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Semi-Bricked....can you help?

Hi, been lurking around here for a good while now....fantastic website website and I've learned so much but now I have an issue.
For what ever reason my nexus 7 will not boot, I can get into fastboot and have been following the guides to do a full factory restore through fastboot. Everything goes fine until is comes to "Sending System" then just.....stops. I have used the nexus toolkit and also the official sdk drivers and fastboot contained there. I only have an old laptop as my main pc for some reason does not recognise the nexus.
I have tried alternative USB cable too.
Does anyone have any other advice.
Also the device is complete stock no custom rom has been installed so no custom recovery available.
I really appreciate any help.
Cheers!

Okay well ive managed to get it back alive!
used a new laptop and usb cable and it all seems to be fine now!
Now back to my original issue...windows 8 is pissing me around and wont recognise the bloody thing!
Any ideas?

Try a search, shouldn't be hard to find what others have done with Windows 8 difficulties...

singlemanriot said:
Okay well ive managed to get it back alive!
used a new laptop and usb cable and it all seems to be fine now!
Now back to my original issue...windows 8 is pissing me around and wont recognise the bloody thing!
Any ideas?
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Go to Device Manager, show hidden devices and uninstall any Android or ADB related devices that you have. Disable USB debugging on your Nexus, then plug it into your PC and see if it's recognized. If it is, then re- enable USB debugging, then go to Device Manager and reinstall the Google USB drivers to get ADB support back.

Thanks for the advice, first thing I did was try searching....I have tried countless methods suggested but nothing works its like windows cant find the drivers. In the device manger its recognised but no diver installs no matter what I do. If I force the manual driver install it fails!? I have tried the Naked drivers, the SDK even making sure the media components of windows are installed properly

[Q] USB and recovery problems after OTA upgrade to 4.3

I took the OTA to 4.3 on my Nexus 7. It was previously unlocked and rooted, but had no kernels, etc changed. After the update ran, I lost root as expected, however, in trying to get it back, I've discovered I'm having a couple of other issues.
First, the device is no longer working properly via USB on my PCs. On both my Win 7 and Win 8 PCs, the device won't properly connect to where I can browse files or anything else. On the Win 8 computer, I see a Nexus 7 device in Device manager, but drivers won't install. I downloaded the drivers from the Asus site, but trying to manually install them doesn't work on the Win 7 machine, and on the Win 8 machine, they install but don't seem to be working with the Nexus 7 as it still shows a problem in Device Manager.
The tablet also will not boot into recovery mode. I can power it up into fastboot mode, but if I select "Recovery Mode" and hit the power button, I just got the Android with the red triangle for a few minutes before it boots back into the OS. After doing some searching, I saw where you might need to have it plugged into a PC to get it to go into recovery, but that doesn't work, either (might be tied to the USB problem).
Ideas?

Did you turn on developer options, and USB debugging? Have you tried USB connection type PTP instead of MTP?
If you have the stock recovery, the red triangle and Android are normal. You can bring up a blue options menu by pressing the power and volume up buttons from the red triangle Android.
Sent from my rooted Nexus 7 @ 49.4 mpg

exglynco said:
Did you turn on developer options, and USB debugging?
Sent from my rooted Nexus 7 @ 49.4 mpg
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Yes.

Try another driver source. Wugfresh's installation is a lot tougher than Skipsoft's, but try the other guy 's system.
Sent from my rooted Nexus 7 @ 49.4 mpg

exglynco said:
Try another driver source. Wugfresh's installation is a lot tougher than Skipsoft's, but try the other guy 's system.
Sent from my rooted Nexus 7 @ 49.4 mpg
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I was using the stock drivers off the Asus page. I'll look around for the two you mention. I assume they're posted on here somewhere.

And about the recovery just try flashing another recovery from fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Sent from my Nexus 7

Red Devil said:
And about the recovery just try flashing another recovery from fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Sent from my Nexus 7
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Without USB access? That's my dilemma.

OK, I'm getting closer. I got TWRP installed and rerooted it. I had to do the "Revoke USB debugging authorizations" on the Dev Options screen. Then it would work via ADB.
Still not browsing files yet on my desktop, but at least I know I'm talking to it. So now I'll play with the driver installation a bit.
EDIT: Well, drivers reinstalled for about the 4th time, and it's still not allowing me to browse files from my desktop. Galaxy S4 works fine as soon as I plug it in, even if I also uninstall it's drivers. Ideas? I obviously have it working over USB because I can give it commands and reboot it via the PC.

OK, try this one. Plug in your tablet to pc, go to hardware manager, find your Android Device then choose Uninstall (choose Remove all drivers for this device), unplug and plug in your tablet again. Your Windows should discover few new devices (mine has discovered three) and download drivers for them then you should see Android ADB Interface in Android Devices and Nexus 7 in Mobile Devices.
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I've solved my issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44322739#post44322739

Already been done that road multiple times.

have the same problem except one thing: no one 3 computers don`t detect my nexus. have no reaction in device manager, on connection nexus as mtp/debug/fastboot. Only usb-otg works.

xxut said:
have the same problem except one thing: no one 3 computers don`t detect my nexus. have no reaction in device manager, on connection nexus as mtp/debug/fastboot. Only usb-otg works.
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After you plug your nexus in have you unlocked the screen to see if it is asking you to authorize the tablet?
What other steps have you taken? Have you installed proper drivers? Have you manually chosen to update drivers with the sdk drivers if in device manager is showing the nexus? Have you tried the drivers from Asus?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

SlowCobra96 said:
After you plug your nexus in have you unlocked the screen to see if it is asking you to authorize the tablet?
What other steps have you taken? Have you installed proper drivers? Have you manually chosen to update drivers with the sdk drivers if in device manager is showing the nexus? Have you tried the drivers from Asus?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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I personally did all of those things. After having the Nexus "forget" all the other PC authorizations on the dev screen, I finally got it to accept ADB commands, just not to properly install drivers that would allow me to browse files like it had done on 4.2.

SlowCobra96 said:
After you plug your nexus in have you unlocked the screen to see if it is asking you to authorize the tablet?
What other steps have you taken? Have you installed proper drivers? Have you manually chosen to update drivers with the sdk drivers if in device manager is showing the nexus? Have you tried the drivers from Asus?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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Nexus doesn`t appears in device manager. At all. It starts to charage, but no reaction in device manager, no any reaction(except charging) at nexus. On computer it looks like i didn`t connect anything. I`ve trying to intall drivers as legasy hardware, but nothing changes. Sorry for my english.

xxut said:
Nexus doesn`t appears in device manager. At all. It starts to charage, but no reaction in device manager, no any reaction(except charging) at nexus. On computer it looks like i didn`t connect anything. I`ve trying to intall drivers as legasy hardware, but nothing changes. Sorry for my english.
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Try turning off usb debugging. My tablet cannot connect to pc but with usb debugging off it at least recognises tablet as a media device and this enables me to view its files
.but still the problem of not being able to root

[Q] Bricked Updating to CM11

Hey guys any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated on this matter. I will try to be as detailed as possible but I'm trying to fix this phone for a friend and he isn't very phone savvy. From what I understand, he was previously on CM10 and tried updating to CM11 using the cmupdater. For some reason it failed and he was stuck in TWRP. When he tried to reboot it kept kicking him back to recovery. He took his phone to a phone repair shop who then wiped his device. At this point he gave me the phone to try to fix.
First of all I have working fastboot and adb drivers for my Nexus 5 so I don't think this is a driver issue but I'm no expert on the Nexus 4 so I could be wrong. I'm also running Windows 8.1 if this is any relevance.
I can still access the devices bootloader (ver MAKOZ20i)
I can still access TWRP (ver 2.6.0.0)
When plugging the device into my USB 2.0 ports, nothing shows up in my device manager in bootloader, TWRP, or TWRP ADB sideload.
When plugging the device into my USB 3.0 ports, I see 'Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)' and the Device Instance Path is 'USB\VID_0000&PID_0002\7&20F39B9B&0&2' in bootloader, TWRP, or TWRP ADB sideload.
I've never heard of a device not being seen at all in by USB 2.0 ports but showing using USB 3.0 ports so I attempted to give extra juice to the phone using a powered USB OTG cable. Still nothing shows up.
I've tried running 'fastboot device' and 'adb devices' with no luck.
I think I've covered all the bases... can anyone think of anything that could help me re-install a new rom or factory reset or his he out of luck?

I think it may be a Win8 problem. You have access to another machine with Win7 or WinXP?

Install "universal driver.exe" in win7, than connect phone while power off, I think it'll install driver...than push any custom ROM to phone via adb or just flash any official IMG..

Well I can tell you WHY it didn't work. That version of TWRP is not able to install 4.4 (CM11). if you manage to successfully push via adb and get it started again, make sure to flash the newest version of TWRP before trying that again.

Thanks for the reply guys. I kind of guessed that the version of TWRP was not compatible as I installed CM11 on my old Nook Tablet and had to update my recovery before installing it. Unfortunately the guys who wiped the phone prevented me from installing an old version of CM10 that my friend probably had from the cmupdater.
As for Windows 8 being the issue.. I attempted to try to use my laptop which runs Windows 7 but was unable to get anything to happen. Since the laptop only had USB 2.0 ports, plugging in the device to any of the ports did the exact same thing as what it did on my desktop (Windows doesn't even recognize anything is connected). I still get the charge animation on the phone but yea... nothing in device manager. I'm thinking of running Linux from a live installation to see if anything different happens, unfortunately its been ages since I've touched Linux so this is kind of a last ditch effort here.
Any other thoughts?

mrlazyone said:
Thanks for the reply guys. I kind of guessed that the version of TWRP was not compatible as I installed CM11 on my old Nook Tablet and had to update my recovery before installing it. Unfortunately the guys who wiped the phone prevented me from installing an old version of CM10 that my friend probably had from the cmupdater.
As for Windows 8 being the issue.. I attempted to try to use my laptop which runs Windows 7 but was unable to get anything to happen. Since the laptop only had USB 2.0 ports, plugging in the device to any of the ports did the exact same thing as what it did on my desktop (Windows doesn't even recognize anything is connected). I still get the charge animation on the phone but yea... nothing in device manager. I'm thinking of running Linux from a live installation to see if anything different happens, unfortunately its been ages since I've touched Linux so this is kind of a last ditch effort here.
Any other thoughts?
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One more, when you plug into usb 3.0 you can see unknown device Right ??
If yes, download driver files from here Here.
It's a zip contains .inf files, Now click on unknown device and select update drivers then give the path to these drivers manually.
Hope this will help you out.

I'm pretty convinced at this point that the phone can't be fixed by me. Running it through Ubuntu I can't see the device at all (USB 2 & 3) when running the lsusb command but it sees my nexus 5 just fine. I even tried modifying drivers to match vendor id product id and class id as reported by windows. Thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone know of a reputable service to get this phone repaired? How much does a JTAG repair usually cost?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

mrlazyone said:
I'm pretty convinced at this point that the phone can't be fixed by me. Running it through Ubuntu I can't see the device at all (USB 2 & 3) when running the lsusb command but it sees my nexus 5 just fine. I even tried modifying drivers to match vendor id product id and class id as reported by windows. Thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone know of a reputable service to get this phone repaired? How much does a JTAG repair usually cost?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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The following method may still help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060

DrFredPhD said:
The following method may still help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060
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Awesome! Didn't realize this was an option. It didn't work using the USB 3.0 ports but the USB 2.0 actually worked for this method. Thank you!

Bricked my 6p and computer wont recognise it

Ok, so i managed to brick my nexus 6p, it will not boot into android, stupid as i am i do not have a backup on the phone, and on top of that, windows does not recognise my device in bootloader mode. Of course i have tried installing USB drivers, but strangely my computer will not even recognise that im plugging in a USB device, i/e it wont even make the USB connected sound.
Not really sure what to do, but im hoping anyone could maybe help me out, thanks!

axeeeel said:
Ok, so i managed to brick my nexus 6p, it will not boot into android, stupid as i am i do not have a backup on the phone, and on top of that, windows does not recognise my device in bootloader mode. Of course i have tried installing USB drivers, but strangely my computer will not even recognise that im plugging in a USB device, i/e it wont even make the USB connected sound.
Not really sure what to do, but im hoping anyone could maybe help me out, thanks!
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How did you brick it? What drivers are you using?

Heisenberg said:
How did you brick it? What drivers are you using?
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I tried to install franco kernel on my chroma rom, and it just wouldn't boot.
Also, I am using the drivers installed by the unified android toolkit.

axeeeel said:
I tried to install franco kernel on my chroma rom, and it just wouldn't boot.
Also, I am using the drivers installed by the unified android toolkit.
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Do you still have the Chroma zip on your phone? I'm guessing not, but if you do just flash that. You could try uninstalling the drivers that you currently have and installing the drivers from the Android SDK. I have a link to the SDK download page and instructions on how to install it in my guide. Otherwise, do you have access to a Linux machine? No drivers required for Linux, you just need to install the Android SDK and adb and fastboot should work out of the box so to speak. Or if you don't have access to a Linux machine you could even create a bootable Linux usb and do it that way.

Heisenberg said:
Do you still have the Chroma zip on your phone? I'm guessing not, but if you do just flash that. You could try uninstalling the drivers that you currently have and installing the drivers from the Android SDK. I have a link to the SDK download page and instructions on how to install it in my guide. Otherwise, do you have access to a Linux machine? No drivers required for Linux, you just need to install the Android SDK and adb and fastboot should work out of the box so to speak. Or if you don't have access to a Linux machine you could even create a bootable Linux usb and do it that way.
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I just came back home from buying a new USB cable, and apparently it was just my cable (original 6p cable) that wasnt working... Terribly sorry for wasting your time, i appreciate it though!

axeeeel said:
I just came back home from buying a new USB cable, and apparently it was just my cable (original 6p cable) that wasnt working... Terribly sorry for wasting your time, i appreciate it though!
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No problem at all, glad to see you're up and running again.

Nexus 4 bricked, no OS, no recovery.

Hello
I tried a Nougat rom for the Nexus 4 which was available as a full update package (including system bootloader rom etc) and installed it with the update command from adb instead of from custom rom.
now my phone is bricked and I cant seem to get it fixed.
It either gets stuck in a bootloop, or i can force switch it to bootloader mode. From there I can go to recovery but the stock recovery is useless.
Problem is when i connect this to my windows 10 pc, it shows no sign of being detected. I installed drivers over and over including the universal ADB and fastboot drivers available here on XDA. it doesnt show up under adb devices command and even the Nexus 4 rootkit doesnt detect it as a phone.
I wanna make this phone working again. I'm guessing the way is to go back to stock image and then re-root and re-flash custom recovery and ROM. but even for this, it should be detected by the PC and adb command and rootkit right? Is there something I'm overlooking here?
This is the ROM I tried
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/fake-nexus-rom-nexus-4-t3230268
The way to install it is also mentioned there and that is exactly what I did.

Did you try this adb installer: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
In that thread, I read the people are able to use adb on Windows 10. If that doesn't work, find a Windows 7 PC or boot to ubuntu using bootable pendrive and flash the factory images using fastboot.
Nitin

nitin.chobhe said:
Did you try this adb installer: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
In that thread, I read the people are able to use adb on Windows 10. If that doesn't work, find a Windows 7 PC or boot to ubuntu using bootable pendrive and flash the factory images using fastboot.
Nitin
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So are you saying this is definitely a problem of Windows 10? I hadnt even considered that...

BluTheCool said:
So are you saying this is definitely a problem of Windows 10? I hadnt even considered that...
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I read many users complaining about that. You can try that installer; as I mentioned - users have reported that they were able to use adb on Windows 10 after installing adb using that installer. If that doesn't work try the second suggestion (Ubuntu/ Linux)
Nitin

nitin.chobhe said:
I read many users complaining about that. You can try that installer; as I mentioned - users have reported that they were able to use abd on Windows 10 after installing adb using that installer. If that doesn't work try the second suggestion (Ubuntu/ Linux)
Nitin
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i tried the installer but it made no difference. i tried it my win 7 partition as well but it didnt show up in the device manager.. i think usb debugging must have been disabled with my new rom flash. but even then i dont get why it wont show up as anything in devman...
any command i try ends with waiting for device and since i cant find the device in devman I cant even update the driver manually. I guess I could give linux a shot

Hey I finally figured out the problem. Its unbelievable. The usb port of the device was slightly bent in such a way that every cable I tried never really connected with the phone. I twisted it up a little and now its being detected as fastboot. The drivers you provided work like a charm now. Thanks for all the help !

BluTheCool said:
Hey I finally figured out the problem. Its unbelievable. The usb port of the device was slightly bent in such a way that every cable I tried never really connected with the phone. I twisted it up a little and now its being detected as fastboot. The drivers you provided work like a charm now. Thanks for all the help !
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Glad that it helped, hope you get it revived soon :fingers-crossed:
Nitin

BluTheCool said:
Hey I finally figured out the problem. It's unbelievable. The USB port of the device was slightly bent in such a way that every cable I tried never really connected with the phone. I twisted it up a little and now it's being detected as fast boot. The drivers you provided work like a charm now. Thanks for all the help!
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It seems I have the same prob, as my N4 too doesn't get detected. But my ph can charge with USB when I connect to PC.
How you twisted USB port? I mean it has very less room to insert any tool.

sandy7874 said:
It seems I have the same prob, as my N4 too doesn't get detected. But my ph can charge with USB when I connect to PC.
How you twisted USB port? I mean it has very less room to insert any tool.
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Tell me one thing - can you boot to fastboot mode?
Nitin

nitin.chobhe said:
Tell me one thing - can you boot to fastboot mode?
Nitin
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Yes I m able to boot to Fastboot mode.

sandy7874 said:
Yes I m able to boot to Fastboot mode.
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Ping me on hangouts. My email ID is in my signature.
Nitin