I have a serious issue with my Pixel 7 running iodéOS 6.7.
After installation, I mistakenly re-locked the bootloader.
Since then, every time I try to open Developer Options, the Settings app crashes immediately.
This means I cannot re-enable OEM unlocking, and therefore I cannot unlock my bootloader again.
At the moment I am completely stuck, with no way to flash another system or go back to stock.
Could you please advise what I should do in this situation? Is there any recovery path provided for users who re-locked the bootloader by mistake on iodéOS 6.7?
a) The cause is, I assume, not the locking of the bootloader. Why? I did flash iodéOS on my Motorola phone, relocked the boot loader and still got a working system.
b) Unfortunately, as I do not have a Pixel phone, I cannot help you with your issue. But there have been others reporting crashing developer options, maybe you could find some clue in there?
The problem of Developer Options crashing was reported a few times for Pixel devices, but in each case it was due to not having stock Android 15.x installed before installing iodéOS, but instead having Android 16 installed beforehand.
Please note that you do not need to re-enable “OEM Unlocking” in Developer Options unless you had gone into Developer Options and unchecked “OEM Unlocking” after locking your device (but since Developer Options crashes I don’t think this is the case). So to clarify, you can have a locked bootloader but it is still eligible to be unlocked.
You can see if this is the case by going to your bootloader (hold down Vol - when booting), and it should show locked (unlockable). If that is true, then you just need to issue fastboot flashing unlock from a terminal and it will be unlocked again, ready for a new install.
Then if you aren’t able to use flash.android.com from a Chromium based browser (that should be your first try as it is the easiest) to flash back to Android 15, you can download the full image here, again choosing the newest Android 15 image. Then you can flash that image by executing flash-all.sh (or .bat).
After you are back to Android 15, no need to even boot it, you can then run the iodé installer again and it should work.
I have just re-tested these steps on a Pixel 8 shiba today, with a phone that I intentionally upgrade to Google Android 16 first to see if there were any problems re-flashing back to Android 15. No problems at all at least in my test.