r/Pixel7Pro

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Problem:

After the March Pixel Drop got auto-installed on Sunday 15th March, my Pixel 7 Pro's camera completely died. Every camera app showed a blank screen (even the front camera). The flashlight quick tile was grayed out with a "Camera in use" warning, but there was no green privacy dot.

For the devs/tinkerers, pulling a bug report or running adb logcat showed this exact fatal crash loop in the camera HAL:

Abort message: 'KRAKEN init error, status: NOT_FOUND: LwisFence signal status: No such device or address'

What troubleshooting steps I tried:

1. Force stopping the Camera app, Android System Intelligence, or Pixel Camera Services.
2. Safe mode, repair mode and hard restarts.
3. Killing the camera provider via ADB (killall cameraserver threw permission errors).
4. Sideloading the March full OTA zip to fix potential corruption.

The Fix: Downgrading to the December 2025 Factory Image

The only way to revive the camera was to unlock the bootloader and clean-flash the older firmware (specifically BP4A.251205.006).

This will completely wipe your phone. Back up everything first.

Step-by-Step Guide:

• Prep the phone: Go to Settings > About phone and tap Build number 7 times. Go to Developer options and toggle ON USB debugging and OEM unlocking. (Note: If OEM unlocking is greyed out, connect to Wi-Fi so Google can verify the device).
• Prep the PC: Install Android SDK Platform Tools (sudo apt install android-sdk-platform-tools or download from Google's dev site).
• Boot into fastboot: Connect your phone to your PC and run: adb reboot bootloader
• Unlock the bootloader: Run this command: fastboot flashing unlock
• Confirm the unlock: Use the volume keys on your phone to select "Unlock the bootloader" and press the Power button. The phone will wipe itself.
• Download factory image: Go to the official Android Factory Images site, find the "cheetah" section for the Pixel 7 Pro, and download the December 2025 zip (BP4A.251205.006).
• Flash: Extract the zip file on your computer, ensure the phone is still in the bootloader menu, and run the flash script:

./flash-all.sh (Mac/Linux) or flash-all.bat (Windows).

Note on relocking: Do not run fastboot flashing lock while on older firmware. Just leave the bootloader unlocked for now to avoid tripping any Anti-Rollback (ARB) security traps (this is not 100% confirmed just seen some Pixel 6 and 8 series have this ARB)

Once the phone booted up on the december firmware, the hardware woke right up and all lenses (including the front) worked perfectly again. Hope this saves someone a trip to the repair center.

Final note: "automatic system updates" in developer settings must stay OFF if not device will break again after auto-update.

Yesterday I got this green line in my display. It was a good experience with my pixel 7pro all these years ! Is this time to say good bye for pixel ?

Hi everyone,

I'm using a Google Pixel 7 Pro and I'm looking for a charger that supports USB PD with PPS, since I know Pixels use PPS for the best charging speeds.

My budget is pretty tight—around ₹600 or less. I've seen a few options from Portronics and Karwan on Amazon that claim to support PPS, but I'm not sure if they actually negotiate PPS properly with the Pixel 7 Pro or if it's just marketing.

Has anyone here used these chargers with a Pixel 7 Pro or other recent Pixel phones? Do they actually enable PPS and charge at the phone's full supported speed?

If not, are there

any reliable chargers under ₹600 available in India that genuinely support PPS?

Thanks in advance!

They are very ugly and they are not too different from an icon since they have the same shape and size, I like to organize my life a lot and be minimalist.

I don't feel like switching to nova. I can't believe that google is following Apple's nonsense of not allowing you to customize everything it should, such as the interface of the samsung ultra that is amazing

Does anyone else have absolutely garbage battery life since the update to 17? Honestly, I barely make it through the day with maybe an hour of screentime...

Also suffering from lots of little glitches. Wonder if I should factory reset my phone or something?

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So I have a p7p pro and the gps works fine while walking. It can point my location too If I'm stationary. It'll track me if I'm walking at a slow pace but as soon as I get in a car and start driving, it gets thrown off by a few km, i.e it keeps searching for gps and shows me way off from where I actually am.

Here's the fixes I've tried:

1. Turned on developer options and turned on force gnss

2. Cleared maps cache and Google play services cache

3. Tried it in safe mode, still didn't work.

4. Downloaded gps apps like gps status and toolbox and gps test. Over there, cleared and updated agpss but still not working.

PS these apps are always showing either "searching for gps" or "GNSS: No fix" and showing zero satellites, it goes up to "2 in view" sometimes but goes back to zero. And yes I've tried it out in the open under the clear sky as well.

Is this a hardware issue? Because this happened after Android 16, and I thought the android 17 update might fix it but it's done nothing. I'm so done because I really have to use maps for navigating.... Anyone who can help out, it'd be greatly appreciated

It seems like everyone has already gotten the upgrade, but I'm still waiting. I check for the upgrade several times a day, but according to my phone, I am up to date with Android 16.