r/Pixel6

Last night while working my phone decided I needed to use my PIN instead of fingerprint to unlock, but doesn't accept my PIN any more. I've tried every variation of it, even old PINs, and I feel like I'm gaslighting myself but I know I've entered in what was the correct PIN multiple times now. Apparently this has happened to others before but I haven't found the fix. I can factory reset but really don't want to lose all my data since I didn't make a back up.

I want to know if there's some way I can have Drive perform a backup while the device is still locked, but I'm assuming not. I've even tried to use adb commands to reset the PIN, I had developer options enabled but apparently not USB debugging so that isn't working either.

I finally did it! Moved on to another phone.

I had my P6P since launch. Loved the phone. The signal was awful.

I finally did a Goggle Ai search on signal issues with the P6P, specifically in my area. There are some issues with the P6P locking on to certain bands and not switching to stronger ones.

At any rate, I am now the owner of a Pixel 11 Pro XL. I have owned the phone for only 9 hours. But I have yet to see the exclamation point of doom, that plagued my old phone.

Has anyone else had their Pixel 6 basically brick itself after the recent September 2026 update?

Mine was working normally, but now it seems completely dead. The screen stays totally black and I can't get it to boot at all.

So far I've tried:

• Holding the power button for 30–60+ seconds
• Power + Volume Down to try to enter Fastboot
• Power + Volume Up
• Connecting it to a charger
• Connecting it to my Mac via USB
• Trying different boot/restart combinations

Nothing shows on the screen, no Google logo, battery icon, vibration, Fastboot screen, or recovery menu.

My Mac also doesn't seem to react when I plug the phone in. I'm going to check adb devices, fastboot devices, and the USB devices through Terminal as well, but so far there's no obvious sign that the computer can see it.

The strange part is that the phone gets noticeably warm/hot when I hold the power button and try to turn it on. So it seems like something inside is still drawing power, even though absolutely nothing appears on the screen.

This happened around the time of the September update, which is why I'm wondering whether the update could have caused some kind of firmware/boot issue rather than the phone randomly dying at exactly the same time.

I've also found Google's Pixel Update and Software Repair tool, but from what I understand it requires the phone to actually enter Fastboot first — which mine currently won't do.

I'm trying to avoid a factory reset or anything that would wipe the phone because I still have data on it that I'd really like to recover.

Has anyone with a Pixel 6 experienced something similar after a recent update?

Especially interested if your phone had:

• Completely black screen
• No Fastboot/recovery
• No USB detection
• Phone still heating up when attempting to boot

And if you managed to recover it, what actually worked? At this point I'm trying to figure out whether there's still some software/bootloader recovery method I haven't tried, or whether this is likely a motherboard/power issue and I need to send it to Google for repair.

In this top paragraph I will give a short summary of what happened and what I've tried , but please read the whole from top to bottom , basically , my phone randomly turned off by itself , then it'd restart every 45 seconds or so by itself , next day used Pixel Repair Tool , the phone stopped restarting by itself and going to the lock screen etc. but now it was just staying on the G logo with bar sliding underneath , then I tried a button combination or maybe single button to switch slots , not sure if it switched slots or if it did , it didn't change anything , then tried ADB sideloading the July update and successfully did so twice , but result was same after pressing reboot system now both times , since then I've been procrastinating , I had very low storage when this all began and also Factory reset isn't an option as I have important data on my phone which I need to back up , I've read in other threads multiple people have managed to fix bootloops with beta / qpr , people who also said they had low storage , some said a stable / public OTA didn't fix theirs but beta / qpr did fix it , one more thing , after using Pixel Repair Tool I saw an error message somewhere saying tune2fs is missing , this error message was also visible in Recovery mode after doing the first successful ADB sideloading of the OTA , but when I went into recovery mode a few days ago just to see if it's still there , it wasn't there anymore , also I'm in slot b if that is important information , I think I was in slot a before doing the second ADB sideload of the same July update , please help me , all of this happened in July with the exception of me going into Recovery mode a few days ago ( Wednesday 30th September 2026 ) just to see if there was error message still there .

Full Version Below :

on Thursday 9th July 2026 between 00:45AM and 1AM or so , I was using my phone normally and it gave me a prompt saying something wasn't responding , I tapped wait , then afew seconds later I got a prompt again , possibly same one , this time after tapping wait , there was nor response when I tapped the screen anywhere , then about 25 seconds later the phone turned off by itself , then it'd restart by itself every 45 seconds or so , it'd reach the lock screen and whether I entered my PIN or not , it'd restart , as I said every 45 seconds or so , if I did enter my PIN I could open the phone and get to the home screen but there were no icons and I couldn't swipe up to bring up applications , however on both the lock screen and I think the home screen , I could swipe down from the top of the screen and bring up the menu showing things like internet , bluetooth , torch etc. and the small settings icon and small power button icon at the bottom of that menu , however tapping the settings icon did nothing and tapping the power icon would bring up the expected black box which has the Emergency option , Restart and power off , except there was no lockdown option unlike when the phone was being used normally , the time was also visible at the top of the screen and sometimes the lock screen and home screen would show my wallpaper and after other restarts it'd be black .

Then the next day ( Friday 10th July 2026 ) I put the phone into rescue mode and used Pixel Repair Tool , after it successfully downloaded and installed and restarted the phone , the multicoloured Google text logo showed up as expected , followed by the G logo as expected then then bar sliding underneath the G logo as expected , except it would remain like this for however long I'd leave my phone .

Then I tried a button combination on Sunday 12th July 2026 or Monday 13th July 2026 to try and switch slots , I'm not sure if it did switch slots .

Then on Tuesday 14th July 2026 and into the early hours of Wednesday 15th July 2026 ( because the second ADB sideload might've finished a few minutes past 00:00AM on Wednesday 15th July 2026 ) , I ADB sideloaded the July update " 17.0.0 (CP2A.260705.006, Jul 2026) " aka " bluejay-ota-cp2a.260705.006-4d72e3fe.zip " successfully with status 0 and after pressing reboot system now , my phone showed the multicoloured Google text logo as expected , then the G logo as expected then the bar sliding underneath the G logo , and my phone wouldn't reach the lock screen after leaving my phone for about two or three hours , then I applied the same OTA again to make sure both slots get it and see if that gets my phone to the lock screen and so I sideloaded the same OTA again and the result was the same , doesn't get past the bar sliding underneath the G logo and to the lock screen even after leaving it for five hours or so at which point I just used fastboot to turn off power and since then been procrastinating .

https://reddit.com/link/1wvu8g4/video/fhxip2or6fth1/player

In this top paragraph I will give a short summary of what happened and what I've tried , but please read the whole from top to bottom , basically , my phone randomly turned off by itself , then it'd restart every 45 seconds or so by itself , next day used Pixel Repair Tool , the phone stopped restarting by itself and going to the lock screen etc. but now it was just staying on the G logo with bar sliding underneath , then I tried a button combination or maybe single button to switch slots , not sure if it switched slots or if it did , it didn't change anything , then tried ADB sideloading the July update and successfully did so twice , but result was same after pressing reboot system now both times , since then I've been procrastinating , I had very low storage when this all began and also Factory reset isn't an option as I have important data on my phone which I need to back up , I've read in other threads multiple people have managed to fix bootloops with beta / qpr , people who also said they had low storage , some said a stable / public OTA didn't fix theirs but beta / qpr did fix it , one more thing , after using Pixel Repair Tool I saw an error message somewhere saying tune2fs is missing , this error message was also visible in Recovery mode after doing the first successful ADB sideloading of the OTA , but when I went into recovery mode a few days ago just to see if it's still there , it wasn't there anymore , also I'm in slot b if that is important information , I think I was in slot a before doing the second ADB sideload of the same July update , please help me , all of this happened in July with the exception of me going into Recovery mode a few days ago ( Wednesday 30th September 2026 ) just to see if there was error message still there .

Full Version Below :

• on Thursday 9th July 2026 between 00:45AM and 1AM or so , I was using my phone normally and it gave me a prompt saying something wasn't responding , I tapped wait , then a few seconds later I got a prompt again , possibly same one , this time after tapping wait , there was nor response when I tapped the screen anywhere , then about 25 seconds later the phone turned off by itself , then it'd restart by itself every 45 seconds or so , it'd reach the lock screen and whether I entered my PIN or not , it'd restart , as I said every 45 seconds or so , if I did enter my PIN I could open the phone and get to the home screen but there were no icons and I couldn't swipe up to bring up applications , however on both the lock screen and I think the home screen , I could swipe down from the top of the screen and bring up the menu showing things like internet , bluetooth , torch etc. and the small settings icon and small power button icon at the bottom of that menu , however tapping the settings icon did nothing and tapping the power icon would bring up the expected black box which has the Emergency option , Restart and power off , except there was no lockdown option unlike when the phone was being used normally , the time was also visible at the top of the screen and sometimes the lock screen and home screen would show my wallpaper and after other restarts it'd be black .
• Then the next day ( Friday 10th July 2026 ) I put the phone into rescue mode and used Pixel Repair Tool , after it successfully downloaded and installed and restarted the phone , the multicoloured Google text logo showed up as expected , followed by the G logo as expected then then bar sliding underneath the G logo as expected , except it would remain like this for however long I'd leave my phone .
• Then I tried a button combination on Sunday 12th July 2026 or Monday 13th July 2026 to try and switch slots , I'm not sure if it did switch slots .
• Then on Tuesday 14th July 2026 and into the early hours of Wednesday 15th July 2026 ( because the second ADB sideload might've finished a few minutes past 00:00AM on Wednesday 15th July 2026 ) , I ADB sideloaded the July update " 17.0.0 (CP2A.260705.006, Jul 2026) " aka " bluejay-ota-cp2a.260705.006-4d72e3fe.zip " successfully with status 0 and after pressing reboot system now , my phone showed the multicoloured Google text logo as expected , then the G logo as expected then the bar sliding underneath the G logo , and my phone wouldn't reach the lock screen after leaving my phone for about two or three hours , then I applied the same OTA again to make sure both slots get it and see if that gets my phone to the lock screen and so I sideloaded the same OTA again and the result was the same , doesn't get past the bar sliding underneath the G logo and to the lock screen even after leaving it for five hours or so at which point I just used fastboot to turn off power and since then been procrastinating .