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[Q] Nexus 7 gets stuck booting. Tried reflashing stock OS multiple times.

I seem to have got myself into a bit of a pickle here.
I had a rooted N7 on 4.2.2. Tried to unroot (in lieu of going up to 4.3). Disaster struck! It wouldn't boot. It would just get stuck at the bootloader and go "Booting failed" or something similar.
So bother, I could get into the bootloader. So I tried to fastboot flash a stock image using this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796) guide.
I got a bit further now, it would get the X loading screen but then no amount of waiting would have it boot.
So I tried factory reset from the recovery menu (the one with the Android and the red triangle).
No good, still did the same thing.
So I tried using Nexus Root Toolkit to flash stock + unroot from a soft-bricked/bootloop state. Nope! No good. Still does the same thing.
I've been through every combination of flashing, clearing, resetting but to no avail!
I've tried flashing CWM and TWRP but when I try to get into recovery mode, I just get the Google logo forever. This is a nightmare!
What's going on Have I managed to brick this thing...

evenstevens said:
I seem to have got myself into a bit of a pickle here.
I had a rooted N7 on 4.2.2. Tried to unroot (in lieu of going up to 4.3). Disaster struck! It wouldn't boot. It would just get stuck at the bootloader and go "Booting failed" or something similar.
So bother, I could get into the bootloader. So I tried to fastboot flash a stock image using this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796) guide.
I got a bit further now, it would get the X loading screen but then no amount of waiting would have it boot.
So I tried factory reset from the recovery menu (the one with the Android and the red triangle).
No good, still did the same thing.
So I tried using Nexus Root Toolkit to flash stock + unroot from a soft-bricked/bootloop state. Nope! No good. Still does the same thing.
I've been through every combination of flashing, clearing, resetting but to no avail!
I've tried flashing CWM and TWRP but when I try to get into recovery mode, I just get the Google logo forever. This is a nightmare!
What's going on Have I managed to brick this thing...
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Hey,
did you try doing all these manually :
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image.zip
PS : Edit these according to images you are trying to flash.
You mentioned you tried the guide but try this once again.
Unlock your bootloader / keep your bootloader unlocked while doing this.
If you want to you can even try running the .bat files and / or .sh files while in the bootloader.
If it still doesnt work , download the latest custom recovery and just try flashing it through
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Please mention the errors you have a bit more in detail during these steps !

Red Devil said:
Hey,
did you try doing all these manually :
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image.zip
PS : Edit these according to images you are trying to flash.
You mentioned you tried the guide but try this once again.
Unlock your bootloader / keep your bootloader unlocked while doing this.
If you want to you can even try running the .bat files and / or .sh files while in the bootloader.
If it still doesnt work , download the latest custom recovery and just try flashing it through
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Please mention the errors you have a bit more in detail during these steps !
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Okay, I've managed to get TWRP up and running.
Now... how do I get a ROM onto there to try to flash? >_<
PS. I did all those commands manually many many times. It's got to a stage now where the X logo never actually comes up... Just the Google logo and the little padlock

evenstevens said:
Okay, I've managed to get TWRP up and running.
Now... how do I get a ROM onto there to try to flash? >_<
PS. I did all those commands manually many many times. It's got to a stage now where the X logo never actually comes up... Just the Google logo and the little padlock
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Code:
adb sideload ROM.zip
in advance options > adb sideload
And about the ROM getting stuck at the Nexus boot animation , try getting a logcat.. maybe that will help. !

Red Devil said:
Code:
adb sideload ROM.zip
in advance options > adb sideload
And about the ROM getting stuck at the Nexus boot animation , try getting a logcat.. maybe that will help. !
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Amazing. I actually managed to flash a copy of Cyanogen on there and it all booted perfectly.
Now I wonder if I can get it back to stock from here easily..
Thanks

evenstevens said:
Amazing. I actually managed to flash a copy of Cyanogen on there and it all booted perfectly.
Now I wonder if I can get it back to stock from here easily..
Thanks
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You can ... just make sure you have downloaded the right factory images and flash the use the .bat / .sh to flash the images .. keep in mind that you will lose all your data including that on the internal sd. All the best

Red Devil said:
You can ... just make sure you have downloaded the right factory images and flash the use the .bat / .sh to flash the images .. keep in mind that you will lose all your data including that on the internal sd. All the best
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So I tried to reflash a stock image... same issue again! Just freezing at the Google logo screen :/
Properly stumped as to why it's doing that. Maybe I'm stuck with Cyanogen...

evenstevens said:
So I tried to reflash a stock image... same issue again! Just freezing at the Google logo screen :/
Properly stumped as to why it's doing that. Maybe I'm stuck with Cyanogen...
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So close...
Downloaded the new SDKs from Google and managed to actually flash and get into a stock version of Android... but it's constantly saying "Google keyboard has stopped working! Launcher has stopped working! etc" and it's practically useless
Gaaaaaaaaah

evenstevens said:
So close...
Downloaded the new SDKs from Google and managed to actually flash and get into a stock version of Android... but it's constantly saying "Google keyboard has stopped working! Launcher has stopped working! etc" and it's practically useless
Gaaaaaaaaah
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Okay my solution to this:
Just keep flashing it with the flash-all.bat command until it just... worked.
Must've done it about 15 times.
Well that's that ordeal over.

[Q] No recovery, no fastboot?

So, one of my family members was mucking around on their tablet. I was sure that I has locked down the appropriate areas, but as of right now, I think I'm looking at a hard-brick. I'm not sure what kind of fastboot capabilities I have, turning it off, and on again boots to what looks like fastboot, but I have a Google splash screen. Using the vol up/down/pwr button does boot into fastboot, but I'm not sure what I have at my disposal for flashing. Any suggestions? I've just never seen anything like this before.

If you can boot into fastboot, it isn't a hard brick. A brick doesn't turn on.
Just try fastboot flashing the stock image on it from Google.
Sent from my Nexus 5

Another alternative would be to boot into recovery, if you can.
I assume you had twrp or cwm? If so, you could reflash the rom you're using. If not, you could install twrp from fastboot and then sideload a rom of your choice.

Pirateghost said:
If you can boot into fastboot, it isn't a hard brick. A brick doesn't turn on.
Just try fastboot flashing the stock image on it from Google.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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bsquare said:
Another alternative would be to boot into recovery, if you can.
I assume you had twrp or cwm? If so, you could reflash the rom you're using. If not, you could install twrp from fastboot and then sideload a rom of your choice.
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ADB push wasn't accepting anything. What I ended up doing, was using the Wug toolkit to force-flash a stock image. Still not sure what the hell happened, I'm just happy it works now.
Thanks for your help!

Verfassergeist said:
ADB push wasn't accepting anything. What I ended up doing, was using the Wug toolkit to force-flash a stock image. Still not sure what the hell happened, I'm just happy it works now.
Thanks for your help!
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Fastboot and adb are not interchangeable.
Adb doesn't work in fastboot mode
Sent from my Nexus 5

Pirateghost said:
Fastboot and adb are not interchangeable.
Adb doesn't work in fastboot mode
Sent from my Nexus 5
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I....*facepalm*

[Q] Please help, I think I bricked my phone :(

I went to flash the latest version of Mahdi ROM, which I have done many times without a problem. This time, however, the patch.zip that I downloaded failed to install and then I was stuck in a fastboot. I found another post on here where someone said that putting certain commands into the prompt would fix it so I made sure that I had all the right files for my LS980 and went ahead and did it.
These are the commands I followed that got me to this point:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase aboot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase laf
fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img
fastboot flash aboot 4-boot.img
fastboot flash recovery 10-recovery.img
fastboot flash laf 11-laf.img
fastboot reboot​
But now I can't seem to bring up anything and I've tried powering it on, going into recovery, and going into download mode but none of those things seem to be working. When I plug it into my computer, it makes the little sound and it's recognized but only as an E: drive with one lonely folder in it titled "image" and then I get a bunch of pop ups saying that "You need to format the disk in drive S: (and other various letters) before you can use it".
I really hope someone here can help me and that I haven't completely ruined my phone because there's no way that I have the money or means to replace it.

cookierobots said:
I went to flash the latest version of Mahdi ROM, which I have done many times without a problem. This time, however, the patch.zip that I downloaded failed to install and then I was stuck in a fastboot. I found another post on here where someone said that putting certain commands into the prompt would fix it so I made sure that I had all the right files for my LS980 and went ahead and did it.
These are the commands I followed that got me to this point:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase aboot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase laf
fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img
fastboot flash aboot 4-boot.img
fastboot flash recovery 10-recovery.img
fastboot flash laf 11-laf.img
fastboot reboot​
But now I can't seem to bring up anything and I've tried powering it on, going into recovery, and going into download mode but none of those things seem to be working. When I plug it into my computer, it makes the little sound and it's recognized but only as an E: drive with one lonely folder in it titled "image" and then I get a bunch of pop ups saying that "You need to format the disk in drive S: (and other various letters) before you can use it".
I really hope someone here can help me and that I haven't completely ruined my phone because there's no way that I have the money or means to replace it.
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I have the same problem and haven't found an answer yet. Please let me know if you do.

arethosereal said:
I have the same problem and haven't found an answer yet. Please let me know if you do.
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I wasn't able to fix it at all and ended up going to Sprint and getting a new phone. I basically just said it stopped charging correctly and then I woke up one morning and it wouldn't turn on. They took it as a hardware issue and I got it replaced. Thank goodness for Total Equipment Protection. I'm not sure who your carrier is, but Sprint gives two free replacements (as long as it is hardware or something similar) and then it's $25 for every replacement after that. Needless to say, I am going full stock and sticking with Nova Launcher this time around.

arethosereal said:
I have the same problem and haven't found an answer yet. Please let me know if you do.
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You could have tried to flash stock firmware. Exactly same thing happened to me. Flashing stock firmware solved the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45293512

Te$la said:
You could have tried to flash stock firmware. Exactly same thing happened to me. Flashing stock firmware solved the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45293512
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That's what I did. Thanks.

arethosereal said:
That's what I did. Thanks.
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What problem did u face in flashing stock firmware?
Is your phone working now? How did u solve it?

Te$la said:
What problem did u face in flashing stock firmware?
Is your phone working now? How did u solve it?
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I should have said I fixed the problem by flashing stock. All is ok now.
I just rooted again and am trying to figure out how to avoid the same problem, which happened when I tried to install TWRP via AutoRec. The thing is, I have the F320K version and it doesn't seem to like the custom TWRP in AutoRec. But I don't see an alternative, yet.
I'm missing something.

arethosereal said:
I should have said I fixed the problem by flashing stock. All is ok now.
I just rooted again and am trying to figure out how to avoid the same problem, which happened when I tried to install TWRP via AutoRec. The thing is, I have the F320K version and it doesn't seem to like the custom TWRP in AutoRec. But I don't see an alternative, yet.
I'm missing something.
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Install the Autorec specific to your model. There should not be any problem cause most of us used autorec to install twrp.

Te$la said:
Install the Autorec specific to your model. There should not be any problem cause most of us used autorec to install twrp.
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I did that, but got the white line issue and didn't see the fix from Cloudyfa until today. I guess I'll try it again, knowing I'll get the white lines. Kind of freaked me out a little.
I'll let you know after the process, tomorrow. Thanks.

Nexus 10 no adb access, no operating system

Title says it, have a seemingly dead N10 that I cannot get anything to load on. It kind of crapped the bed and I'm trying to revive it with no success. I can fastboot twrp on to it, but nothing on it to flash and with no adb access, I can't sideload anything to it. I tried fastboot installing a stock image but it just cycles for hours until the battery runs dead.
Suggestions?

vlucchetti said:
Title says it, have a seemingly dead N10 that I cannot get anything to load on. It kind of crapped the bed and I'm trying to revive it with no success. I can fastboot twrp on to it, but nothing on it to flash and with no adb access, I can't sideload anything to it. I tried fastboot installing a stock image but it just cycles for hours until the battery runs dead.
Suggestions?
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Once you do
flashboot flash twrp.img
try
fastboot boot twrp.img

bedwere said:
Once you do
flashboot flash twrp.img
try
fastboot boot twrp.img
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I'll give it a go, have done each of those separately, will try together.

Did you flash via fastboot each partition from the correct (sometimes you can message up firmware# thru bad ROM flas) I'd try *fastboot erase erase system* same syntax but wipe all partitions boot system recovery bootloader ect and create the new partitions and fastboot flash sys,bl,bt,rc. Worked on a personal phone all thru fastboot, and many more when I worked as a electronics repair Technician not sure to the whole process so check around gl mate

Nothing seems to work, I think she's dead. Picked up an inexpensive N10 off of swappa, so I'm good now.

I'll be damned. Could not give up on it, so I downloaded NRT, set it up and let it do its thing. 24 hours later and that n10 is running stock stuff.
Bless you NRT. Once it settles, going to root, install pure nexus and profit!

Excuse my ignorance, what is "NRT"?

JackTheMan18 said:
Excuse my ignorance, what is "NRT"?
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Nexus Root Toolkit. It is a GUI based tool for rooting, flashing and has some tools for recovering seemingly dead devices. It can be found here.

Maybe a bricked phone

Hey guys, I need some help. I searched a lot and didn't find nothing that looks like my problem.
I had a OP5 with Magisk root and tried to back it to stock. Then I flashed OnePlus recovery again, wiped everything and install 5.1.3 again. Everything ok until I made some dumb ****.
I tried to re-lock my bootloader and now my phone says that it won't boot up because it's corrupted. I can boot into both recovery and fastboot but I can't install anything (I can only install through ADB sideload and it says install failed) and I can't re-unlock my bootloader because it says remote: Flashing Unlock is not allowed cant boot (but I can't boot so I can't enable oem unlock through developer menu).
There is anything that I can do to make my phone boot again?
Thanks in advance.

[TOOL] TOOL ALL IN ONE (Drivers|Unlock|TWRP|Factory Image|Stock Recovery) use this

killerex said:
[TOOL] TOOL ALL IN ONE (Drivers|Unlock|TWRP|Factory Image|Stock Recovery) use this
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Thank u, killerex. Just one doubt: I see on the post about the tool that I need to have OEM unlocking enabled but, as I said, I can't do this since I can't boot. I can use this tool to flash Oxygen OS even with OEM unlocking disabled? And, if yes, how do I do, just flash the zip using the tool while in recovery?

ReeSilva said:
Thank u, killerex. Just one doubt: I see on the post about the tool that I need to have OEM unlocking enabled but, as I said, I can't do this since I can't boot. I can use this tool to flash Oxygen OS even with OEM unlocking disabled? And, if yes, how do I do, just flash the zip using the tool while in recovery?
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Go to fastboot mode using the tool you can flash new recovery and unlock bootloader and flash rom..sorry for bad English

in fastboot mode, use fastboot command to flash new recovery and then install new rom in recovery. You can also use adb sideload in recovery.

thejuzo said:
in fastboot mode, use fastboot command to flash new recovery and then install new rom in recovery. You can also use adb sideload in recovery.
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That's one of my problems, I can't flash new recovery cuz my bootloader is locked

killerex said:
Go to fastboot mode using the tool you can flash new recovery and unlock bootloader and flash rom..sorry for bad English
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No problems, my english is not that good too. Just one more question: there's any difference if I go to fastboot through the tool or the power option (vol up + power), because since I can only boot my phone in fastboot or recovery there is no way to go to fastboot using the tool (I guess)

ReeSilva said:
No problems, my english is not that good too. Just one more question: there's any difference if I go to fastboot through the tool or the power option (vol up + power), because since I can only boot my phone in fastboot or recovery there is no way to go to fastboot using the tool (I guess)
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no you have to be on fastboot mode..https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=38683

killerex said:
Go to fastboot mode using the tool you can flash new recovery and unlock bootloader and flash rom..sorry for bad English
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It didn't work, as I said, it can't flash a recovery with a locked bootloader and I can't unlock because I can't boot to enable oem unlocking

ReeSilva said:
It didn't work, as I said, it can't flash a recovery with a locked bootloader and I can't unlock because I can't boot to enable oem unlocking
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Good try!

ReeSilva said:
It didn't work, as I said, it can't flash a recovery with a locked bootloader and I can't unlock because I can't boot to enable oem unlocking
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You could try this:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/forum.x...uide-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3761706/amp/
It should work for almost any state. I haven't had the need to use it yet, but let me know if it works for you.
Cheers! ?

ScRuFFy7 said:
You could try this:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/forum.x...uide-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3761706/amp/
It should work for almost any state. I haven't had the need to use it yet, but let me know if it works for you.
Cheers!
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I was trying to do this but Mega has a quota. I'll try with this link. Thank you for your try to help doesn't matter the result

Did you use this tool https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Z5GpgZpmn6FooWn7

ScRuFFy7 said:
You could try this:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/forum.x...uide-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3761706/amp/
It should work for almost any state. I haven't had the need to use it yet, but let me know if it works for you.
Cheers!
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It works
Thanks a lot.

You need to use the Qualcomm tool if it's that bad :
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/unbrick-tool-oneplus-5-t3648169
You're gonna lose all your data cos the phone will get a COMPLETE factory reset, take it as a life lesson to back up first
Oh...never mind then, lol

unbrick phone for chinese
https://youtu.be/bBP5eWvvrQM
btw,pls post it in q&a

djsubterrain said:
You need to use the Qualcomm tool if it's that bad :
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/unbrick-tool-oneplus-5-t3648169
You're gonna lose all your data cos the phone will get a COMPLETE factory reset, take it as a life lesson to back up first
Oh...never mind then, lol
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Oh, actually lose my data is not a problem. My only fear was lose my phone LOL But the post from ScRuFFy7 works as a charm.