Some Pixel 6 users unintentionally bricked their phones after factory resetting them.
When the Pixel 6 was first released, it was an immensely buggy phone, but nearly three years later, almost all of those issues have been ironed out, only for a bigger one to crop up.
According to complaints on Reddit and Google support forums, many Pixel 6 owners found that they unintentionally bricked their phones after factory resetting them.
The problem apparently affects all phones in the series, including the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, and Pixel 6a.
Factory reset is bricking the Pixel 6.
What happened in most cases is that a Pixel 6 unit was factory reset, but it booted up with a black screen. After retries, users got an error that said “tune2fs” was missing. This is an advanced Unix command for adjusting tunable parameters.
Now it boots into a black screen with amber/red text at the top saying
“Android Recoverygoogle/raven_beta/ravenVanillaIceCream/AP31.
