471 replies to this topic

[SamuriHL]

Yes, Kaos pointed it out to me yesterday but I wasn't in the mood to even think about Android related stuff at the time.  It should fix some of the more nasty issues with the beta 2 release.

[johnlgalt]

Magisk already has it rooted.  An Same URLs for both OTA and full system images, as per usual.  I have a semi-working ALT + TAB now, in that swiping on the wide pill button at the bottom now sipes the app list in the same direction, but it still doesn't do squat on Pixel launcher home screen.

 

I've not had a lot of time to read up on the rest, nor try anything, but I'll be exploring this evening.

[SamuriHL]

I will get back to development on HoG soon.  I just have been very busy with this whole job thing (stillllllll waiting).  Once that's settled I'll throw some time in the schedule to add some much needed functionality.

[johnlgalt]

No worries, I completely understand.

 

Once this trivia contest is over this weekend, I will probably take a stab at using HoG©℗™ to HoGwash©℗™ my phone and cleanly install the latest Q DP full system image onto my phone and start fresh.

 

The one main argument I had for not doing so was that it was a PITA to get latest TWRP for Taimen to flash Magisk root - but I'm now confident that I can do so even if TWRP cannot decrypt the phone's data partition - because there are still folders (obviously not located on said partition) that I can push .ZIP files to and root the phone via installing said .ZIP file even without decrypting and leaving /system read-only.

 

So, I just need the time to set everything back up - but that would give me a good test on a completely virgin install of Q on my device, and I could see what is different from a direct install versus a Pie-upgraded OTA install.

[SamuriHL]

Kuel.  I may work on some stuff tomorrow if I get myself motivated so maybe we can help with that endeavor.

[johnlgalt]

Welp - new TWRP release, for both Taimen and Shamu (and thus probably most Google Pixel and Nexus devices):

 

https://www.xda-deve...-3-3-0-release/

[SamuriHL]

I have, thus far, not been motivated to write any new code.  LOL  I will get there I'm just irritated with the job situation and have been enjoying my "vacation" as much as possible.  But I do need to get some coding done for many reasons.  MAYBE this week.

[johnlgalt]

No rush dude - Q is working marvelously on my Taimen.  And there's not a whole lot to flash on my Shamu, so....

[johnlgalt]

But if you need testing, now that I have a more reliable way to get $#!+ on my phone, and with the TWRP update, I'm more than willing to flash either OTA or full system image.  I'm not so tied to the OTA method anymore since the few things that were not working now are working perfectly fine even with full system images, as I've read in various places.

[johnlgalt]

$#@%^#^$ - MB extension on Firefox went stupid and suspected a clickbait or something as I was editing the previous post, so I'll just reply.

 

Since Q DP2, I've had an issue whereby I cannot access my files on the phone, as if no info is getting passed - and I suspect (but have not confirmed yet) that Magisk root may be suspect.

 

If I connect phone (yes, latest SDK platform tools) and USB debugging is enabled, and then I change phone to file transfer mode, here is what I get when I try ot perform ls in adb shell:

D:\platform-tools>adb shell
taimen:/ $ clear
taimen:/ $ ls -la
ls: ./init.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./init: Permission denied
ls: ./metadata: Permission denied
ls: ./init.usb.configfs.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./postinstall: Permission denied
ls: ./persist: Permission denied
ls: ./init.environ.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./init.zygote32.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./ueventd.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./init.usb.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./init.zygote64_32.rc: Permission denied
ls: ./sepolicy: Permission denied

Before it finally shows the actual directory listing.

 

However, I can drill down and find and see the actual files no problem, for example:

taimen:/storage/self/primary/Ringtones $ ls -la
total 4732
drwxrwx--x  2 root sdcard_rw    4096 2019-03-23 17:57 .
drwxrwx--x 16 root sdcard_rw    4096 1970-02-06 17:37 ..
-rw-rw----  1 root sdcard_rw  498087 2016-03-20 05:01 BladeRingtone.mp3
-rw-rw----  1 root sdcard_rw  892215 2016-03-20 05:01 ByMyselfRingtone.mp3
-rw-rw----  1 root sdcard_rw  342839 2016-03-20 05:01 Confusion\ (Short).mp3
-rw-rw----  1 root sdcard_rw 2035543 2016-03-20 05:01 Confusion\ (long).mp3
-rw-rw----  1 root sdcard_rw 1032944 2016-03-20 05:01 EternityForeverRingtone.mp3
taimen:/storage/self/primary/Ringtones $

But in Windows explorer it goes to $#!+.  Quite literally:

 

 Android Q DP2 #1.PNG   24.44KB   6 downloads  Android Q DP2 #2.PNG   8.16KB   6 downloads

 

I'm still trying to figure out WTF is going on, and a clean factory may be the key (or just simply derooting - gonna try that first, obviously).

[johnlgalt]

OK, getting back to this thing:

 

Trying to cleanly flash Taimen's April Pie update - I let HoG handle it all, except I had already booted into BL mode.

 

And I got this:

Downloading platform tools.
Extracting platform tools.
Found Device: Pixel 2 XL (taimen)
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-pq2a.190405.003-factory-3d72fe71.zip
SHA256 VERIFIED!
Download complete...
Extract: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-pq2a.190405.003-factory-3d72fe71.zip
To: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\
extract: bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
extract: radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
extract: image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
Extract complete.
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\adb.exe reboot bootloader
error: no devices/emulators found
Starting flash...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash bootloader D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
Sending 'bootloader_a' (36356 KB)                  OKAY [  0.320s]
Writing 'bootloader_a'                             OKAY [  0.730s]
Finished. Total time: 1.145s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash radio D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'radio_a' (60388 KB)                       FAILED (Write to device failed in SendBuffer() (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe erase userdata
Erasing 'userdata'                                 FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe --skip-secondary update D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
--------------------------------------------
getvar:version-bootloader                          FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
getvar:version-baseband                            FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
getvar:serialno                                    FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
getvar:product FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
Checking 'product'                                 FAILED
Could not getvar for 'product' (Write to device failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: requirements not met!
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot
Rebooting                                          FAILED (Write to device failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
Flash complete.  Thank you for using the House of Google!

[johnlgalt]

And I figured something out by running flash_all.bat manually.

 

Here is the code for Flash_all:

@ECHO OFF
:: Copyright 2012 The Android Open Source Project
::
:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
:: you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
:: You may obtain a copy of the License at
::
::      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
::
:: Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
:: distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
:: WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
:: See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
:: limitations under the License.

PATH=%PATH%;"%SYSTEMROOT%\System32"
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot flash radio radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot -w update image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip

echo Press any key to exit...
pause >nul
exit

Every time the batch file tries to send the command

fastboot reboot-bootloader

The phone does reboot into fastboot mode - but for whatever reason, the system refuses to recognize it anymore.  However, if I go to the phone and manually use the BL menu to reload BL, the next command then works fine, instead of throwing up those stupid

SendBuffer() (Too many links)

error.

 

So, my supposition is that either Windows or something else is being quite stupid when trying to use

fastboot reboot-bootloader

to reboot the bootloader.

[johnlgalt]

Seems like I have yet another USB port failing.  Swapping ports allowed Flash_all to work.  Next I'll check and see if HoG works on this port as well.

 

(I really need a new computer)

[johnlgalt]

And - good to go.

Platform tools found.
Found Device: Pixel 2 XL (taimen)
Extract: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-pq2a.190405.003-factory-3d72fe71.zip
To: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\
extract: bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
extract: radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
extract: image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
Extract complete.
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\adb.exe reboot bootloader
Starting flash...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash bootloader D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
Sending 'bootloader_b' (36356 KB)                  OKAY [  1.420s]
Writing 'bootloader_b'                             OKAY [  0.300s]
Finished. Total time: 1.820s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.005s]
Finished. Total time: 0.005s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash radio D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
Sending 'radio_b' (60388 KB)                       OKAY [  2.330s]
Writing 'radio_b'                                  OKAY [  0.810s]
Finished. Total time: 3.290s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe erase userdata
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?
Erasing 'userdata'                                 OKAY [  1.620s]
Finished. Total time: 1.620s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe --skip-secondary update D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: TMZ20o
Baseband Version.....: g8998-00253-1811291732
Serial Number........: 710KPMZ0254299
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-bootloader'                      OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-baseband'                        OKAY [  0.000s]
Setting current slot to 'b'                        OKAY [  0.010s]
extracting boot.img (40 MB) to disk... took 0.300s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
Sending 'boot_b' (40960 KB)                        OKAY [  1.590s]
Writing 'boot_b'                                   OKAY [  0.530s]
extracting dtbo.img (8 MB) to disk... took 0.045s
archive does not contain 'dtbo.sig'
Sending 'dtbo_b' (8192 KB)                         OKAY [  0.310s]
Writing 'dtbo_b'                                   OKAY [  0.100s]
archive does not contain 'dt.img'
archive does not contain 'recovery.img'
extracting vbmeta.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.000s
archive does not contain 'vbmeta.sig'
Sending 'vbmeta_b' (4 KB)                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Writing 'vbmeta_b'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
archive does not contain 'vbmeta_system.img'
archive does not contain 'super_empty.img'
archive does not contain 'odm.img'
archive does not contain 'product.img'
extracting system.img (2221 MB) to disk... took 17.761s
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
Sending sparse 'system_b' 1/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [ 20.599s]
Writing 'system_b'                                 OKAY [  2.205s]
Sending sparse 'system_b' 2/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [ 20.671s]
Writing 'system_b'                                 OKAY [  2.206s]
Sending sparse 'system_b' 3/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [ 21.234s]
Writing 'system_b'                                 OKAY [  2.203s]
Sending sparse 'system_b' 4/5 (521180 KB)          OKAY [ 21.047s]
Writing 'system_b'                                 OKAY [  2.193s]
Sending sparse 'system_b' 5/5 (181284 KB)          OKAY [  7.360s]
Writing 'system_b'                                 OKAY [  0.750s]
archive does not contain 'system_ext.img'
extracting vendor.img (351 MB) to disk... took 3.070s
archive does not contain 'vendor.sig'
Sending 'vendor_b' (359984 KB)                     OKAY [ 14.071s]
Writing 'vendor_b'                                 OKAY [  1.530s]
Rebooting                                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 148.935s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot

Now to see if it does Q10 .. 10Q ... no, definitely Q10.

 

Then I'm going to flash Pie again - and then flip the slot and flash Pie again.  Just to be sure.

[SamuriHL]

Sweet.  Good to see it's still working.  I've had ZERO time to work on it lately with this new job.  But the fact that it's still doing its job after all this time is awesome.

[johnlgalt]

Same as above for slot a.

 

And I figured out the *real* problem.

 

Windows had changed my power settings to High Perf instead of Ultimate - which thereby enabled the selective USB suspending again.

 

f%$king piece of $#!+....

 

I just performed this one on the original USB port that didn't work 4 posts above:

Platform tools found.
Fastboot device found: 710KPMZ0254299
Extract: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-pq2a.190405.003-factory-3d72fe71.zip
To: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\
extract: bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
extract: radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
extract: image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
Extract complete.
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\adb.exe reboot bootloader
error: no devices/emulators found
Starting flash...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash bootloader D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\bootloader-taimen-tmz20o.img
Sending 'bootloader_a' (36356 KB)                  OKAY [  0.201s]
Writing 'bootloader_a'                             OKAY [  0.940s]
Finished. Total time: 1.219s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash radio D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\radio-taimen-g8998-00253-1811291732.img
Sending 'radio_a' (60388 KB)                       OKAY [  0.388s]
Writing 'radio_a'                                  OKAY [  0.802s]
Finished. Total time: 1.320s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe erase userdata
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?
Erasing 'userdata'                                 OKAY [  1.129s]
Finished. Total time: 1.129s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe --skip-secondary update D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\image-taimen-pq2a.190405.003.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: TMZ20o
Baseband Version.....: g8998-00253-1811291732
Serial Number........: 710KPMZ0254299
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-bootloader'                      OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-baseband'                        OKAY [  0.000s]
Setting current slot to 'a'                        OKAY [  0.000s]
extracting boot.img (40 MB) to disk... took 0.270s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
Sending 'boot_a' (40960 KB)                        OKAY [  0.254s]
Writing 'boot_a'                                   OKAY [  0.531s]
extracting dtbo.img (8 MB) to disk... took 0.032s
archive does not contain 'dtbo.sig'
Sending 'dtbo_a' (8192 KB)                         OKAY [  0.050s]
Writing 'dtbo_a'                                   OKAY [  0.096s]
archive does not contain 'dt.img'
archive does not contain 'recovery.img'
extracting vbmeta.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.000s
archive does not contain 'vbmeta.sig'
Sending 'vbmeta_a' (4 KB)                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Writing 'vbmeta_a'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
archive does not contain 'vbmeta_system.img'
archive does not contain 'super_empty.img'
archive does not contain 'odm.img'
archive does not contain 'product.img'
extracting system.img (2221 MB) to disk... took 15.345s
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
Sending sparse 'system_a' 1/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  3.541s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.203s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 2/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  3.540s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.271s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 3/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  3.515s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.247s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 4/5 (521180 KB)          OKAY [  3.495s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.264s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 5/5 (181284 KB)          OKAY [  1.217s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  0.783s]
archive does not contain 'system_ext.img'
extracting vendor.img (351 MB) to disk... took 2.610s
archive does not contain 'vendor.sig'
Sending 'vendor_a' (359984 KB)                     OKAY [  2.126s]
Writing 'vendor_a'                                 OKAY [  1.552s]
Rebooting                                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 55.911s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot

[johnlgalt]

Now to see if Q works.  I'm gonna let HoG work its magic (automagically, of course )

[johnlgalt]

One thing - if the device is already in the BL, the app still prompts that it was not found in BL, and ask if you want to reboot to BL - but when you click OK / Yes, it doesn't do anything and immediately starts flashing

[johnlgalt]

And Q10 (full system) flashes perfectly fine via HoG.

Platform tools found.
Found Device: Pixel 2 XL (taimen)
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-qp1a.190711.020-factory-6f0233dd.zip
SHA256 VERIFIED!
Download complete...
Extract: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-qp1a.190711.020-factory-6f0233dd.zip
To: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\
extract: radio-taimen-g8998-00012-1905270706.img
extract: image-taimen-qp1a.190711.020.zip
extract: bootloader-taimen-tmz30h.img
Extract complete.
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\adb.exe reboot bootloader
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
Extract: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\taimen-qp1a.190711.020-factory-6f0233dd.zip
To: D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\
extract: radio-taimen-g8998-00012-1905270706.img
extract: image-taimen-qp1a.190711.020.zip
extract: bootloader-taimen-tmz30h.img
Extract complete.
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\adb.exe reboot bootloader
Starting flash...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash bootloader D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\bootloader-taimen-tmz30h.img
Sending 'bootloader_a' (36352 KB)                  OKAY [  0.300s]
Writing 'bootloader_a'                             OKAY [  0.510s]
Finished. Total time: 0.920s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe flash radio D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\radio-taimen-g8998-00012-1905270706.img
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'radio_a' (60388 KB)                       OKAY [  0.600s]
Writing 'radio_a'                                  OKAY [  0.800s]
Finished. Total time: 1.550s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
Rebooting into bootloader                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.000s
Sleep 5 seconds for reboot...
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe --skip-secondary update D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\IMAGES\taimen\FACTORY\image-taimen-qp1a.190711.020.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: TMZ30h
Baseband Version.....: g8998-00012-1905270706
Serial Number........: 710KPMZ0254299
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-bootloader'                      OKAY [  0.000s]
Checking 'version-baseband'                        OKAY [  0.000s]
Setting current slot to 'a'                        OKAY [  0.010s]
extracting boot.img (40 MB) to disk... took 0.300s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
Sending 'boot_a' (40960 KB)                        OKAY [  0.350s]
Writing 'boot_a'                                   OKAY [  0.530s]
extracting dtbo.img (8 MB) to disk... took 0.046s
archive does not contain 'dtbo.sig'
Sending 'dtbo_a' (8192 KB)                         OKAY [  0.070s]
Writing 'dtbo_a'                                   OKAY [  0.100s]
archive does not contain 'dt.img'
archive does not contain 'recovery.img'
extracting vbmeta.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.005s
archive does not contain 'vbmeta.sig'
Sending 'vbmeta_a' (4 KB)                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Writing 'vbmeta_a'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
archive does not contain 'vbmeta_system.img'
archive does not contain 'super_empty.img'
archive does not contain 'odm.img'
archive does not contain 'product.img'
extracting system.img (2374 MB) to disk... took 19.191s
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
Sending sparse 'system_a' 1/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  5.080s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.200s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 2/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  5.050s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.200s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 3/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  4.980s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.200s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 4/5 (524284 KB)          OKAY [  5.150s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  2.190s]
Sending sparse 'system_a' 5/5 (334556 KB)          OKAY [  3.290s]
Writing 'system_a'                                 OKAY [  1.410s]
archive does not contain 'system_ext.img'
extracting vendor.img (340 MB) to disk... took 2.960s
archive does not contain 'vendor.sig'
Sending 'vendor_a' (348532 KB)                     OKAY [  2.950s]
Writing 'vendor_a'                                 OKAY [  1.470s]
Rebooting                                          OKAY [  0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 71.512s
D:\Users\nkyad\AppData\Roaming\HouseOfGoogle\TOOLS\fastboot.exe reboot

That's a wrap.

 

I will only report one more test, I will try the 10 OTA after I re-flash April Pie onto my device.

[SamuriHL]

One thing - if the device is already in the BL, the app still prompts that it was not found in BL, and ask if you want to reboot to BL - but when you click OK / Yes, it doesn't do anything and immediately starts flashing

 

Good.