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Ok, so I recently bought a used dell streak off of a friend, and although I like it, I don't like dell's ROM, so my main goal here is to install a custom rom.(Specifically, streakdroid 2.0.0). I was able to root my phone, however I am having issues flashing the recovery image,to get to installing the custom rom. I have tried using rom manager to install clockwork, and when I do it says it installs fine, but when I tell it to reboot into clockwork, the phone just boots up normally into android.When I boot using power + vol up + vol down, it just boots into the stock recovery image. I have also tried using fastboot to flash the recovery image using the clockwork recovery image for the dell streak. The command line says the flash was completed, yet again when I boot into the recovery image it is still the dell streak stock recovery image. I also renamed the file: system/ect/install-recovery.sh to system/ect/install-recovery.sh.bak , following another post's advice, still no luck. I have spent several hours looking on forums on how to fix it, and can't find anyone with this problem on the dell streak. I have also tried to find a way to install a custom ROM without using a recovery image, but haven't been able to do that either. Any help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated, even a possible tip to point me in the right direction.
For some more info about my phone, I do believe that it might be a corporate edition, I don't know if that would effect anything or not, the other details are as follows:
Model Number : Dell Streak
Android version: 2.2.2
Baseband version: GAUSB1A135100-US
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9-perf
OEM Version: GAUSB1A135100
Build number : 15609
Custom Recovery – Prevent Overwriting on Dell Streak
I already tried the advice given on that link. I can't even get into the custom recovery image even one time.
Also I meant to post this under the Q & A forum, if it's possible for someone to move this post, I'd appreciate it.
damoshemeister said:
I already tried the advice given on that link. I can't even get into the custom recovery image even one time.
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Rename install-recovery.sh before you install the custom recovery. If the phone boots even once the recovery is over written with the stock recovery if you don't.
Also - there are a bunch of posts that state that ROM Manger does not work on the Streak.
I have also tried using adb to flash the recovery image after renaming the file and immediately booting into the recovery image after installing. Still same issue. Also without even renaming that file, I believe I am still supposed to be able to access the custom recovery image one time.
You do have to enter the stock recovery to get into ClockworkMod or StreakMod. It's what you do after you get into stock recovery that takes you into CM or SM.
Rather than tell you how to do it, I will tell you to READ those guides posted above for the answer. If you don't want to do that, then you should stop messing with something you don't understand before you brick your new toy! The Streak doesn't root, recover, or update ROMs like other Android devices.
Ok, while I did have legitimate issues with rom manager it turns out I had a misunderstanding of how to install streamod,as you pointed out. Please forgive me, I was pouring over a ton of information in a very short amount of time, including being completely new to android, how to install apks from a pc, jailbreaking, using adb fastboot to flash images, all for the first time. I didn't realize you had to update from within the stock recovery image to install streakmod. I appreciate your help allot. I was able to successfully install streakdroid like I wanted, wouldn't have been able to do it without your help. Thanks again.
Glad to see you got it up and going. I can understand your frustration. The first time I played with my Streak I bricked it and took it to someone to fix and he didn't know much more than I did about it.
When I got it back unfixed, I spent several days reading and now consider myself fairly proficient in the art of flashing, although I haven't made any steps into cooking up my own ROMS or all the other technical stuff that goes with what these unselfish guys go through for us.
Have fun!!
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Ok, while I did have legitimate issues with rom manager it turns out I had a misunderstanding of how to install streamod,as you pointed out. Please forgive me, I was pouring over a ton of information in a very short amount of time, including being completely new to android, how to install apks from a pc, jailbreaking, using adb fastboot to flash images, all for the first time. I didn't realize you had to update from within the stock recovery image to install streakmod. I appreciate your help allot. I was able to successfully install streakdroid like I wanted, wouldn't have been able to do it without your help. Thanks again.
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Sorry to have been so tough on you. That's the only way to get people to UNDERSTAND what they are doing to their devices. Now that you found it on your own, you will remember it. You also stumbled onto some other info that may not pertain to your situation now, but you will remember seeing it in the future when you need it!
Here is another concise guide that is excellent and a short read:
http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=8715
Good Luck!
kraz
Yea, I definitely understand where you guys are coming from. I do like to try to figure stuff out on my own, and did spend some considerable time reading before I posted on this forum. You guys gave the exact help I was looking for, just a nudge in the right direction. Knowledgeable people can save newbs like me hours in frustration.What threw me off was partially bad luck, but definitely due to incomplete understanding as well. It was the combination of rom manager not working , and me not properly understanding how to install streakmod that led to me thinking it had something to do with the bootloader blocking the recovery image from being flashed. I thought I was gonna end up having to flash the bootloader but definitely didn't want to do this as that would have been very vulnerable to bricking. I read the basics on the different images, and what they did before I tried anything. I did end up at one point with my streak not being able to boot, or update from an update.pkg but since I knew I didn't touch the bootloader, I knew I should be able to get it up and running again. THanks for the link, I will definitely read it.
did u try
flash the clockworkmod or the other recovery image. when the flash was done, it will boot the dell streak, meanwhile, press vol up and down, boot into the recovery mood again, I mean NEVER let the streak boot into the rom afte u flash the image.
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marvin02 said:
Rename install-recovery.sh before you install the custom recovery. If the phone boots even once the recovery is over written with the stock recovery if you don't.
Also - there are a bunch of posts that state that ROM Manger does not work on the Streak.
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what do i rename " install-recovery.sh " to?
thanks
I renamed mine to "install-recovery.sh.bak", but I have seen "do-not-install-recovery.sh". In other words, you can rename it to whatever you want.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I renamed mine to "install-recovery.sh.bak", but I have seen "do-not-install-recovery.sh". In other words, you can rename it to whatever you want.
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every time i try to rename it i get a failed message. any other suggestions? thanks for the help in advanced
You have to mount the internal SD as R/W, it's in R/O it sounds like
trucutu62 said:
every time i try to rename it i get a failed message. any other suggestions? thanks for the help in advanced
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As noted by the post just prior to this one, the system partition is read-only. You need to change it temporarily to read-write using a file manager that can do the job. I used Super Manager, but there are plenty of root file manager apps on the Market that can do the job.
I'm trying to update my wife's N7 to 4.3. She used a toolkit to root and has TWRP recovery. Everything else is stock. So first I downloaded the 4.3 update and attempted to flash, but immediately after choosing "install" I received a message the the flash failed. I thought maybe I got a bad download, so I rebooted the device and forced an OTA. The device downloaded the OTA, but then rebooted to TWRP and didn't install. Then I thought maybe I need to have stock recovery... So I unrooted, and installed stock recovery. I then forced the OTA again, downloaded, and began to install in stock recovery, and approximately halfway through it stopped and gave an error message. Then the device rebooted on it's own. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I was able to update to 4.3 on my N4 without any issues. Does anyone have a solution for me? Please let me know if there is some detail I left out. Thanks!
You can use fastboot to erase your current partitions then manually flash the 4.3 stock images.
I've never used fastboot before. Plus another problem now... I tried to flash the stock image via toolkit, now the device is stuck on the bootloader.
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I've never used fastboot before. Plus another problem now... I tried to flash the stock image via toolkit, now the device is stuck on the bootloader.
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On the bootloader or the boot animation? Big difference.
There was a recent change in fastboot that makes flashing the 4.3 images a little dicey if you're not using the latest fastboot executable, which I imagine could cause problems with various toolkits that bundle the executable.
Rirere said:
On the bootloader or the boot animation? Big difference.
There was a recent change in fastboot that makes flashing the 4.3 images a little dicey if you're not using the latest fastboot executable, which I imagine could cause problems with various toolkits that bundle the executable.
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On the bootloader. I can't get past the google splash screen, but it overlays the bootloader screen. I just want to get back to stock, then upgrade to 4.3. I've tried to install adb on my computer, but couldn't get the computer to recognize the device.
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On the bootloader. I can't get past the google splash screen, but it overlays the bootloader screen. I just want to get back to stock, then upgrade to 4.3. I've tried to install adb on my computer, but couldn't get the computer to recognize the device.
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Install this through device manager.
http://d-h.st/kDu
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Install this through device manager.
http://d-h.st/kDu
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Okay, it's installed. I'm not sure what I should unzip though?
chrisbo4 said:
Okay, it's installed. I'm not sure what I should unzip though?
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You can either flash stock images with fastboot or install TWRP then flash stock zip file.
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I'm trying to update my wife's N7 to 4.3. She used a toolkit to root and has TWRP recovery. Everything else is stock. So first I downloaded the 4.3 update and attempted to flash, but immediately after choosing "install" I received a message the the flash failed. I thought maybe I got a bad download, so I rebooted the device and forced an OTA. The device downloaded the OTA, but then rebooted to TWRP and didn't install. Then I thought maybe I need to have stock recovery... So I unrooted, and installed stock recovery. I then forced the OTA again, downloaded, and began to install in stock recovery, and approximately halfway through it stopped and gave an error message. Then the device rebooted on it's own. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I was able to update to 4.3 on my N4 without any issues. Does anyone have a solution for me? Please let me know if there is some detail I left out. Thanks!
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First of all I do not intend to offend you. I am not lecturing. I just want to give you my opinion in order to try to help you.
In general to install an update the safest way is to have or re-install stock recovery prior to the installation of the update. There is no need to unroot for the stock recovery installation.
In your household you have Nexus products. It means that you will probably continue to acquire Nexus equipment. In this case, in the long run, you will be better off installing, learning, and using adb and fastboot methods. Toolkits are mostly a quick fix which works ...............or not. I am thinking that toolkits are useless in the sense that they do not bring knowledge and experience (in my area trash collection are Monday and Thursday:laugh.
The XDA forum is full of resources. It does not leave a stone unturned. Its a matter of reading, asking, and learning.
In your case, facing your problem, I would install adb through a program called "android-sdk- windows". Then I will take advantage of the experience and the knowledge of our forum members to install the JB 4.3 factory image.
here are two references among several:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781250
But it is a long way for a beginner - which I was 2-3 years ago - to go this route. But what a reward!
gunner1937 said:
First of all I do not intend to offend you. I am not lecturing. I just want to give you my opinion in order to try to help you.
In general to install an update the safest way is to have or re-install stock recovery prior to the installation of the update. There is no need to unroot for the stock recovery installation.
In your household you have Nexus products. It means that you will probably continue to acquire Nexus equipment. In this case, in the long run, you will be better off installing, learning, and using adb and fastboot methods. Toolkits are mostly a quick fix which works ...............or not. I am thinking that toolkits are useless in the sense that they do not bring knowledge and experience (in my area trash collection are Monday and Thursday:laugh.
The XDA forum is full of resources. It does not leave a stone unturned. Its a matter of reading, asking, and learning.
In your case, facing your problem, I would install adb through a program called "android-sdk- windows". Then I will take advantage of the experience and the knowledge of our forum members to install the JB 4.3 factory image.
here are two references among several:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781250
But it is a long way for a beginner - which I was 2-3 years ago - to go this route. But what a reward!
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Thank you for the information, and I'm not offended at all. I spent most of last night reading, and attempting to get adb running on my computer. I experienced issues getting drivers installed, and the computer recognizing the device. Also, trying to find the directories... I'll keep searching to see if I can get this figured out. Thank you again!
Thanks to everyone for helping me through this problem. After a lot of searching, research, reading, and video tutorials, I flashed stock images to the N7 via fastboot. I always thought that adb and fastboot was way too advanced for me (and it probably still is), but at least I got the basics down. Thank you all again.
Dear guys,
due to problems within this morning, i restarted my phone to wipe dalvik/cache.
But it occured that TWRP somehowe needs to have a password (which i didn't ever set though).
Didn't boot up at all now. Even with toolkit no chance to do anything with the device.
Any further suggestions/ideas?
Try flashing the factory image without using a tool kit. Google nexus 4 factory image. Download it to your pc and extract it. Run the flash-all.bat you'll find in there.
Sent from my Nexus 5
r4ff0r said:
Dear guys,
due to problems within this morning, i restarted my phone to wipe dalvik/cache.
But it occured that TWRP somehowe needs to have a password (which i didn't ever set though).
Didn't boot up at all now. Even with toolkit no chance to do anything with the device.
Any further suggestions/ideas?
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Some Partitions of the phone have got some bad blocks causing it to act in such a way !! Seems RMA(if available) is the best recourse since there is no definative solution to this problem !! You can try hard reboot as well as someone once pointed out that his n4 magically restored during it but others dint have that much of luck !! Also u could give LGNPST a try but since that also writes the partition it is highly unlikely to get you through !! One Solution I know will surely work is Qualcomm PST using the HighSpeed USB Device . But unfortunately we need an expert help, probably a Qualcomm employee to get in touch with since the tool has still not been cracked by anyone for n4 though I read somewhere that someone was able to restore using QPST !! Also mostly a JTAG Repair can help you but thats a rip off !! I'll anyday prefer a official LG/Google Repair over a JTAG !!
Hope you find my post useful !!
THanks Guys,
JD5, it didn't work.
Corresponding to Nabendu's post i guess it is the issue mentioned here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/dead-nexus-4-strange-advice-welcome-t2259334
So therefore i don't see any chance :-/
r4ff0r said:
THanks Guys,
JD5, it didn't work.
Corresponding to Nabendu's post i guess it is the issue mentioned here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/dead-nexus-4-strange-advice-welcome-t2259334
So therefore i don't see any chance :-/
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I was afraid of that. Try one thing. Relock the bootloader, fastboot oem lock, then re-boot and see if the bootloader locks. If it doesn't, and it probably won't, then rma is your option.
Edit, haha, I just read that thread you posted and they tried the same thing
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i was already trying that. at first it seems that the bootloader got locked again but right after restart it is already unlocked again.
I guess RMA will cause problems due to the fact that it was a rooted Nexus, using a custom rom.
r4ff0r said:
i was already trying that. at first it seems that the bootloader got locked again but right after restart it is already unlocked again.
I guess RMA will cause problems due to the fact that it was a rooted Nexus, using a custom rom.
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Google seems to have been pretty good with rma's when it's a hardware failure. Pretty sure your emmc is borked. But you never know until you send it in. Hopefully there won't be a problem.
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Ok I'll give it a try on monday. But as far as i know, i'll need to call them first.
I could imagine that they'll try to let me wipe my data or give me any kind of instructions to see if they can resolve the problem right away? What do i tell them?
At latest when they'll lead me to the recovery i'll get stuck using TWRP at latest.
Any kind of conversation dialogue i can follow up?
Let's try one more thing, inside the factory image is a zip file, extract that. In there is recovery.img. Put that file in the same folder as fastboot.exe. In fastboot try fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If it works it'll put the stock recovery on.
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Nope, same issue " flash write failure"
I can't get any kind o access...
But don't leave any more thoughts on it. Won't work though, i won't want to bother you all the time
jd1639 said:
Let's try one more thing, inside the factory image is a zip file, extract that. In there is recovery.img. Put that file in the same folder as fastboot.exe. In fastboot try fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If it works it'll put the stock recovery on.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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It won't let you flash that either to the best of my knowledge !! Just don't tell those operators that you have unlocked your bootloader and have a custom recovery !! Basically they won't tell u to go into stock recovery !! They'll just ask you hard reset the phone using physical keys !! Bdw check my pm !!
r4ff0r said:
Nope, same issue " flash write failure"
I can't get any kind o access...
But don't leave any more thoughts on it. Won't work though, i won't want to bother you all the time
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Np, not sure what to tell them. It still boots I assume so you can't tell them it won't boot. I guess just the truth, it is a developer phone after all so it should be flashable
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Hello my fellow XDA Members. I am stuck in a tight spot and after reading and re-reading some things the situation doesn't look very promising. I hope this is the moment that Karma shows up and I can get some help on this. Here it goes.
Specs - LG G2 D801 Variant > TWRP V2.8.3.1 > NO OS Currently
I was running Cloudy G3 Rom smoothly and got bored and decided to flash that new rom that is a 5.0 Rom all variants. Did the usual back ups and flashed it. Something happened when I flashed the rom. It went through the Aroma installer and then said "successful" but stuck in a bootloop. I tried it again and nothing happened. Then I tried to wipe everything again and started getting an E: Cannot mount (data or system I forget which as that error went away after I completely formatted data, wiped everything and reflashed Cloudy Stock. )
> Cloudy stock bootlooped and nothing is happening in TWRP. I Am using the USB OTG method of getting files on the phone and getting it charged but anytime I try to do anything (flash a rom, an older version of TWRP) it just immediately restarts TWRP and thats that. I have No OS at all.
> I tried to use one of the methods to get into download mode and flash a stock KDZ but the phone acts like it is going into DL mode (shows the little blue transition screen) but never gets into the ACTUAL download mode where the PC or flash tool can recognize it.
So in a nutshell > No OS > I can get into TWRP but it does nothing > No Download Mode > Don't want a new phone > Don't want to take it apart and try to short circuit anything if possible. LOL.
I am totally stuck here. I am done alot of work and even helped friends and family out with their devices over the years. I am just not sure if I need to consider it a done deal and get a new phone or maybe one of you guys know of something easy and obvious (please let it be the latter) I am missing. Thanks for any help you can offer. I Will be standing by.
Have you tried to reflash bootloader? If not, do that and reflash cloudy right away
wisefreakz said:
Have you tried to reflash bootloader? If not, do that and reflash cloudy right away
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I haven't thought about flashing a bootloader. How would I flash the bootloader if I can not the phone into either DL mode and or TWRP doesn't do anything either? Is a bootloader file just a flashable file like any other .zip file?
jcnbama said:
I haven't thought about flashing a bootloader. How would I flash the bootloader if I can not the phone into either DL mode and or TWRP doesn't do anything either? Is a bootloader file just a flashable file like any other .zip file?
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@jcnbama
Have you tried this or this?
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@jcnbama
Have you tried this or this?
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The first one I can not do as I do not have any knowledge at all of Ubuntu, Linux, or any of that. It would take forever to get a working knowledge of that software in order to get things going again. I would probably just have to either take it to a cellphone repair shop or get another phone before I could do the first link.
I have not tried the second one but it is a viable option. I was looking at it online and trying to talk myself down from having to do that. I would reallllllllly rather not have to take my phone apart if I can keep from so that's kind of what this post is all about. Just trying to see if anyone knows of ANYTHING else before I go taking apart my phone.
Can you describe more about "twrp doesnt do anything"?
Does twrp boot up?
Can u see/wipe partitions?
Can u install any rom in twrp? Does it finish?
euphoria360 said:
Can you describe more about "twrp doesnt do anything"?
Does twrp boot up?
Can u see/wipe partitions?
Can u install any rom in twrp? Does it finish?
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TWRP boots and I can go into wipe, advanced wipe, and format data and it says it's successful. I can use file manager and move items back and forth from USB OTG. If I try to flash anything it just reboots TWRP immediately so I can't install any .zip files at all.
My guess is that your bootloader is damaged.
The only option i can see for you is that Ubuntu thing i shared with you. So, lets stop acting lazy and do what needs to be done. Dont scare since there is nothing to loose. LG G2 is unbrikable
Booting up ubuntu or any other linux os is so easy. And there is nothing much to learn. Trust me.
Go to ubuntu website and download their newest iso file. Burn it on dvd and boot it up. You dont have to install it, just choose "live mode" and it boots up. Just like that. Then yiu can proceed with tutorial mentioned above and it shouldnt take more than an hour from you. Its all typing some commands in terminal (remember CMD in windows!).
Just make sure to download the files mentioned in that tutorial before proceeding.
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My guess is that your bootloader is damaged.
The only option i can see for you is that Ubuntu thing i shared with you. So, lets stop acting lazy and do what needs to be done. Dont scare since there is nothing to loose. LG G2 is unbrikable
Booting up ubuntu or any other linux os is so easy. And there is nothing much to learn. Trust me.
Go to ubuntu website and download their newest iso file. Burn it on dvd and boot it up. You dont have to install it, just choose "live mode" and it boots up. Just like that. Then yiu can proceed with tutorial mentioned above and it shouldnt take more than an hour from you. Its all typing some commands in terminal (remember CMD in windows!).
Just make sure to download the files mentioned in that tutorial before proceeding.
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First of all calling people lazy is not nice. I'm not lazy I am trying to play it safe. I wouldn't want to brick it to the point to where I don't even have recovery and it can not even be charged any longer. I have Ubuntu on my desktop upstairs. I have used it a little. It's not that I am completely ignorant to Ubuntu I am just a total novice. Also the issue described in that post doesn't exactly match my situation. I am not in a black screen. It's more like a bootloop that I can not get out of because TWRP is not doing what it needs to do and I can not flash TWRP a ROM or get into DL mode at all. Also that post says,
"VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!! You must use the img files that correspond to the ROM you have installed before getting the problem to avoid breaking your phone."
I don't have a rom on my phone soooo...
You didn't answer my question well. If on TWRP you can finish installing rom without any error, and you keep coming to twrp after restarts, that's another situation. Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
But if you cant even finish install in twrp (twrp gives you errors or just restarts before giving you "successful", either you have problem in rom you try to flash or you need to build everything up from start.
That lazy thing was for encouraging you to do it.
And you cant brick your device. There is always a way on G2.
For img files: find them from last stock rom that was working on your phone.
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After using the megapixel rom. I tried flash back to stock with root tool kit.
During the process it told me I had to manual boot in recovery to a factory restore. That would not work so I ended up soft bricking my phone. I was able to side load twrp and the latest build and flash it (thank god). No when I do oem lock boot loader, my nexus 6p won't boot. As soon as I oem unlock, it will boot. Any ideas what could be cause that?
If you did not restore the recovery it probably throws a flag and says the configuration is invalid. You need to restore completely (recovery, boot, system, vendor, etc) through fastboot so that it is truly stock.
Cheers,
B.D.
This is a perfect time to remind folks that "locking" the bootloader is something that should be done with great care. There are dozens, if not hundreds of "my phone is bricked" threads centered around locking their bootloader without understanding the requirements and risks. If you don't have a reason to do it, leave it unlocked. If I need to do it, I flash 100% back to stock using a full factory image before locking.
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BostonDan said:
If you did not restore the recovery it probably throws a flag and says the configuration is invalid. You need to restore completely (recovery, boot, system, vendor, etc) through fastboot so that it is truly stock.
Cheers,
B.D.
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So you wouldn't recommend using the Nexus toolkit to flash factory? Can you give me the string in order that I would use to flash factory via fastboot? Fast boot is also hit or miss with the commands for me.
Blackfish77 said:
So you wouldn't recommend using the Nexus toolkit to flash factory? Can you give me the string in order that I would use to flash factory via fastboot? Fast boot is also hit or miss with the commands for me.
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No offense intended, but this always irks me quite a bit.
Absolutely DO NOT use toolkits for anything at all, ever. They're not easier, they're not faster. It's just doing fastboot / adb with a UI that has buttons you can click instead of typing in fastboot.
This. This is the exact reason you shouldn't use toolkits. Especially if you don't know the manual way. It borks something up and now you need to wait possibly hours to get a working phone again when the solution would only take about 15 seconds to fix.
You need to fully familiarize yourself with this guide here;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928
ADB/Fastboot is absolutely not "hit or miss." If you have trouble with it then you need to make sure that your drivers are properly installed and you're entering commands correctly. Also make sure to ALWAYS keep your ADB & fastboot drivers up to date via the Android SDK. All of this is covered in the link above.
As far as your bootloader issue. You cannot return to a locked bootloader with anything other than 100% complete unadulterated stock factory images. No TWRP, no root, no Xposed, no Magisk, no build.prop edits etc., ...Nothing.
Use fastboot to flash your factory images you downloaded. You can use the flash all bat file or individually flash each separate. Again it's all covered in the link I posted above.
Also, what do you mean you couldn't wipe/reset from stock recovery? When you flash stock recovery and boot to it, you will see an Android on its back with an exclamation mark in a red triangle. You may or may not see text that reads "No Command". Either way, from that point hold down the power button and then press and release volume up. You will boot to stock recovery where you can wipe your data.
Not for nothing, but as mentioned above, people have hard bricked their 6P from locking bootloader's on combos besides stock. You got extremely lucky you didn't as well. Please take some time to read and fully understand what you're doing with your ~600$ device.
This is also, for the most part, pretty standard stuff as far as flashing / modding goes. At least since 2010 when I got into it. If you want to know the exact string of fastboot commands please read and use the guide I linked. It teaches you literally everything. There's nothing it doesn't cover and once you get used to it you will never use a toolkit again.
Hope I didn't come off rude, but basically since 2010 when I got into this across all my devices I try to help out in the Q+A sections. I've probably participated in hundreds and hundreds of "help, I used a toolkit and my phone is bricked and I have no idea how to fix it, I just wanted cool stuff on my phone" threads. They're absolutely 100% not worth the trouble and headaches from them. Especially if you have no idea what they're doing on the back end. Know Fastboot and ADB like the back of your hand and just prefer to use them? That's a different story, if something fails then you fix it yourself in 10 seconds. But for the love of God, please please please please please stop using toolkits if you don't know how to fix issues on your own. You will eventually hard brick. I've seen it happen dozens of times. Thread turns into a circlej*rk about whether toolkits are bad or not, OP hard bricks their phone and commits fraud, which is illegal by trying to RMA it. Just don't use them. It's simple enough without them. Why reinvent the wheel when it works just fine?
You should only lock bootloader when you are on stock factory image from nexus developers site. Either use flash_all script or flash everything manually. As others said keep away from toolkits.. You never know what can go wrong or what they re doing in background.
As I understand you restored TWRP and Megapixel rom and tried to lock the bootloader when you had that combination installed on your phone? That can not be done. You are either full stock (rom, kernel, recovery...) and locked bootloader or unlocked bootloader and any combo of kernel, rom, recovery that you want.
RoyJ said:
No offense intended, but this always irks me quite a bit.
Absolutely DO NOT use toolkits for anything at all, ever. They're not easier, they're not faster. It's just doing fastboot / adb with a UI that has buttons you can click instead of typing in fastboot.
This. This is the exact reason you shouldn't use toolkits. Especially if you don't know the manual way. It borks something up and now you need to wait possibly hours to get a working phone again when the solution would only take about 15 seconds to fix.
You need to fully familiarize yourself with this guide here;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928
ADB/Fastboot is absolutely not "hit or miss." If you have trouble with it then you need to make sure that your drivers are properly installed and you're entering commands correctly. Also make sure to ALWAYS keep your ADB & fastboot drivers up to date via the Android SDK. All of this is covered in the link above.
As far as your bootloader issue. You cannot return to a locked bootloader with anything other than 100% complete unadulterated stock factory images. No TWRP, no root, no Xposed, no Magisk, no build.prop edits etc., ...Nothing.
Use fastboot to flash your factory images you downloaded. You can use the flash all bat file or individually flash each separate. Again it's all covered in the link I posted above.
Also, what do you mean you couldn't wipe/reset from stock recovery? When you flash stock recovery and boot to it, you will see an Android on its back with an exclamation mark in a red triangle. You may or may not see text that reads "No Command". Either way, from that point hold down the power button and then press and release volume up. You will boot to stock recovery where you can wipe your data.
Not for nothing, but as mentioned above, people have hard bricked their 6P from locking bootloader's on combos besides stock. You got extremely lucky you didn't as well. Please take some time to read and fully understand what you're doing with your ~600$ device.
This is also, for the most part, pretty standard stuff as far as flashing / modding goes. At least since 2010 when I got into it. If you want to know the exact string of fastboot commands please read and use the guide I linked. It teaches you literally everything. There's nothing it doesn't cover and once you get used to it you will never use a toolkit again.
Hope I didn't come off rude, but basically since 2010 when I got into this across all my devices I try to help out in the Q+A sections. I've probably participated in hundreds and hundreds of "help, I used a toolkit and my phone is bricked and I have no idea how to fix it, I just wanted cool stuff on my phone" threads. They're absolutely 100% not worth the trouble and headaches from them. Especially if you have no idea what they're doing on the back end. Know Fastboot and ADB like the back of your hand and just prefer to use them? That's a different story, if something fails then you fix it yourself in 10 seconds. But for the love of God, please please please please please stop using toolkits if you don't know how to fix issues on your own. You will eventually hard brick. I've seen it happen dozens of times. Thread turns into a circlej*rk about whether toolkits are bad or not, OP hard bricks their phone and commits fraud, which is illegal by trying to RMA it. Just don't use them. It's simple enough without them. Why reinvent the wheel when it works just fine?
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I ended up using fastboot to flash factory. I then re locked bootloader and everything booted without and issue. I was happy about that. I re rooted and everything is working great. :good:
I can say I learned a lot from this experience. Thanks to everyone for your advice. I am now comfortable using the fastboot method. Almost bricking my phone was scary but it taught me a lesson. Cheers everyone.