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[Q] Stuck on Google Screen- Cannot enter fastboot

Hey Guys,
I've been on android since the G1. I've troubleshooted all problems I've had since flashing cyanogenmod when he was first on xda. With this Nexus 7, however, I've kept it completely stock.
I've had it for a month and it's been great. Yesterday I downloaded a homeland torrent and watched it. Put it down, came back two hours later and it was on a black screen (it was charged when I left at least to 50% after d/l and watching the video). I pressed the power button and it wouldn't start. I finally held it down for about 30 seconds and then it went to the "Google" screen all in white letters. It stayed there. I tried holding power for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 seconds and it would just reboot to the google screen. I finally tried to enter fastboot, i was able to, and got excited at being at a functional screen that I went into "recovery" and then the google screen just popped back up. Now I can't even get into fastboot.
I've tried the nexus toolkits but they both need either abd in android or the fastboot screen. I can't get into them. I finally called google play devices support and they said they will email me within two days to replace my nexus 7. However, I'd like to get my stored images, music, videos, etc off of there at the very least (although, I'd much rather fix it and keep it).
Can you guys suggest anything?
tl;dr : Stuck on google screen, can't enter fastboot. Is there anything I can do to make it boot? Option 2: how can I at least take my (emulated /virtual) sd card data out of it?
THANKS!

You are rebooting each time you try fastboot, correct?
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Correct. It goes black for about three seconds then back to Google screen indefinitely
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Bump?

Wow, I see criticism every time someone mentions they're "Bricked." Now that someone finally is bricked--or at least it seems like--no one is saying anything...

What happens if you hold all 3 keys for ~30-40 seconds, it should, at that point, reboot to the bootloader.

If you are in fastboot again (if this would work one time) you can do
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adb pull /sdcard
Because I guess when it's at the google screen
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adb devices
won't give any output?
But I guess it's a hardware problem, otherwise it wouln't just have turned off...
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mihahn said:
If you are in fastboot again (if this would work one time) you can do
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adb pull /sdcard
Because I guess when it's at the google screen
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adb devices
won't give any output?
But I guess it's a hardware problem, otherwise it wouln't just have turned off...
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ADB doesn't work in the bootloader.... ADB is Android Debug Bridge, and Android is not booted while in the bootloader.
Op, this seems like one of those weird things where you will just have to keep messing with it and it will hopefully work eventually. Mess with charging, different timing etc.
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Thanks guys!
korockinout13 said:
ADB doesn't work in the bootloader.... ADB is Android Debug Bridge, and Android is not booted while in the bootloader.
Op, this seems like one of those weird things where you will just have to keep messing with it and it will hopefully work eventually. Mess with charging, different timing etc.
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Yeah, holding all three, holding power and volume up, holding power and volume down doesn't work. I've tried holding power until it restarts and then doing power and volume down, up, and both. Nada.
I appreciate your input guys. I'll just return the product to google... hopefully they don't fix it without a full wipe and get ahold of my files! Yeek!

AW: [Q] Stuck on Google Screen- Cannot enter fastboot
korockinout13 said:
ADB doesn't work in the bootloader.... ADB is Android Debug Bridge, and Android is not booted while in the bootloader.
Op, this seems like one of those weird things where you will just have to keep messing with it and it will hopefully work eventually. Mess with charging, different timing etc.
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On my sony device I can do adb pull when I'm in recovery. And if he would be able to enter fastboot and then the recovery, I thought it could work
But I guess the best is to replace it
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mihahn said:
On my sony device I can do adb pull when I'm in recovery. And if he would be able to enter fastboot and then the recovery, I thought it could work
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He said he was 100% stock.
The stock recovery doesn't start up the adbd daemon. That's typical for stock recoveries.
Proves the point that even if you stay with stock on the N7, you should unlock the bootloader as soon as you get the device. Then the option of soft-booting a different recovery (fastboot boot recovery.img) would be available for rescue situations - even if the ROM stays completely stock and unrooted.

Don't know exactly where you are......
If you OEM unlocked your device, rooted and flashed a custom recovery....I can assist.
Again going with the notion you did...
When your device is on and showing Google
Press and hold the Power key till the screen goes black
Once black, press and hold the volume down key
This will take you to fastboot
Press volume key up twice then power key to select
Device should now be in recovery mode
If you wiped the OS, use Wugs Toolkit to recover from soft brick in advanced options
If you want to push files to your device and try to recover, use MSKIP's Toolkit
Hope this helps....good luck
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dwny said:
Don't know exactly where you are......
If you OEM unlocked your device, rooted and flashed a custom recovery....I can assist.
Again going with the notion you did...
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Nope, not unlocked, rooted or have a custom recovery.

HELP! Bricked Nexus 7, cannot boot into boot loader

Hello everyone, I'm new in this forum and have just bricked my Nexus 7 .
I was not very happy with my Nexus 7 with JB version 4.2.1, it lagged and took long time to load apps etc. I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to unlock my bootloader, flash recovery and then tried a few custom roms. I eventually flash the official 4.1.2 firmware from google but the constant notification for firmware update annoyed me and I decided to root and get rid of the firmware update notifications by installing fotakill.apk.
But when I tried to root using the Nexus 7 toolkit, I chose the option to sideload the zip files for rooting automatically. It asked to flash my boot loader to a lower version (3.34, mine was 3.41) and afterwards it rebooted the device and eventually got stuck at a screen with these lines:
now send the package you want to apply
to the device with adb sideload <filename>
after a long time without anything happening, I suspected that things went wrong and pressed the power button for a few seconds and the device turned off. Now I cannot turn it back on, when plugged in it doesn't show the charging battery, also I cannot boot into fastboot mode by holding Volume down + Power button. The screen stays black the whole time.
I even tried to open the back power and pull the battery out and in again and try to turn on the tablet, nothing happens. I remember the battery level was like roughly 90% the last time the tablet was working, so I don't know what went wrong .

Hold power + vol down button about 30 seconds
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semeru said:
Hold power + vol down button about 30 seconds
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I tried that but nothing happened .

Press all buttons on the side simultaniously untill fastboot/bootloader mode appears. This should work, no matter if your device is booted or not, or soft bricked or whatever. Then: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796 .
If it doesn't work however (like after 30-60 seconds), then connect your nexus 7 to your PC. Go to device manager and identify your device. Does it say apx-mode or something like that? Then your device is possibly hard bricked and you might find some answers here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879228 .
Your should not have used rootkits. Most of these topics appear after people using toolkit. Learn to use fastboot. It's the only program you'll need for the nexus 7. Yes, it's a command line tool but at least it forces you to think before flashing. For example, it was not necessary to downgrade your bootloader. I really don't get why you did that. Also, if you want to run a stable 4.1.2 without the annoying update messages, you can, for example, flash cyanogenmod 10. It's stable, very smooth, and way better than stock.

Westervoort said:
Press all buttons on the side simultaniously untill fastboot/bootloader mode appears. This should work, no matter if your device is booted or not, or soft bricked or whatever. Then: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796 .
If it doesn't work however (like after 30-60 seconds), then connect your nexus 7 to your PC. Go to device manager and identify your device. Does it say apx-mode or something like that? Then your device is possibly hard bricked and you might find some answers here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879228 .
Your should not have used rootkits. Most of these topics appear after people using toolkit. Learn to use fastboot. It's the only program you'll need for the nexus 7. Yes, it's a command line tool but at least it forces you to think before flashing. For example, it was not necessary to downgrade your bootloader. I really don't get why you did that. Also, if you want to run a stable 4.1.2 without the annoying update messages, you can, for example, flash cyanogenmod 10. It's stable, very smooth, and way better than stock.
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Thanks I did a search and finally found an answer. I was running fine on my N7 with PACMan and suddenly it got stuck booting up. So I booted into recovery and reflashed the ROM, and wiped dalvik and cache. When I rebooted it went to "Android is upgrading" like usual after wiping dalvik, then it got stuck there. So I rebooted again and nothing. Just a blank screen. Your suggestion of holding all the buttons down for 30-60 seconds awoke my Nexus. I'm going to wipe everything and start over.

[Q] Issue after flashing stock

So basically, from running PA, i decided to try stock 4.4.2, so using the nexus root toolkit, i tried to do it, however once it said it was all done and ready, my nexus 7 remained on the bootloader screen, and when i clicked start from that, it said boot failed. So in the bootloader menu i pressed restart to see if that'd do anything, but now it won't boot up at all, not even to the google screen and there is no charge screen when plugged in. It was running the 4.13 bootloader and i think i needed the 4.23 or 4.19 for 4.4.2, but i don't see how that would have caused a failure because doesn't the bootloader get flashed and therefore updated when flashing stock?
If anyone could help that'd be truly great

Can you at least get into the recovery of your device?

I can't get it to turn on at all
Happy christmas by the way :laugh:

Youve held down your power button and used other button configs? I had an issue almost like that, but I wiped everything. I was able to reflash with under fastboot. If you can at least get the boot loader up you can use the NRT to get back to stock.

i can't seem to, its completely blank, i'll give it another go for longer

Need Help! Possible brick after flashing recovery.

Hi all, just got my Moto X Pure this morning. I received the update to Marshmallow and began using the toolkit to unlock the bootloader, flash the recovery, and finally flash SuperSU. Everything was fine until flashing SuperSU onto the device. Now my device stays in the infinite Motorola logo of death, and any attempt to enter fastboot or recovery fails.
I'll get the "Unlocked Bootloader" warning but never enter it, and any attempt at entering recovery will just loop back to either a black screen, the logo loop, or the warning message. Was able to do commands until this point, but now that the phone wont enter fastboot or recovery I can't even use the RTS tool or try manually restoring the phone. Have I just made my brand new device a paperweight?! :crying:

Press and hold Power /volume down with the cable not plugged in..... You doing that.
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shoman94 said:
Press and hold Power /volume down with the cable not plugged in..... You doing that.
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Yeah, that finally solved the issue by holding down power alone before the bootloader unlock screen, with the device not plugged in as you said, the entire device would be off for 2 seconds, which was enough time to finally enter the bootloader and apply the RTS tool's .bat file.
From there I made a Nandroid backup of stock in case another issue arises, but now I'm running the soak test build of Marshmallow, rooted and with Xposed all working as they should.
Thanks for your help!

Powering down, and re-powering problem

So let me begin with what I'm running.
Stock bootloader-locked.
Nougat 7.1.2 Beta from Google (On the beta program)
No root. Completely stock.
When I updated to 7.1.2 I started having this problem, the phone did not start up right after the update. It took a few hours to finally get the phone to come on, when I did I opted out of the beta and went back to 7.1.1, flashed back, phone started, yay!
Except.....
Now if I shut the phone down now I cannot get it to power on at all, doesn't respond to anything, no stock bootloader by pressing power+vol down, nothing.
The only way to get this phone to load up is I have to wait until the battery fully dies, charge to full and then power on the phone and it will start. Even after all this I still can't power down and enter stock recovery/bootloader.
Any idea on what's going on?

Chewmasey said:
So let me begin with what I'm running.
Stock bootloader-locked.
Nougat 7.1.2 Beta from Google (On the beta program)
No root. Completely stock.
When I updated to 7.1.2 I started having this problem, the phone did not start up right after the update. It took a few hours to finally get the phone to come on, when I did I opted out of the beta and went back to 7.1.1, flashed back, phone started, yay!
Except.....
Now if I shut the phone down now I cannot get it to power on at all, doesn't respond to anything, no stock bootloader by pressing power+vol down, nothing.
The only way to get this phone to load up is I have to wait until the battery fully dies, charge to full and then power on the phone and it will start. Even after all this I still can't power down and enter stock recovery/bootloader. Any idea on what's going on?
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Interesting. You can't button press and get into bootloader? That's hard wired. Maybe a bad power button? I was going to suggest wiping cache from recovery as a first step, but you NEED recovery mode to do anything. At a minimum I would go into Dev Settings and allow both OEM unlocking and USB debug straight away. This way you can use ADB, and if you end up in a bootloop you can still unlock the bootloader and flash images and maybe a recovery . Do you know which 7.1.1 build you are on? Set up ADB/fastboot and try adb reboot recovery from within the OS. Maybe get you into recovery so you can at least wipe cache to start. Later, you may also be able to sideload an OTA from stock recovery (if adb reboot works). If the OTA doesn't fix it, you may need to do a factory reset. ADB will also allow you to pull any valuable files off the device.

I've actually signed up again and am running the beta 7.1.2 OTA Google beta program.
Security patch: January 5/2017
Baseband version: angler-03.79
Kernel version: 3.10.73-geac7D674
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Tue Dec 13 10:11:12 UTC 2016
Build Number: NPG05F
I've been back and forth with 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and it does the same thing with each build.
I tried unlocking with Wugs toolkit but as soon as I get to power off device and go into bootloader I can't get the bootloader screen to show up and I need to wait until the phone dies and charge to 100% and then start the phone regularly.
I do have ADB installed on my PC but anytime I need to get into bootloader I'm screwed.

Chewmasey said:
....I do have ADB installed on my PC but anytime I need to get into bootloader I'm screwed.
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Thanks for providing lots of good info on where you are at.... most ppl dont. I'm also on 7.1.2 but with zero issues. OK gotcha, so using NRT, under advanced tools you have tried rebooting to both bootloader and recovery, and it failed. You didn't say YES, I enabled USB Debug/ OEM Unlock in developer options. By any means possible get into your OS and enable OEM Unlocking and USB Debugging now before it's too late. You've got to get into your bootloader/recovery and you are still locked with no access to ADB. There is a great driver install/ diagnostic tool in NRT to help you confirm all drivers are there and working. Sounds like you are ready to unlock/wipe in an effort to recover your phone. I think you can recover from this, but you'll probably lose your userdata.

I have the phone up and running right now. I have already went into developer options and checked OEM unlock and have debugging enabled.
When I go into NRT and go to unlock, it connects etc but when it comes to the point of power off device and boot into bootloader the screen is blank. My PC only recognizes the phone as an Android Interface after this and then I have to wait until the phone completely dies and a recharge to power up the phone.
I would try NRT again right now but I'm scared I will be without my phone all day tomorrow.
Damned if I Do, Damned if I don't.

Chewmasey said:
I have the phone up and running right now. I have already went into developer options and checked OEM unlock and have debugging enabled. When I go into NRT and go to unlock, it connects etc but when it comes to the point of power off device and boot into bootloader the screen is blank. My PC only recognizes the phone as an Android Interface after this and then I have to wait until the phone completely dies and a recharge to power up the phone.
I would try NRT again right now but I'm scared I will be without my phone all day tomorrow.
Damned if I Do, Damned if I don't.
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When the phone is not responsive and you have been discharging it, have you tried holding the power button down for at least 2 minutes? In many cases this forces the phone to restart, but it takes a long time. That may shorten the wait between getting the phone back up.
Did you only start using NRT after the problem, or it was working fine beforehand in bootloader mode (fastboot). There is a separate driver for fastboot, I'm trying to see if that was working before. Since you are trying to unlock, it sounds as if you are past trying to save any data on the phone. NRT uses both ADB and fastboot, but you may have better luck using the command line from your PC. In my previous post I linked to Google's ADB/Fastboot binaries. Instructions are pretty basic. If you can get that setup you can try communicating with the device from the command line. Even if the is screen off, try sending fastboot devices.

Tried everything, gave up bought a used 64gb Nexus 6p.
Last time fiddling with the phone Everytime I touched the power button the red LED blinked.
I'm thinking either the motherboard or the battery.