Google designed Pixel phones to be independent of desktop computers. Their ecosystem relies on the cloud to handle the tasks a traditional PC suite once managed.
SP Flash Tool is designed for MediaTek, but a patched version exists that can read and write to Pixel’s UFS storage. This is extremely risky and often requires loading a "scatter file" extracted from a Pixel factory image.
Bypassing Android's scoped storage to organize files, app caches, and media directly from a desktop interface.
