First of all i want to say much respect to developers for making tools like this become a reality, warts n all
HOWEVER i will say that i am never ever going to mess with my phone again. I used to be an avid rommer/rooter back in the day and then left the scene for years until very recently.
I first rooted again at the april patch for the pixel 6 using Majisk guide and although was quite a few steps and a tiny bit fidly, it worked first time like a charm.
I figured great!! and so fast forward to may update.
I thought i would give pixel flasher a go to deal with everything for me. I followed the instructions to the letter. I did the dry run first just to be sure would work ok and all came back fine. I then went on to do it for real.
I was watching the output log as it went carefully. Noticed the it went through resizing partitions... God knows what for and when i saw that my heart started beating a bit faster. I have no idea why the tool would even need to do that!!!
Nevertheless, i was commited, I knew i couldn't stop it half way through because that would have surely left me with a dead phone, so i let it continue right to finish. There were no errors whatsoever in the output window, every single step completed without a hitch.
Rebooted the phone and yep it was dead :-( got a message saying "Phone is corrupted and cannot be trusted"
I have never in my life felt so much anger/pain/upset and a process that was supposed to take the hassle out of a process. I lost EVERYTHING.
This was last night all this happened.
The worst part is I couldn't dirty flash because ADB in windows told me that my device was unauthorised in recovery mode and I couldn't start my phone to tell it to trust device. It just hung and did nothing on google logo.
I tried running verity enforcing command but that wouldn't work either because device wasn't authorised. I had no way to rescus phone without a complete wipe.
I couldn't even do a factory reset on the phones recovery options because it through up errors saying stuff couldn't be found and i firmly believe that it was Pixel Flasher cuased that when it did something to the partitions.
I did nothing wrong, and followed everything correctly.. I had to because i'd never used it before!!! I get all the disclaimers etc and yes i chose to use it and go through the process but thats not the point. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
I had to go through pixel flash tool to recue my phone. I had to force flash all partitions to restore everything back to a working state and that meant everything on the phone was lost.
What's even worse (just to add insult to injury), is that when I went to go through the laborious task of restoring from a google backup, I found out that my phone hadn't been syncing with google since the 6th april!!
I know fact that all backup settings are turned on so no idea what happened there. The only thing that had been backing up (thankgod) is my taken pix/vids.
I've lost a months worth of texts/whatsapps/call logs.
Thanks to this experience, I will NEVER EVER root my phone again, and certainly NEVER EVER use pixel flasher again.
I have even relocked the bootloader to make sure that temptation doesn't get the better of me because i wont to have to wipe the phone again just to unlock it again.
It's a real shame because I was thoroughly enjoying the extra bits that rooting gave me, but its certainly not worth all this happening again.
I do want to express my deepest thanks once again to the rooting/modding community because you guys make the seemingly impossible, possible, It's just for me.... I value my data more
