk app and wow hey there is an update. Where would I download an offline version? (or can I save the download from magisk app itself).

You can download Magisk Canary 23018 at Magisk Downloads on GitHub, or direct download link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/topjohnwu/magisk-files/canary/app-debug.apk.

Unhide the Magisk app before updating.

 

[V0latyle]

Just confirming you have "canary" magisk -> when it downloads, it downloads as app-debug. if u dont have that it wont work (that was my issues)

Yes, Magisk Stable has not been updated with the Canary commits. Stable is still at 23000, Canary is currently at 23018. 23010+ is Zygisk and is not compatible with some pre-Zygisk modules such as those that depended on Riru.

This is why in the OP, I advise against using Magisk Stable, especially on the Pixel 6 / 6 Pro.

 

[Dragon Kumera]

Magisk Canary 23018

If you go to the main Magisk page, there's a small easy to miss button:
View attachment 5516683
When you update from within the app, it does download the apk file to /storage/Downloads

ya i defiantly missed it. i tried looking on github page but only saw v23.

thx!

Also I never hide magisk app so everything went smoothly

 

[CPngN]

Have you tried flash full factory image no modifications and try safe mode? (do not restore anything or sign into google account). Let it sit stock as bare bones as can be.

I was closing in on that decision when I decided to look up how to read logs. ("adb logcat" btw). I had to reroot and then I was able to see a couple of noisy apps in the logs, greenified being one of them as I suspected. Using su, I was able to uninstall greenify and everything has been fine since then! Today I've just been restoring all the things I disabled hoping that something would make it stable (lots of permissions to redo). Thanks all.

 

[NippleSauce]

ya i defiantly missed it. i tried looking on github page but only saw v23.

thx!

Also I never hide magisk app so everything went smoothly

I just noticed the update and pushed it through via the app. Leaving it hidden didn't affect the update for me. Now I just gotta find the changelog =)

*Edit* - Thank you so much @V0latyle ! Quick question, but do you know if un-hiding Magisk before updating it would only be a requirement with specific modules installed and active (and depending on the Magisk changes)?

 

[V0latyle]

I just noticed the update and pushed it through via the app. Leaving it hidden didn't affect the update for me. Now I just gotta find the changelog =)

- [Zygisk] Show warning in app UI to indicate incompatible Zygisk modules
- [App] Allow modules to specify an update URL for in-app update + install

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