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Some Pixel 6 owners say factory resets have bricked their phones
It’s probably best not to reset your phone for a bit.
Google is aware of the issue and is investigating, according to a comment from a member of the Pixel support forums’ product expert program. The phone offers the option to try again, which reportedly fails, or try a factory reset again, but during the wipe, a separate error says the phone is missing a file called tune2fs, which appears to refer to a Unix command line tool used to set file system parameters. Some people reported seeing the issue afterupdating their phones, but the complaints seem to stem from a factory reset, not a specific software update.
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