Difficulites installing iodeos to a Pixel phone

At the top from bottom it says Supported API: 3 Verifying update package… ERROR: Recovery: failed to verify whole-file signature ERROR Recovery: Signature vertification failed ERROR: Recovery: error 21 Installing update… and then that I just said. What do i do?

@chrisrg @rik
@petefoth

I press reboot system now, and it says WARNING : Previous installation has failed. Your device may fail to boot if you reboot now. Confirm reboot?

" Cancel "

" Reboot system now "

I press reboot system now, and the black screen thing appears, no iode.

" the bootloader is unlocked and software integrity cannot be guaranteed "

then, black screen

and back to the bootloader is unlocked and software integrity cannot be guaranteed "

@chrisrg @rik What do I do?

BTW, @chrisrg
Im using this:

What do i do for it to work?

@chrisrg

If you continue to be so impatient, littering everything, and constantly pinging people here, you shouldn’t be surprised if no one responds anymore. Your behavior is incredibly annoying!

Can you tell me what i need to do for it to work?

:rofl: sorry, but you made my day…

That was wrong. Read the Lineage instructions and digest ffs.
I’ve already said you were good on calyx at that version.

The lineage downloads for booting recovery are obviously too new.
I said if you still get SPL error you need to extract the required images from the payload.bin of the roonz zip (AKA the “target” in that error). I sent link for payload dumper go somewhere here…post #5 above

I’m worried about advising you now. Just trying random things is a recipe for disaster.

I tried going straight from Calyxos > Iode just following the instructions of Lineage what Rik sent above, and the same thing happened, I tried that first.

I used Ronn 6.3

File.

Are you saying I have to do the payload dumper thing first before this will work?

@chrisrg

@spokey300 I have silenced your account for 1 week. As noted by several, you have been repeatedly flooding and "@"ing users that have done their best to give you advice and suggestions. But you have not taken their advice and will repeatedly flood again with the same questions. The users here do not have your specific device, and they can’t test install for you. We are all happy for you to be enthusiastic about trying iodé but please do the work to try the advice, and just “@“ing a different user with the same flood of questions when the first user gave you solid advice to try and learn from doesn‘t help you or the people trying to help you. We all end up swirling in a circle, sort of like swirling down a toilet bowl is an analogy I am suggesting is how we all feel in this situation.

During this week of silence, I suggest the following:

  1. I am uploading iodé 6.3 builds for akita in the next day. I have one version built but am testing a build variation. so want to verify that before I post them. I told you already I would get them uploaded by the end of the weekend, but since then you have sent about 50+ messages asking if you should really use it, where are the builds, how do you install, etc. This is not helpful for you or others.
  2. Once I have the build uploaded (it will be posted to the Unofficial builds for Google Pixel devices post as I have already stated) you can attempt to install its boot.img (recovery) AND then sideload the build using adb.
  3. If you can‘t get the boot.img installed and you get the same message about your version being too new (you mention something about it being a 2025-05-05 version but I don’t know what recovery you are talking about, is this calyx recovery or lineage or other?) and there being some sort of older version to the build than is allowed by your patch level, then as @chrisrg mentions you have a newer patch applied from somewhere that prevents you from “downgrading” due to security reasons. If that is true, the easiest is to wait for another month until the iodé updates will equal the minimum patch level, and then try. But nothing else may be possible. So if you phone is unusable, which I think it is, then you should install a system on it with the updated patch level, which would be only stock from Google using flash.android.com or calyx again.

Good luck, we will hear back from you after 1 week to see how you progressed. I do wish you success.

PS. I am suspecting you are “Henry” and “superboys400” from Matrix that has flooded those channels with very similar messages about a Pixel 8a, and repeatedly "@"ing everyone, asking the same question about how to install, not listening, and repeating again if anyone gives you a reply. This behavior is not the way to make progress.

Regards,

Rik

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  • LineageOS builds for this device require an Android 15 version of the stock OS to be installed prior to following the installation guide

BUT NOT THE MAY BUILD.!!

Boot the stock google , setup usb debugging.

Follow LOS install guide, but use ronnz firmware

I have extracted the boot and other.img files for flashing recovery as per LOS guide. Here they are…

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I also uploaded 6.3 versions for him, and since he had DM’d me I gave him a link to those. But as we found in the last day he created at least 2 new additional usernames on Matrix and continues the flood of similar questions etc. without following the advice already suggested. Anyway, just noting here I did upload the new release he was asking about, and I am now marking this thread closed.

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