The Pixel Watch bootloader is unlockable, but you'll need to sacrifice a good USB cable - Android Police

We're good connected our mode to getting customized ROMs for this watch

If you've been looking for a mode to load customized ROMs to your $350 Pixel Watch for immoderate god-forsaken reason, by each means, spell ahead. Someone other has paved the mode for you to bash truthful and, spot us, it's beauteous ugly.

Most Wear OS watches tin tract ADB commands done Wi-Fi — we amusement you however to get that up and moving with our tutorial connected installing the Pixel Watch's ticker faces connected your Wear OS 3 device — but they bash necessitate a hardwired transportation erstwhile it comes to doing thing arsenic privileged and brainsick arsenic unlocking the bootloader.

Unfortunately, the lone mode specified a transportation is imaginable is done those 4 Pogo pins connected the instrumentality that lucifer neatly to the ones embedded wrong the proprietary magnetic charging pad. Thing is, you don't request each those pins for powerfulness — if you're unaware, those pins really correspond likewise to the pin-out of a afloat USB larboard with 1 pin providing powerfulness astatine 5V, 2 for handling information coming successful and going out, and the past 1 for ground.

Shiny Quagsire connected Twitter was capable to portion up a USB cablegram and suss retired a mode to link their Pixel Watch to a computer.

That cablegram ain't a beauteous sight, but hey, you gotta interruption a fewer eggs, right?

Anyways, our MacGyver past went done the accustomed steps to unlock the bootloader conscionable similar immoderate different Android-based instrumentality and present they've got a Pixel Watch with an unlocked bootloader.

With the Pixel Watch kernel root retired (via XDA-Developers), it won't conscionable beryllium ROM developers getting engaged retired determination — this besides opens up the accidental for immoderate AliExpress vendors (you cognize the type) to manufacture peculiar adapters from USB to Pogo outputs.

Thanks: Mishaal