Prepping my old Pixel 6 Pro for selling, so I needed to remove GrapheneOS and re-flash it with Google Android OS (getting my data off Graphene was an unnecessarily cumbersome chore, but that's a story for another time).

I spent two days messing around trying to get flash.android.com to work on Linux, and nothing worked. Every time it rebooted into fastboot, it would disconnect.

I tried to do it in a VM running Windows, then from a live OS, and got nothing but connection errors.

Finally, I just used android-tools and downloaded the OS from Google's dev page and flashed it through the terminal with only a few commands.

I should have done this to begin with—so much wasted time trying to get the browser flasher to work.

Flashing via terminal literally took 3 minutes.

Oh well. It was a learning experience. Hopefully this will help out other Linux users who find themselves in the same boat.

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