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It started when the regular OTA update failed to install and left me with a "no command" screen.
I downloaded a stock ROM from the official developers.google site.
I tried the flash-all script to install the ROM. It gave me the following:

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
failed to allocate -1492308812 bytes
error: update package missing system.img

After pasting all the files from the image.zip to the parent folder with the flash-all script in it (that way the system.img is in the same dir as the flash-all script), I received the same error.

After some googling I found some instructions to flash the files manually using fastboot.
All went well and I came to the second last instruction to flash the system.
Then this happend:

>> fastboot flash system system.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [  0.090s]
sending sparse 'system' (520374 KB)...
OKAY [ 20.706s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [  9.350s]
sending sparse 'system' (515510 KB)...
OKAY [ 22.374s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [  9.586s]
sending sparse 'system' (479538 KB)...
OKAY [ 20.531s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [  8.527s]
sending sparse 'system' (514677 KB)...
OKAY [ 21.401s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 11.339s]
sending sparse 'system' (524289 KB)...
FAILED (remote: data too large)
finished. total time: 124.427s

As you can see, fastboot is already sending the data in smaller portions. What do I have to do to fix this? I searched google but couldn't find any usable fix..


The phone is an rooted Nexus 5x.

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Reset to default
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Turns out that some old adb tooling was in my PATH variable, so I was using an old version of fastboot..
It all worked well when I used the right version!

Will accept this as an answer in 2 days.

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    What version of fastboot are you using? I'm on ubuntu and have installed the latest in repository, but are still getting the same error. -- Lyon
    – Lyon
    Commented Dec 9, 2016 at 11:13
  • I'm using fastboot version 302830efc153-android! Have you checked your PATH variable?
    – Michel
    Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 21:03
  • I had the same issue and changing fastboot solved it. Thank you.
    – Jake
    Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 8:54
  • Great stuff - using the latest platform tools from the android website worked perfectly. Would have been impossible to troubleshoot without this. Thanks for reporting back.
    – Brett Larson
    Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 3:29
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For those who still have the problem, you can simply use the -S option of fastboot.

In my case, it worked great with: fastboot -S 300M flash system system.img

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